Adaptive Color-Image Embeddings for Database Navigation

Proceedings of the 1998 IEEE Asian Conference on Computer Vision, Hong Kong We present a novel approach to the problem of navigating through a database of color images for the purpose of image retrieval. We endow the database with a metric for the color distributions of the images. We then use multi-dimensional scaling techniques to embed a group of images as points in a two-dimensional Euclidean space so that their distances re ect image dissimilarities as well as possible. Such geometric embeddings allow the user to perceive the dominant axes of variation in the displayed image group, and form a mental picture of the database contents. Furthermore, since these embeddings group similar images together, away from dissimilar ones, the user can re ne the query in a perceptually intuitive way. By iterating this process, the user can quickly navigate to the portion of the image space of interest.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 1998
• Where: ACCV
• Authors: Yossi Rubner, Carlo Tomasi, Leonidas J. Guibas
• Keywords: ACCV 1998, Computer Vision, Ect Image Dissimilarities, Image, Such Geometric Embeddings