People often take photos as memorabilia by capturing moments and people who
are together. Since photo browsing is an effective way to reminisce the
memories, people like to use photo collections as enjoyable presentations for
themselves or their friends. In addition, personal photo presentation is
often used for psychological therapies. In this poster, we present a novel
technique for reviewing personal lives and reminiscing memories through the
presentation of personal photos. The technique first applies time-varying
clustering to organize a person-tagged photo collection, and then it employs
the storyline visualization method to layout the clustering result. It
further divides photo collections into two levels applying a hierarchal
clustering algorithm and chooses important photos as representative ones of
each cluster by solving the knapsack problem. After these pre-processing
steps, the photo collection is ready for browsing through a GUI with
interactive level-of-detail control. Our technique effectively helps user to
understand what kind of events and persons exist in each aspect of the photo
owner's life by exploring the personal photo collection.