So far, most image mining was based on interactive querying. Although
such querying will remain important in the future, several
applications need image mining at such wide scales that it has to run
automatically. This adds an additional level to the problem, namely
to apply appropriate further processing to different types of images,
and to decide on such processing automatically as well. This paper
touches on those issues in that we discuss the processing of landmark
images and of images coming from webcams. The first part
deals with the automated collection of images of landmarks, which
are then also automatically annotated and enriched with Wikipedia
information. The target application is that users photograph landmarks
with their mobile phones or PDAs, and automatically get
information about them. Similarly, users can get images in their
photo albums annotated automatically. The object of interest can
also be automatically delineated in the images. The pipeline we
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Luc J. Van Gool, Michael D. Breitenstein, Stephan