With the advance of digital acquisition and storage technology, people got used
to take photos at will and to record almost any event with (many) photos. However, large
amounts of photos without appropriate organization for access and consumption raise
several potential problems, reducing the users’ quality of experience. Therefore, to facilitate
an effective photo selection and organization process making the consumption process
more enjoyable, it is useful to develop advanced image analysis and presentation tools,
eventually integrating also some music content in a synchronized way, to further boost the
photo presentation user experience. As people’s time is getting more precious and scarce,
the availability of applications able to automatically generate a musical slideshow as a
pleasant way to consume large amounts of photos is highly desirable. In this context, this
paper describes the context and motivation for the development of a musical slideshow
application, the architecture designed and the entire signal processing flow implemented. To
assess the performance of this multimedia application, a user evaluation methodology was
designed and applied with promising results, showing that the developed application is able
to create entertaining and efficient photo presentation experiences.