This database contains general-purpose photography images with text annotation that can be used for research on image retrieval and automatic annotation.
Jia Li 417A Thomas Building The Pennsylvania State University University Park, PA 16802 jiali@stat.psu.edu http://www.stat.psu.edu/~jialiDate Donated: July 8, 2004
The images in the database are created by scanning slides as well as directly through digital photography. The images are scaled to size 384x256 or 256x384. The text annotations of all the images are manually created on a one by one basis.
Images are in JPEG format, 384x256 or 256x384 8 bits per pixel (RGB color space)
The images locate in five subdirectories 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 under directory image.cd.
The file "annotation.txt" provides text description for each image in the database. Every line in annotation.txt corresponds to one image. The first column is the assigned index of an image file, ranging from 0 to 2359. The second column is the image filename and the directory it locates. The words after the two columns are the manual annotation of the image.
The SIMPLIcity image retrieval system applied to this database is demonstrated at: http://www.stat.psu.edu/~jiali/index.download.html
Users of this database should cite the UCI KDD Archive and acknowledge the donor, J. Li, of this database.
The donor of the database would like to thank Dr. James Z. Wang for his help on creating the database.
This database is created for research on image retrieval and automatic annotation. References for the topics:
J. Li, J. Z. Wang, G. Wiederhold, ``IRM: Integrated region matching for image retrieval,'' Proc. ACM Multimedia, pp. 147-156, Los Angeles, October 2000.
J. Z. Wang, J. Li, G. Wiederhold, ``SIMPLIcity: Semantics-sensitive integrated matching for picture libraries,'' IEEE Trans. on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, 23(9):947-963, 2001.
J. Li, J. Z. Wang, ``Automatic linguistic indexing of pictures by a statistical modeling approach, '' IEEE Trans. on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, 25(9):1075-1088, 2003.