Extractable mobile photo tags

Mobile phones are resulting in a major shift in how people shoot photos. Just a little more than a decade ago consumer behavior was plan-shoot-process-share-organize-reflect; but rapid proliferation of mobile phone cameras have resulted in shoot-share-forget behavior. This trend will be replaced soon because photos are more important than that - people treasure their memories in visual form. Fortunately, a plethora of sensors combined with access to powerful Web may allow effortless organize and reflect environment without much, if any, cognitive load on the consumer. We propose new approaches for determining attributes that we call Extractable Mobile Photo Tags (EMPT) for processing and organizing photos and videos on mobile phones. We present approaches to populate EMPT and use it for applications.