Travel Blog Assistant System (TBAS) - An Example Scenario of How to Enrich Text with Images and Images with Text using Online Multimedia Repositories

Marco Bressan, Gabriela Csurka, Yves Hoppenot, Jean-Michel Renders

2008

Abstract

In this paper we present a Travel Blog Assistant System that facilitates the travel blog writing by automatically selecting for each blog paragraph written by the user the most relevant images from an uploaded image set. In order to do this, the system first automatically adds metadata to the traveler’s photos based both on a Generic Visual Categorizer (visual keywords) and by exploiting cross-content web repositories (textual keywords). For a given paragraph, the system ranks the uploaded images according to the similarity between the extracted metadata and the paragraph. The technology developed and presented here has potential beyond travel blogs, which served just as an illustrative example. Clearly, the same methodology can be used by professional users in the fields of multimedia document generation and automatic illustration and captioning.

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Bressan M., Csurka G., Hoppenot Y. and Renders J. (2008). Travel Blog Assistant System (TBAS) - An Example Scenario of How to Enrich Text with Images and Images with Text using Online Multimedia Repositories . In Metadata Mining for Image Understanding - Volume 1: MMIU, (VISIGRAPP 2008) ISBN 978-989-8111-24-1, pages 90-104. DOI: 10.5220/0002338200900104


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@conference{mmiu08,
author={Marco Bressan and Gabriela Csurka and Yves Hoppenot and Jean-Michel Renders},
title={Travel Blog Assistant System (TBAS) - An Example Scenario of How to Enrich Text with Images and Images with Text using Online Multimedia Repositories},
booktitle={Metadata Mining for Image Understanding - Volume 1: MMIU, (VISIGRAPP 2008)},
year={2008},
pages={90-104},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0002338200900104},
isbn={978-989-8111-24-1},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Metadata Mining for Image Understanding - Volume 1: MMIU, (VISIGRAPP 2008)
TI - Travel Blog Assistant System (TBAS) - An Example Scenario of How to Enrich Text with Images and Images with Text using Online Multimedia Repositories
SN - 978-989-8111-24-1
AU - Bressan M.
AU - Csurka G.
AU - Hoppenot Y.
AU - Renders J.
PY - 2008
SP - 90
EP - 104
DO - 10.5220/0002338200900104