Interactive 3D Visual Retrieval for Art History Education

摘要

This paper describes partially the architecture and the salient characteristics of a larger visual informationrnretrieval (IR) project for Humanities purposes. The system uses a novel form of interaction for retrieval,rnsustainable, interactive exploration of retrieval sets, and the types of relationships that are germane to the usernof the images, beyond what IR systems typically supply. There are gaps between the expression of a queryrnand the retrieval set and the end-user's ability to establish significance for the set members. The paperrnsketches the architecture, interaction, and collection metadata created in response to a survey of art historyrnstudent and instructors' educational needs.rnIt is argued that a 3D model provides visually-oriented people with a way to comprehend large datasetsrnand, through the interactive control panel and additional graphics, identify facets of value by experts in the fieldrnand for local needs.