A web-based photo management system for large photo collections with user-customizable quality assessment

  • Authors:
  • Dong-Sung Ryu;Kwang Hwi Kim;Sun-Young Park;Hwan-Gue Cho

  • Affiliations:
  • Pusan National University, Geumjeong-gu, Busan, South Korea;Pusan National University, Geumjeong-gu, Busan, South Korea;Pusan National University, Geumjeong-gu, Busan, South Korea;Pusan National University, Geumjeong-gu, Busan, South Korea

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 2011 ACM Symposium on Applied Computing
  • Year:
  • 2011

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Abstract

The affordability of digital cameras, storages, processors and the advances in these areas are encouraging people to take hundreds of photos at once. However, managing the large number of photographs involves arduous tasks such as selecting good quality photos and classifying and labeling each photo. Generally, users put their photos into certain user-designated folders on their local PC without considering any classified information. One of the main problems related to this management method is that users do not create their photo folders systematically because they are carelessness and apathetic. This practice results in confusion when users want to find their photos. One method to overcome this problem is to construct a central photo management system that can manage many photos on the user's local PC. It also can provide smart functions such as automated clustering and summarized visualization for many photos. This paper describes an integrated photo management system coupled with a database on the web, which provides users with an automated photo clustering and visualization function that allows photo overlaps. Our system also provides users with an automated photo quality evaluation based on Depth of Field (DOF) and blur. In order to evaluate our system, we conducted a user study on user-friendliness based on a questionnaire.