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Constructing a SenseCam visual diary as a media process

Multimedia Systems volume 14, pages 341–349 (2008)Cite this article

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The SenseCam is a small wearable personal device which automatically captures up to 2,500 images per day. This yields a very large personal collection of images, or in a sense a large visual diary of a person’s day. Intelligent techniques are necessary for effective structuring, searching and browsing of this image collection for locating important or significant events in a person’s life. In this paper we identify three stages in the process of capturing and structuring SenseCam images and then displaying them to an end user to review. These stages are expressed in terms of the Canonical process stages to which they correlate.

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  1. Centre for Digital Video Processing and Adaptive Information Cluster, Dublin City University, Dublin, Ireland

    Hyowon Lee, Alan F. Smeaton, Noel E. O’Connor, Gareth Jones, Michael Blighe, Daragh Byrne, Aiden Doherty & Cathal Gurrin

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Lee, H., Smeaton, A.F., O’Connor, N.E. et al. Constructing a SenseCam visual diary as a media process. Multimedia Systems 14, 341–349 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00530-008-0129-x

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Keywords

  • Lifelogging
  • Image indexing
  • Content-based retrieval
  • Event segmentation
  • Media production
  • Interaction design