Publikation
Navidgator - Similarity Based Browsing for Image & Video Databases
Damian Borth; Christian Schulze; Adrian Ulges; Thomas Breuel
In: Andreas Dengel; K. Berns; Thomas Breuel; Frank Bomarius; Thomas Roth-Berghofer (Hrsg.). KI 2008: Advances in Artificial Intelligence. German Conference on Artificial Intelligence (KI-2008), 31st, September 23-26, Kaiserslautern, Germany, Pages 22-30, Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNAI), Vol. 5243, Springer, 2008.
Zusammenfassung
A main problem with the handling of multimedia databases
is the navigation through and the search within the content of a database.
The problem arises from the difference between the possible textual de-
scription (annotation) of the database content and its visual appearance.
Overcoming the so called - semantic gap - has been in the focus of re-
search for some time. This paper presents a new system for similarity-
based browsing of multimedia databases. The system aims at decreasing
the semantic gap by using a tree structure, built up on balanced hi-
erarchical clustering. Using this approach, operators are provided with
an intuitive and easy-to-use browsing tool. An important objective of
this paper is not only on the description of the database organization
and retrieval structure, but also how the illustrated techniques might be
integrated into a single system.
Our main contribution is the direct use of a balanced tree structure for
navigating through the database of keyframes, paired with an easy-to-use
interface, offering a coarse to fine similarity-based view of the grouped
database content.