Inisight in Image Collections by Multimedia Pivot Tables

We propose a multimedia analytics solution for getting insight in image collections by extending the powerful method of pivot tables, found in the ubiquitous spreadsheets, to multimedia. Our proposed solution is designed by considering the characteristics of multimedia data as well as insight and provides integral access to visual content through concept detection results, tags, geolocation, and other metadata. We present a set of scenarios of using the pivot tables for a collection of images, tags, and metadata from Flickr. User experiments have been instrumental in realizing the final design presented in this paper. The accompanying video shows the solution in action.