An algorithm to ensure spatial consistency in collaborative photo collections

Abstract

Ubiquity of digital capture devices and on-line sharing enable the emergence of new collaborative services, similar to Google Street view which would leverage on community contributed pictures. A key problem is to deal with the variable quality of spatial context meta data (geotagging) associated with these pictures. In this paper, we propose a solution to ensure spatial consistency in photo collections aggregated from distributed capture. © IFIP International Federation for Information Processing 2009.