Using visual features to improve tag suggestions in image sharing sites

Social media sharing sites such as Flickr or YouTube have become immensely popular. Besides sharing actual content, users also share annotations describing or classifying the contents they publish. Although tagging is easy, annotation still is a laborious task that can be made easier by suggesting meaningful additional tags to the user automatically. In this position paper we propose a system architecture and process for supporting annotation by tag suggestion to increase the quality and quantity of social annotations. The goal is not to tag previously untagged images in a completely automatic way, but instead to extend the amount and completeness of annotations by supporting the user in the process of adding further tags. -- Multimedia ; annotation ; tag recommendation ; social software