June 30, 2011

Automatic photo tagging with TagSense smartphone app

The old adage says "a picture is worth a thousand words," but just exactly which words is the question. While facial recognition and GPS-enabled cameras have made tagging digital snapshots with names and locations much easier, a team of students from Duke University and the University of South Carolina has developed a smartphone app called TagSense that takes advantage of the range of multiple sensors on a mobile phone to automatically apply a greater variety of tags to photos.

Looking to make it easier for people to search and retrieve specific photos from their ever-growing digital

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