Human Centered Virtual Interactive Image World for Image Retrieval

Abstract

In this paper, the implementation of a virtual world which is used for image retrieval is described. This virtual world is called Moving- VW, which consists of a large number of images to be retrieved. At this stage, Moving-VW has 400 images of flowers, brush paintings and Japanese fine arts. Moving-VW shows images to human, and changes its configuration during the interactions with human who wishes to explore and find images in the world. When showing the world, the center of the world is always a key image which is selected by human, so this is a human centered world. The world has directions such as color directions, and reconfigure itself as the center of the world changes. The world can show images to human by animation, and offers a good image indexing tool. We are making such a world to realize the world which responds to our own mind in the process of the interaction for searching something. Here, in this paper, the process of searching images is described as one of the applications of exploring the virtual world. The most original idea here is that the world changes its configuration in accordance with the every interactions with human so that he could find what he wants quickly, and moreover, he would encounter with something which he does not know in advance. It is the very characteristics of a virtual world in a computer memory to change its configuration easily.