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Learning visual concepts is an important tool for automatic annotation and visual querying of networked multimedia databases. It allows the user to express queries in his own vocabulary instead of the computer’s vocabulary. This paper gives an overview of our current research directions in learning visual concepts for use in our online visual webcrawler, ImageScape. We discuss using the Kullback relative information for finding the most informative features in the case of human faces and generalize the method to other objects/concepts.
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Buijs, J.M., Lew, M.S. (1999). Visual Learning of Simple Semantics in ImageScape. In: Huijsmans, D.P., Smeulders, A.W.M. (eds) Visual Information and Information Systems. VISUAL 1999. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1614. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-48762-X_17
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