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What's with the free images? A study of Flickr's creative commons attribution images

  • Herkko Hietanen*
  • , Kumaripaba Athukorala
  • , Antti Salovaara
  • *Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

Our survey of the Flickr photo site's Creative Commons attribution licensed images reveals that there is a wide variety of high quality of relevant stock images available. However, searching the images can be demanding since the image metadata is inconsistent. The main problem of finding open images is that the search tools are mostly based on user generated tags. The search results would benefit from human sorting and simple machine vision analysis. These steps might be able to close the gap between commercial stock photo and open image collections.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings of the 15th International Academic MindTrek Conference
Subtitle of host publicationEnvisioning Future Media Environments, MindTrek 2011
PublisherACM
Pages265-268
Number of pages4
ISBN (Print)9781450308168
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2011
MoE publication typeA4 Conference publication
EventMindTrek Conference - Tampere, Finland
Duration: 22 Sept 201524 Sept 2015
Conference number: 19

Publication series

NameProceedings of the 15th International Academic MindTrek Conference: Envisioning Future Media Environments, MindTrek 2011

Conference

ConferenceMindTrek Conference
Abbreviated titleMindTrek
Country/TerritoryFinland
CityTampere
Period22/09/201524/09/2015

Keywords

  • Creative Commons
  • Flickr
  • image search
  • ImageNet
  • metadata
  • stock photo
  • tagging

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