Semantic Web

CSCI 8350 for Fall 2005.

Cuadro: A semantic photo sharing community
Members: Haibo Zhao, Pablo N. Mendes

Project Description

It is always not an easy job to manage and share a large number of photos, but it is very common that many people have hundreds even thousands of digital photos. Cuadro is a good way to store, sort, search and share your photos online. By cuadro, uses can easily organize and share their huge number of photos with their family and friends, or the whole world if they want.

Cuadro provides an integrated environment to annotate photos by generating semantic metadata of photos. Semantics is introduced into this application so that we can better describe all these photos and organize them by relationships. This means much more than just holding a digital image in a server and showing it on a web browser for users. Cuadro intuitive photo sharing system helps the user to describe the meaning of the photo contents, allowing for organizing and searching pictures based on the meaning of its contents, not only on the name the user gave it.

The system enables the association of photo descriptions with a computer interpretable representation capable of expressing the conceptual relations between entities in the real world. By navigating through the conceptual relations, the system can automate basic steps on picture description, sharing and interlinking, bringing live the real community.

A Demo interface: http://www.cs.uga.edu/~mendes/csci8350/cuadro/

A Running Demo: http://128.192.4.165:8080/cuadro/