Wang Fangfang, Jiang Jianguo, Guo Dan. Image annotation based on region-semantic diverse density[J]. Journal of Image and Graphics, 2014, 19(5): 755-763. DOI: 10.11834/jig.20140514.
With the emergence of massive shared images in the Web2.0 era
it has become a significant research topic to get precise descriptive region-level annotations for images. In this paper
we propose a new image annotation algorithm based on region-semantic diverse density
focusing on the differences of visual feature and spatial structure among regions. In details
the algorithm uses diverse density method based on feature distance similarity and region spatial location
and introducing color
shape together with texture property annotations. Experiments on parts of the NUS-WIDE and MSRC datasets demonstrate that the proposed method is effective. The accuracy is more than 80% in property annotations. Furthermore
the average precision of image retrieval using property annotations is up to 82%. The experiments results show that the proposed image annotation framework can get relevant semantic regions and property annotations more accurately
and effectively solves the problem of regional annotation.