![]() In short, deduplication can be improved in many ways – the suggestions above are just a starting point for creative developers to consider. If you are working on a game-changing deduplication solution, let me know – I’m all ears! A few more things… With phone storage space limited (plus, as we reported earlier, most consumers apparently not going through the effort to take photos off their phone, presumably, until they run out of space), wouldn’t it be nice if duplicates or lesser quality similar photos were by default archived to the cloud and available on demand if the user ever wished to see them? sent to them from two different apps or services)? Wouldn’t the consumer want to view all photos that are shared with them in one photo organizing gallery, without duplicates or lesser quality similar photos cluttering the view? Most solutions identify duplicate images by comparing fingerprint-like “image hashes.” But what if the user takes a burst of photos that are each slightly different? Shouldn’t they still be qualified as “duplicates?” If so, which one is then “the best one” to display so that the user doesn’t need to see all 10 versions in their gallery? Defining “ similar” rather than identical photos and subsequently needing to determine the best ones gets a lot more complicated, requiring AI-based and context-aware algorithms.Īnd what if several versions of the same image have landed in the user’s gallery coming from different sources (e.g. Consequently, deduplication has only made baby steps forward compared to where we were 5+ years ago. While deduplication is the most important feature that consumers desire in photo organizing apps or services, it is not a feature like face or object recognition that draws media attention, nor is it one that could easily be monetized. That’s exactly why we wanted to do a reality check to see how and why today’s consumers take, store, back up or archive their smartphone photos. ( How often did we hear just a few years ago that smartphone photos weren’t good enough for anyone but young millennials?) ![]() When you engage frequently with cutting edge photo app, device, or storage developers, it is easy to be swayed toward thinking that the behavior of early technology adopters has already become mainstream. On the other end, digging our heels in and assuming that mainstream consumers still do things the old way, is a dangerous assumption as well. Not having enough space on the phone or the need to share photos in an easy way was less often cited as (extremely) important reasons to use the cloud.įinal thoughts It’s easy to mistake consumers for either earlier or later adopters than they in fact are On a 5-step scale from totally unimportant to extremely important, the ability to back up photos in the cloud is most frequently considered important or extremely important, followed by the ability to aggregate one’s photos in an easy or automatic way and the option to access all one’s photos from any device. Today, I’d like to share the findings that relate to how and why consumers store their smartphone photos on cloud services or home storage devices, as well as what features they most value in photo organizing apps or services. Most consumers hoard their photos on their smartphone: they keep most of their photos on their phone for an extended period of time.Even with ephemeral visual communication rapidly gaining popularity, most respondents still believe that most of their photos are long life photos (“keepers”).The median number of photos that consumers believe they take per month is remarkably similar to what it was 1.5 years ago – it is neither plummeting nor ballooning.In the first part of this two installment piece, we reported on the following findings from our latest survey among 458 North American smartphone photographers:
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