SmartPhoto: A resource-aware crowdsourcing approach for image sensing with smartphones

Yi Wang, Wenjie Hu, Yibo Wu, Guohong Cao

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Abstract

Photos obtained via crowdsourcing can be used in many critical applications. Due to the limitations of communication bandwidth, storage and processing capability, it is a challenge to transfer the huge amount of crowdsourced photos. To address this problem, we propose a framework, called SmartPhoto, to quantify the quality (utility) of crowd-sourced photos based on the accessible geographical and geo-metrical information (called metadata) including the smart-phone's orientation, position and all related parameters of the built-in camera. From the metadata, we can infer where and how the photo is taken, and then only transmit the most useful photos. Three optimization problems regarding the tradeoffs between photo utility and resource constraints, namely the Max-Utility problem, the online Max-Utility problem and the Min-Selection problem, are studied. Efficient algorithms are proposed and their performance bounds are theoretically proved. We have implemented SmartPhoto in a testbed using Android based smart-phones, and proposed techniques to improve the accuracy of the collected metadata by reducing sensor reading errors and solving object occlusion issues. Results based on real implementations and extensive simulations demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed algorithms.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publicationMobiHoc 2014 - Proceedings of the 15th ACM International Symposium on Mobile Ad Hoc Networking and Computing
PublisherAssociation for Computing Machinery
Pages113-122
Number of pages10
ISBN (Electronic)9781450326209
DOIs
StatePublished - Aug 11 2014
Event15th ACM International Symposium on Mobile Ad Hoc Networking and Computing, MobiHoc 2014 - Philadelphia, United States
Duration: Aug 11 2014Aug 14 2014

Publication series

NameProceedings of the International Symposium on Mobile Ad Hoc Networking and Computing (MobiHoc)
Volume11-14-August-2014

Other

Other15th ACM International Symposium on Mobile Ad Hoc Networking and Computing, MobiHoc 2014
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityPhiladelphia
Period8/11/148/14/14

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

  • Software
  • Hardware and Architecture
  • Computer Networks and Communications

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