Image Layout Reliability Scoring for Photo Albums
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Solution Overview
Problem
In creating photo albums, images with less reliable photographing date and time information are often excluded or handled with low priority, and manually rearranging images to include them is cumbersome for users, especially when this information is deleted due to data reduction or privacy concerns.
Innovation Solution
An information processing method and apparatus that obtain and score photographing date and time information, along with its reliability, to prioritize and layout images based on this information, while notifying users of images with low reliability, thereby automating the inclusion of high-priority images in the correct order without excessive user effort.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Manufacturing precision
If images with low reliability photographing date and time information are excluded from automatic layout, then layout accuracy is improved, but user convenience deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The system automatically evaluates the reliability of photographing date and time information for each image and performs self-correction by estimating reliable date and time data when reliability is low. This self-service mechanism allows the system to handle low-reliability images automatically without requiring user intervention, thus maintaining both layout accuracy and user convenience.
Solution Approach 2:
The system changes the parameter of photographing date and time information by estimating new date and time values when the original information has low reliability. This parameter change allows images with initially low-reliability metadata to be included in the automatic layout with corrected timing information, resolving the contradiction between excluding problematic images and maintaining user convenience.
2Ease of operation
If all images are included in automatic layout regardless of reliability, then user convenience is improved, but layout accuracy deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The system implements a feedback mechanism where it first evaluates the reliability of photographing date and time information for each image before including it in the automatic layout. This feedback loop ensures that only images with sufficient reliability (or those that have been successfully corrected through estimation) are included, maintaining layout accuracy while still allowing comprehensive image inclusion through automated quality control.
3Manufacturing precision
If manual rearrangement is required for images with low reliability information, then layout accuracy is improved, but user workload increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs self-service by automatically estimating photographing date and time information for images with low reliability metadata. This eliminates the need for manual user intervention to correct or rearrange such images, maintaining layout accuracy while significantly reducing user workload and time investment.
Solution Approach 2:
The system performs preliminary evaluation and correction of photographing date and time information before the actual layout process. By pre-estimating reliable date and time data for images with low reliability metadata, the system prepares the image set in advance, eliminating the need for subsequent manual rearrangement and reducing user workload.
Data Source
AI summary
An information processing method includes steps of obtaining a plurality of images and date and time information on the plurality of images, setting, for each of the plurality of images, reliability information indicating reliability of the date and time information as photographing date and time, scoring each of the plurality of images by analyzing, laying out at least a part of the plurality of images on a template based on the date and time information and a score obtained by the scoring, and notifying a message to a user based on the set reliability information. When an image that does not have photographing date and time information is obtained, low reliability information is set to the image. When the image is laid out on the template, the message is notified to a user based on the low reliability information.