Perceptual Metrics for Image Database Navigation

The increasing amount of information available in today's world raises the need to retrieve relevant data efficiently. Unlike text—based retrieval, where keywords are successfully used to index into documents, content—based image retrieval poses up front the fundamental questions how to extract useful image features and how to use them for intuitive retrieval. We present a novel approach to the problem of navigating through a collection of images for the purpose of image retrieval, which le...