New Smartphone App Tags Photos Automatically

Students from Duke University and the University of South Carolina have developed a smartphone app that they say automatically tags photos. Technorati reports.

The app, called TagSense, offers “greater sophistication” in tagging photos than Apple’s iPhoto and Google’s Picasa.

“In our system, when you take a picture with a phone, at the same time it senses the people and the context by gathering information from all the other phones in the area,” Xuan Bao, a doctoral student in computer science at Duke, said in a university news release.

The app currently is a prototype. Researchers said a public version of the app could be available in a few years.

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emily | 1:53 PM | Cell Phone apps |
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