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DESCRIPTION: A novel
interface designed to navigate through image databases
in which a 2D or 3D "display space" is created
where the images can be evaluated both relative to the
query and each other. The arrangement of the images
within the display space provides a geometric representation
of how the database has re-ordered itself in response
to a particular query. The result is a search that shows
both a detailed view of how specific images are placed
in the space generated by the query, and a global view
of how a query reorganizes the database according to
the criteria specified by the user.
Compared with traditional browser interfaces, this
work provides the user with greater information about
the relationship between images as information is given
in a geometrical form that makes it easy for the user
to have an "intuitive understanding" of the
organization of images in the database. The user changes
the query by manipulating images in the interface by
placing together images that look similar and distancing
them from images that don't look similar in a very intuitive
fashion, rather than setting weights for similarity
measures like "texture" or "local color
distribution" whose interpretation might be quite
obscure to the user.
In addition to this, the geometry of the space depends
on the query that the user made so, looking at the overall
organization of the display space, the user can also
have an intuitive understanding of the characteristics
of the query, and of how the query should be modified
if the results are not satisfactory.
CASE NUMBER: SD1997-836
INQUIRIES TO: invent@ucsd.edu
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