Quicklink: visual dictionaries on the web

In this paper we present an extension to Quicklink that allows the user to browse database contents according to criteria regarding the semantics of the objects represented in the images. The Quicklink system retrieves images similar to a query image from large archives of artworks by dynamically matching their accompanying textual descriptions, and presents the results in HTML pages, where the images retrieved are ordered according to their degree of similarity. It is designed to adapt its behavior to user requests through a relevance feedback mechanism. The core of the extension designed and implemented in Quicklink consists in the Visual Dictionary, described here.