Hierarchical photo stream segmentation using context

Bo Gong; Ramesh Jain

doi:10.1117/12.766917

28 January 2008 Hierarchical photo stream segmentation using context

Bo Gong, Ramesh Jain

Proceedings Volume 6820, Multimedia Content Access: Algorithms and Systems II; 682003 (2008) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.766917
Event: Electronic Imaging, 2008, San Jose, California, United States

Abstract

Photo stream segmentation is to segment photo streams into groups, each of which corresponds to an event. Photo stream segmentation can be done with or without prior knowledge of event structure. In this paper, we study the problem by assuming that there is no a priori event model available. Although both context and content information are important for photo stream segmentation, we focus on investigating the usage of context information in this work. We consider different information components of context such as time, location, and optical setting for inexpensive segmentation of photo streams from common users of modern digital camera. As events are hierarchical, we propose to segment photo stream using hierarchical mixture model. We compare the generated hierarchy with that created by users to see how well results can be obtained without knowing the prior event model. We experimented with about 3000 photos from amateur photographers to study the efficacy of the approach for these context information components.

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Bo Gong and Ramesh Jain "Hierarchical photo stream segmentation using context", Proc. SPIE 6820, Multimedia Content Access: Algorithms and Systems II, 682003 (28 January 2008); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.766917

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