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TOG
2008
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14 years 8 months ago
Automatic generation of tourist maps
Tourist maps are essential resources for visitors to an unfamiliar city because they visually highlight landmarks and other points of interest. Yet, hand-designed maps are static ...
Floraine Grabler, Maneesh Agrawala, Robert W. Sumn...
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MM
2009
ACM
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15 years 3 months ago
Visual summaries of popular landmarks from community photo collections
We present a novel data-driven algorithm that leverages online image repositories such as Flickr for automatically generating tourist maps. Our hypothesis is that, given a large e...
Wei-Chao Chen, Agathe Battestini, Natasha Gelfand,...