The Internet has become an unprecedented source of visual information about our world,
with millions of people uploading photos and videos to media-sharing sites at staggering …

Why do people tag? Users have mostly avoided annotating media such as photos--both in
desktop and mobile environments--despite the many potential uses for annotations …

Organizing digital photograph collections according to events such as holiday gatherings or
vacations is a common practice among photographers. To support photographers in this …

The amount of personal digital media is increasing, and managing it has become a pressing
problem. Effective management of media content is not possible without content-related …

Recognition-based visual authentication schemes use a variety of different kinds of images.
These mechanisms have now matured sufficiently that we should start considering tailoring …

With digital still cameras, users can easily collect thousands of photos. We have created a
photo management application with the goal of making photo organization and browsing …

In this paper we describe the design and implementation of a mobile one picture sharing
system MobShare that enables immediate, controlled, and organized sharing of mobile …

Managing a large number of digital photos is a challenging task for casual users. Personal
photos often don't have rich metadata, or additional information associated with them …

Semantic understanding of images has been an important topic in the research community
for a long time as it is an important prerequisite to build meaningful retrieval systems which …

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 …