From usage to annotation
Philipp Sandhaus, Susanne Boll · 2009
With photo albums we aim to capture personal events such as weddings, vacations, and parties of family and friends. By arranging photo prints, captions and paper souvenirs such as tickets over the pages of a photo book we tell a story to capture and share our memories. The photo memories captured in such a photo book tell us a lot about the content and the relevance of the photos for the user. The way in which we select photos and arrange them in the photo book reveal a lot about the events, persons and places on the photos: captions describe content, closeness and arrangement of photos express relations between photos and their content. These semantics of our personal stories, however, are canned in the photo book but would form a very valuable asset for understanding and annotating our personal media collection.