Personal Photo Browsing:Breaking Out of the Shoebox

Björn Þór JónssonReykjavík University

Hlynur Sigurþórsson, Grímur Tómasson, Kári Harðarson, Laurent Amsaleg

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The Pros

• Zoomable interfaces

• Very fast thumbnail handling

• Features: – Nice slide-shows– Web sharing– E-mail generation– ...

The Cons

• Few attributes used (time, tags, folders, ...)

• Limited annotations (text, no concepts)

• One dimension at a time

• Search ≠ browsing

OLAP

• Useful for gaining new insights into data

• Dimensions, slicing’n’dicing, pivoting

Computer Games

• Successful at keeping users occupied

• Three-dimensional navigation

• Overview vs. details

PhotoCube

• ObjectCube data model

• C++ / MonetDB server

• Python / Panda3D interface

Visual Tagging

• Drag and drop

Similarity Browsing

• Combining searching and browsing

Conclusions

• PhotoCube = OLAP browser for photos• Current status: A working prototype

– UTmessan on Saturday (see www.utmessan.is)– Demonstration at ICMR, Italy in April

• Future work:– New analysis methods (face recognition, ...)– Presentation (aggregate groups, ...)– Browsing experience (similarity search, ...)