Exploiting of Flickr Note and its Applications for Social Image Sharing and Search

In this paper, we present analytical information about Flickr notes and propose further directions of note based image search. Compared to a tag that is used for traditional social image search, Flickr note is a kind of text directly assigned on the image regions. Even though note has various information that may help intelligent social image sharing and search, there is no significant research that focuses on the potential and the impact of note for image search. In order to reveal the useful information and potential of Flickr notes, we have collected a number of images and analyzed them with regard to various aspects. Additionally, from the analytical results about Flickr notes, we show various possible research issues to which note information can be applied.