Insightful Slideshow: Automatic Composition of Comfortable Personal Photograph Slideshow Using the Web

Recently, the number of digital contents is increasing rapidly with the progress of information technology. It has become important how we manage enormous digital contents effectively and utilize them efficiently. Up to now, a lot of techniques on digital content management have been proposed. One of the important objectives of the conventional management techniques is to search digital contents which satisfy an information request of a user. This is based on the assumption that a user has one or more information requests. However, a user may have no information request explicitly when the user uses some kinds of devices for presenting digital content such as a digital photo frame. Such devices are expected to provide a presentation of digital content that rouses user’s interest. In this paper, we introduce an approach for composing photo slideshow automatically from a set of photographs with tags using the Web. Our user study shows that the slideshows that are composed with our technique give more natural impressions for users than randomly ordered slideshows and date time ordered slideshows.