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USING REGIONAL INFORMATION IN LANGUAGE MODEL BASED AUTOMATIC CONCEPT ANNOTATION AND RETRIEVAL OF VIDEO Dietrich Klakow Spoken Language Systems Saarland University D-66125 Saarbruecken, Germany Dietrich.Klakow@LSV.Uni-Saarland.De ABSTRACT ditional methods. Zhai and Lafferty [9] investigated various language model smoothing techniques for retrieval. In this paper we propose the use of regional information for In this paper we want to first introduce a measure for the the TREC Video Retrieval task of retrieving key-frames show- information available about a specific concept in a particular ing specific concepts in the image. We observe that the pres- region of the image. In section 3 we formulate the retrieval ence of a certain visual feature (e.g. color) is a strong indica- models we use. Section 4 gives experimental results showing tor for a concept in particular if it occurs in a certain region that certain regions of an image provide specific information of the image. We use this observation in a language model about a concept and that this information is very important for based image retrieval framework. This a