APoD eXplorer: Recommendation System and Interactive Exploration of a Dynamic Image Collection

The amount of captured images has increased exponentially these last years. Online available image collections are becoming common thanks to social networks or institutes digitization programs. The context of our work falls into the need to explore such image collections. The literature paradigms are leveraged to meet three constraints: (i) handling medium to large image collections, (ii) handling dynamic image collections and (iii) providing interactive visualisations. In this paper, we describe how our work has been used to build a recommendation system and an interactive exploration platform for dynamic image collection. To illustrate the relevance of such tools, we present APoD eXplorer, an online available platform that enhances the exploration of the NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day image collection. The platform is available at http://frederic.rayar.free.fr/apod/.