Content-Based Photo Album Management Using Faces

Abstract

SynonymsPhoto album management;Digital photo albumDefinitionThe system automatically detects and stores information about the locations of faces in the photos.Photo album management, an application of content-based image browsing/retrieval, has attracted attention in recent years. Identities of individuals appearing in the photos are the most important aspect for photo browsing. However, face recognition generally does not work effectively in this case due to the large variations in pose, illumination and sometimes poor quality of images. In this paper, we present a system for browsing photo albums. A similarity function based on face arrangement is defined. Photos are then clustered based on the similarity function using a clustering algorithm proposed in this paper. The system also represents photos of an event using a composite image. The composite image is built from representative faces and an image that represents the event. Experiments indicate that the face ar ...