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Automatic organization for digital photographs with geographic coordinates

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Andreas Paepcke,

Hector Garcia-MolinaAuthors Info & Claims

JCDL '04: Proceedings of the 4th ACM/IEEE-CS joint conference on Digital libraries

Pages 53 - 62

https://doi.org/10.1145/996350.996366

Published: 07 June 2004 Publication History

Abstract

We describe PhotoCompas, a system that utilizes the time and location information embedded in digital photographs to automatically organize a personal photo collection PhotoCompas produces browseable location and event hierarchies for the collection. These hierarchies are created using algorithms that interleave time and location to produce an organization that mimics the way people think about their photo collections. In addition, our algorithm annotates the generated hierarchy with geographical names. We tested our approach in case studies of three real--world collections and verified that the results are meaningful and useful for the collection owners.

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Automatic organization for digital photographs with geographic coordinates
1. Applied computing
  1. Computers in other domains
    1. Digital libraries and archives
2. Information systems
  1. Information systems applications
    1. Digital libraries and archives

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Reviewer: Michael Lesk

Given a set of photographs labeled with both geographic location and time, this paper explains how to cluster the photographs, and then name the clusters. The goal is to select short and recognizable geographic names, and to do this, the presented algorithm uses the count of Google retrievals for city, state, and park names to select the most suitable ones. Short experiments verified that the algorithm chooses good names. This paper is straightforward, easy to read, and demonstrates a clear improvement over less careful ways of picking geographical labels. Online Computing Reviews Service

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ISBN:1581138326

DOI:10.1145/996350

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Nanyang Technological University
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