Metadata creation system for mobile images

TLDR

The growing volume of personal digital media makes its management a pressing problem, and effective management requires content‑related metadata. This paper describes a content metadata creation process for images taken with a mobile phone. The process automates metadata creation by leveraging automatically available contextual phone data, applying similarity processing to reuse shared metadata and images on a remote server, and interacting with the user during capture to confirm and augment the supplied metadata, as demonstrated in a prototype system. The main findings show that the process can be implemented with current technology and facilitates the creation of semantic metadata at the time of image capture.

Abstract

The amount of personal digital media is increasing, and managing it has become a pressing problem. Effective management of media content is not possible without content-related metadata. In this paper we describe a content metadata creation process for images taken with a mobile phone. The design goals were to automate the creation of image content metadata by leveraging automatically available contextual metadata on the mobile phone, to use similarity processing algorithms for reusing shared metadata and images on a remote server, and to interact with the mobile phone user during image capture to confirm and augment the system supplied metadata. We built a prototype system to evaluate the designed metadata creation process. The main findings were that the creation process could be implemented with current technology and it facilitated the creation of semantic metadata at the time of image capture.