The Social Camera: Recommending Photo Composition Using Contextual Features
Steven Bourke, Kevin McCarthy, Barry Smyth · 2010
The digital camera revolution has changed the world of photography and now most people have access to, and even regularly carry, a digital camera. Often these cameras have been designed with simplicity in mind: they harness a variety of sophisticated technologies in order to automatically take care of all manner of complex settings (aperture, shutter speed, ash, etc.) for point-and-shoot ease. However, there is little or no support for the end-user when it comes to helping them to compose or frame a scene. To this end we describe a novel recommendation system application that is designed to assist the user by recommending relevant compositions given their current location and scene context. This application has been implemented on the Android platform and we describe its core recommendation technologies and user interface.