Ramesh Jain jain@ics.uci.edu Visual Intelligence Ramesh Jain jain@ics.uci.edu

Visual Experiences Photos Videos Others

Photo Management Adobe Yahoo! Photos Snapfish Photobucket Picasa Flickr …

What do you want to do with your photos? Save Revisit Share Make ‘Albums’ Where do you save them? ‘Sharing’ priorities.

How do you Organize Photos? Folders Organized according to Events Subjects Just Dates Tag Them Tagging helps but that is the problem.

Tagging Automatic recognition Manual Semi-automatic Computer vision is not ready Manual You are not ready Semi-automatic Depends

EMMa: To solve your problem Will deal with complete Photo-ecosystem Will ingest photos from all sources – cameras to web. Will digest photos for you You decide how you want to share Browse and search Presentations

Novel Approach Event-based Photo-taking is an event Photos are taken of an event Albums represents events and objects Presentation is to emphasize an event

Different Facets of an Event

EventBase

General Architecture

Major Components

Event Ingestion Results: Night Scenes

Event Ingestion Results: Night Party

Event Ingestion Results: Urban Visit

Spatial Browsing

Temporal Browsing

Presentations

Status Early stages Exciting Lots of problems to solve Small Big