CroudSTag: Social group formation with facial recognition and mobile cloud services

Abstract

Social networks have become quite popular these days and the creation of social groups of people with common interests, results in sharing and collaborative relationships among the members. Besides, cloud computing and mobile computing domains have advanced rapidly and are the promising technologies for the near future. To bring the benefits from these different developments together, we tried to built an Android application, CroudSTag, which aids in forming social groups of common interest, from the mobile devices. The application obtains a set of pictures from a storage cloud, uses the face recognition cloud services to identify the people, and forms social groups on Facebook, a well known social network. The application is explained with detailed architectural and technological choices. The performance analysis of the application shows that the social groups can be formed with significant ease and reasonable performance latencies from the mobile devices. © 2011 Published by Elsevier Ltd.