Gaze- and Speech-Enhanced Content-Based Image Retrieval in Image Tagging

Abstract. We describe a setup and experiments where users are check-ing and correcting image tags given by an automatic tagging system. We study how much the application of a content-based image retrieval (CBIR) method speeds up the process of finding and correcting the erroneously-tagged images. We also analyze the use of implicit relevance feedback from the user’s gaze tracking patterns as a method for boosting up the CBIR performance. Finally, we use automatic speech recognition for giving the correct tags for those images that were wrongly tagged. The experiments show a large variance in the tagging task performance, which we believe is primarily caused by the users ’ subjectivity in image contents as well as their varying familiarity with the gaze tracking and speech recognition setups. The results suggest potentials for gaze and/or speech enhanced CBIR method in image tagging, at least for some users