Paper Reading #20: iSlideShow: a content-aware slideshow system

Comments:
Michael Atkinson
Jaideep Balekar

Reference Info:

iSlideshow: a Content-Aware Slideshow System
Jiajian Chen, Jun Xiao, Yuli Gao

IUI '10 Proceedings of the 15th international conference on Intelligent user interfaces

Summary:
The paper discusses an intelligent slide show presentation system that analyzes information about the photo and uses it to generate transitions between them. The algorithm clusters pictures according to the content analyzed. It can tile them together to make a larger picture. The algorithms analyzes the flow of color from one edge to another to tie them in together.

Discussion:
I feel like this is a novelty program that is fun to play with but will not be used for any real purpose other than entertainment. It seems like one of those features that will be pushed aside after a while and its there but no one really uses it.