Personalized image recommendation for web search engine users

We introduce and investigate a novel problem of image recommendation for web search engine users. Modern web search engines have become a critical assistant for people´s daily life. Through interacting with web search engines, users exhibit personalized information needs in various aspects. While this information is critical to improve user experience, it is mostly used only in the web search domain. In this paper, we propose to leverage web search engine users´ behavior data to perform image recommendation. To this end, we have developed a two-stage method to label users´ preferences for images through crowdsourcing techniques. The two-stage annotation consists of 1) inferring a user´s general interests and 2) estimating if this user will be interested in an image. In addition, we implement a baseline algorithm to demonstrate the promise of the proposed cross-domain recommendation framework.