PhotoStuff - An Image Annotation Tool for the Semantic Web

Motivation Architecture Future Plans Release Information & Mailing List

Motivation

A variety of toolkits have been developed both commercially and in academia that provide the functionality to generate semantic metadata for the content on the Web. Currently, most existing toolkits provide an integrated environment to annotate only flat text on Web pages. However, we see the need to annotate additional media available on the Web as well. Given this motivation, we have developed PhotoStuff, a toolkit that provides users the ability to annotate regions of images with respect to an ontology and publish the automatically generated metadata to the Web. Below, two visualizations of the general idea behind PhotoStuff are provided.

Architecture

Future Plans

• Additional Media Types: Extending the toolkit to allow the annotation of both audio and video

Release Information

• Webstarts, downloads, and builds available on the PhotoStuff Downloads page.
• PhotoStuff User Guide, Quick Start Guide, Web Server Configuration
• A public PhotoStuff mailing list is available.