Abstract
This paper proposes a semantic retrieving method for an image retrieval system that employs the fusion of the textual and visual information of the image dataset which is a recent trend in image retrieval researches. It combines two different data mining techniques to retrieve semantically related images: clustering and association rule mining algorithm. At the offline phase of the method, the association rules are discovered between the text semantic clusters and the visual clusters to use it later in the online phase. To evaluate the proposed system, the experiment was conducted on more than 54,500 images of ImageCLEF 2011 Wikipedia collection. The proposed retrieval system was compared to an online system called MMRetrieval and to the proposed system but without using association rules. The obtained results show that our proposed method achieved the best precision and mean average precision.