Survey on Methodologies Used for Web Image Search

The image search has becomes an important feature of multimedia. It plays an important role in daily life. Some image search query results are satisfactory and some are unsatisfactory. The web image search mostly depends on the surrounding text of the image. It is difficult to understand the user intention only by query keywords and this leads to irrelevant image search results. In this paper the methods developed by different researchers in the area of web image search are reviewed. These methods vary from textual information search to user feedback. Also some methods are depend on the visual similarities between the images. To improve the result of web image search, strategies like keyword expansion, active re-ranking is also used. This paper focuses on the methods introduced by different authors for development in the area of web image search.

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