SIRE: A Social Image Retrieval Engine

• Main Authors: HOI, Steven C. H., WU, Pengcheng
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2011
• Subjects: Content-based image retrieval; Multi-modal search; Social images; Social media; Text-based image retrieval; Computer Sciences; Databases and Information Systems
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sis_research/2354; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/sis_research/article/3354/viewcontent/SIRE_hoi_2011.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

With the explosive growth of social media applications on the internet, billions of social images have been made available in many social media web sites nowadays. This has presented an open challenge of web-scale social image search. Unlike existing commercial web search engines that often adopt te...