Images in News

A system, called NewsStand, is introduced that automatically extracts images from news articles. The system takes RSS feeds of news article and applies an online clustering algorithm so that articles belonging to the same news topic can be associated with the same cluster. Using the feature vector associated with the cluster, the images from news articles that form the cluster are extracted. First, the caption text associated with each of the images embedded in the news article is determined. This is done by analyzing the structure of the news article’s HTML page. If the caption and feature vector of the cluster are found to contain keywords in common, then the image is added to an image repository. Additional meta-information are now associated with each image such as caption, cluster features, names of people in the news article, etc. A very large repository containing more than 983k images from 12 million news articles was built using this approach. This repository also contained...

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2010
• Where: ICPR
• Authors: Jagan Sankaranarayanan, Hanan Samet
• Keywords: Caption Text, Computer Vision, Feature Vector, ICPR 2010, Image