Annotating photographs of places of interest in Taiwan – a multifaceted photo summarisation method based on TELDAP
Yu‐Ting Hsiao, Chun-Yuan Cheng, Cheng-Hung Li, Yuzheng Wang, Hsiang-An Wang · International Journal of Humanities and Arts Computing · 2012
As Taiwan was governed by several colonial powers in the past, many places of interest reflect the cultural influences during different periods of the nation's history. However, people may be unaware of the historical background when they visit such places, so they are unable to annotate their photographs with appropriate descriptions. Helping people find historical information about places of interest in a short time is therefore an important issue. In this paper, we propose a multifaceted photo summarisation approach that exploits a host of analytical techniques. The techniques include content-based image and colour analysis, as well as data mining techniques, which are used to annotate images with relevant information. The system also contains a user interface that provides users with an interactive recommendation method for image annotation, and helps them annotate their collections by suggesting several relevant annotation terms. The annotation database is integrated with related information obtained from the Taiwan e-Learning and Digital Archives Program in order to generate a relevant semantic snippet for each image.