FashionAsk : Pushing community answers to your fingertips

Research output: Chapters, Conference Papers, Creative and Literary WorksRGC 32 - Refereed conference paper (with host publication)peer-review

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Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationMM 2012 - Proceedings of the 20th ACM International Conference on Multimedia
Pages1345-1346
Publication statusPublished - 2012

Conference

Title20th ACM International Conference on Multimedia, MM 2012
PlaceJapan
CityNara
Period29 October - 2 November 2012

Abstract

We demonstrate a multimedia-based question-answering system, named FashionAsk, by allowing users to ask questions referring to pictures snapped by mobile devices. Specifically, instead of asking verbose questions to depict visual instances, direct pictures are provided as part of questions. To answer these multi-modal questions, FashionAsk performs a large-scale instance search to infer the names of instances, and then matches with similar questions from community-contributed QA websites as answers. The demonstration is conducted on a million-scale dataset of Web images and QA pairs in the domain of fashion products. Asking a multimedia question through FashionAsk can take as short as five seconds to retrieve the candidate answer as well as suggested questions. © 2012 Authors.

Research Area(s)

  • instance naming, multimedia question answering, question matching

Citation Format(s)

FashionAsk: Pushing community answers to your fingertips. / Zhang, Wei; Pang, Lei; Ngo, Chong-Wah.
MM 2012 - Proceedings of the 20th ACM International Conference on Multimedia. 2012. p. 1345-1346.

Research output: Chapters, Conference Papers, Creative and Literary WorksRGC 32 - Refereed conference paper (with host publication)peer-review