PHOcus: Efficiently Archiving Photos

Summary: PHOcus optimizes photo archiving under an online storage budget—selects photos by usage, size/quality, relevance, and similarity. Formalizes problem, provides efficient algorithm with optimal guarantee, validates on e-commerce and mobile photo settings. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 13037
Venue: VLDB
Year: 2022
Pagerank: 5.6081446e-05
Overall Rank: 7,478 | 48.70%
DOI: 10.14778/3554821.3554861

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Authors

1. Susan B. Davidson (University of Pennsylvania)
2. Shay Gershtein (Tel Aviv University)
3. Tova Milo (Tel Aviv University)
4. Slava Novgorodov (Tel Aviv University)
5. May Shoshan (Tel Aviv University)

BibTeX Citation

@article{davidson_vldb22,
        title = {{PHOcus: Efficiently Archiving Photos}},
        author = {Davidson, Susan B. and Gershtein, Shay and Milo, Tova and Novgorodov, Slava and Shoshan, May},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '22},
        volume = {15},
        number = {12},
        pages = {3630--3633},
        doi = {10.14778/3554821.3554861},
        url = {https://doi.org/10.14778/3554821.3554861},
        year = {2022}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

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Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
10,404	Stochastic Submodular Data Forgetting	2026	SIGMOD	5.093636e-05
11,063	New Trends in Data Forgetting for Sustainable Data Management	2025	VLDB	5.093636e-05

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