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Exploiting semantics on external resources to gather visual examples for video retrieval

Exploiting semantics on external resources to gather visual examples for video retrieval With the huge and ever rising amount of video content available on the Web, there is a need to facilitate video retrieval functionalities on very large collections. Most of the current Web video retrieval systems rely on manual textual annotations to provide keyword-based search interfaces. These systems have to face the problems that users are often reticent to provide annotations, and that the quality of such annotations is questionable in many cases. An alternative commonly used approach is to ask the user for an image example, and exploit the low-level features of the image to find video content whose keyframes are similar to the image. In this case, the main limitation is the so-called semantic gap, which consists of the fact that low-level image features often do not match with the real semantics of the videos. Moreover, this approach may be a burden to the user, as it requires finding and providing the system with relevant visual examples. Aiming to address this limitation, in this paper, we present a hybrid video retrieval technique that automatically obtains visual examples by performing textual searches on external knowledge sources, such as DBpedia, Flickr and Google Images, which have different coverage and structure characteristics. Our approach exploits the semantics underlying the above knowledge sources to address the semantic gap problem. We have conducted evaluations to assess the quality of visual examples retrieved from the above external knowledge sources. The obtained results suggest that the use of external knowledge can provide valid visual examples based on a keyword-based query and, in the case that visual examples are provided explicitly by the user, it can provide visual examples that complement the manually provided ones to improve video search performance. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png International Journal of Multimedia Information Retrieval Springer Journals

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Publisher
Springer Journals
Copyright
Copyright © 2012 by Springer-Verlag London Limited
Subject
Computer Science; Multimedia Information Systems; Information Storage and Retrieval; Information Systems Applications (incl. Internet); Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery; Image Processing and Computer Vision; Computer Science, general
ISSN
2192-6611
eISSN
2192-662X
DOI
10.1007/s13735-012-0017-1
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Abstract

With the huge and ever rising amount of video content available on the Web, there is a need to facilitate video retrieval functionalities on very large collections. Most of the current Web video retrieval systems rely on manual textual annotations to provide keyword-based search interfaces. These systems have to face the problems that users are often reticent to provide annotations, and that the quality of such annotations is questionable in many cases. An alternative commonly used approach is to ask the user for an image example, and exploit the low-level features of the image to find video content whose keyframes are similar to the image. In this case, the main limitation is the so-called semantic gap, which consists of the fact that low-level image features often do not match with the real semantics of the videos. Moreover, this approach may be a burden to the user, as it requires finding and providing the system with relevant visual examples. Aiming to address this limitation, in this paper, we present a hybrid video retrieval technique that automatically obtains visual examples by performing textual searches on external knowledge sources, such as DBpedia, Flickr and Google Images, which have different coverage and structure characteristics. Our approach exploits the semantics underlying the above knowledge sources to address the semantic gap problem. We have conducted evaluations to assess the quality of visual examples retrieved from the above external knowledge sources. The obtained results suggest that the use of external knowledge can provide valid visual examples based on a keyword-based query and, in the case that visual examples are provided explicitly by the user, it can provide visual examples that complement the manually provided ones to improve video search performance.

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International Journal of Multimedia Information RetrievalSpringer Journals

Published: Sep 2, 2012

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