Interactive navigation of image collections
FGIT'11 Proceedings of the Third international conference on Future Generation Information Technology
Interacting with image collections: visualisation and browsing of image repositories
Proceedings of the 20th ACM international conference on Multimedia
Interactive browsing of image repositories
ICCVG'12 Proceedings of the 2012 international conference on Computer Vision and Graphics
Interactive exploration of image collections on mobile devices
AMT'12 Proceedings of the 8th international conference on Active Media Technology
Interactive Exploration of Large Photo Libraries
Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Innovative Computing and Cloud Computing
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Image collections are growing at an exponential rate and solutions to manage vast databases of images are hence highly sought after. Content-based image retrieval techniques have shown great potential, yet commonly employed approaches like query-by-example are only of limited usefulness. An interesting alternative is provided by systems that allow visual exploration of an image dataset through a browsing interface. In these methods the complete database, or parts thereof, is visualised through application of dimensionality reduction techniques, clustered visualisations or display of a graph structure. Once visualised, it should then be possible to browse through the collection in an interactive, intuitive and efficient way. In this paper we present various browsing techniques that can be employed for this purpose. Browsing can be achieved in several ways. We can distinguish between horizontal browsing which works on images of the visualisation plane, and includes operations such as panning, zooming, magnification and scaling, and vertical browsing which allows navigation to a different level of a hierarchically organised visualisation. Furthermore, browsing can also be accomplished by taking into account time stamp information, hence enabling temporal browsing. We conclude, highlighting the need for objective evaluation and benchmarking of browsing system and see one of the next research challenges in the development of effective image browsing tools for mobile devices.