1. Personal Photo Browsing: Breaking Out of the Shoebox Björn Þór Jónsson Reykjavík University Hlynur Sigurþórsson, Grímur Tómasson, Kári Harðarson, Laurent Amsaleg

2. Photo Shoeboxes Digital

3. The Pros Zoomable interfaces Very fast thumbnail handling Features: –Nice slide-shows –Web sharing –E-mail generation –...

4. The Cons Few attributes used (time, tags, folders,...) Limited annotations (text, no concepts) One dimension at a time Search ≠ browsing

5. OLAP Useful for gaining new insights into data Dimensions, slicing’n’dicing, pivoting

6. Computer Games Successful at keeping users occupied Three-dimensional navigation Overview vs. details

7. PhotoCube ObjectCube data model C++ / MonetDB server Python / Panda3D interface

8. Visual Tagging Drag and drop

9. Similarity Browsing Combining searching and browsing

10. Conclusions PhotoCube = OLAP browser for photos Current status: A working prototype –UTmessan on Saturday (see www.utmessan.is) –Demonstration at ICMR, Italy in April Future work: –New analysis methods (face recognition,...) –Presentation (aggregate groups,...) –Browsing experience (similarity search,...)

11. Visualization Power

12. Multi-D Browsing Different dimension types Stretch, filter, pivot