Intuitive and effective interfaces for WWW image search engines

Web image search engine has become an important tool to organize digital images on the Web. However, most commercial search engines still use a list presentation while little effort has been placed on improving their usability. How to present the image search results in a more intuitive and effective way is still an open question to be carefully studied. In this demo, we present iFind, a scalable Web image search engine, in which we integrated two kinds of search result browsing interfaces. User study results have proved that our interfaces are superior to traditional interfaces. Categories and Subject Descriptors I.4.9 [Image Processing and Computer Vision]: Applications General Terms: Algorithms, Human Factors Keywords Web image retrieval, image browsing, user interface, image clustering

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2004
• Where: MM
• Authors: Zhiwei Li, Xing Xie, Hao Liu, Xiaoou Tang, Mingjing Li, Wei-Ying Ma
• Keywords: Image Search, Image Search Engine, MM 2004, Web Image Search