The design and implementation of ontology based image retrieval for Xu Beihong Museums

Ontology is formal shared conceptualization of domains of interest providing common vocabularies and used more and more for information retrieval system. In the paper, ontology is used in XuBeihong Museums retrieval system. A framework based on ontology is proposed. How to create knowledge base and supplement it, how to retrieve are dissertated. In addition, the virtues of retrieval based on ontology are compared with retrieval based on keywords.