The “Reminiscing View” is a visualization system for browsing hierarchically organized photo and video-clip collections. The Reminiscing View prototype supports browsing of hierarchical temporal event clusters. Users simply upload their pictures and video clips to a server and their collection is automatically clustered into hierarchical temporal events. They can then browse events in a chronologically ordered spiral or grid view and explore details of each event. They can also filter the displayed media by date, text-based search, and sharing group. The addition of a wiimote remote control interface to the system allows users to browse their collection in a “lean back” setting such as a living room environment. See ISM 2008 paper for a description the system and interface of the Reminiscing View. The paper also presents results and implications of a user study conducted on an earlier version of the system.
This work was done in collaboration with Jiajian Chen (summer intern from Georgia Tech) at Kodak Research Labs, Eastman Kodak Company. I mentored Jiajian during his summer internship and added additional features of the histogram-based filtering and wiimote interface after his internship ended.
References:
- Chen, J. and Hibino, S. (2008). “Reminiscing View: Event-Based Browsing of Consumer’s Photo and Video-Clip Collections,” Proceedings of the 2008 Tenth IEEE International Symposium on Multimedia (ISM ’08). IEEE Computer Society, Washington, DC, USA, 23-30. (pdf)
- Chen, J. and Hibino, S. (2007). “Visualization of Events for Consumer’s Photo Collections,” Poster presentation at InfoVis 2007. (pdf)
Related Patent: “Digital object information via category-based histograms”, issued September 13, 2011, US patent 8,019,155.