Representação temática de imagens: reflexões acerca dos subsídios da indexação manual e do reconhecimento de imagens

Abstract

These are the reflections about research carried out under the theme indexing of images performed under the guidance of the author of this paper. Originally, thematic representation studies have their theoretical basis built for analysis, synthesis, as well as the tools for information representation for textual resources. However, it was observed that there is a demand for investigations on imagery objects such as photographs, for example. Image definitions and characteristics of this information object are discussed in order to broaden the understanding of which information resources can be associated with the term. A brief discussion about indexing, Panofsky's iconographic method and its influence and the methodologies developed for the analysis of the synthesis of images developed in the IC, as well as the recent proposals of methodologies resulting from master's studies from PPGGOC / UFMG. for image indexing. In contrast to the discussions of the manually performed thematic representation, some initial notes on image annotations in digital collections are presented to improve image retrieval by looking at text-based annotation, content-based image retrieval (CBIR) and automatic image annotation.