Mobile media metadata for mobile imaging

Camera phones offer a new platform for digital imaging that integrates capture, programmable processing, networking, and rich user interaction capabilities. This platform can support software that leverages the spatio-temporal context and social community of image capture and (re)use to infer media content. Our mobile media metadata prototype (MMM) uses a small custom client on the camera phone and its XHTML browser along with a metadata server to enable annotation at the time of image capture, leverage contextual metadata and networked metadata resources, and use iterative metadata refinement on the mobile imaging device.