METHOD FOR AUTOMATIC STORYTELLING FOR PHOTO ALBUMS USING SOCIAL NETWORK CONTEXT

A method for automatically selecting and organizing a subset of photos from a set of photos provided by a user, who has an account on at least one social network providing some context, for creating a summarized photo album with a storytelling structure. The method comprises: arranging the set of photos into a three level hierarchy, acts, scenes and shots; checking whether photos are photos with people or not; obtaining an aesthetic measure of the photos; creating and ranking face clusters; selecting the most aesthetic photo of each face cluster; selecting photos with people until complete a predefined number of photos of the summarized album picking the ones which optimize the function:Of(C,C*,S,CSN)=αfAf(S)−γfd(HCharacter(S)HCharacter(C∪CSN)−δfd(HAct(S),HAct(C*));and then selecting non-people photos which minimize the following function Oa:Oa(C*,S)=d(HAct,(S),HAct(C*));ordering all the selected photos in chronological order; and finally discarding all the photos which have not been selected.