Overview of the ImageCLEF 2006 Photographic Retrieval and Object Annotation Tasks

This paper describes the general photographic retrieval and object annotation tasks of the ImageCLEF 2006 evaluation campaign. These tasks provide both the resources and the framework necessary to perform comparative laboratory-style evaluation of visual information systems for image retrieval and automatic image annotation. Both tasks offer something new for 2006 and attracted a large number of submissions: 12 groups participating in ImageCLEFphoto and 3 in the automatic annotation task. This paper summarises components used in the benchmark, including the collections, the search and annotation tasks, the submissions from participating groups, and results. The general photographic retrieval task, ImageCLEFphoto, used a new collection

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2006
• Where: CLEF
• Authors: Paul Clough, Michael Grubinger, Thomas Deselaers, Allan Hanbury, Henning Müller
• Keywords: Annotation Task, CLEF 2006, General Photographic Retrieval, Information Management, Object Annotation Task