Detecting recurring events in consumer image collections

摘要

A method of detecting recurring events in a digital image collection taken over a pre-determined period of time is disclosed. The method uses a processor for analyzing the digital image collection to produce a two-dimensional representation of the distribution of image capture activity over time and detecting recurring events by identifying spatial clusters in the two-dimensional representation.

主权项

1. A method to detect recurring events in a digital image collection, comprising:
identifying events in a collection of digital images, each event comprising at least one digital image, each digital image having capture time metadata; characterizing the identified events in a multi-dimensional representation including a representation having a first time axis and a second time axis that is different from the first time axis based, at least in part, on a distribution of the identified events' digital images' capture times; and identifying one or more recurring events from the identified events based, at least in part, on a spatial clustering analysis of the multi-dimensional representation of the events.