SEMANTIC BASED WEB IMAGE RETRIEVAL

ABSTRACT
Semantic search has been a upcoming field for Internet based application. Now it has become buzzword. In order to maximise the benefit of the colossal repository of digital image available both publicly and in private collections, intelligent matchmaking tools are required. Unfortunately, most image search engines rely on free-text search that often returns inaccurate sets of results based on the recurrence of the search keywords in the text associated with images. In this paper we present a semantically-enabled image annotation and retrieval engine that relies on methodically structured ontologies for image annotation, thus allow for more relevant retrieval based on image content and subsequently obtaining a more accurate set of results and a richer setoff alternatives. Semantic Search will change the keyword focus of electronic sourcing to the actual search of images.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

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Proposed System 7.1 Functional And Non Functional Requirements 7.2 System Diagram Methodology 8.1 Ontology support 8.2 Image annotation Implementation Plan For Next Semester 9.1 Estimation And Time Line Chart Analysis 10.1 Use Case Diagrams 10.2 Activity Diagrams 10.3 Analysis Class Diagrams 10.4 User/Hardware/Software/Communication Interface Details Of Hardware And Software Requirements Design Details
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1. INTRODUCTION
Affordable access to digital technology and advances in Internet communications have contributedto the unprecedented growth of digital media repositories(images) over the past fewyears.Retrieving relevant media from these seemingly everincreasing repositories is an impossible task for the user without the aid of search tools. Whether we are considering public media repositories such as Googleimages and YouTube or commercial photolibraries such as Empics , some kind of search engine is required to matchmake the user-query and the available media. This research effort focusses on image retrieval techniques. Most public image retrieval engines rely on analysing the text accompanying the image to matchmake it with the user query. Various optimizations were developed including the use of weighting systems where higher regard can be given to the proximity of the keyword to the image location, or where more frequently images are prioritised, or advanced text analysis techniques that use term weighting method, which relies on the proximity between the anchor to an image and each word in an HTML file Similar relevance-analysis and query expansion techniques are used in annotation-enriched image collections, where usually a labour-intensive annotation process is utilised to describe the images with or without the aid of some domain-specific schema. Despite the optimisation efforts, these search techniques remain hampered by the fact that they rely on free-text search that, while cost-effective to perform,can return irrelevant results as it primarily relies on the recurrence of exact words in the text accompanying the image.The inaccuracy of the results increases with the complexity of the query. For instance, using the Yahoo search engine to look for images of the football player Zico returns some good pictures of the player,mixed with photos of cute dogs (as apparently Zico is also a popular name for pet dogs), but if we add the action of scoring to the search text, this seems tocompletely confuse the Yahoo search engine and only one picture of Zico is returned, in which he is standing still! Any significant contribution to the accuracy ofmatchmaking results can be achieved only if the search engine can comprehend the meaning of the data that describes the stored images, for instance, if the search engine can understand that scoring is an act associated with sport activities performed by humans. Semantic annotation techniques have gained wide popularity in associating plain data with structured concepts that software programs can reason about. The aim of this project is to contribute towards the utilisation of semantic web technologies to improve the processes of image annotation and retrieval.

An ontology is an abstract model which represents a common and shared understanding of a domain. Ontologies generally consist of a list of interrelated terms and inference rules and can be exchanged between users and applications. They may be defined in a more or less formal way, from natural language to description logics. The Web Ontology Language (OWL) belongs to the latter category. Metadata and ontologies are complementary and constitute the Semantic Webs building blocks. They avoid meaning ambiguities and provide more precise answers. In addition to a better accuracy of query results, another goal of the Semantic Web is to describe the semantic relationships between these answers. These relationships will be used for to refine the search.

2. AIMS AND OBJECTIVES

The main aim of this project is to develop a search engine based on ontology matching and semantic anotation for retrieval of images. 2.1 AIMS:

To Developed ontology that will represent the shared vocabulary to be used for describing any image. It will also suggest alternative terminology, abbreviations for the search text. To use semantics or the science of meaning in language to produce highly relevant search results. The search result should be fast and refined.

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OBJECTIVES: To save the time in image searching.

