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The ACM MIR 2008 paper entitled “Learning Tag Relevance by Neighbor Voting for Social Image Retrieval” by Xirong Li, Cees Snoek, and Marcel Worring is available online. Social image retrieval is important for exploiting the increasing amounts of amateur-tagged multimedia such as Flickr images. Since amateur tagging is known to be uncontrolled, ambiguous, and personalized, a fundamental problem is how to reliably interpret the relevance of a tag with respect to the visual content it is describing. Intuitively, if different persons label similar images using the same tags, these tags are likely to reflect objective aspects of the visual content. Starting from this intuition, we propose a novel algorithm that scalably and reliably learns tag relevance by accumulating votes from visually similar neighbors. Further, treated as tag frequency, learned tag relevance is seamlessly embedded into current tag-based social image retrieval paradigms. Preliminary experiments on one million Flickr images demonstrate the potential of the proposed algorithm. Overall comparisons for both single-word queries and multiple-word queries show substantial improvement over the baseline by learning and using tag relevance. Specifically, compared with the baseline using the original tags, on average, retrieval using improved tags increases mean average precision by 24%, from 0.54 to 0.67. Moreover, simulated experiments indicate that performance can be improved further by scaling up the amount of images used in the proposed neighbor voting algorithm.
Google (and YouTube for that matter) searches video using closed captions, user-provided tags, or text embedded in web pages. Based on visual evidence obtained from Google tech talks by Alex Hauptmann and John Smith I have reason to believe that concept-based video retrieval, i.e. searching based on the visual content, is receiving more and more attention at Google. The video frame on the left shows the audience at the TechTalk by Alex on March 1st 2006, while the frame on the right shows the audience at John’s talk on October 25, 2007. Note the audience increase. I wonder how many people will attend the next Google TechTalk on this topic ;)
Good news, my research proposal entitled: SEARCHER: Substituting Experts by Amateurs for Concept-based Video Retrieval was awarded a prestigious VENI Innovational Research Incentives Scheme grant by the Dutch organization for Scientific Research (NWO). See the official press release. I will be working on this project for at least the coming three years :)


