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Automatic image representation for content-based access to personal photo album
The proposed work exploits methods and techniques for automatic
characterization of images for content-based access to personal
photo libraries. Several techniques, even if not reliable enough to address
the general problem of content-based image retrieval, have been proven
quite robust in a limited domain such as the one of personal photo album.
In particular, starting from the observation that most personal photos
depict a usually small number of people in a relatively small number
of different contexts (e.g. Beach, Public Garden, Indoor, Nature, Snow,
City, etc...) we propose the use of automatic techniques borrowed from
the fields of computer vision and pattern recognition to index images
based on who is present in the scene and on the context where the picture
were taken.
Experiments on a personal photo collection of about a thousand images
proved that relatively simple content-based techniques lead to surprisingly
good results in term of easyness of user access to the data