To remove the Irrelevant results. Make the searching userfriendly .The search engine should suggest query based on the first text inputted.

The Main objective of this project is to present an abstraction of the information obtained by a traditional Web search in such a way that these research tasks are partially automated, thus making the research process more efficient.

3.LITERATURE SURVEY
This article presents survey about different ways in which images can be searched on the web. It will also give a brief introduction about Semantic based web image retrieval method.

An Ontology-based framework for semantic image analysis and retrieval

In this framework, an appropriately defined ontology infrastructure is used to drive the generation of manual and automatic image annotations and to enable semantic retrieval by exploiting the formal semantics of ontologies. In this way, the descriptions considered in the tedious task of manual annotation are constrained to named entities (e.g. location names, person names, etc.), since the ontology-driven analysis module automatically generates annotations concerning common domain objects of interest (e.g. sunset, trees, sea, etc.). Experiments in the domain of outdoor images show that such an ontology-based scheme realizes efficient visual information access with respect to its semantics.

Caliph and Emir: Semantic Annotation and Retrieval in Personal Digital Photo Libraries

In this article the author proposed the development tools to fulfill special requirements concerning the storage, indexing and retrieval of multimedia content. In addition easy-to-use content exchange via the Internet is a preferable feature. The transition from text to photo retrieval raises the necessity of additional metainformation about the content to allow semantic retrieval. As a result metadata has to be generated, stored and indexed to enrich raw visual information. As a result and proof of concept a pair of prototypes, called Caliph & Emir, are presented.

 An Ontology Oriented Region-Based Image Retrieval Strategy

In this paper effective region-based image retrieval strategy is presented based on semantic ontologies. An unsupervised segmentation algorithm splits images into regions that are subsequently used as basis by the ontology-based strategy. The approach comprises three stages, namely automatic region generation, categorization and ontology construction. When receiving a query for a specific object, the search engine will, in addition to conventionally matched images, also find candidates through the semantic ontology using low level features. The proposed approach can thus find a richer set of related candidate images than traditional image retrieval approaches. This strategy is particularly useful for vague queries encountered by inexperienced users that are not trained in searching for images by the means of low-level features. The experimental results demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed approach

A new semantic text-image search engine for car designers

(TRENDS) system integrates flexible content-based image retrieval facilities with database management and other useful functionalities that aim at improving the inspirational information gathering process in the early design stages. TRENDS is a 6th Framework Programme IST project, funded by the EC that started 01/01/2006 and will end 31/12/2008. It aims at elaborating the design trend boards dedicated to product designers in business to consumer markets such as for the automotive and original equipment manufacturers. The main innovation is related to the content based image and semantic text information search engines and to the integration of the elements under a cutting edge user interface specially designed to fulfill the designers requirements. Semantic Classification of Web Images for Efficient Image Retrieval In this paper, Author show how a specific high-level classification problem can be solved from relatively basic low-level visual features geared for the particular classes. We have developed a procedure to qualitatively measure the saliency of a feature towards a classification problem based on the discrimination power of the HSV color histograms, which capture the visual characteristics of each of the images were computed. We found that the HSV color histogram, mainly the hue component, has the most discriminative power for the classification problem of our interest. A k-means classifier is used for the classification, which results in an accuracy of 90.5% when evaluated on an image database of 2,738 web images. The images are classified as full faces, natural sceneries, events and city images.

Boosting Image Retrieval through Aggregating Search Results based on Visual Annotations In this paper, authors are exploring two complementary paths. On one hand, we are interested in combining visual and textual search to improve the precision of our search results. In addition we want to exploit the large set of visual annotations that form the collective knowledge.

The Study on the Semantic Image Retrieval based on the Personalized Ontology The key problem in semantic based web image retrieval system is the identification of appropriate concepts. This paper introduces the new image retrieval system that employs a concept based technique utilizing ontology. There are many attempts to search images using ontology. However, they havent given the much good results. The reason is that the ontology just has been used to resolve the conceptual heterogeneous between the text annotations. Another reason is to use the much big ontology. To improve the accuracy in terms of precision and recall of an image retrieval system we have created a personalized ontology and spatial ontology. In trial implementation of the system they have achieved a level of accuracy at which was up to 83.9%.

