A visual analysis of the relationship between word concepts and geographical locations
Published 8 July 2009
Keiji Yanai, Hidetoshi Kawakubo, Bingyu Qiu
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A novel method to select representative photographs for regions in the worldwide dimensions, which helps detect cultural differences over the world regarding word concepts with high geo-location entropy is proposed.
Abstract
In this paper, we describe two methods to analyze the relationship between word concepts and geographical locations by using a large amount of geotagged images on the photo sharing Web sites such as Flickr.
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