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Paper Abstract
Today's digital photos can be tagged with information about when and where they were taken. On stationary
computers, this information is often used to drive photo browsing. This is not the case for mobile devices.
We describe first results of our current research on a novel photo browsing technique called TiDi Browser.
TiDi Browser exploits time and location information available in digital photos to facilitate the identification of
personal events and the detection of patterns of specific occurrences in time and space. Along with a main view
and thumbnail previews, our browser application provides two time lines. One time line visualizes the number of
photos taken per temporal unit (e.g., day, week, etc.). This allows users to easily detect personal events in time.
The second time line visualizes location information. Since two- or three-dimensional locations are difficult to
represent on small displays, we reduce the location information to one-dimensional distance information. The
distance is shown in the second time line. Both time lines serve a second purpose as graphical user interface,
meaning that they can be used to browse in time. Even larger photo collections can be browsed on very small
displays intuitively and efficiently.
We implemented our ideas in an interactive prototype that uses a client-server-architecture. To save bandwidth,
we transmit appropriately scaled photos that fit the display dimensions of the client (mobile device). To
enhance the user's browsing experience, we apply caching and prefetching strategies.
Paper Details
Date Published: 26 February 2007
PDF: 8 pages
Proc. SPIE 6507, Multimedia on Mobile Devices 2007, 65070O (26 February 2007); doi: 10.1117/12.703924
Published in SPIE Proceedings Vol. 6507:
Multimedia on Mobile Devices 2007
Reiner Creutzburg; Jarmo H. Takala; Jianfei Cai, Editor(s)
PDF: 8 pages
Proc. SPIE 6507, Multimedia on Mobile Devices 2007, 65070O (26 February 2007); doi: 10.1117/12.703924
Show Author Affiliations
Gerald Bieber, Fraunhofer Institute for Computer Graphics (Germany)
Christian Tominski, Univ. of Rostock (Germany)
Christian Tominski, Univ. of Rostock (Germany)
Bodo Urban, Univ. of Rostock (Germany)
Published in SPIE Proceedings Vol. 6507:
Multimedia on Mobile Devices 2007
Reiner Creutzburg; Jarmo H. Takala; Jianfei Cai, Editor(s)
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