MetaXa - Context- and Content-Driven Metadata Enhancement for Personal Photo Books

Making a photo book as a special gift to your beloved can be very time-consuming. One has to carefully select and arrange the pictures nicely over the pages of a previously bought photo book. In these days, photo finisher companies are able to directly print and bind a nice photo book from a selected set of images. But for the users of the software that comes with the album creation, the selection and arrangement of pictures in the album still remains a tedious task. What is missing are easy and good suggestions which pictures to select and how to arrange them into a personal photo book. A higher availability of metadata with the pictures could enable a content-driven and context-driven selection and make album creation better and easier. With MetaXa, we propose a flexible, component-based software architecture that iteratively allows for the multimodal extraction and enhancement of metadata for personal media content. The enhancement process is realized by extraction and enhancement...

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2007
• Where: MMM
• Authors: Susanne Boll, Philipp Sandhaus, Ansgar Scherp, Sabine Thieme
• Keywords: Album Creation, Enhancement Components, MMM 2007, Multimedia, Photo Book