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

2. Visual Experiences
Photos
Videos
Others

3. Photo Management Adobe Yahoo! Photos Snapfish Photobucket Picasa
Flickr …

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

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

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

7. 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

8. 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

9. Different Facets of an Event

10. EventBase

11. General Architecture

12. Major Components

14. Event Ingestion Results: Night Scenes

15. Event Ingestion Results: Night Party

16. Event Ingestion Results: Urban Visit

17. Spatial Browsing

18. Temporal Browsing

19. Presentations

20. Status
Early stages
Exciting
Lots of problems to solve
Small
Big