Chris McEvoy follows up on my PhotoStory post: "Here are a couple of more papers about managing photos:

Active Photos (HP Labs - Mar 04) In this paper we describe an investigation into linkages to multimedia content from individual items in photographs and other printed images. We describe prototypes for authoring and playing such "active photos", and give the results of informal trials. We conclude with lessons learned and next steps.

PhotoTOC: Automatic Clustering for Browsing Personal Photographs (MS Research - Dec 03) This paper presents Photo Table Of Contents (PhotoTOC), a system that helps users find digital photographs in their own collection of photographs. PhotoTOC is a browsing user interface that uses an overview+detail design. The detail view is a temporally ordered list of all of the user's photographs. The overview of the user's collection is automatically generated by an image clustering algorithm, which clusters on the creation time and the color of the photographs. PhotoTOC was tested on users' own photographs against three other browsers. Searching for images with PhotoTOC was subjectively rated easier than all of the other browsers. This result shows that automatic organization of personal photographs facilitates efficient and satisfying search."

For some reason, this comment triggered my blacklist. I have no idea why, anyone?

# Apr 25, 2004