Spatially organized visualization of image query results
Gianluigi Ciocca, Claudio Cusano, Simone Santini, Raimondo Schettini · Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE · 2011
In this work we present a system which visualizes the results obtained from image search engines in such a way that users can conveniently browse the retrieved images. The way in which search results are presented allows the user to grasp the composition of the set of images "at a glance". To do so, images are grouped and positioned according to their distribution in a prosemantic feature space which encodes information about their content at an abstraction level that can be placed between visual and semantic information. The compactness of the feature space allows a fast analysis of the image distribution so that all the computation can be performed in real time.