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Extreme Temporal Photo Browsing

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We developed two photo browsers for collections with thousands of time-stamped digital images. Modern digital cameras record photo shoot times, and semantically related photos tend to occur in bursts. Our browsers exploit the timing information to structure the collections and to automatically generate meaningful summaries. The browsers differ in how users navigate and view the structured collections. We conducted user studies to compare our two browsers and an un-summarized image browser. Our results show that exploiting the time dimension and appropriately summarizing collections can lead to significant improvements. For example, for one task category, one of our browsers enabled a 33% improvement in speed of finding given images compared to the commercial browser. Similarly, users were able to complete 29% more tasks when using this same browser.

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  1. Gates Computer Science 4A, Stanford University, Stanford

    Adrian Graham, Hector Garcia-Molina, Andreas Paepcke & Terry Winograd

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    Katy Börner

  2. College of Information Science and Technology, Drexel University, 3141 Chestnut Street, 19104-2875, Philadelphia, PA, USA

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Graham, A., Garcia-Molina, H., Paepcke, A., Winograd, T. (2002). Extreme Temporal Photo Browsing. In: Börner, K., Chen, C. (eds) Visual Interfaces to Digital Libraries. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2539. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-36222-3_7

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