Visual Systems for Browsing Large Collections of Images

Within the field of Information Visualization, the subclass of Information Presentation is of great interest because of its many application possibilities. The purpose of Information Presentation is to provide the user with a "view" of one or more kinds of elements that are both global and detailed at the same time.

Specifically, Marco Porta has considered the problem of browsing large numbers of images. The assumption is that it is very often necessary to examine large collections of pictures to find something, without, however, knowing exactly what (in such cases, neither manually indexed query systems nor "intelligent" databases, automatically searchable based on specific graphic features, can be employed). Different image presentation techniques have been created and tested, most of which based on the RSVP (Rapid Serial Visual Presentation) paradigm.