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Image Content Modeling

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Image data model; Image meta-data; Conceptual image data model

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Image Content Modeling deals with the issue of representing the content of image data; that is, designing the high- and low-level abstraction model of the raw image objects and their correlations to facilitate various operations. These operations may include media object selection, insertion, editing, indexing, browsing, querying, retrieval, and exchange. The image content model relies, therefore, on the extraction of feature vectors and their respective representations obtained during the annotation process. Several standards for representing the content of an image are known. The most prominent ones are MPEG-7 including low- and high-level abstractions or the EXIF data description vocabulary for the description of very specific technical attributes of an image.

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Many models for describing the content of an image have been created in the past. Most of them rely on standards. Many...

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Authors and Affiliations

  1. University of Passau, Passau, Germany

    Harald Kosch & Mario Döller

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  1. Harald Kosch
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  1. College of Computing, Georgia Institute of Technology, 266 Ferst Drive, 30332-0765, Atlanta, GA, USA

    LING LIU (Professor) (Professor)

  2. Database Research Group David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science, University of Waterloo, 200 University Avenue West, N2L 3G1, Waterloo, ON, Canada

    M. TAMER ÖZSU (Professor and Director, University Research Chair) (Professor and Director, University Research Chair)

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Kosch, H., Döller, M. (2009). Image Content Modeling. In: LIU, L., ÖZSU, M.T. (eds) Encyclopedia of Database Systems. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-39940-9_1013

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