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PhotoGeo: a photo digital library with spatial-temporal support and self-annotation

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The recent popularity of digital cameras has posed a new problem: how to efficiently store and retrieve the very large number of digital photos captured and chaotically stored in multiple locations without any annotation. This paper proposes an infrastructure, called PhotoGeo, which aims at helping users with the people photo annotation, event photo annotation, storage and retrieval of personal digital photos. To achieve the desired objective, PhotoGeo uses new algorithms that make it possible to annotate photos with the key metadata to facilitate their retrieval, such as: the people who were shown in the photo (who); where it was captured (where); the date and time of capture (when); and the event that was captured. The paper concludes with a detailed evaluation of these algorithms.

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  1. http://www.apple.com/br/ilife/iphoto

  2. http://picasa.google.com.br

  3. http://www.flickr.com

  4. http://www.google.com/calendar

  5. http://wikimapia.org/

  6. http://www.geonames.org

  7. http://wikimapia.org/api/

  8. www.google.com.br/latitude

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  1. Computer Science Department, University of Campina Grande, Av. Aprígio Veloso, 882, Bodocongó - Campina Grande, Paraíba, 58109-900, Brazil

    Hugo Feitosa de Figueirêdo, Yuri Almeida Lacerda & Cláudio de Souza Baptista

  2. Applied Computing Group NCA, Federal University of Maranhão, Av. dos Portugueses, SN - São Luís, Maranhão, 58109-900, Brazil

    Anselmo Cardoso de Paiva

  3. Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro, Av. Marques de São Vicente, 225 RDC CEP 22451-900 - Gávea - Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

    Marco Antonio Casanova

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de Figueirêdo, H.F., Lacerda, Y.A., de Paiva, A.C. et al. PhotoGeo: a photo digital library with spatial-temporal support and self-annotation. Multimed Tools Appl 59, 279–305 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11042-011-0745-x

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