Mobile access to personal digital photograph archives

  • Authors:
  • Cathal Gurrin;Gareth J. F. Jones;Hyowon Lee;Neil O'Hare;Alan F. Smeaton;Noel Murphy

  • Affiliations:
  • Dublin City University, Dublin, Ireland;Dublin City University, Dublin, Ireland;Dublin City University, Dublin, Ireland;Dublin City University, Dublin, Ireland;Dublin City University, Dublin, Ireland;Dublin City University, Dublin, Ireland

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 7th international conference on Human computer interaction with mobile devices & services
  • Year:
  • 2005

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Abstract

Handheld computing devices are becoming highly connected devices with high capacity storage. This has resulted in their being able to support storage of, and access to, personal photo archives. However the only means for mobile device users to browse such archives is typically a simple one-by-one scroll through image thumbnails in the order that they were taken, or by manually organising them based on folders. In this paper we describe a system for context-based browsing of personal digital photo archives. Photos are labeled with the GPS location and time they are taken and this is used to derive other context-based metadata such as weather conditions and daylight conditions. We present our prototype system for mobile digital photo retrieval, and an experimental evaluation illustrating the utility of location information for effective personal photo retrieval.