Binding Semantic to a Sketch Based Query Specification Tool

In image retrieval systems, user information needs is expressed using multiple types of query. Unfortunately, due touser subjectivity perception to visual features and semantic depths of images, the conventional query submitted to the systemencounter difficulties to identify user information need. The blooming of interest in semantic image retrieval requires currentresearch direction to be more concerned into semantics. This paper describes our on-going research work in formulating anew query approach for image databases. The enabling technologies of the semantic web formed the building blocks of ourquery specification. Using the MRML as the communication protocol, XML in the form of SVG as the visual contentdescription (sketch based) and RDF for binding the semantic meanings of images, this research provides an initial frameworktowards semantic based query formulation framework