Technical Field
The embodiments herein generally are related to the field of information systems. Particularly, the embodiments herein are related to the field of information retrieval based on content processing. More particularly, the embodiments herein are related to the systems and methods for processing multimedia content to understand consumer preferences and enable external services and third party service providers to deliver personalized or customized information to users based on the processed multimedia inputs.
Description of the Related Art
People, as a part of their daily routine come across a multitude of objects, out of which certain objects might invoke an interest in certain people, thereby prompting them to search for further information about the object(s) of interest.
One of the popular ways of obtaining information about an object of interest is to search the World Wide Web for information about the object(s) of interest. However, searching the World Wide Web, solely depending solely upon the mental recollection of the attributes of the objects of interest may not yield expected results, if the description of the object provided by the searcher does not match the information available on the World Wide Web. Further, the World Wide Web may yield inaccurate results, if the searcher fails to provide an accurate description of the object under consideration. Moreover, World Wide Web comprises voluminous information about multitude of objects, and searching for the right object and obtaining the appropriate information will always remain a challenge for a novice user. Moreover, World Wide Web is typically prone to the phenomenon of information overloading, wherein voluminous information is provided to a user in return for a search query, thereby making the user spend time towards understanding the retrieved information set and identifying the relevant information from the retrieved information set. Further, World Wide Web may not be able to provide customized search results to the users given its limitations in accurately analyzing user interests and user knowledge.
In yet another strategy, consumers were asked for their preferences at the time of information retrieval or through settings. Such systems are limited by the capability for users to define their preferences and need for user to customize each of the services that he accesses.
At present third party service providers furnishes data to users on the respective portals based on last user logged in details, interests and queries. There is no method and system for the service providers to collate the personalized details of the users from the various community portals, web sites and social media networks to provide a more appropriate and user interested and required details at run time and on the fly after the logging in of a user to a third party service provider.
Therefore, to obviate the aforementioned shortcomings, the capabilities of content processing and information retrieval were combined together to develop the phenomenon of image search. The phenomenon of image search involves capturing the image of an object and searching for the information corresponding to the object, based on the image of the object. However, such image based searching techniques are gaining popularity in recent years, and leave much to be desired in terms of the relevance of the search results and the information retrieved and provided during the search exercises.
Hence there is a need for a system and method for rendering the multimedia information retrieval and search in a more effective and efficient manner. Further there is a need for a system and method to provide all personalized data gathered from a plurality of community portals, web sites and social media networks to a third party service provider to provide a more appropriate and user interested and required details at run time and on the fly after the logging in of a user to the third party service provider.
The shortcomings of the prior art, the solutions proposed by the embodiments herein, and the manner in which these solutions are brought about will be better understood by reading the following description.