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Placing flickr photos on a map

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Pavel Serdyukov,

Vanessa Murdock,

Roelof van ZwolAuthors Info & Claims

SIGIR '09: Proceedings of the 32nd international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval

Pages 484 - 491

https://doi.org/10.1145/1571941.1572025

Published: 19 July 2009 Publication History

Abstract

In this paper we investigate generic methods for placing photos uploaded to Flickr on the World map. As primary input for our methods we use the textual annotations provided by the users to predict the single most probable location where the image was taken. Central to our approach is a language model based entirely on the annotations provided by users. We define extensions to improve over the language model using tag-based smoothing and cell-based smoothing, and leveraging spatial ambiguity. Further we demonstrate how to incorporate GeoNames\footnote{http://www.geonames.org visited May 2009}, a large external database of locations. For varying levels of granularity, we are able to place images on a map with at least twice the precision of the state-of-the-art reported in the literature.

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SIGIR '09: Proceedings of the 32nd international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval

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DOI:10.1145/1571941

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