ecause digital cameras are so easy to use, consumers tend to take and accumulate more and more digital photos. Hence they need effective and efficient tools to organize and access photos in a semantically meaningful way without too much manual annotation effort. We define semantically meaningful as the ability to index and search photos based on the purposes and contexts of taking the photos. F...

In this paper, a new smooth slideshow transition effect, Sewing Photos, is proposed while considering both of smooth content transition and smooth camera motion. Comparing to the traditional photo browsing and displaying work, which all focused on presenting splendid visual effects, Sewing Photos emphasizes on the smooth transition process between photos while taking the photo contents into acc...

in order to identify the species of the family lauxaniidae, a study was conducted in horand region located in northern part of east azerbaijan province, iran, during 2011-2013. a total of six species belonging to three genera were identified, including calliopum caucasicum (shatalkin, 1995) and minettia lupulina (fabricius, 1787) newly reported from iran. the diagnostic characters, geographical...

We present efforts to explore the relatively underdeveloped area of digital photo display. Using examples from two empirical studies with family homes, we develop our results around three broad themes related to the display of photos and their arrangement. The first theme highlights the collaborative as well as individual work that goes into preparing photos for display. The second attends to t...

Photos with people (e.g., family, friends, celebrities, etc.) are the major interest of users. Thus, with the exponentially growing photos, large-scale content-based face image retrieval is an enabling technology for many emerging applications. In this work, we aim to utilize automatically detected human attributes that contain semantic cues of the face photos to improve content-based face retr...

Photographs are a means to capture the important events of our life for a long time. The advent of digital photography has much increased the number of photographs taken in our daily life. While at the concrete moment photos are often used to remember and share events such the arrival of a baby or a wedding, they might become a valuable asset at the end of the life to look back on the own roots...

Recently, cloud storage and processing have been widely adopted. Mobile users in one family or one team may automatically backup their photos to the same shared cloud storage space. The powerful face detector trained and provided by a 3rd party may be used to retrieve the photo collection which contains a specific group of persons from the cloud storage server. However, the privacy of the mobil...

Annotating photos is such a time-consuming, tedious and error-prone data entry task that it discourages most owners of personal photo libraries. B y allowing users to drag labels such as personal names from a scrolling list and drop them on a photo, we believe we can make the task faster, easier and more appealing. Since the names are entered in a database, searching for al l photos of a fiiend...