4.EXISTING SYSTEM
Most people agree that the biggest problem with internet today is too much information available on it .Without a good search engine, you simply get lost in all the information. Unfortunately, todays search engines are still inefficient, delivering mismatched information and requiring complex search string knowledge to use effectively. Searching for information in large rather unstructured real-world data sets is a difficult task, because the user expects immediate responses as well as high-quality search results. Today, existing search engines, like Google, apply a keyword-based search, which is handled by indexed-based lookup and subsequent ranking algorithms. This kind of search is able to deliver many search results in a short time, but fails to guarantee that only relevant data is presented. The main reason for the low search precision is the lack of understanding of the system for the original user intention of the search. Search engines have gradually become a high efficient and convenient way for data query and information acquisition to people. With the continuous development of search engine technology, the current mature commercial search engines have experienced several generations of evolution. Meanwhile, Web information retrieval technology, which is the essence of search engines, including commercial products has come out for about 20 years. In this period of time, great progresses in the aspects of retrieval key technology, system structure design, query algorithm and etc. are made, and a lot of commercial search engine services are being used on Web. Compare with these progresses, the rapid increment of data on Web weakens the achievement obtained in the research field of Web search in some degree, the massive data quantity and frequent update speed have brought a completely new challenge as well. Currently, the shortcomings existing in Web information retrieval are:

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 Low query quality Low query quality is shown as when returning large amount of result pages, however, the amount that really accords to users requirement is low. Moreover, most of these relevant links dont appear on the top of query results. Users have to keep trying and turning pages in order to find valuable information, thus a lot of time is consumed by this process. In the age that Web information amount is increasing continuously, this problem has become particularly outstanding. Improving Web query quality is the most critical subject of current intelligent information retrieval research, after Web mining technology is integrated, the query quality of search engines can obtain great improvement.

Low query update speed There are two reasons causing the low update speed of Web query results, one is the low efficiency of the Crawler system of search engines, which the collection period of documents is too long, after the index is completed, difference has emerged between acquired content and the newest pages; the other one is the update speed of Web documents has become faster and faster. Currently, many Websites include dynamic pages, which are activated by the background database, thus the change of database will directly cause these dynamic pages to be changed. The update speed of part of static pages is increasing as well. When many Web pages are continuously visited by Web Crawler by two times, the change times of

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them will much higher than two times in the interval, so users cant obtain the content of these changes through query.

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 Lack of effective information categorization Currently, most of the query results of search engines are provided in the way of list and paging, all the relevant and irrelevant links are put together without association, which is quite inconvenient for users with explicit query objective, because they have to keep jumping or selecting between various links. Categorizing and clustering query pages is an effective way to improve the quality of user navigation, which can make users select some category quickly and ulteriorly refine query targets in this category. For example, if we input mining into Vivisimo, several categories such as data mining, gold and Mining and Metallurgy will emerge, and users can make further query in every category.

Keyword-based Web query lacks understanding of user behavior In the view of the development of Web retrieval technology, keyword-based query will be the most important retrieval way in a quite long period from now on. Keyword-based query is a complicated retrieval mechanism implemented by the Boolean combination of keywords. However, the query functions provided by current search engines are quite limited, which only the most basic Boolean connections between keywords are provided by most search engines. For instance, Yahoo only provides two logical operators, which are AND and OR, and compulsory applies one logical operator to all keywords. In many cases, it is quite difficult to construct an effective query combination. On the other hand, even to the same keywords, the search objective of different users maybe different, it is closely related to the facts such as users personal preference, the environment of context of current search, the previous search history and so on. After these parameters are fully considered, a search engine that accords to users requirement can be designed based on it. In Lawrence and Lee Guiles (1998) paper, they proposed a context environment-based Web retrieval and query correction method.

