@inproceedings{www2009167,
       booktitle = {18th International World Wide Web Conference},
           month = {April},
           title = {Mining Cultural Differences from a Large Number of Geotagged Photos},
          author = {Keiji Yanai and Bingyu Qiu},
            year = {2009},
           pages = {1173--1173},
             url = {http://www2009.eprints.org/167/},
        abstract = {We propose a novel method to detect cultural differences over the world automatically by using a large amount of geotagged images on the photo sharing Web sites such as Flickr. We employ the state-of-the-art object recognition technique developed in the research community of computer vision to mine representative photos of the given concept for representative local regions from a large-scale unorganized collection of consumer-generated geotagged photos. The results help us understand how objects, scenes or events corresponding to the same given concept are visually different depending on local regions over the world. }
}