AGENT-MEDIATED PERSONAL PHOTO SHARING
Ting‐Hsiang Huang, Jane Yung-jen Hsu, Bo-Jyun Lu · 2007
With the rapid growth of personal digital content created by a wide array of digital devices, photo sharing across the network has become a routine demand. Existing approaches to photo sharing require much user manipulation, and the process tends to be tedious and timeconsuming. This research proposes “Photo Agent, ” a multi-agent system that facilitates sharing of digital photos based on a user’s personal social network. In particular, this paper illustrates the process of social network construction from photo metadata annotated by a face detection and recognition module. Moreover, performance of the agent-mediated Intelligent Sharing Tree algorithm is compared with Gnutella-like sharing algorithm in content delivery. With photo agents providing proactive recommendation and autonomous delivery, photo sharing can be achieved in a human-centric manner.