Journal article
User evaluation of automatically generated keywords and toponyms for geo-referenced images
FO Ostermann, M Tomko, R Purves
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology | WILEY | Published : 2013
DOI: 10.1002/asi.22738
Abstract
This article presents the results of a user evaluation of automatically generated concept keywords and place names (toponyms) for geo-referenced images. Automatically annotating images is becoming indispensable for effective information retrieval, since the number of geo-referenced images available online is growing, yet many images are insufficiently tagged or captioned to be efficiently searchable by standard information retrieval procedures. The Tripod project developed original methods for automatically annotating geo-referenced images by generating representations of the likely visible footprint of a geo-referenced image, and using this footprint to query spatial databases and web resou..
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Funding Acknowledgements
This research reported in this paper is part of the project Tripod supported by the European Commission under contract 045335. We are very grateful to the two anonymous reviewers who provided valuable suggestions for the improvement of the paper. We would also like to thank all those who took part in the user experiments.