TABLE OF CONTENTS For users of image management systems, and especially for the user who doesn't know what he wants until he sees it, these systems should be organized in such a way as to support intelligent browsing so that the user will be satisfied in the shortest amount of time. It is our belief that intelligent browsing should be mediated by the standard paradigms of image similarity as well as by an appropriate organization of metadata, including annotations and self-describing image regions.
The internet has become the primary means of communication for individuals as well as businesses in the last few years. The growth of the internet can be attributed to faster CPUs, faster networks, reliable communication links and cheaper hardware and software. With advancements in technology, we can now have multimedia information without having to worry about hardware costs or network speeds. This has resulted in vast amounts of audio and video information on the web. Most of the previous research in search and retrieval techniques has...
