Title :
On Automatic Contextual Metadata Generation for Personal Digital Photographs
Author :
Sarin, Supheakmungkol ; Nagahashi, Toshinori ; Miyosawa, Tadashi ; Kameyama, Wataru
Author_Institution :
GITS, Waseda Univ., Saitama
Abstract :
The advancements of technology have been making digital cameras more and more affordable for everyone. Consequently, digital photographs have grown exponentially this last decade and have been making it beyond the abilities of people to easily manage their own photo collections. Annotation is one of the solutions to solve this burden. Therefore, we propose a semi-automatic annotation engine with contextual metadata generation. Photos with geo-referential information such as Global Positioning System (GPS) are the current tendency. Using the exact location information given by GPS, together with timestamps, our novel engine semi-automatically generates contextual metadata for each photo from different sources of information namely the public news and users´ personal information. We have designed, implemented and tested our system.
Keywords :
cameras; digital photography; meta data; visual databases; Global Positioning System; automatic contextual metadata generation; digital cameras; geo-referential information; personal digital photographs; photo collections; public news; semi-automatic annotation engine; Data mining; Digital cameras; Engines; Global Positioning System; Information management; Information resources; Labeling; MPEG 7 Standard; Software tools; System testing; Browse; Contextual Metadata; Digital photograph; EXIF; GPS; Information Extraction; MPEG7; Public/Personal Information; Search; Semantic; Semi-automatic Annotation;
Conference_Titel :
Advanced Communication Technology, The 9th International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Gangwon-Do
Print_ISBN :
978-89-5519-131-8
DOI :
10.1109/ICACT.2007.358306
