social album utilizing social network to visualize co-event albums. 郭子豪 advisor: 陳炳宇

Social AlbumUtilizing social network to visualize co-event albums.

郭子豪Advisor: 陳炳宇

Outline

• Introduction• Related Works• Prior User Study• The Social Album• Evaluation• Limitation / Generalization / Conclusion

INTRODUCTION

Co-event Album

Co-event

Gather…?Organize…?

Browse…?

RELATED WORKS

Multi-user PhotowaresPhotoware based on Social Network Social Network Visualization

Multi-user Photowares

Photowares based on SN

Social Network Visualization

PRIOR USER STUDY

Field StudyInterview

Field Study

• Co-event albums• Tagging Photos

Co-event albums

# of samples At least one More than half

facebook 55 45 (81.8%) 41 (74.5%)

Flickr 22 21 (95.4%) 17 (77.2%)

Picasa 15 15 (100%) 15 (100%)

Tag

• facebook only with 74 samples.• Tagged by others : 64 (86.5%)• Have self-upload albums : 55• Have co-event albums : 45• Co-event album been tagged

– At least one: 37– More than half : 25

Field Study

• Co-event albums– The major portion of the shared web albums

online are related to co-event.

• Tagging Photos– Tagging Photos is an common practice while

sharing co-event albums.

Interview

• 9 people ( 3 man, 6 woman )• 21 ~ 30 years old.• All familiar with web albums and have their

own web albums.• Have their own DC.• Usually taking pictures in event.

Interview --- Questions

• What do you usually take picture with? Why?• How do you gather the co-event photos from

others? Do you have any trouble?• How do you organize the gathered photos? Do

you have any trouble while browsing them?• Will you share your photo albums to your

friends actively? How?• Will you actively browse your friends’ albums?

Life cycle of co-event albums

• Creating• Gathering• Organizing • Browsing• Sharing• Updating

Creating

• Take photos by their own camera.– as memory– document

• By their own view angle.

Create

Co-Event

Gathering

• Channel: – Email– FTP– Portable Disk– Instant Messenger– Web Albums

• It’s hard when lots of joined people. Create

Gather

Co-Event

Organizing

• Hierarchical Folder• Date + Event Name

– Photographer 1– Photographer 2– Photographer 3– …

Create

Gather

Organize

Co-Event

Browsing

• Separate Albums• Mixed Albums

– Alignment & Duplication Problems.

Create

Gather

Organize

Browse

Co-Event

Sharing

• 6 people share albums actively.• Most share to their acquaintance.• Most gather co-event albums actively.

Create

Gather

Organize

Browse

Share

Co-Event

Updating

• Most people will check friends’ albums actively.

• Be interested to albums they joined personally.

• Or albums joined by their friends.

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Gather

Organize

Browse

Share

Update

Co-Event

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Conclusion

• Social Need– Co-event albums.– Tagging Photos.– Sharing / Updating.

• Recollective Need– Create.– Gather / Organize.– Browse.

Design Guidelines

• Make it easy to collect co-event albums.• Facilitate the experience of browsing merged

co-event albums.• Let users easily update their friends' activities.• Filter the results while sharing and displaying.• Make the system embed into the social

network service.

SOCIAL ALBUMDesign & Implementation

facebook GRAPH APISocial Album Database

Social Album Server Social Album Client

Social Album



Indexing View

Browsing View

Editing View

Social Album



Indexing View

Browsing View

Editing View

Photo Analyzer

Album Analyzer

Track Analyzer

Social Album

Indexing View

• Layout• Tracks• Sites• Interactions

Indexing View --- Layout

Indexing View --- Tracks

Event A

Event B

(a)

Event A

Event B

(b)

Event A

Event B

(c)

Indexing View --- Sites

(c) (d)

(a) (b)

Indexing View --- Interactions

• Coloring• Hover• Filter

Interaction --- Coloring

Interaction --- Filter

Interaction --- Hover

Browsing View

Editing View



Indexing View

Browsing View

Editing View

Photo Analyzer

Album Analyzer

Track Analyzer

Social Album

Photo Analyzer

1. Feature Extracting Module2. Photo Grouping Module

Photo Analyzer


RGB

Photo Analyzer


Gray

HSVRGB

Photo Analyzer


Gray

HSVRGB

H : 18 binsS : 3 binsV : 3 binsG : 4 bins

Photo Analyzer


Gray

HSVRGB

H : 18 binsS : 3 binsV : 3 binsG : 4 bins

feature factor

Photo Analyzer


Photo Analyzer


0 0100 100

Album Analyzer

1. Album Merging Module2. Album Recommending Module

Album Analyzer


A B C

D E F

A B

C D

1 21 32

Album Analyzer


Album Analyzer


• Same Participants• Same Location• Overlapped Time Duration

Track Analyzer

Most Sites

Track Analyzer

Most Intersections

Track Analyzer

EVALUATION

QuantitativeQualitative

Quantitativea1 a2 Group Merge

1 V V

2 V V V V

3 V V

• 22 participants.

Quantitative

• While running photo grouping with similar photos, though total presented photos are lowered down, the gained information still increased.

• The information of our merging result is not less than the naïve merging result.

Qualitative

• 6 people.

Qualitative

• 4: easily update information happened on friends.

• 1: easy to describe friends’ events.• 6: appreciate the design of filtering algorithm.

• Most of them appreciate the grouping similar photos design.

LIMITATION

Limitation

Time Line

# of Tracks

GENERALIZATIONOther social data.

CONCLUSION

Conclusion

• The life cycle of co-event albums.• Social Album

– browsing co-event albums– easily update their friends’ activities.

Thanks you.

social album utilizing social network to visualize co-event albums. 郭子豪 advisor: 陳炳宇

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