Résumé : Nous nommons ‘photos sociales’ les photos qui sont prises lors d’événements familiaux ou de soirées entre amis et qui représentent des individus ou des groupes d’individus. Leur indexation consiste à repérer l’événement et les personnes présentes sur les photos. Dans cet article nous présentons une méthode et des outils pour faciliter cette tâche. De nouvelles photos sont indexées à pa...

The secretive behavior and life history of snakes makes studying their biology, distribution, the epidemiology venomous snakebite challenging. One most useful, versatile, easiest to collect types biological data are photographs, particularly those that connected with geographic location date-time metadata. Photos verify occurrence records, provide on phenotypes ecology, often used illustrate ne...

Current advances in digital technology promote capturing and storing more digital photos than ever. While photo collections are growing in size, the amount of time that can be devoted to viewing, managing, and sharing digital photos remains constant. Photo decision-making and selection has been identified as key to addressing this concern. After conducting exploratory research on photo decision...

With digital still cameras, users can easily collect thousands of photos. Our goal is to make organizing and browsing photos simple and quick, while retaining scalability to large collections. To that end, we created a photo management application concentrating on areas that improve the overall experience without neglecting the mundane components of such an application. Our application automati...

The number of photos has significantly increased in the recent years together with the problem of how to manage them: a picture can be printed as is, arranged into a more interesting photo book or shared through the web. Digital photos have the advantage that can be easily stored and shared with family and friends from different cities or countries but we must consider that many people do not e...