This page is still work-in-progress. For now, it just shows a brief overview of my previous work.
Understanding the World via Geotagged Photos
At Yahoo!, we explored what type of information we can derive from Flickr geotagged images. We created Tag Maps / World Explorer as a new way to explore the world with geotagged images. We showed how to extract event and place semantics for Flickr tags, and suggested how one can create better search and representations for images of landmarks like the Golden Gate Bridge.
Organizing Personal Media
In my PhD, I have looked into organization of personal collections of photos. In particular, we tried to imagine the future of photo collection where photos are annotated with geographic location (imagine that!). Our early prototypes included PhotoCompas (organization) and LOCALE (sharing labels/tags between users).
Mobile Media
At Yahoo!, we attempted to drive the future of mobile media creation and consumption with prototypes like ZoneTag and Zurfer. Both were context-aware, interactive mobile applications that were used by 1000s of users worldwide.