Abstract
The amount of image data has recently been rapidly increasing because of the spread of digital cameras and the increasing capacity of data storage. Users' needs to manage these images have therefore been growing explosively. This paper proposes a method of
automatically annotating images that automatically attaches keywords that express these images based on the recognition of blobs within them. The system selects the most appropriate keywords from ones attached to similar images applying context-based image retrieval. We demonstrated the effectiveness of the new method by evaluating the accuracy of a system for retrieving natural images employing the proposed system of annotation.
