Improvement of natural image search engines results by emotional filtering
Résumé
With the Internet 2.0 era, managing user emotions is a problem that more and more actors are interested in.
Historically, the first notions of emotion sharing were expressed and defined with emoticons. They allowed
users to show their emotional status to others in an impersonal and emotionless digital world. Now, in the
Internet of social media, every day users share lots of content with each other on Facebook, Twitter, Google+
and so on. Several new popular web sites like FlickR, Picassa, Pinterest, Instagram or DeviantArt are now
specifically based on sharing image content as well as personal emotional status. This kind of information is
economically very valuable as it can for instance help commercial companies sell more efficiently. In fact, with
this king of emotional information, business can made where companies will better target their customers
needs, and/or even sell them more products.
Research has been and is still interested in the mining of emotional information from user data since then.
In this paper, we focus on the impact of emotions from images that have been collected from search image
engines. More specifically our proposition is the creation of a filtering layer applied on the results of such
image search engines. Our peculiarity relies in the fact that it is the first attempt from our knowledge to filter
image search engines results with an emotional filtering approach.