Masaki Hilaga

The digitization of media has driven advances in networked applications and digital content delivery. This in turn has helped drive the popularization of digital cameras, camera phones and other mobile image capture devices. One byproduct of these trends can be seen in the way in which people interact with visual. Today, consumers expect more from imaging solutions. Being able to capture and preview immediately, edit and share their images with others in the global digital environment is something more and more people expect to be able to do with relatively little effort. In order to meet these consumer expectations, we need to develop technologies which make image creation easy. In a sense, we need to help users by providing them with a third professional eye for individuals that insures that their memories and images are captured for posterity.