Image Information Retrieval An Overview of Current Research.pdf

,QIRUPLQJ 6FLHQFH 6SHFLDO ,VVXH RQ ,QIRUPDWLRQ 6FLHQFH 5HVHDUFK 9ROXPH  1R   Image Information Retrieval: Image Information Retrieval: An Overview of Current Research An Overview of Current Research Abby A. Goodrum College of Information Science Technology, Drexel University goodruaa@ Abstract This paper provides an overview of current research in image information retrieval and provides an outline of areas for future research. The ap- proach is broad and interdisciplinary and focuses on three aspects of image research (IR): text-based retrieval, content-based retrieval, and user interactions with image information retrieval systems. The review concludes with a call for image retrieval evaluation studies similar to TREC. Keywords: Information Science, Image Retrieval, CBIR, Introduction Text-Based Image Retrieval Research Interest in image retrieval has increased in large part due to Most existing IR systems are text-based, but images fre- the rapid growth of the World Wide Web. According to a re- quently have little or no accompanying textual information. cent study (Lawrence Giles, 1999) there are 180 million The solution historically has been to develop text-based on- images on the publicly indexable Web, a total amount of tologies and classification schemes for image description. image data of about 3Tb [terabytes], and an astounding one Text-based in