Abstract
Based on formal concept analysis, a novel lattice visualization system for huge image databases is proposed. The proposed system constructs a concept lattice from a given cross table between objects and attributes, and then the Hasse diagram of this lattice is visualized. In the present work, the objects are images and the attributes are image features respectively. Using the proposed system, a user can analyze the perspective structure for a large image database. The proposed system is running on an ordinal computer (CPU=2.13GHz, MM=2GB) and it is implemented in Processing, a JAVA based programming language. Through a visualization experiment using the Corel Image Gallery (1,000 color images), we confirm that the proposed system is effective for visualizing huge image databases.
