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2017-05-22
Khanwalkar, Sanket, Balakrishna, Shonali, Jain, Ramesh.  2016.  Exploration of Large Image Corpuses in Virtual Reality. Proceedings of the 2016 ACM on Multimedia Conference. :596–600.

With the increasing capture of photos and their proliferation on social media, there is a pressing need for a more intuitive and versatile image search and exploration system. Image search systems have long been confined to the binds of the 2D legacy screens and the keyword text-box. With the recent advances in Virtual Reality (VR) technology, a move towards an immersive VR environment will redefine the image navigation experience. To this end, we propose a VR platform that gathers images from various sources, and addresses the 5 Ws of image search - what, where, when, who and why. We achieve this by providing the user with two modes of interactive exploration - (i) A mode that allows for a graph based navigation of an image dataset, using a steering wheel visualization, along multiple dimensions of time, location, visual concept, people, etc. and (ii) Another mode that provides an intuitive exploration of the image dataset using a logical hierarchy of visual concepts. Our contributions include creating a VR image exploration experience that is intuitive and allows image navigation along multiple dimensions.