The Story Picturing Engine---a system for automatic text illustration
- 1 February 2006
- journal article
- Published by Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) in ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing, Communications, and Applications
- Vol. 2 (1), 68-89
- https://doi.org/10.1145/1126004.1126008
Abstract
We present an unsupervised approach to automated story picturing. Semantic keywords are extracted from the story, an annotated image database is searched. Thereafter, a novel image ranking scheme automatically determines the importance of each image. Both lexical annotations and visual content play a role in determining the ranks. Annotations are processed using the Wordnet. A mutual reinforcement-based rank is calculated for each image. We have implemented the methods in our Story Picturing Engine (SPE) system. Experiments on large-scale image databases are reported. A user study has been performed and statistical analysis of the results has been presented.Keywords
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