WebSummarization is a system for extracting the most important images from a Web site

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WebSummarization
Automatic Logo and Trademark Extraction from Web
Sites
Evdoxios Baratis, Euripides G.M. Petrakis Dept.
of Electr. Comp. Engin., Technical Univ. of
Crete (TUC), Greece Evangelos E. Milios Faculty
of Comp. Science, Dalhousie University, Hallifax,
Canada

• WebSummarization is a system for extracting the
  most important images from a Web site
• Logos and Trademarks are important features,
  characterizing the identity of corporate web
  sites or of products presented in such sites
• http//www.intelligence.tuc.gr/websummarization
• 1. Logo/Trademark Extraction based on Image
  Features
• Features computed on Intensity and
• Frequency histograms
• Machine learning for discriminating
• logos/trademarks from images of other
• categories
• For an image its Prob. of being
• Logo/Trademark is computed
• 2. Clustering of similar images
• Similar logo/trademark appear more than
• once in web sites
• Identical of similar images are grouped
• together into clusters
• Clustering is based on features and
• machine learning
• 3. Image Ranking Select the most characteristic
  

Department Of Electronic Computer Engineering
Technical University of Crete (TUC)