Semantic Photo Album Based on MPEG-4 Compatible Application Format

In this paper, we propose a promising photo album system that enables augmented use of digital photos over a wide range of multimedia devices and semantic consumption of photos as well. The proposed system contains an album engine to create metadata and a photo player to consume the photos. It operates based on a standardized application format to encode a group of photos and associated metadata. Experiments showed that the proposed system achieved reasonable albuming performance.