Abstract：Semantic analysis is the importance and difficulty of high-level interpretation in image understanding, in which there are two key issues of text-image semantic gap and text description polysemy. Concentrating on semantization of images ontology, three sophisticated methodologies are roundly reviewed as generative, discriminative and descriptive grammar on the basis of concluding images semantic features and context expression. The objective benchmark and evaluation for semantic vocabulary are induced as well. Finally, the summarized directions for further researches on semantics in image understanding are discussed intensively.
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