Interactive browsing of large image databases
With image databases expanding at a rapid rate, effective and efficient methods of managing and querying these collections are highly sought after. In this paper, we present image browsing as an alternative to retrieval based systems. Image browsers provide a visualisation of a complete image database together with tools for interactive and intuitive exploration of the dataset. As examples we give an introduction to our Hue Sphere Image Browser system which provides an intuitive hierarchical approach to navigating large image repositories, while we also present ports to mobile devices and large multi-touch screens.