Montage: providing teleproximity for distributed groups

The human interface plays an important role in an information retrieval system. Visual information is a good human-machine communication system. This paper proposes an image retrieval scheme based on the assumption that end-users make use of image database systems. When a human being looks at graphical materials such as artistic paintings, hekhe memorizes them using two patterns in his/her visual memory: the fust pattern is that of looking roughly at the whole irna~;e, the second is that of paying attention to specific objects such as a person or a desk.