One of the fundamental challenges in designing an image retrieval system is choosing a method by which the images that match a given query are presented to the searcher. Traditional approaches have used a grid layout that requires a sequential evaluation of the images. Recent advances in image processing and computing power have made similarity-based organization of images feasible. In this pap...

Virtual museums are commonly intended as collections of digital resources containing artistic and cultural images. They can be an appealing enhancement of a museum or can also be accessed by remote hosts (Web Museum). The realization of a virtual museum is based on the collection of large, high resolution and accurate images, that can be managed using an Image Server. This paper propose a new I...

In this paper we describe a new interface for browsing and sorting of digital pictures. Our approach is two-fold. First we present a new method to automatically identify similar images and rate them based on sharpness and exposure quality of the images. Second we present a zoomable user interface based on the details-on-demand paradigm enabling users to browse large collections of digital image...

A convenient and eficient indexing system is as essential to managing video information as it is to managing tezt. Creating an indez requires partitioning the video into meaningful segments, assigning indez terms to individual segments and combining the indez terms to form a table of contents o r an inverted indez file. To date, video partitioning methods are still in the research stage. This p...

As the applications of digital imagery expand in resolution and pixel fidelity there is a greater need for more efficient compression and extraction of images and subimages. No longer is it sufficient to compress and decompress an image for a specific target device. The ability to handle many types of image data, extract images at different resolutions and quality, lossless and lossy, zoom and ...

bstract. Mosaic images are captured by a single charge-coupled evice/complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor (CCD/CMOS) ensor with the Bayer color filter array. We present a new qualityffective zooming algorithm for mosaic images. First, based on daptive heterogeneity projection masks and Sobeland luminancestimation-based masks, more accurate gradient information is exracted from the mosaic ima...

Pivot relies on DeepZoom (Microsoft’s technology formerly known as SeaDragon: http://zoom.it/) to provide a smooth zooming experience. For the Silverlight PivotView experience this is done with the built-in MultiScaleImage control. Because of this, the images for a Pivot collection are stored in the Deep Zoom hierarchical tile file structure. This consists of a root-level XML file (usually with...