An Interactive Search of Representative Images to Communicate Visual Imagery
Keywords:
image communication,
image retrieval,
human communication,
interactive process,
image database
Details
In this paper, we propose to use sample images, in order to communicate the visual imagery about shapes, colors and layouts of objects to others. If we employ a single sample image or images that ressemble one another, those images would represent only a part of the visual imagery. We employ the "representative images", which are sample images with sufficient variety to express the wide range of the visual imagery. In order to obtain the representative images, we introduce an interactive process in which the user selects images corresponding to his/her visual imagery from among the images synthesized by combining image regions in database, based on a model of visual imagery obtained from each sample image.
