Functionality-Based Web Image Categorization
Jianying Hu, Amit Bagga · 2003
The World Wide Web provides an increasingly powerful and popular publication mechanism. Web documents often contain a large number of images serving various different purposes. Identifying the functional categories of these images has important applications including information extraction, web mining, web page summarization and mobile access. This paper describes a study on the functional categorization of Web images using data collected from news web sites. We describe the image categories found in such web pages and their distributions, identify the main research issues involved in automatically classifying images into these categories, and present a novel algorithm for automatic identification of two of the most important image categories, namely story and preview images.