TagNSearch: Searching and Navigating Geo-referenced Collections of Photographs

  • Authors:

  • Quang Minh Nguyen;Thi Nhu Kim;Dion Hoe-Lian Goh;Yin-Leng Theng;Ee-Peng Lim;Aixin Sun;Chew Hung Chang;Kalyani Chatterjea

  • Affiliations:

  • Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information, Nanyang Technological, University,;Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information, Nanyang Technological, University,;Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information, Nanyang Technological, University,;Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information, Nanyang Technological, University,;School of Computer Engineering, Nanyang Technological University,;School of Computer Engineering, Nanyang Technological University,;National Institute of Education,;National Institute of Education,

  • Venue:
  • ECDL '08 Proceedings of the 12th European conference on Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

TagNSearch is a map-based tool for searching and browsing geo-tagged photographs based on their associated tags. Using Flickr as the dataset, TagNSearch returns, for a given query, photographs clustered by locations, and summarizes each cluster of photographs by cluster-specific tags. A map-based interface is also provided to help users better search, navigate and browse photographs and their clusters. A qualitative evaluation comparing TagNSearch and an existing tag search support in Flickr was also conducted. The task involved finding locations associated with a set of photographs. Participants were found to perform this task better using TagNSearch than Flickr.