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Personal Photo Browsing:Breaking Out of the Shoebox
Björn Þór JónssonReykjavík University
Hlynur Sigurþórsson, Grímur Tómasson, Kári Harðarson, Laurent Amsaleg
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Photo ShoeboxesDigit
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The Pros
• Zoomable interfaces
• Very fast thumbnail handling
• Features: – Nice slide-shows– Web sharing– E-mail generation– ...
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The Cons
• Few attributes used (time, tags, folders, ...)
• Limited annotations (text, no concepts)
• One dimension at a time
• Search ≠ browsing
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OLAP
• Useful for gaining new insights into data
• Dimensions, slicing’n’dicing, pivoting
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Computer Games
• Successful at keeping users occupied
• Three-dimensional navigation
• Overview vs. details
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PhotoCube
• ObjectCube data model
• C++ / MonetDB server
• Python / Panda3D interface
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Visual Tagging
• Drag and drop
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Similarity Browsing
• Combining searching and browsing
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Conclusions
• PhotoCube = OLAP browser for photos• Current status: A working prototype
– UTmessan on Saturday (see www.utmessan.is)– Demonstration at ICMR, Italy in April
• Future work:– New analysis methods (face recognition, ...)– Presentation (aggregate groups, ...)– Browsing experience (similarity search, ...)