Describing images via linguistic features and hierarchical segmentation
Rita Castillo-Ortega, Jesús Chamorro-Martínez, Nicolás Marı́n, Daniel Sánchez, Jose Manuel Soto-Hidalgo · 2010
In this paper we introduce a preliminary proposal for linguistic description of images. The approach is based on i) a hierarchical fuzzy segmentation of the image, ii) a collection of linguistic features describing each region, and iii) fuzzy spatial relations and locations. The procedure is independent from the way these elements have been obtained, and provides a description with the characteristics of a summary, i.e., a brief and accurate description of the whole image. As another characteristic of summaries, the method can be guided in the description by the user's preferences and interest. Remarkably, we are able to provide a description containing sentences about disjoint regions appearing in different levels of detail.