@conference {7724, title = {Visualization and Layout for Personal Photo Libraries}, booktitle = {International Workshop on Content-Based Multimedia Indexing}, year = {2001}, month = {18-20 Sept.}, publisher = {IEEE}, organization = {IEEE}, address = {Brescia, Italy}, abstract = {In this paper, we present visualization and layout algorithms that can enhance informal storytelling using personal digital data such as photos in a face-to-face social setting. In order to build a more intuitive browser for retrieval, navigation and story-telling, we introduce a novel optimized layout technique for large image sets which respects (context sensitive) mutual similarities as visualized on a shared 2-D display (a table-top). The experimental results show a more perceptually intuitive and informative visualization of traditional CBIR-based retrievals, providing not only a better understanding of the query context but also aiding the user in forming new queries. A framework for user-modeling is also introduced and tested. This allows the system to adapt to the user{\textquoteright}s preferences and relevance feedback.}, author = {Moghaddam, B. and Tian, Q.N. and Lesh, N.B. and Shen, C. and Huang, T.S.} }