Toward a Visual Thesaurus

Abstract

A thesaurus is a book containing related words, such as synonyms, in a given language; it provides similarity links when trying to retrieve articles or stories about a particular topic. A “visual thesaurus” works with pictures, not words. It aids in recognizing visually similar events, “visual synonyms,” including both spatial and motion similarity. This paper describes a method for building such a tool, and recent research results in theMIT Media Lab which contribute toward this goal. The heart of the method is a learning systemwhich gathers information by interacting with a user of a database. The learning system is also capable of incorporating audio and other perceptual information, ultimately constructing a representation of common sense knowledge.

Contributors

Rosalind W. Picard

Conference

Publication date: September 1995

Publication date (Print): September 1995

Pages: 1-8

Affiliations

Perceptual Computing Section

MIT Media Laboratory

Cambridge, MA; USA

Article

DOI: 10.14236/ewic/MIRO1995.13

Copyright statement: © Rosalind W. Picard. Published by BCS Learning and Development Ltd. Proceedings of the Final Workshop on Multimedia Information Retrieval (Miro '95) Glasgow, Scotland

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Conference name: Proceedings of the Final Workshop on Multimedia Information Retrieval (Miro '95)

Conference acronym: MIRO

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Conference location: Glasgow, Scotland

Conference date: 18-20 September 1995

Conference sponsor: Electronic Workshops in Computing (eWiC)

Conference theme: Multimedia Information Retrieval

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Product Information: 1477-9358BCS Learning & Development

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Series title: Electronic Workshops in Computing