Social image tagging by mining sparse tag patterns from auxiliary data

• Main Authors: Lin, Jie, Yuan, Junsong, Duan, Ling-Yu, Luo, Siwei, Gao, Wen
• Other Authors: School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering
• Format: Conference or Workshop Item
• Language: English
• Published: 2013
• Subjects: DRNTU::Engineering::Electrical and electronic engineering
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/99569; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/13027
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

User-given tags associated with social images from photosharing websites (e.g., Flickr) are valuable auxiliary resources for the image tagging task. However, social images often suffer from noisy and incomplete tags, heavily degrading the effectiveness of previous image tagging approaches. To allevi...