FashionAsk: Pushing community answers to your fingertips

• Main Authors: ZHANG, Wei, PANG, Lei, NGO, Chong-wah
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2012
• Subjects: instance naming; multimedia question answering; question matching; Data Storage Systems; Graphics and Human Computer Interfaces
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sis_research/6469; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/sis_research/article/7472/viewcontent/2393347.2396476.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

We demonstrate a multimedia-based question-answering system, named FashionAsk, by allowing users to ask questions referring to pictures snapped by mobile devices. Specifically, instead of asking verbose questions to depict visual instances, direct pictures are provided as part of questions. To answe...