Integrating visual saliency and consistency for re-ranking image search results

IEEE Transactions on Multimedia

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 653-661

  Huang, Jun ^a   Yang, Xiaokang ^a   Fang, Xiangzhong ^a   Lin, Weiyao ^a   Zhang, Rui ^a  

^a SHANGHAI JIAO TONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Random walk; re ranking; visual consistency; visual saliency

Indexed keywords

FRONT PAGES; IMAGE SEARCH; RANDOM WALK; RE-RANKING; SEARCH QUERIES; SEARCH RESULTS; VISUAL ASPECTS; VISUAL CONSISTENCY; VISUAL SALIENCY; WEB IMAGE SEARCH; WEB IMAGES;

IMAGE RETRIEVAL; OBJECT RECOGNITION; SEARCH ENGINES; USER INTERFACES; VISUALIZATION;

WORLD WIDE WEB;

EID: 79960683348     PISSN: 15209210     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMM.2011.2127463     Document Type: Article

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