Employing physical distance in ranking image-search results
by Natheer Khasawneh; Rami A. Al-Hailat; Ahmad T. Al-Hammouri
International Journal of Intelligent Information and Database Systems (IJIIDS), Vol. 8, No. 4, 2014

Abstract: In this paper, we enhance web image searching by exploiting the physical distance between an image on the web page and the surrounding text. The rationale is that the closer a term word to an image is, the more strong the relation between that word and image is. The physical distance is measured between the exact positions of a term and an image inside a webpage as it appears when it is completely rendered by a web browser. We show that incorporating physical distance in the ranking process indeed reduces the number of irrelevant images in the returned search results.

Online publication date: Fri, 10-Apr-2015

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