Web-based Semi-Automatic Annotation for Digital Photographs Using Speech and Graphical User Interface

Annotation process is important because it has a direct impact in the way in which photo retrieval is performed in locating the photos from the photo database. However, users want an efficient approach to access or retrieve photos based on metadata of images. So, annotation process would be vital and operational going to archive high user performance in photo retrieval process. In this paper we describe our ongoing work on web-based semiautomatic annotation for digital photo using speech/graphical user interface (S/GUI) which allows user to use speech other than traditional annotation methodology by using mouse and keyboard. We applied a semi-automatic annotation process based on semantic keyword which divided by four categories called as a photo metadata: what, who, when and where.