Photography is a visual way to capture a moment in time. Photos can be used for artistic expression, and to remember significant events. Because photo taking, organizing and sharing traditionally requires visual information, those with no or limited sight often have problems with these activities. Previous work has made photo capturing without sight easier, however, there is little work that ma...

This task presents the popularity of item (aircraft) in an image for higher recognition based on the mixture of wavelet features and correlation on form evaluation. An object can also be identified with assist of texture or look functions thru Scale invariant characteristic transform (Wavelet transform). these correlation dimension and SIFT for appearance function extraction are efficiently uti...

In this paper we introduce TicQR – a photo-based checkbox-enabled interface which bridges the physical and digital document domains, allowing automatic download or processing of useful data from paper documents. There is a long demonstrated need for people to be able to connect between printed material and digital information and services. By using a combination of image recognition and QR code...

Building new digital library applications requires a developement platform that offers standard and powerful building blocks to support application developers. In this paper we discuss our experience of using MILOS, a multimedia content management system oriented to the construction of digital libraries, to build a demanding application dedicated to non-professional users. Specifically, we disc...

This article presents a feature based face detection method on a digital still images. Face detection is an indispensable stage in face recognition process, but may also be used as a standalone process in some applications for example in digital photo cameras. Such devices have limited computing power and memory resources, so there is a need for simple algorithm. Presented method is based on a ...

Photo collections are one of the promising sources to tell story of life in this digital era. In this paper we present our work on organizing photos of a lifetime by exploiting semantic annotations. The complexity in using semantic technology is managed by introducing an annotation template corresponding to who, when, where, and what. Semantics of each dimension are semi-automatically annotated...

The vision of ubiquitous digital photos has arrived. Yet, despite their broad popularity, significant shortfalls remain in the tools used to manage them. We believe that with a bit more creativity and effort, the photo industry can solve many of these problems, offering tools which better support accurate, rapid, and safe shared annotations with comfortable and efficient browsing and search. In...

Can audio-visual recordings be accepted as reliable and trustworthy evidence? This problem, confronting many sectors of society, has become urgent as emerging digital editing tools make us increasingly vulnerable to forgeries. The conventional wisdom that “a photo is fact” is no longer valid and digital audio-visual content can nowadays be modified and simulated with unprecedented realism. Ther...

Digital literacy involves more than the mere ability to use software or operate a digital device; it includes a large variety of complex cognitive, motor, sociological, and emotional skills, which users need in order to function effectively in digital environments. The tasks required in this context include, for example, “reading” instructions from graphical displays in user interfaces; using d...

-The Southern Annual Forest inventory System (SAFIS) is in various stages of implementation in 8 of the 13 southern states served by the Southern Research Station of the USDA Forest Service. Compared to periodic inventories, SAFIS requires more rapid generation of land use and land cover maps. The current photo system for phase one area estimation has changed little over the last four decades a...