Image Classification for Web Genre Identification

With the countless number of existing websites alongside the virtually unrestricted growth of the World Wide Web, the Web has no boundaries. As a result, there is an increasing need to automatically categorize and classify web sites into genres in order to improve the personalization of search results. This paper will offer conceptual suggestions on how online images can be used to predict the genre of the website that they are found on, as well as the process for detecting and identifying certain specific images for genre categorization.