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Travel route recommendation using geotagged photos

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We propose a travel route recommendation method that makes use of the photographers’ histories as held by social photo-sharing sites. Assuming that the collection of each photographer’s geotagged photos is a sequence of visited locations, photo-sharing sites are important sources for gathering the location histories of tourists. By following their location sequences, we can find representative and diverse travel routes that link key landmarks. Recommendations are performed by our photographer behavior model, which estimates the probability of a photographer visiting a landmark. We incorporate user preference and present location information into the probabilistic behavior model by combining topic models and Markov models. Based on the photographer behavior model, proposed route recommendation method outputs a set of personalized travel plans that match the user’s preference, present location, spare time and transportation means. We demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed method using an actual large-scale geotag dataset held by Flickr in terms of the prediction accuracy of travel behavior.

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  1. In this paper, all of the statistical tests were conducted using the R and R libraries at http://www.r-project.org/.

  2. Edit distance is also known as Levenshtein distance.

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    Takeshi Kurashima, Go Irie & Ko Fujimura

  2. NTT Communication Science Laboratories, NTT Corporation, Kyoto, Japan

    Tomoharu Iwata

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Kurashima, T., Iwata, T., Irie, G. et al. Travel route recommendation using geotagged photos. Knowl Inf Syst 37, 37–60 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10115-012-0580-z

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