Fannr – Flickr Annotator – was a prototype application for assisting users in annotating their Flickr photos. It was developed by Börkur Sigurbjörnsson at the Yahoo! Research Lab in Barcelona.
Two types of annotation support were provided when annotating a single photo.
- Tag recommendation, where the user is presented with a list of tags that they could consider adding to their photo.
- Location recommendation, where the user is presented with several potential locations as to help them remember where the photo was taken.
Both the tag-recommendation and the location recommendation were based on data from different social levels: the user’s own photos; the photos of the user’s contacts; everybody’s photos; and visually similar photos. Furthermore, for photos that had been localized the tag-recommendation was also based on geographically close-by photos.
When the user had identified tags that they wanted to add to their photos or identified the location where the photo was taken, the Fannr prototype updated the annotation on the Flickr website using the Flickr API.
Related Publications
. Flickr Tag Recommendation based on Collective Knowledge. Proceedings of the 17th International World Wide Web Conference (WWW’08). 2008. [more]