A Survey of User Interfaces in Content-based Image Search Engines on the Web Danyang

Content-based image retrieval or CBIR technique has been researched for over a decade, and most researches have been focusing on image matching technologies such as feature extraction and similarity measurement. Recently, there has been an attempt to build content-based image search engines on the web in such a way that they could be as popular as their textbased counterparts. In order to do so, other key issues including user interface should also be explored. This paper presents the user interfaces of current content-based image search engines on the Internet, and analyzes their advantages and disadvantages.

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