The European Union-funded IMAGINATION project has developed ImageNotion, software for organizing, searching, and navigating archives of digital images. ImageNotion's tools for semantic image annotation and search link the content of photos and concepts to make the images understandable to computers.
[source ACM TechNews 31 Aug09]
The IMAGINATION project developers claim that ImageNotion's system eliminates much of the complexity of developing an ontology for semantic searches by combining annotation with a variety of other technologies, including text mining, object recognition, and facial detection and identification. "When you mention ontologies to most people they just switch off," says IMAGINATION coordinator Gabor Nagypal. "Because of that, our goal has been to make the technology transparent and intuitive to use." Nagypal says the face-detection system, which identifies the presence of people in a photograph, has an accuracy rate of about 80 percent, and the face-recognition system, which attempts to identify people in a photograph, produces consistent results after about five to 10 images of a person have been tagged. ImageNotion also simplifies navigating between photographs. For example, clicking on a person's face in one photograph will automatically take the user to other photographs of that person.
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