Multimodal browsing of images in Web documents

Francine R. Chen; Ullas Gargi; Les Niles; Hinrich Schuetze

doi:10.1117/12.335809

7 January 1999 Multimodal browsing of images in Web documents

Francine R. Chen, Ullas Gargi, Les Niles, Hinrich Schuetze

Proceedings Volume 3651, Document Recognition and Retrieval VI; (1999) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.335809
Event: Electronic Imaging '99, 1999, San Jose, CA, United States

Abstract

In this paper, we describe a system for performing browsing and retrieval on a collection of web images and associated text on an HTML page. Browsing is combined with retrieval to help a user locate interesting portions of the corpus, without the need to formulate a query well matched to the corpus. Multi-modal information, in the form of text surrounding an image and some simple image features, is used in this process. Using the system, a user progressively narrows a collection to a small number of elements of interest, similar to the Scatter/Gather system developed for text browsing. We have extended the Scatter/Gather method to use multi-modal features. With the use of multiple features, some collection elements may have unknown or undefined values for some features; we present a method for incorporating these elements into the result set. This method also provides a way to handle the case when a search is narrowed to a part of the space near a boundary between two clusters. A number of examples illustrating our system are provided.

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Francine R. Chen, Ullas Gargi, Les Niles, and Hinrich Schuetze "Multimodal browsing of images in Web documents", Proc. SPIE 3651, Document Recognition and Retrieval VI, (7 January 1999); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.335809

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