Authors:
Alessandro Ortis
;
Giovanni Maria Farinella
and
Sebastiano Battiato
Affiliation:
University of Catania, Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, Viale A. Doria, 6, Catania, 95125 and Italy
Keyword(s):
Image Sentiment Analysis, Social Image Sentiment, Image Polarity Classification.
Related
Ontology
Subjects/Areas/Topics:
Multimedia
;
Multimedia Systems and Applications
;
Semantic Analysis of Multimedia Data
;
Telecommunications
Abstract:
This paper introduces the research field of Image Sentiment Analysis, analyses the related problems, provides an in-depth overview of current research progress, discusses the major issues and outlines the new opportunities and challenges in this area. An overview of the most significant works is presented. A discussion about the related specific issues is provided: emotions representation models, existing datasets and most used features. A generalizable analysis of the problem is also presented, by identifying and analyzing the components that affect the sentiment toward an image. Furthermore, the paper introduces some additional challenges and techniques that could be investigated, proposing suggestions for new methods, features and datasets.