Event detection from flickr data through wavelet-based spatial analysis
Published 2 November 2009
Ling Chen, Abhishek Roy
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The effort in detecting events from Flickr photos by exploiting the tags supplied by users to annotate photos is presented, where a wavelet transform is employed to suppress noise and tags related with events are identified.
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Detecting events from web resources has attracted increasing
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