Proposition of direct interface for multimedia database retrieval by the combination of impression value

This paper proposes a direct interface of retrieval space for a multimedia database retrieved by the combination of value representing a level of impression. Conventional interfaces are insufficient for a user to obtain a multimedia data which fits his/her intention, efficiently. An approach in this paper adopts a multimedia data which he/she knows well as a basic point. He/she can select one of the data around the basic point with watching some relative relations to the basic point by his/her eye. Its effectiveness is clarified by a pilot system and its evaluation.