A study by Yahoo predicted that as many
as 880 billion photographs will be taken
in 2014 with a large proportion of those
pictures people took of themselves.
The Oxford Dictionary describes the pro-
cess for people to take pictures of them-
selves via smart phones camera or web-
cam PC as “Selfie”, a term adopted by
the famous English Dictionary after the
widespread use of the term, particularly
on the Internet.
A report of the France Press Agency fac-
tors the spread of smartphones equipped
with a camera and the ease of posting
photos on social networks has helped
in increasing numbers of images cap-
tured by the persons themselves, and
the increasing numbers of pictures taken
around the world.
Apple was awarded a patent for a new sys-
tem that allows voice-based image search
and tagging to let Apple devices users tag
and search their images just by using natu-
ral language.
Apple stated that the growing volume of
digital photographs saved on devices
like iPhone makes it difficult to search
for a specific photo, hence, enabling
voice-based search using voice or writ-
ten tags will ease the search process.
As an example, the company said that a
user could tag a photograph for himself
captured on the beach by saying: “This
is me at the beach” and the system
would identify the place and the user in
the photograph. Once the photograph
is tagged using this method, other simi-
lar photographs may be automatically
tagged with the same information.
Snapchat users now share more than 400 million
snaps each day, surpassing the daily photo-shar-
ing activity on Facebook by 50 million. Meanwhile,
the average of Instagram’s photo upload reached
around 55 million photos each day.
400 million photos via
Snapchat each day
Smart phones to cap-
ture 880 billion photos
in 2014
Locate your photo on
iPhone using voice com-
mand
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February
2014
