1. A method of summarizing a plurality of ranked images to enable the images to be displayed on a display device comprising the steps of: (a) categorizing the images into one or more equivalence classes; (b) selecting a representive image for each of the one or more equivalence classes; (c) computing a k-means algorithm on each of the one or more representative images to produce a first plurality of clusters; (d) repeating step (c) until a predetermined first criteria is met; (e) computing a k-means algorithm on each of the images in the one or more equivalence classes to produce a second plurality of clusters; and (f) repeating step (d) until a predetermined second criteria is met.