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A Visual Guide to the ImageSnippets Properties

These properties - also referred to as the Lightweight Image Ontology (LIO) have been chosen to serve as intuitive guidelines for achieving better descriptions, but there is no 'wrong' way to use them. Using these properties, you can choose how a keyword (object) might relate to the image or a region in the image. Experiment with some semantic searches to see how the properties work in action. Advanced users are not restricted to these properties.


depicts:
a guitar
depicts:a face
depicts:a shoe
depicts:a kitchen
depicts:gloves		 depicts refers to the main object in an image

shows:a guitar
shows:a rearview mirror
shows:shoes
shows:a kayak
shows:gloves		 shows refers to objects in the image that are not as important as the main object being depicted, but that the user still wants to mention

hasSetting:South Beach, Florida
hasSetting:Saint Martin,
Caribbean Island
hasSetting:
Gulf of Mexico
hasSetting:kitchen
hasSetting:Daytona		 hasSetting can refer to a place, a room, an event, or a time. A circumstance that is not necessarily depicted by the image.

looksLike:a bird
looksLike:a face
looksLike:writing
looksLike:sugar
looksLike:a heart		 looksLike When an object looks like an object, but it's not really that object.

conveys:exhaustion
conveys:leisure
conveys:worry
conveys:intimacy
conveys:sadness		 conveys is used for ideas, emotions, metaphors. Conveys would not convey another object, but it can convey a concept.

hasInForeground:
a paddle
hasInForeground:
bamboo
hasInForeground:
a bouquet
hasInForeground:
a measuring cup
hasInForeground:
a hood handle		 hasInForeground: refers to any object in the foreground that the user wants to describe.

hasInBackground:
a fireplace
hasInBackground:
Golden Gate Bridge
hasInBackground:
a cruise ship
hasInBackground:
a lighthouse
hasInBackground:
a cable car		 hasInBackground: refers to any object in the background that the user wants to describe.

hasDepictedBackground:
sand
hasDepictedBackground:
snow
hasDepictedBackground:
a sunset
hasDepictedBackground:
bricks
hasDepictedBackground:
East Bay, Florida		 hasDepictedBackground: in which an object fills the entire background scene of an image.

hasPictorialBackground:
stripes
hasPictorialBackground:
orange
hasPictorialBackground:
blue
hasPictorialBackground:
checkerboard
hasPictorialBackground:
diamonds		 hasPictorialBackground: in which the entire background of an image is filled with a solid or uniform background, such as a solid color or pattern

UsesPictorially:
a guitar
UsesPictorially:
East Bay, Florida
UsesPictorially:
a shoe
UsesPictorially:a carburetor
UsesPictorially:
a rooster		 UsesPictorially: Refers to objects in the image that are used in an artistic or pictorial way that differs from ordinary depiction. Can be 2 dimensional or 3 dimensional.

ArtisticElement:
vanishing point
ArtisticElement:
triangle
ArtisticElement:
arrow
ArtisticElement:
symmetry
ArtisticElement:
movement		 ArtisticElement: Use artisticElement to refer to noteworthy elements of design, composition and principles of art: line, color, texture, etc.