Personalized representative image selection for shared photo albums

In this paper, we present a novel method for personalizing the representative image selection using visual modeling and user statistics. For a given shared image album, a set of images that have the highest interest for a single user are determined. A personalized visual model is created using the given “interest set” to be able to select the most representative image(s) for that user from that album. The experiments show satisfactory performance in the task of representative image selection.