Publication Type
Journal Article
Version
publishedVersion
Publication Date
1-2018
Abstract
The Internet has emerged as the most effective and a highly popular medium for advertising. Current contextual advertising platforms need publishers to manually change the original structure of their Web pages and predefine the position and style of embedded ads. Although publishers spend significant effort optimizing their Web page layout, a large number of Web pages contain noticeable blank regions. We present an innovative stylewise advertising platform for contextual advertising, called PageSense. The "style" of Web pages refers to the visual appearance of a Web page, such as color and layout. PageSense aims to associate style-consistent ads with Web pages. It provides two advertising options: 1) If publishers predefine ad positions within Web pages, PageSense will analyze the page style and select ads, which are consistent with the Web page layout, and 2) if publishers impose no constraints for ad placement, PageSense will automatically detect blank regions, select the most nonintrusive region for ad insertion, associate color-consistent ads with the Web pages, and deliver them to blank regions without breaking the original Web page style. Our experiments have verified the effectiveness of PageSense as a complement to existing contextual advertising.
Keywords
Contextual advertising, multimedia advertising, online advertising, visual content analysis
Discipline
Computer Sciences | Graphics and Human Computer Interfaces
Research Areas
Intelligent Systems and Optimization
Publication
IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology
Volume
28
Issue
1
First Page
254
Last Page
266
ISSN
1051-8215
Identifier
10.1109/TCSVT.2016.2598702
Publisher
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
Citation
1
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