The Ewell Sale Stewart Library of the Academy of Natural Sciences has just completed a major digital imaging project. This article describes the project, options that were considered for Web delivery of images and text, and reasons for choosing Innovative Interfaces, Inc.’s image management...

A two‐stage mapping model (TSMM), which can be thought of as a two‐levels stacked generalisation scheme for image classification, is presented. The model is proposed to bridge the semantic gap between low‐level image features and high‐level concepts in a divide‐and‐conquer manner,...

Purpose – Because of the popularity of digital cameras, the number of personal photographs is increasing rapidly. In general, people manage their photos by date, subject, participants, etc. for future browsing and searching. However, it is difficult and/or takes time to retrieve desired photos...

Purpose – Content‐based image retrieval suffers from the semantic gap problem: that images are represented by low‐level visual features, which are difficult to directly match to high‐level concepts in the user's mind during retrieval. To date, visual feature representation is still...