Peculiar image search by Web-extracted appearance descriptions

Abstract

We have become able to get enough approvable images of a target object just by submitting its object-name to a conventional keyword-based Web image search engine. However, because the search results rarely include its uncommon images, we can often get only its common images and cannot easily get exhaustive knowledge about its appearance (look and feel). As next steps of image searches in the Web, it is very important to discriminate between “Typical Images” and “Peculiar Images” in the approvable images, and moreover, to collect many different kinds of peculiar images as exhaustively as possible. This paper proposes a novel method to precisely retrieve peculiar images of a target object by its typical/peculiar appearance descriptions (e.g., color-names) extracted from the Web and/or its typical/peculiar image features (e.g., color-features) converted from them, as a solution to the 1st next step of image retrievals in the Web.