Given a large photo collection without domain knowledge (e.g., tourism photos, conference photos, event photos, images wrapped from webpages), it is not easy for human beings to organize or only view them within a reasonable time. In this paper, we propose to automatically extract meaningful semantics from a photo collection named “dimensions” to help people view, search and organize photos con...

With the rising popularity of cameras and people’s increasing desire to share photos, an overwhelming number of photos have been posted all over the Web. A digital photo usually contains much information in its metadata. Once published online, a photo could disclose much more information beyond what is visually depicted in the photo and what the owner expects to share. The metadata contained in...

We have explored design opportunities to enrich the tourism experience of people at the Georgia Aquarium by providing a context of photos and by motivating people to be active creators of content to share their experiences with others. We designed a system named RevisiTour to enable visitors to reorganize photos taken from tour sites and share the photos with others. A visitor’s path and timest...

RÉSUMÉ. La démocratisation des appareils photo numériques et l’intégration de capteurs numériques dans les téléphones mobiles permettent à chacun de prendre de nombreuses photos. Or, des plateformes de partage de photos, telles que Panoramio et Flickr, offrent la possibilité de les stocker, de les étiqueter avec des tags et de les partager. Ainsi, plus de 4 millions de photos sont publiées sur ...

to identify critical sediment sources in large catchments, using easily available terrain information at a regionalscale, a methodology was developed to obtain a qualitative assessment necessary for environmental management.fargas et al method was employed in the research. the study was carried out in one of the sub-basins of hableh roodbasin called dehnamak in the arid and semiarid climate of ...

Personal photos are enjoying explosive growth with the popularity of photo-taking devices and social media. The vast amount of online photos largely exhibit users’ interests, emotion and opinions. Mining user interests from personal photos can boost a number of utilities, such as advertising, interest based community detection and photo recommendation. In this paper, we study the problem of use...

A brief description of the life and work Vladislav Yakovlevich Noskov, one leading domestic “autodiners”, professor Ural Federal University named after First President Russia B. N. Yeltsin. The article presents sections: School years; Tomsk Institute Radioelectronics Electronic Technology; Nizhny Tagil period; Ekaterinburg Scientific interests. Colleagues; Participation in editorial boards jour...

Growing prevalence of smartphone makes photography easier than ever. However, the quality of photos varies widely. Because judging the aesthetic of photos is based on several "rule-of-thumb", it remains difficult for computers to rate photos without manual intervention. In this work, we utilize aesthetic features of photos and machine learning techniques to automatically distinguish good photos...