An image retrieval system by impression words and specific object Names-IRIS

摘要

In this paper, we describe a new image retrieval system for scenery images named IRIS (Image Retrieval by Impression words and Specific object names) which uses specific object names in addition to impression words which can reflect ambiguous human kansei (impression and sensitivity) as the retrieval keywords. IRIS has not only the function which retrieves images but also that can estimate keywords to images automatically. In IRIS, first an image is divided into some regions. Next each region is roughly classified into the sky, earth and water categories by the image recognition method using a neural network.