Automatic selection of digital images from a multi-sourced collection of digital images

摘要

Described herein are techniques related to automatic selection of one or more digital images from a set of digital images collected from multiple image sources, such as such as digital cameras and camera-equipped mobile phones. The automatic selection is based, at least in part, upon various weighted criteria regarding properties (e.g., metadata or content) of the digital images. The automatic selection and other aspects of the techniques described herein can be performed, at least in part, in or by the so-called cloud. This Abstract is submitted with the understanding that it will not be used to interpret or limit the scope or meaning of the claims.

主权项

1. A method comprising:
obtaining a set of digital images from multiple different image-capturing apparatuses; clustering the set of digital images into multiple clusters; selecting, based upon weighted selection criteria, at least one subset of digital images of the set, the selected at least one subset of digital images including digital images from at least two of the multiple clusters; sending the selected subset of digital images to a computing apparatus communicatively coupled to a cloud computing infrastructure; attaining feedback regarding user-acceptability of the selected subset of digital images; and in response to attained feedback indicating a lack of user-acceptability of the selected subset of digital images, performing a reweighted selection of at least one updated subset of digital images of the set, wherein the attained feedback is at least one of a user initiated addition of a digital image to the selected subset of digital images or a user initiated removal of a digital image from the selected subset of digital images.