The NASA visual thesaurus: A visual interface to visual data

摘要

The central problem addressed by this project is access to all visual content databases. The specific access problems addressed are the accurate and rapid description of images entering collections and the searching of collections of images. This project seeks the creation of a visual interface for searching visual collections. Such an interface is proposed to facilitate searching by permitting search arguments to be made against image databases by selecting images from a display screen which correspond to linguistic descriptions. The images used to represent the linguistic terms, upon selection, may simply be converted internally by the interface system to their corresponding linguistic strings, and those strings in turn submitted as search arguments to conventional text-oriented retrieval systems in either partial match or Boolean logic implementations.