Contents Science Lab

Project: Geo-regional similarity of social media photos

Travel destination recommendation is useful to support travel. Considering the recommendation of regions within the destination area to visit, it could be difficult for the users to explicitly indicate their preference. Therefore, we considered that it would be more intuitive to recommend regions in the destination area that are similar to a region already well-known to the user.

Thus, in this research, we analyze methods for the detection of similar geo-regions based on Visual Concepts in social photos.

Main project members

Hiroki Takimoto

Finished Master in AY2017

Lu Chen

Finished Master in AY2018

Recent publications

Detection of similar geo-regions based on visual concepts in social photos

Hiroki Takimoto, Magali Philippe, Yasutomo Kawanishi, Ichiro Ide, Takatsugu Hirayama, Keisuke Doman, Daisuke Deguchi, Hiroshi Murase
Advances in Multimedia Information Processing -PCM 2017, 18th Pacific-Rim Conference on Multimedia, Harbin, China, September 28-29, 2017, Revised Selected Papers Part I, B. Zeng, Q. Huang, A. El-Saddik, H. Li, S. Jiang, and X. Fan eds., Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol.10735, pp.497-504, Springer, June 2018.

Similar geo-region mining based on visual concepts in photos from social media (in Japanese)

Hiroki Takimoto, Yasutomo Kawanishi, Ichiro Ide, Takatsugu Hirayama, Keisuke Doman, Daisuke Deguchi, Hiroshi Murase
IEICE Tech. Rep. Media Experience and Virtual Environment, MVE2017-100, Okinawa Industry Support Center, March 2018.

Detection of similar geo-regions based on visual concepts in social photos

Hiroki Takimoto, Magali Philippe, Yasutomo Kawanishi, Ichiro Ide, Takatsugu Hirayama, Keisuke Doman, Daisuke Deguchi, Hiroshi Murase
2017 Pacific-rim Conf. on Multimedia, Crowne Plaza Harbin Songbei Hotel (Harbin, Heilongjiang, China), September 2017.

A study for applications of the detection method of similar geo-regions based on photographic contents (in Japanese)

Hiroki Takimoto, Yasutomo Kawanishi, Ichiro Ide, Takatsugu Hirayama, Keisuke Doman, Daisuke Deguchi, Hiroshi Murase
IEICE Tech. Rep. Multimedia and Virtual Environment, MVE2016-11, Lake Shikotsu Marukoma Onsen, October 2016.

A study on the calculation of geo-regional similarity based on the contents of social photos (in Japanese)

Hiroki Takimoto, Yasutomo Kawanishi, Ichiro Ide, Takatsugu Hirayama, Keisuke Doman, Daisuke Deguchi, Hiroshi Murase
IEICE Tech. Rep. Multimedia and Virtual Environment, MVE2016-4; MVE Award, Iwate Prefectural Univ Aiina Campus, June 2016.