Abstract
Image databases are growing at a rapid rate and hence efficient and effective techniques to manage these vast repositories are highly sought after. Image database navigation systems provide an interesting alternative to retrieval based approaches, and in this paper we show how image browsers can be used for interactive exploration of large image collections based on the principle that visually similar images are located close to each other thus helping user navigation, and that large datasets are handled through a hierarchical approach.
The author wishes to acknowledge William Plant, the main developer of the desktop-based browser, Matthew Tallyn and Daniel Felton for porting the system to the iOS environment, and Matthew Fox who added multi-touch functionality to the application.
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Schaefer, G. (2011). Interactive Navigation of Image Collections. In: Kim, Th., et al. Future Generation Information Technology. FGIT 2011. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 7105. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-27142-7_4
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