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 Low index coverage rate of Web search engines Currently, the coverage rate to Web of search engines is low than 50%, it is quite difficult to completely index the whole Web because of resource restriction. In the condition that the index coverage rate is low, when collecting documents, many search services adopt same download priority for each page, which causes there are many pages with low reference value remaining in index database, but some relatively important pages are not indexed. In order to solve this problem, discrimination of resource quality is needed in the process of Crawler traversing. The pages with high quality should be downloaded in priority, and the index database is constructed according to priority. In Chakrabarti, van den Berg and Doms (1999) paper, they proposed an algorithm that analyzes Web document quality in real time and determine download priority by means of focus crawling, which makes up the shortcoming of low coverage rate in some degree. The normal search engines considered manual descriptions in the form of textual or keyword annotations, and retrieval took place in the textual domain. Although the employed annotations entailed high level of abstraction, they lacked formal semantics, leading to low precision and recall. Additional weaknesses, namely the different terminologies employed among users and annotators and insufficient user familiarity with the subject area, in combination with the high cost of manual annotation, rendered such approaches inefficient.

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5.PROBLEM STATEMENT

5.1 Problem Definition The semantic search engine would function like a human, understanding the underlying meaning of the users search and then matching the search results accordingly. Thus we present a semantically-enabled image annotation and retrieval engine that relies on methodically structured ontologies for image annotation, thus allowing for more intelligent reasoning about the image content and subsequently obtaining a more accurate set of results and a richer set of alternatives matchmaking the original query. Semantic Search engines discover the true relationship between the question being asked and the content being delivered. Consequently, the users experience of the search is shifted from sifting through documents that contain a specific keyword to reading documents that express the concept originally being sought.

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6.SCOPE
Today, most people think of online search in terms of the capabilities of major search engines like GoogleTM, Yahoo!TM, or Microsofts BingTM. These search engines utilize Boolean-based keyword search technology and often require the use of complex syntax and field search commands to find specific occurrences of information (keywords) within documents. Results are based solely on whether Semantic Search those keywords are present. The major search engines are constantly experimenting with new ways to simplify their search queries for users. However, these simplifying efforts dont really work to understand the true meaning of what is being searched for. In contrast, Semantic Search technologies seek to simplify search by understanding the actual concept being sought. Semantic Search engines discover the true relationship between the question being asked and the content being delivered. Consequently, the users experience of the search is shifted from sifting through documents that contain a specific keyword to reading documents that express the concept originally being sought. One of the biggest challenges of search engines is their difficulty to understand the context of the search. It is context that determines if the word well refers to a bucket as in, Draw water from the well or a person, as in, Is she not feeling well? As a human, if you read stair well you automatically know what it means. Computers, on the other hand, have to calculate hundreds of variations and probabilities to arrive at a best guess. Semantic Search engines make sense of sentence context by being pre-configured (trained) to understand who the user is and what the likely context of the search term is. To illustrate, imagine two people searching for a Marketing Manager position on the Web. One person is a recruiter, the other is a job candidate. With a regular search engine both people would get the same results. However, with a Semantic Search engine, that knew the user was a recruiter, only candidate resumes would be received, while job listings would be ignored. Likewise, the job candidate would only see job listings.

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ADVANTAGES OF SEMANTIC SEARCH:

Semantic Search is far easier to learn than complex syntax and field search commands because it doesnt require significant technical skills to get good results (i.e. theres no need to use commands like intitle, inurl, site, and filetype). Semantic Search can save users significant time by automatically identifying(through Thesaurus) which terms to search on in the image description. Semantic Search provides users with more accurate image matches by prefiltering results for such things as candidate qualifications (skills, experience, education, etc.) and work history characteristics (job hopping, job similarity, etc.)

Semantic Search increases search match quality by taking into image metadata features. Thus, rather than using ranking algorithms such as Google's PageRank to predict relevancy, Semantic Search uses semantics, or the science of meaning in language, to produce highly relevant search results. In most cases, the goal is to deliver the information queried by a user rather than have a user sort through a list of loosely related keyword results.

