Semi-automatic dynamic auxiliary-tag-aided image annotation

Image annotation is the foundation for many real-world applications. In the age of Web 2.0, image search and browsing are largely based on the tags of images. In this paper, we formulate image annotation as a multi-label learning problem, and develop a semi-automatic image annotation system. The presented system chooses proper words from a vocabulary as tags for a given image, and refines the tags with the help of the user's feedback. The refinement amounts to a novel multi-label learning framework, named Semi-Automatic Dynamic Auxiliary-Tag-Aided (SADATA), in which the classification result for one certain tag (target tag) can be boosted by the classification results of a subset of the other tags (auxiliary tags). The auxiliary tags, which have strong correlations with the target tag, are determined in terms of the normalized mutual information. We only select those tags whose correlations exceed a threshold as the auxiliary tags, so the auxiliary set is sparse. How much an auxiliary tag can contribute is dependent on the image, so we also build a probabilistic model conditioned on the auxiliary tag and the input image to adjust the weight of the auxiliary tag dynamically. For an given image, the user feedback on the tags corrects the outputs of the auxiliary classifiers and SADATA will recommend more proper tags next round. SADATA is evaluated on a large collection of Corel images. The experimental results validate the effectiveness of our dynamic auxiliary-tag-aided method. Furthermore, the performance also benefits from user feedbacks such that the annotation procedure can be significantly speeded up.     

基于集成学习和二维关联边条件随机场的Web数据语义标注方法

大规模Web信息抽取需要准确、自动地从众多相关网站上抽取Web数据对象.现有的Web信息抽取方法主要针对单个网站进行处理,无法适应大规模Web信息抽取的需要.调查研究表明,有效地实现Web数据语义自动标注,结合现有的包装器生成技术,可以满足大规模Web信息抽取的要求.文中提出一种基于集成学习和二维关联边条件随机场的Web数据语义自动标注方法,首先,利用已抽取的信息和目标网站训练页面中呈现的特征构造多个分类器,使用Dempster合成法则合并分类器结果,区分训练页面中的属性标签和数据元素;然后,利用二维关联边条件随机场模型对Web数据元素间的长距离依赖联系和短距离依赖联系进行建模,实现数据元素的自动语义标注.通过在多个领域真实数据集上的实验结果表明,所提出的方法可以高效地解决Web数据语义自动标注问题,满足大规模Web信息抽取的需要.     

Towards effective video annotation: An approach to automatically link notes with video content

The characteristics of annotations, such as highlighting, context-based notes, and organization are difficult to translate from the traditional paper-based medium to the digital format. An added challenge is how to facilitate annotations on a digital video in a collaborative distance learning environment. To explore issues in video annotation, we developed a tool called Interactive Shared Education Environment (ISEE). ISEE automatically generates hyperlinked timestamps, which we called Smartlinks, to associate the notes with their video contents. A usability study with 59 participants, following up by a small-scale eye-tracking study, was conducted to explore users’ video note-taking behaviors and to examine the effect of the new Smartlink design. Our results showed that participants with Smartlink took fewer notes, focused less on video controls and more on video content than those without Smartlink. We believe the main benefit of Smartlink is that it may offload non-learning related cognitive loads and allow users to take better notes. Findings from this study on users’ video annotation behaviors shed light on the future design of video annotation systems in both individual and collaborative environments.     

基于本体集成的语义标注模型设计

语义Web的全面实现需借助于语义标注,标注网页信息会涉及到多个本体.据此,通过研究桥本体,提出一个在本体集成的基础上建立起来的多本体语义标注模型.该模型利用桥本体集成顶层本体和多个领域本体,同时借助基于本体的信息抽取技术对网页进行语义标注,并将标注信息存入标注库,使标注信息与网页分离,提高语义检索的效率.通过举例说明了本模型的合理性.     

MTranslatability

Machine Translation of arbitrary input is difficult,but the output quality can be improved significantlyif writers create documents with MT in mind. Thisarticle deals with ``MTranslatability' – translatabilityof texts by MT systems. It identifies characteristics oftext that decrease MTranslatability and suggests waysto improve them. It also illustrates the effect of writingfor MTranslatability by showing before-and-after picturesof output from various commercially available MT systems,and gives an overview of tools that help identify and correctthe problems.     

Guiding students to the right questions: adaptive navigation support in an E‐Learning system for Java programming

Rapid growth of the volume of interactive questions available to the students of modern E‐Learning courses placed the problem of personalized guidance on the agenda of E‐Learning researchers. Without proper guidance, students frequently select too simple or too complicated problems and ended either bored or discouraged. This paper explores a specific personalized guidance technology known as adaptive navigation support. We developed JavaGuide, a system, which guides students to appropriate questions in a Java programming course, and investigated the effect of personalized guidance a three‐semester long classroom study. The results of this study confirm the educational and motivational effects of adaptive navigation support.     

三维标注的产品数字化定义标准及其管理系统开发

三维标注新技术引起了数字化定义方法的变革。简要介绍三维标注技术的内涵,详细说明了三维标注信息的分类和表达方法,构建了产品数字化定义的标准体系。为减轻产品数字化定义的工作量,开发了基于CATIA V5的产品定义标准信息管理系统,实现了产品数字化定义标准信息的统一管理,并详细阐述了基于CATIA的产品数字化定义应用流程。     

Analysis of annotations on documents for recycling of information

In order to make collaborative business activities fruitful, it is essential to know characteristics of organizations and persons in more details and to gather information relevant to the activities. In this paper, we describe a notion of “information recycling” that actualizes these requirements by analyzing documents. The key of recycling information is to utilize annotations on documents as clues for generating user profiles and for weighting contents in the context of the activities. We also propose a method of extracting annotations on paper documents just by pressing one button with the help of techniques of camera‐based document image analysis. Experimental results demonstrate that it is fundamentally capable of acquiring annotations on paper documents on the condition that their electronic versions without annotations are available for the processing. © 2008 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Electr Eng Jpn, 165(2): 60–68, 2008; Published online in Wiley InterScience ( www.interscience.wiley.com ). DOI 10.1002/eej.20516     

飞机钣金特征的智能三维标注技术

采用CAA对CATIA进行二次开发,建立了钣金零件的检验规划系统.通过钣金零件的检验规划系统得到特征的检验方法,并将所有特征对应的检验方法通过智能三维标注技术,标注到三维模型上.智能三维标注,即通过人机智能交互的方式,将所有的检验信息全部表示在三维图上,简单,直观,明了.     

A novel method to quantify gene set functional association based on gene ontology

Numerous gene sets have been used as molecular signatures for exploring the genetic basis of complex disorders. These gene sets are distinct but related to each other in many cases; therefore, efforts have been made to compare gene sets for studies such as those evaluating the reproducibility of different experiments. Comparison in terms of biological function has been demonstrated to be helpful to biologists. We improved the measurement of semantic similarity to quantify the functional association between gene sets in the context of gene ontology and developed a web toolkit named Gene Set Functional Similarity (GSFS; http://bioinfo.hrbmu.edu.cn/GSFS). Validation based on protein complexes for which the functional associations are known demonstrated that the GSFS scores tend to be correlated with sequence similarity scores and that complexes with high GSFS scores tend to be involved in the same functional catalogue. Compared with the pairwise method and the annotation method, the GSFS shows better discrimination and more accurately reflects the known functional catalogues shared between complexes. Case studies comparing differentially expressed genes of prostate tumour samples from different microarray platforms and identifying coronary heart disease susceptibility pathways revealed that the method could contribute to future studies exploring the molecular basis of complex disorders.