Exploring the relationship between feature and perceptual visual spaces

  • Authors:

  • Abebe Rorissa;Paul Clough;Thomas Deselaers

  • Affiliations:

  • Department of Information Studies, University at Albany, State University of New York, Draper Hall, Room 113, 135 Western Avenue, Albany, NY 12222;Department of Information Studies, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, S1 4DP, United Kingdom;Human Language Technologies and Pattern Recognition Group, RWTH Aachen University, Computer Science Department, 52056 Aachen, Germany

  • Venue:
  • Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

The number and size of digital repositories containing visual information (images or videos) is increasing and thereby demanding appropriate ways to represent and search these information spaces. Their visualization often relies on reducing the dimensions of the information space to create a lower-dimensional feature space which, from the point-of-view of the end user, will be viewed and interpreted as a perceptual space. Critically for information visualization, the degree to which the feature and perceptual spaces correspond is still an open research question. In this paper we report the results of three studies which indicate that distance (or dissimilarity) matrices based on low-level visual features, in conjunction with various similarity measures commonly used in current CBIR systems, correlate with human similarity judgments. © 2008 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.