With the rapid growth of digital photography, sharing of photos with friends and family has become very popular. When people\r\nshare their photos, they usually organize them into albums according to events or places. To tell the story of some important events\r\nin oneââ?¬â?¢s life, it is desirable to have an efficient summarization tool which can help people to receive a quick overview of an album\r\ncontaining large number of photos. In this paper, we present and analyze an approach for photo album summarization through\r\na novel social game ââ?¬Å?Epitomeââ?¬Â as a Facebook application. This social game can collect research data, and, at the same time, it\r\nprovides a collage or a cover photo of the userââ?¬â?¢s photo album, while the user enjoys playing the game. The proof of concept of\r\nthe proposed method is demonstrated through a set of experiments on several photo albums. As a benchmark comparison to this\r\ngame, we perform automatic visual analysis considering several state-of-the-art features.We also evaluate the usability of the game\r\nby making use of a questionnaire on several subjects who played the ââ?¬Å?Epitomeââ?¬Â game. Furthermore, we address privacy issues\r\nconcerning shared photos in Facebook applications.
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