Tuesday, April 26, 2011

Paper Reading #21 - iSlideShow: a content-aware slideshow system

Reference:
Jiajian Chen, Jun Xiao and Yuli Gao.
IUI '10 Proceedings of the 15th international conference on Intelligent user interfaces
 
 
Summary:
This paper is about a photo slideshow system.  The system can automatically analyze thematic information about the collection of photos.  The system can then generate slides for two modes: story-telling, and person-highlighting.  In the story-telling mode, the system clusters photos by a theme-based clustering algorithm, and tiles multiple photos on a slide.  There are many tiling layouts, and the slideshow is animated by transitions.  In the person-highlighting mode, the system begins by recognizing faces from photos.  Then it creates photo clusters for each individual. 
 
Discussion:
I think that this system is pretty cool.  I like that it can sort by theme or by person.  This seems similar in concept to another paper I read about, the touch interface scrapbook.  They both take something that is usually done by hand, and automate it.  I think that this one rather than the other would be more popular though.


 

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