Region-Based Semi-automatic Annotation Using the Bag of Words Representation of the Keywords

Automatic Image Annotation (AIA) tries to minimize the manual effort for image annotation. However, the performance of the AIA approaches is not satisfactory. The interaction of user is needed to solve this problem. The annotation is refined during the interaction by using semantic-based relevance feedback. This approach has a limit as only the annotations of found images during the interaction are updated. In this paper we introduce a novel method of semi-automatic annotation. The method is using visual feature representations of keywords which are improved during the region-based relevance feedback. The experiments show that this method gives good results and can be used to update the annotations for all images.