ASAP: A Synchronous Approach for Photo Sharing across Multiple Devices

Abstract

Digital photos have become increasingly common and popular in mobile communications. However, due to the distribution of these photos captured in various devices, there is a need to develop new technologies to facilitate the sharing of large image collections across these devices for users. In this paper, we propose A Synchronous Approach for Photo sharing across multiple devices (ASAP). The ASAP provides a hierarchical two-level synchronization scheme, namely image-level and region-level. In the ASAP, a user’s interaction with any device automatically leads to a series of synchronous updates in other devices. Thus, the ASAP simultaneously presents similar images across devices in a way that allows automatic synchronization of images based on user interactions. Experimental evaluations indicate that it is effective and useful to improve image browsing experience across devices for users.