Using ephemeral clustering and query logs to organize web image search results on mobile devices

Abstract

The recent shift in human-computer interaction from desktop to mobile computing fosters the needs of new interfaces for web image search results exploration. In this paper, we present two different strategies to cluster results gathered from an image search engine and propose an adapted interface for handled devices. For that purpose, we suggest to expand the original query based on labels of Ephemeral Clusters and compare it to a Query Log based approach. Consistent results were obtained for both strategies from manual and automatic evaluations, confirming that organizing image search results into clusters can improve mobile image information retrieval.