New smartphone app automatically tags photos: Sensors on location, surroundings, other phones nearby add context to a photo

Thursday, June 30, 2011 - 03:31 in Mathematics & Economics

So much for tagging photographs with names, locations and activities yourself -- a new cell phone application can take care of that for you. The system works by taking advantage of the multiple sensors on a mobile phone, as well as those of other mobile phones in the vicinity.

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