social album utilizing social network to visualize co-event albums

Social AlbumUtilizing social network to visualize co-event albums.

郭子豪Advisor: 陳炳宇

Outline

• Introduction• Related Works• Prior User Study• The Social Album• Evaluation• Conclusion & Future Work

Introduction

• Online photo hosting services contain lots of co-event albums.

Introduction

• People attained one event might capture their own photos and than uploaded as separate albums.

Introduction

• How to gather / organize / browse them ?

Co-event Album

• Define it!

Introduction

• Idea Description

Related Works

• Multi-user Albums• Photowares based on Social Network• Social Network Visualization• Photo Browsing

Multi-user Albums

Photowares based on SN

Social Network Visualization

Photo Browsing

Prior User Study

• Field Study– Co-event albums– Tag

• Interview

Co-event albumsMore than half All

facebook 36 28 (77.7%)

Flickr 22 17 (77.2%)

Picasa 15 15 (100%) 4

Tag

• facebook :• 54 samples• 34 has co-event albums

Interview

• 9 people ( 3 man, 6 woman )• 21 ~ 30 years old.• All familiar with web albums and have their

own web albums.• Have their own DC.• Usually taking pictures in event.

Interview --- Target

• Life cycle of co-event albums• Album related social activity

Interview --- Questions

• Life cycle of co-event albums– How do you gather the co-event albums from

others? Do you have any trouble?– How do you organize the gathered photos? – Do you have any trouble while browsing them?

• Album related social activity– Will you share your photo albums to your friends

actively? How?– Will you actively browse your friends’ albums?

Interview --- Result

• Life cycle of co-event albums– Gathering– Organizing – Browsing

• Album related social activity– Sharing– Updating

Gathering

• Channel: – Email– FTP– Portable Disk– Instant Messenger– Web Albums

• It’s hard when lots of joined people.

Organizing

• Hierarchical Folder• Date + Event Name– Photographer 1– Photographer 2– Photographer 3– …

Browsing

• Separate Albums• Mixed Albums

• Alignment & Duplication Problems.

Sharing

• Six people share albums actively.• Most people share to their acquaintance.• Most people gather co-event albums actively.

Updating

• Most people will check friends’ albums actively.

• Be interested to albums they joined personally.

• Or albums joined by their friends.

Conclusion

• Co-event albums have potential to be sociable.

• The relationship matters.• Lack of dedicated photoware.

Design Guidelines

• Make the system embedded into the social network.

• Simplify the gathering of co-event albums and provide flexibility in organizing them.

• Satisfy the browsing behaviors.• Visualize the relationship.

facebook GRAPH APISocial Album Database

Social Album Server Social Album Client



Indexing View

Browsing View

Editing View

Photo Analyzer

Album Analyzer

Track Analyzer

Indexing View

• Layout• Tracks• Sites• Interactions

Indexing View --- Layout

Indexing View --- Tracks

Event A

Event B

(a)

Event A

Event B

(b)

Event A

Event B

(c)

Indexing View --- Sites

(c) (d)

(a) (b)

Indexing View --- Interactions

• Show track name• Coloring• Hover• Filter

Indexing View --- Interactions

Browsing View

Browsing View

• Screen Shot

Editing View

Editing View

• Screen Shot• Time duration• Participants• Merge



Indexing View

Browsing View

Editing View

Photo Analyzer

Album Analyzer

Track Analyzer

Photo Analyzer

1. Feature Extracting Module2. Photo Grouping Module

RGB

Photo Analyzer


Gray

HSVRGB

Photo Analyzer


Gray

HSVRGB

H : 18 binsS : 3 binsV : 3 binsG : 4 bins

Photo Analyzer


Gray

HSVRGB

H : 18 binsS : 3 binsV : 3 binsG : 4 bins

feature factor

Photo Analyzer


Photo Analyzer


0 0100 100

Album Analyzer

1. Album Merging Module2. Album Recommending Module

Album Analyzer


A B C

D E F

A B

C D

1 21 32

Album Analyzer


Track Analyzer

Evaluation

Quantitative

Qualitative

Conclusion

Future Works

social album utilizing social network to visualize co-event albums

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