Brush-and-drag: a multi-touch interface for photo triaging

  • Authors:
  • Seon Joo Kim;Hongwei Ng;Stefan Winkler;Peng Song;Chi-Wing Fu

  • Affiliations:
  • SUNY Korea, Incheon, Republic of Korea;Advanced Digital Sciences Center, Singapore, Singapore;Advanced Digital Sciences Center, Singapore, Singapore;Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, Singapore;Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, Singapore

  • Venue:
  • MobileHCI '12 Proceedings of the 14th international conference on Human-computer interaction with mobile devices and services companion
  • Year:
  • 2012

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Abstract

Due to the convenience of digital photography, people often end up with multiple shots of the same scene with only slight variations. We propose an easy-to-use brush-and-drag interface, helping them to interactively explore and compare this type of photos on a tablet computer. First, we mark an area of interest on a photo with our finger(s). Next, our segmentation engine will automatically segment corresponding image elements among the photos, which we can then drag across a single screen to compare side-by-side. This can be followed by a series of simple finger gestures applied to the image elements (representing the photos) to rank, select favorites for sharing, or discard unwanted photos.