title: Mining Cultural Differences from a Large Number of Geotagged Photos
creator: Yanai, Keiji
creator: Qiu, Bingyu
description: 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. 
date: 2009-04
type: Conference or Workshop Item
type: PeerReviewed
format: application/pdf
identifier: http://www2009.eprints.org/167/1/p1173.pdf
identifier: Yanai, Keiji <http://www2009.eprints.org/view/author/Yanai=3AKeiji=3A=3A.html> and Qiu, Bingyu <http://www2009.eprints.org/view/author/Qiu=3ABingyu=3A=3A.html> (2009) Mining Cultural Differences from a Large Number of Geotagged Photos. In: 18th International World Wide Web Conference, April 20th-24th, 2009, Madrid, Spain.
relation: http://www2009.eprints.org/167/