Faceted Metadata for Image Search and Browsing
http://bailando.sims.berkeley.edu/papers/flamenco-chi03.pdf

Hearst, Marti, Kevin Li, Kirsten Swearingen and Ka-Ping Yee
University of California Berkeley
2003

Abstract:

The authors present a new method of image searching based on conceptual descriptors. This method differs from the traditional methods of image searching that are based on keywords and visual similarity.