An Image-Semantic Ontological Framework for Large Image Databases

Abstract

In the past decade, the Internet has rapidly become a most prevalent platform for information sharing and data communications all over the world. This trend has been enhanced by the wide proliferation of home-used digital photos and videos. Although the Web has seen numerous applications for photo storage, sharing, and searching, few image retrieval systems provide satisfactory search service. The so-called semantic gap and curse of dimensionality are two major barriers that existing technologies cannot adequately address. In this paper, we propose a framework to achieve effective and efficient content-base retrieval on images by addressing the above two issues. That is, we need to narrow the semantic gap while mitigating the curse of dimensionality.