This paper proposes automatic representations of spatial relationships among photos for structure analysis and review of a photographic subject. Based on camera tracking, photos are shown in a 3D virtual reality space to represent global spatial relationships. At the same time, the spatial relationships between two of the photos are represented in slide show sequences. This proposal allows peop...

The purpose of this work is to implement panorama stitching from a sequence of photos taken by cell phone camera on the Android phone system. The photos for panorama stitching are captured in a fixed linear spatial interval based on magnetic compass provided by Android cell phone. The computation is carried out either on phone or by a cloud according to the number of photos used for the panoram...

Provision of historical information based on geographical location represents a new scope of connecting the present of a certain location or landmark with its history through a timescape panorama. This may be achieved by exploring a linear timeline of photos for certain areas and landmarks that have both historic and modern photos. Matching modern to historical images requires a special effort ...

Nowadays, photos associated with spatiotemporal references are available widely on computers as well as on the Internet. There exist several tools for the exploration of photos with regard to their geographical and/or temporal structures. However, communicating spatial and temporal contents of photos remains a challenging task. In this paper, we follow Peuquet’s triad framework in visually comb...

With rapid advances in sensor, storage, processor, and communication technologies, consumers can now afford to create, store, process, and share large digital photo collections. With more and more digital photos accumulated, consumers need effective and efficient tools to organize and access photos in a semantically meaningful way without too much manual annotation effort. From user studies, we...

Photos lead people to believe that both true and false events have happened to them, even when those photos provide no evidence that the events occurred. Research has shown that these nonprobative photos increase false beliefs when combined with misleading suggestions and repeated exposure to the photo or target event. We propose that photos exert similar effects without those factors, and test...

We propose an algorithm for automatic photo selection for media and entertainment applications like photobook and slide-show. The technique comprises three main steps: photo quality estimation and elimination of poor-quality photos, adaptive quantization of survived photos in time-camera plane, and selection of the most appealing photos from each quantized group. For detection of low-quality ph...

Unstructured Image Mosaics Rahul Garg Chair of the Supervisory Committee: Professor Steven M. Seitz Computer Science & Engineering Image mosaics stitch photos into a single composite with a wide field of view. They are easy to create and can be panned by dragging the mouse, thus enabling simple and effective photorealistic visualizations. However, they are restricted to structured input where t...