Automated event clustering and quality screening of consumer pictures for digital albuming

IEEE Transactions on Multimedia

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 390-402

  Lotti, Alexander C ^a   Savakis, Andreas ^b  

^a EASTMAN KODAK COMPANY   (United States)

^b Kate Gleason College of Engineering   (United States)

Author keywords

Digital albuming; Event clustering; Image indexing; Image quality

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; CORRELATION METHODS; DATABASE SYSTEMS; IMAGE QUALITY; METADATA; OBJECT RECOGNITION; PHOTOGRAPHY;

CONSUMER PHOTOGRAPHS; DIGITAL ALBUMING; EVENT CLUSTERING; IMAGE INDEXING;

IMAGE ANALYSIS;

EID: 0042913166     PISSN: 15209210     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMM.2003.814723     Document Type: Article

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