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Many people take pictures of different city landmarks and post them to photo-sharing systems like Flickr. They also add tags and place photos in Flickr groups, created around particular themes. Using tags, other people can search for representative landmark images of places of interest. Searching for landmarks using tags results into many non-landmark photos and provides poor landmark summary for a city. In this paper we propose a new method to identify landmark photos using tags and social Flickr groups. In contrast to similar modern systems, our approach is also applicable when GPS-coordinates for photos are not available. Presented user study shows that the proposed method outperforms state-of-the-art systems for landmark finding.
This work was partially supported by the PHAROS (IST Contract No. 045035) and Tagora (FP6-2005-34721) projects funded by the European Commission under the 6th Framework Programme and Higher Education Commision of Pakistan by providing scholarship to Abbasi.
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Abbasi, R., Chernov, S., Nejdl, W., Paiu, R., Staab, S. (2009). Exploiting Flickr Tags and Groups for Finding Landmark Photos. In: Boughanem, M., Berrut, C., Mothe, J., Soule-Dupuy, C. (eds) Advances in Information Retrieval. ECIR 2009. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 5478. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-00958-7_62
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