CHANGING YOUR MIND

Of course, when you are browsing results during a query session, you may see something that attracts your attention. The screenshot below illustrates such a shift: the user suddenly switches plan after seeing the picture with a female face, and decides to search for a "male face" as well.

In an iterative query process based on relevance feedback, such a change of plan can be performed quite naturally by giving just positive feedback on the example that made you change your mind, similar to the search paradigm in image retrieval systems like QBIC and PhotoBook.

Here, we use searching by example based on the textual annotations for this first step.

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