A Survey on Personal Image Retrieval Systems
This is an incremental survey for users struggling with image retrieval in personal collections.
The survey examines image retrieval techniques and photo-organizer applications to address the challenge of finding specific images in large personal photo repositories, highlighting their relative strengths.
The number of photographs taken worldwide is growing rapidly and steadily. While a small subset of these images is annotated and shared by users through social media platforms, due to the sheer number of images in personal photo repositories (shared or not shared), finding specific images remains challenging. This survey explores existing image retrieval techniques as well as photo-organizer applications to highlight their relative strengths in addressing this challenge.