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2015

Missouri University of Science and Technology

<p>Querying (Computer science) -- Design<br />Search engines<br />Digital images<br />Pattern recognition systems<br />Semantics</p>

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A Sentence-Based Image Search Engine, Weizhi Meng Jan 2015

A Sentence-Based Image Search Engine, Weizhi Meng

Masters Theses

"Nowadays people are more interested in searching the relevant images directly through search engines like Google, Yahoo or Bing, these image search engines have dedicated extensive research effort to the problem of keyword-based image retrieval. However, the most widely used keyword-based image search engine Google is reported to have a precision of only 39%. And all of these systems have limitation in creating sentence-based queries for images.

This thesis studies a practical image search scenario, where many people feel annoyed by using only keywords to find images for their ideas of speech or presentation through trial and error. This thesis …