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Submitted on 26th of June 2002
Author Adrian Graham, Hector Garcia-Molina, Andreas Paepcke, Terry Winograd
Title Time as Essence for Photo Browsing Through Personal Digital Libraries
Date of publication 2002
Published in JCDL 2002 Proceedings
Citation Adrian Graham, Hector Garcia-Molina, Andreas Paepcke, Terry Winograd. Time as Essence for Photo Browsing Through Personal Digital Libraries, JCDL 2002 Proceedings
Number of pages 10
Language English
Project Digital Libraries
Type Conference or Journal Paper
Subject group Digital Libraries; Miscellaneous
Abstract We developed two photo browsers for collections with thousands of time-stamped digital images. Modern digital cameras record photo shoot times, and semantically related photos tend to occur in bursts. Our browsers exploit the timing information to structure the collections and to automatically generate meaningful summaries. The browsers differ in how users navigate and view the structured collections. We conducted user studies to compare the two browsers and a commercial image browser. Our results show that exploiting the time dimension and appropriately summarizing collections can lead to significant improvements. For example, for one task category, one of our browsers enabled a 33% improvement in speed of finding given images compared to the commercial browser. Similarly, users were able to complete 29% more tasks when using this same browser.
Keywords Photo browser, image browser, Personal Digital library, time-based clustering, ACDSee, summarization, time-based navigation, burst identification
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