This page is about demos and systems I have built or took
part in building.
PhotoCompas, 2003
PhotoCompas was one of the first online systems that explored
the potential of photo browsers in a future where digital photos were
associated with the exact location,
as well as time, of their capture. PhotoCompas (described
here) took a first pass at automatically organizing the
photo collections for the users.
The live demo might just be dead, in which case refer to the
video below.
Instructions:
When you
click on a label some category, the photos are restricted to the set
defined by the label. Each further click restricts the set more. For
example, click on United States and then Light Rain to see all my
photos taken in light rain condition in the US.
Known issues:
the dimensions on some of the thumbnails are wrong (I
am not that fat). Detailed location names are only available for the
United States.
All photos in the demo were automatically stamped with time
and location coordinates (via
GPS, camera timestamps, and special software). The collection
is displayed using the Flamenco
toolkit
from UC Berkeley. The prototype was not optimized for rich interaction,
but rather for demostration of the organization and metadata
capabilities.