Using Visual Features to
Improve Tag Suggestions in
Image Sharing Sites
Position of ..
o Mathias Lux, mlux@itec.uni-klu.ac.at
o Oge Marques, omarques@fau.edu
o Arthur Pitman, apitman@edu.uni-klu.ac.at
Department for Information Technology, Klagenfurt University, Austria

Agenda
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● Motivation
● Proposed Architecture
● Current State
● Preliminary Conclusions
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Motivation
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● 5,000 + uploads per minute on Flickr.
o Only 20%-25% are tagged
● Why are not all images tagged?
o Benefits of tagging are obvious …
o But effort is considered too high …
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