Visualization, estimation and user modeling for interactive browsing of personal photo libraries

Recent advances in technology have made it possible to easily amass large collections of digital media. These media offer new opportunities and place great demands for new digital content user-interface and management systems which can help people construct, organize, navigate, and share digital collections in an interactive, face-to-face social setting. In this chapter, we have developed a user-centric algorithm for visualization and layout for content-based image retrieval (CBIR) in large photo libraries. Optimized layouts reflect mutual similarities as displayed on a two-dimensional (2D) screen, hence providing a perceptually intuitive visualization as compared to traditional sequential one-dimensional (1D) content-based image retrieval systems. A framework 701 E. Chocolate Avenue, Suite 200, Hershey PA 17033-1240, USA Tel: 717/533-8845; Fax 717/533-8661; URL-http://www.irm-press.com ITB11376 IRM PRESS This chapter appears in the book, Managing Multimedia Semantics, edited by Uma Srinivasan and Surya Nepal © 2005, Idea Group Inc. 194 Tian, Moghaddam, Lesh, Shen & Huang Copyright © 2005, Idea Group Inc. Copying or distributing in print or electronic forms without written permission of Idea Group Inc. is prohibited. for user modeling also allows our system to learn and adapt to a user’s preferences. The resulting retrieval, browsing and visualization can adapt to the user’s (time-varying) notions of content, context and preferences in style and interactive navigation.