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Corinne Jorgensen, Alejandro Jaimes, Ana B. Benitez, Shih-Fu Chang. A Conceptual Framework and Research for Classifying Visual Descriptors. Journal of the American Society for Information Science (JASIS), Invited Paper on Special Issue on Image Access: Bridging Multiple Needs and Multiple Perspectives, Sep 2001, 52(11):938-947, September 2001.

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This paper presents exploratory research evaluating a conceptual structure, a ten-level Pyramid, for the description of visual content of images. The Pyramid was developed from empirical research in several fields, including Cognitive Psychology and Information Studies. Four research questions are posed and several experiments test the ability of the Pyramid to accommodate spontaneous image descriptions, to accommodate structured image descriptions, to generate structured image descriptions, and to accommodate varying levels of description. Input to the testing includes image descriptions generated by nave users and indexers, images from a web sample and news images, and the Pyramid structure and an Indexing Template. Testing involved mapping and generating a number of image descriptions. A variety of techniques were used to evaluate the conceptual structure and these techniques produced consistent and positive results across a variety of image sets. The authors feel that the Pyramid is a robust conceptualization of visual image content and encourage further work developing this structure for image representation and retrieval

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@article{dvmmPub43,
   Author = {Jorgensen, Corinne and    Jaimes, Alejandro and Benitez, Ana B. and Chang, Shih-Fu},
   Title = {A       Conceptual Framework and Research for Classifying Visual          Descriptors},
   Journal = {Journal of the American Society for             Information Science (JASIS), Invited Paper on Special Issue on                Image Access: Bridging Multiple Needs and Multiple Perspectives,                 Sep 2001},
   Volume = {52},
   Number = {11},
   Pages = {938--947},
   Month = {September},
   Year = {2001}
}

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