GIANT: geo-informative attributes for location recognition and exploration

  • Authors:
  • Quan Fang;Jitao Sang;Changsheng Xu

  • Affiliations:
  • Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China;Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing , China;Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing , China

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 21st ACM international conference on Multimedia
  • Year:
  • 2013

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Abstract

This paper considers the problem of automatically discovering geo-informative attributes for location recognition and exploration. The attribute is expected to be both discriminative and representative, which corresponds to a distinctive visual pattern and associates with semantic interpretation. For solution, we analyze the attribute at region level. Each segmented region in the training set is assigned a binary latent variable indicating its discriminative capability. A latent learning framework is proposed for discriminative region detection and geo-informative attribute discovery. Moreover, we use user-generated content to obtain the semantic interpretation for the discovered visual attribute. The proposed approach are evaluated on one challenging dataset including GoogleStreetView and Flickr photos. Experimental results show that: (1) geo-informative attribute are discriminative and useful for location recognition; (2) the discovered semantic interpretation is meaningful and can be exploited for further explorations.