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Pattern Recognition 79 (2018) 242–259 Contents lists available at ScienceDirect Pattern Recognition journal homepage: /locate/patcog A survey and analysis on automatic image annotation , a ∗ a b a a Qimin Cheng , Qian Zhang , Peng Fu , Conghuan Tu , Sen Li a School of Electronic Information and Communications, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan 430074, China b Department of Earth and Environmental Systems, Indiana State University, Terre Haute, IN 47809, USA a r t i c l e i n f o a b s t r a c t Article history: In recent years, image annotation has attracted extensive attention due to the explosive growth of image Received 19 April 2017 data. With the capability of describing images at the semantic level, image annotation has many applica- Revised 31 January 2018 tions not only in image analysis and understanding but also in some relative disciplines, such as urban Accepted 11 February 2018 management and biomedical engineering. Because of the inherent weaknesses of manual image annota- Available online 13 February 2018 tion, Automatic Image Annotation (AIA) has been raised since the late 1990s. In this paper, a deep review Keywords: of state-of-the-a