Patent ID: 8775424

Claim:
A method for assisting a user in navigation of an image dataset comprising: training a separate classifier for each of a plurality of emotional features, each emotional feature representing a pair of opposing emotions, using labels of labeled images and descriptors extracted from the labeled images; receiving a user's text query; retrieving images responsive to the text query from a dataset of images, the images in the dataset being associated with emotional features output by the trained classifiers; providing for receiving the user's selection of a first feature selected from a set of available features, the set of features including the emotional features and aesthetic features; providing for receiving the user's selection of a second feature selected from the set of available features; and displaying at least some of the retrieved images on the graphical user interface contemporaneously in an arrangement, whereby the arrangement of images reflects different levels of the first feature where only a first feature is selected and reflects different combinations of levels of the user-selected first and second features where first and second features are selected, the emotional features each including at least three levels, wherein when first and second features are selected, the displaying includes displaying images in a two-dimensional array on the graphical user interface, wherein the first feature increases in level in a first dimension of the two dimensional array and the second feature increases in level in a second dimension of the two dimensional array, whereby positions of images in the array reflect respective combinations of feature levels.