Testing a vocabulary for image indexing and ground truthing

摘要

The need for a general and comprehensive vocabulary for annotating images is described. Current image indexing vocabularies and their problems are discussed, and research into image features described by humans in various tasks is reviewed. The development of an image indexing vocabulary is described, and a conceptual structure which relates the features of the vocabulary to the requirements of image annotation is presented. The process for building and testing the vocabulary as a tool in benchmarking is then discussed, as are the research questions involved.