Improving keyword based web image search with visual feature distribution and term expansion

Knowledge and Information Systems

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 113-132

  Gong, Zhiguo ^a   Liu, Qian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MACAU   (Macao)

Author keywords

Associated text; Query expansion; Visual feature; Web image; Web search

Indexed keywords

EXPANSION; GAUSSIAN DISTRIBUTION; SEMANTICS; WEBSITES;

ASSOCIATED TEXT; QUERY EXPANSION; VISUAL FEATURE; WEB IMAGES; WEB SEARCHES;

IMAGE ENHANCEMENT;

EID: 70349903121     PISSN: 02191377     EISSN: 02193116     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10115-008-0183-x     Document Type: Article

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