Dynamic, Flexible and Multi-dimensional Visualization of Digital Photos and their Metadata

Digital photos and their metadata get explosively growth, requiring better support to browsing them. We propose a dynamic and flexible visualization of digital photos and their metadata. A prototype is designed and implemented based on the algorithm of D-FLIP, our previous work for flexibly displaying a large photo collection. We design various dynamic photo visualizations with up to four-dimensional meta-information by using Bertin's visual variables and three-dimensional representation. It allows users to dynamically and effectively manage photo visualizations by selecting meta-information of user's current needs and interest.