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7.PROPOSED SYSTEM
The main advantage of Semantic Search engines is the ability to find keywords and phrases that expand from the original keyword(s) being searched for. Semantic Search engines do this by building expansion sets, or lists of linguisticallyequivalent meanings. This capability enables the Semantic Search engine to find hidden matches to the users intended search, which regular search engines would normally filter out. Applied to image retrieval, the semantic annotation of images creates a conceptual understanding of the domains that the image represents, enabling software agents, search engines, to make more intelligent decisions about the relevance of the image to a particular user query. For example, when searching the Google Image Search engine for some pictures of English football star David Beckham angry, it seems relevant to type the keywords David Beckham angry. The search engine returns 14 results, within which only six represent a picture of David Beckham while only in two of them does he really look angry. The other retrieved images comprise many irrelevancies and have little to do with the initial query: one shows a moose, another one a picture of David Beckhams wife, or the front cover of American singer Eminems book entitled Angry Blonde. The use of the Semantic Web in image retrieval is likely to improve the computers understanding of the image objects and their interactions. The goal is to make the machine understand that David Beckham is a person, and that he is also an English footballer playing Real Madrid FC. He also used to play for Manchester United and for the England National Team. Because Beckham is understood as a person, he is thus likely to express emotions. For this query the emotion is rather strong and negative. The ontology relating David Beckham to human emotions should be able to retrieve all the pictures where David Beckham appears to be expressing a rather negative strong emotion, such as angry, furious, frustrated or even disappointed.

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To attain such expanded results, the data needs a better structure, so as to make sense for a machine that feelings are attached to people and can be either positive or negative. Here, the Semantic Web is likely to bring such a structure that integrates concepts and inter-entity relations from different domains.

CASE STUDY FOR SEMANTIC-BASED WEB IMAGE RETRIEVAL SYSTEM An opportunity to experiment with our research findings in semantic-based search technology was gratefully provided by Empics. Empics is a Nottingham-based company which is part of the Press Association Photo Group Company [2]. As well as owning a huge image database in excess of 4 million annotated images which date back to the early 1900s, the company processes a colossal amount of images each day from varying events ranging from sport to politics and entertainment. The company also receives annotated images from a number of partners that rely on a different photo indexing schema. More significantly, initial investigation has proven that the accuracy of the results sets matching the user queries do not measure up to the rich repository of photos in the companys library. The goal of the case study is two-fold. Initially, we intend to investigate the use of semantic technology to build a classification and indexing system that critically unifies the annotation infrastructure for all the sources of incoming stream of photos. Subsequently, well conduct a feasibility study aiming to improve the end user experience of their images search engine. At the moment Empics search engine relies on Free-Text search to return a set of images matching the user requests. Therefore the returned results often go off tangent if the search keywords do not exactly recur in the photo annotations. A significant improvement can result from semantically enabling the photo search engine. Semantic-based image search will ultimately enable the search engine software to understand the concept or meaning of the user request and hence return more accurate results (images) and a richer set of alternatives.

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7.1 Requirements
Functional Requirements: The Semantic image search engine must give accurate results. The search engine must give refined results. The search engine should understand the meaning of the search text and develop the required ontology. The search engine should be up-to-date with its vocabulary.

The search engine should suggest appropriate query based on the meaning of the user input query.

Semantic search engine should not crash down when user inputs complex queries.

Query expansion in the semantic image search engine. The semantic search engine should be able to let the user feed more (unlimited) details of what they know about what they are looking for.

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Non-Functional Requirement Our semantic based web image search engine has following nonfunctional requirements:
User Interface

User interface of the semantic based web image search engine it should be user friendly and have very descent appearance. User interface should not be complicated one it should have separate section for advertisement
Reliability

Our search engine should not give the unexpected result the probability of occurring unexpected result should be as low as possible. Time require to recover from any damage it should be as low as possible
Availability

The search engine server should be available 24X7 s.

Security

The ontology structure stored on the server it should be secure no one should not access the content.

Performance Throughput

The through put of the semantic based search engine should have low throughput. When user enters query for searching image the result of the user query should be fast .
Response Time

When the user open web browser enters the url of the search engine the response time of server should be minimum.

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Resource Usage

The system shall use minmum number of resources. The web page should not be overloaded with unwanted things.
Degradation Under Overload Conditions

The system shall have option when the overloaded situation occur like many users are sending request at time it give the proper response to all user with less delay.

Maintainability

The Semantic search database should be up-to-date and should always monitor if there are any system errors and correct them if neccessay.
Scalability

The Semantic search engine should have add on capabilities.

Speed The image retrieval should be fast.

