Automatic travel blog generator based on intelligent web platform and mobile applications

Abstract

It is very convenient to carry smartphones and take photos on the trip. With Apps installed in smartphones, users can easily share photos to friends on social networks. Huge amount of interesting photos are therefore accumulated through smartphones without facilities to manage these photos. We propose an integrated system that provides a mobile App for photographing on the trip, a desktop App for synchronizing photos with the web platform for sharing and organizing photos. While photographing, the web service recommends significant tags to photos and gets manual tags, the App transparently accumulates context-information for travel photos. Then, the desktop App facilitates users to collect and choose interesting photos for sharing and storing on the web platform. Finally, the system applies search engine and web mining techniques to extract textual sentences from pages that contain relevant information about photos for writing travel blogs easily and efficiently. © 2013 Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht.