Automatic Photo Tagging With TagSense App

We had earlier reported on our other website, about a new Android smartphone app that would help to create photo privacy for the people in the photo, by blurring faces and by removing EXIF metadata. However for those who aren’t so fussy about privacy, here is another smartphone app that looks to do a 180, by adding as many tags to the photo as possible.

The app is called TagSense which aims to take advantage of the range of multiple sensors on the smartphone, to automatically apply a greater variety of tags to photos. According to the creators, who are a team of students from Duke University and the University of South Carolina, the additional tags will aid in the searching and retrieval of photographs. For example through the use of the accelerometer, the app will be able to sense if a person is posing for a photo, dancing, bowling, eating, etc. Through the use of that data, whenever you want to go through your albums of photos, instead of having to go through them one by one, you can instead search for things that happen in the photo.

“So, for example, if you’ve taken a bunch of photographs at a party, it would be easy at a later date to search for just photographs of happy people dancing, or more specifically, what if you just wanted to find photographs only of Mary dancing at the party and didn’t want to look through all the photographs of Mary?”

Sounds pretty exciting, but at the moment it’s still a prototype, although the researchers behind the app believe that it could become a commercial product in a few years.