Incorporating concept ontology to enable probabilistic concept reasoning for multi-level image annotation

Proceedings of the ACM International Multimedia Conference and Exhibition

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 79-88

  Gao, Yul ^a   Fan, Jianping ^a  

^a University of North Carolina at Charlotte   (United States)

Author keywords

Bayesian network; Concept ontology; Hierarchical probabilistic image concept reasoning; Multi level image annotation

Indexed keywords

BAYESIAN NETWORKS; FEATURE EXTRACTION; FUNCTION EVALUATION; HIERARCHICAL SYSTEMS; PROBABILISTIC LOGICS; SEMANTICS;

CONCEPT ONTOLOGY; HIERARCHICAL PROBABILISTIC IMAGE CONCEPT REASONING; MULTI-LEVEL IMAGE ANNOTATION; PROBABILISTIC IMAGE CONCEPTS;

IMAGE PROCESSING;

EID: 34547423258     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1178677.1178691     Document Type: Conference Paper

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