Construction incrémentale d'une structure hiérarchique pour l'exploration visuelle et interactive de larges collections d'images
Abstract
In this paper, we jointly study the construction and visualisation of a classification structure
of large image collection. Our main goal is to assure the fact that the built structure will be
viewable in a web interface while highlighting the topology of the data. To do so, we combine
the BIRCH algorithm tree (Balanced Iterative Reducing and Clustering using Hierarchies)
with the construction of proximity graphs: such a graph is built and incrementally updated to
represent the children of each node in the tree. Furthermore, images representatives are pulled
up to internal nodes to help the user during the tree exploration. All the structures have been
built to allow dynamic updates regarding the insertion of new images in the collection. The
first experiments allow to structure thousands of images in a minute and provides a fluid and
intuitive navigation.