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JACIII Vol.18 No.3 pp. 353-360
doi: 10.20965/jaciii.2014.p0353
(2014)

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Identification of Season-Dependent Sightseeing Spots Based on Metadata-Derived Features and Image Processing

Chia-Huang Chen and Yasufumi Takama

Graduate School of System Design, Tokyo Metropolitan University, 6-6 Asahigaoka, Hino, Tokyo 191-0065, Japan

Received:
October 15, 2013
Accepted:
January 31, 2014
Published:
May 20, 2014
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Keywords:
web mining, image classification, tourism informatics, season-dependent spot
Abstract
Sharing traveling experience and photos on Social Network Service or Web albums is more and more popular recently. Good sightseeing photos in specific situation such as sunset and spring season can impress tourists well, and be clues for them to consider where and when to visit for sightseeing. Regarding situations to be identified, this paper focuses on season. Compared with situations relating with weather and time of day (e.g., sunrise/sunset), whether or not different seasons have different scenery depends on sightseeing spots. Therefore, classifying sightseeing spots into season-dependent/independent is required as preprocessing for season-based classification of sightseeing photos. This paper proposes a hybrid approach for identifying season-dependent sightseeing spots, of which the first phase applies machine learning with statistical features of sightseeing photos obtained from metadata. In order to improve precision, the second phase applies color-based classification to spots identified as season-dependent in the first phase. The experimental results show the effectiveness of the proposed method.
Cite this article as:
C. Chen and Y. Takama, “Identification of Season-Dependent Sightseeing Spots Based on Metadata-Derived Features and Image Processing,” J. Adv. Comput. Intell. Intell. Inform., Vol.18 No.3, pp. 353-360, 2014.
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