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What is Multidimensional Scaling (MDS)

Chapter 36
Handbook of Research on Digital Libraries: Design, Development, and Impact
A dimensionality reduction technique used for projecting high-dimensional data into a low-dimensional space in an optimal way that introduces as little distortion to the original data as possible.
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Visualisation of Large Image Databases
Gerald Schaefer (Aston University, UK) and Simon Ruszala (Teleca, UK)
Copyright: © 2009 |Pages: 8
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-59904-879-6.ch036
Abstract
Following the ever-growing sizes of image databases, effective methods for visualising such databases and navigating through them are much sought after. These methods should provide an “overview” of a complete database together with the possibility to zoom into certain areas during a specific search. It is crucial that the user interacts in an intuitive way with such a system in order to effectively arrive at images of interest. In this chapter, we look at several techniques that have been presented in the literature and allow for browsing and navigation of large image databases.
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