Mobile crowd photographing: another way to watch our world

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People take and share pictures in the mobile network. Through collecting and computing pictures with built-in contexts, Mobile Crowd Photographing (MCP) can give us a new way to see this world. This paper focuses on participatory picture collection, which is one way of MCP. Three characteristic issues of MCP are proposed, and then our recent work to solve these issues will also be demonstrated.

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  1. School of Computer Science, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi’an, 710129, China

    Huihui Chen, Bin Guo, Zhiwen Yu & Xingshe Zhou

  2. School of Computer and Information Engineering, Luoyang Institute of Science and Technology, Luoyang, 471023, China

    Huihui Chen

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Chen, H., Guo, B., Yu, Z. et al. Mobile crowd photographing: another way to watch our world. Sci. China Inf. Sci. 59, 083101 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11432-016-5597-6

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Keywords

  • mobile crowd photographing
  • task-driven data collection
  • task definition
  • task assignment
  • data selection