Exploration portal is a demonstration application for Multimedia exploration framework and a logical successor of SIR. The portal uses all framework features and implements example use cases for all important framework parts.

The portal can be used for exploration of static data sets, Bing search results and personal Facebook albums. It provides a variety of configuration options to affect feature extraction, similarity model, index creation and many other parameters.

The result is visualized using a similarity-based layout and supports different query options, such as zoom-in, zoom-out, multi-query or panning in 4 different directions.