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7.2 SYSTEM DIAGRAM

Semantic Indexing and Retrieval Engine Architecture

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8.METHODOLOGY
8.1 Ontology support The concept of ontologies is fundamental to the Semantic image search engine. According to the Collins dictionary, ontology is the branch of philosophy that deals with the nature of existence. Considering a domain (e.g. science, sports, etc.), its ontology forms the heart of any system of knowledge representation for that domain.Without ontologies, or the conceptualisations that underlie knowledge, there cannot be a common vocabulary for representing and sharing knowledge. From a computing science point of view, an ontology represents an area of knowledge that is used by people, databases, and applications that need to share domain information. Ontologies include computerusable definitions of basic concepts in the domain andthe relationships among them.The Ontology Working Language (OWL) has become the de-facto standard for expressing ontologies.It adds extensive vocabulary to describe properties and classes and express relations between them (such as disjointness), cardinality (for example, "exactly one"), equality, richer typing of properties, and characteristics of properties (such as symmetry). OWL is designed for use by applications that need to process the content of information rather than just present information to humans. 8.2 Image Anotation The developed ontology represents the shared vocabulary to be used for describing any sports image. The annotation stage requires not only precise understanding of the ontology, but also an end-user focussed approach that methodically considers the dynamics of the subsequent retrieval process. Reasoning about the annotation requires the utilisation of an ontology editor. In this project, we intended to use Jena, an ontology editor that is available as a Java package API enabling the user to work with OWL files. The method used to store data is very similar to the structure of a database, using several tables to store and organise the data. In this project, the central part of the annotation is the object of the picture, as it is the only link between the image and its content. Thus, particular care needs to be given to the image library as illustrated image. In the schema in Figure 6, the central part is the image library. Each image possesses an object, whose main features are stored within an object library, distinct from the image library. By using this means of storage, every object created can be reused if needed. Thus, its features are entered just once, reducing redundancy and enhancing the information provided to the annotation.

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For example, when annotating a new image where David Beckham appears, the user only needs to specify the URI (Uniform Resource Identifier) referring to the description of the player. However, the description will implicitly make the computer understand that in the picture, there is a person, who is a player, who plays football for Real Madrid, and who is an English citizen. All this data is implicitly given to the annotation by using this architecture. The main philosophy behind building relationships in the annotation is built around the sentence structure Actor Action Object, for instance, Beckham Smiles null, or Zidane Receives Red_ Card, or Gerrard Tackles Henry.

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9.IMPLEMENTATION PLAN FOR NEXT SEMESTER

9.1 ESTIMATION AND TIME LINE CHART

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10.ANALYSIS DIAGRAMS
10.1 USE CASE DIAGRAM :

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11.DETAILS OF HARDWARE AND SOFTWARE REQUIREMENTS

HARDWARE REQUIREMENTS 512 MB Ram Pentium 4 processor. Minimum 40 GB hardisk space.

SOFTWARE REQUIREMENTS Java, Jsp softwares. Dotnet. Oracle. Windows xp.

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12.DESIGN DETAILS
12.1 CLASS DIAGRAM

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13.REFERENCES
1) www.ieee.org. 2) www.portal.acm.org. 3) Semantic Annotation and retreival of image collections by Osman T, Thakker D. 4) Techniques for ontology design and maintenance. Deliverable D13, TONES EU-IST STREP FP6-7603, January 2007. 5) An Ontology Oriented Region-Based Image Retrieval Strategy by TsunWei Chang. 6) Semantic Classification of Web Images for Efficient Image Retrieval by Lakshman Jayaratne School of Computing and Information Technology University of Western Sydney, Australia. 7) B. Le Saux, N. Boujemaa, Unsupervised Robust Clustering for Image Vol 1, pp. 259-262, 2002. 8) Picasa. http://picasaweb.google.com. 9) Roelof van Zwol Yahoo! Research C/ Ocata 1 08003 Barcelona, Spain. Boosting Image Retrieval through Aggregating Search Results based on Visual Annotations. 10) Fundacin ROBOTIKER, Parque Tecnolgico, 202, Zamudio (Spain). A New Semantic Text-Image Search Engine For Car Designers.

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