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Report: Context & Digital Photo Collections (MMC-Workshop in Aachen)

Today the Workshop on “Multimedia Metadata – The Role of Semantics” started in Aachen, Germany. Currently the keynote presentation of Susanne Boll from Oldenburg University takes place. Susanne speaks about the necessity of taking the context of digital photos into account while analyzing photos and extracting metadata. She also gave examples: While indoor / outdoor classification is quite a challenging task, the combination of EXIF information (context dealing with flash, shutter speed, shooting mode, focal length, etc. ) with the content analysis yields quite good results.

The talk of Susanne shows the direction where multimedia research should (also) go. The integration of the user is necessary as it is the driving force of the quite successful Web 2.0 movement.