Personal Photo Annotation
Nataliya Alexander · 2005
Personal digital photographic collections grow quickly in size. Managing and annotating these collections becomes difficult and requires much time and effort. This research investigates into the ways people annotate their personal photographic collections to gain a deeper understanding of photo annotations in order to help people manage their digital personal photo collections. The research also highlights the differences that exist in annotations by males and females and the attributes that describe these differences. Various attributes of annotations are studied. They consist of length, structure, word classes of the English language, whether an annotation is artistic and entropy as a measure of information of annotation. The findings include the inverse relation between the percentage of proper nouns and verbs in annotations, the increase in emotions in descriptions of animate and inanimate objects, the decrease in emotions in descriptions of people, the presence of more emotions in annotations by females and the discovery of four groups of annotations each with different combination of attribute values. The findings highlight the value of related work in automatic annotations because 67% of supplied annotations are merely descriptions. However, the remaining 33% contain emotions expressed by the author and these emotions cannot be captured through automatic annotation.