Mining cultural differences from a large number of geotagged photos

  • Authors:
  • Keiji Yanai;Bingyu Qiu

  • Affiliations:
  • The University of Electro-Communications, Tokyo, Japan;Beijing University of Posts and Technology, Beijing, China

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 18th international conference on World wide web
  • Year:
  • 2009

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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 sharingWeb 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.