The paper analyzes the phenomenon of visual, namely, analysis possibility and means expressing surrounding world through concepts photography simulation, which are widely used in modern studies visual culture. Through expressions authenticity, authenticity aura Walter Benjamin, simulacrum simulation Jean Baudrillard, an image city understanding its reality general individual parts particular ar...

Research on image categorization has received more attention lately. In particular, the efforts to classify photos based on contents have been devoted to: indoor versus outdoor [Bradshaw, 2000], natural versus man-made [Bradshaw, 2000; Vailaya et al., 2001], and categories of natural scenes [Vailaya et al., 2001]. In general, the classifications were made based on low-level features such as col...

The phenomenal advances of photo-sharing services, such as Flickr , have led to voluminous community-contributed photos with socially generated textual, temporal and geographical metadata on the Internet. The photos, together with their timeand geo-references, implicitly document the photographers’ spatiotemporal movement paths. This study aims to leverage the wealth of these enriched online ph...

Many people take pictures of different city landmarks and post them to photo-sharing systems like Flickr. They also add tags and place photos in Flickr groups, created around particular themes. Using tags, other people can search for representative landmark images of places of interest. Searching for landmarks using tags results into many non-landmark photos and provides poor landmark summary f...

This article addresses the question of how people process news photographs and news stories as a function of their scores on 2 scales designed to measure 2 “cognitive styles” called visualizing and verbalizing. Although newspaper practitioners believe news photos enhance the newspaper reading process, research has not demonstrated a clearly positive impact. Education theory about visualizing an...

In this paper, a semantic categorization method in generic home photos is proposed. In recent years, the semantic categorization of image has been a challenge due to the proliferation of digital home photos. Our approach is to detect semantically meaningful concepts contained in a photo. The proposed method incorporates an intermediate level of concepts, called local concept, so that it catches...

The increasing number of personal digital photos on the Web makes their management, retrieval and visualization a difficult task. To annotate these images using Semantic Web technologies is the emerging solution to decrease the lack of the description in photos files. However, existing tools performing manual annotation are time consuming for the users. In this context, this paper proposes a se...

People often perceive themselves as more attractive and likable than others do. Here, we examined how these self-favoring biases manifest in a highly popular novel context that is particularly self-focused—selfies. Specifically, we analyzed selfie-takers’ and nonselfie-takers’ perceptions of their selfies versus photos taken by others and compared these to the judgments of external perceivers. ...