13 - 18 OCTOBER 2013, ATLANTA, GEORGIA, USA

Visualization Framework for Inter-Media Comparison using Image Flows

Contributors: 
Masahiko Itoh, Masashi Toyoda, Cai-Zhi Zhu, Shinichi Satoh, Masaru Kitsuregawa
Description
To understand recent societal behavior, it is important to compare how multiple media react to real world events and how each medium reacts to other media. This paper proposes a framework for inter-media comparison through visualizing images extracted from different types of media. We extract blog image clusters from our six-year blog archive and search for similar TV shots in each cluster from a broadcast news video archive by using image similarities. We then visualize such flows of images on a timeline to explore visually changes in activities and interests of people and differences and/or similarities between media such as image clusters that become hot topics on only blogs or that become popular on blogs earlier than on TV.