GPS estimation for places of interest from social users' uploaded photos

IEEE Transactions on Multimedia

Volumn 15, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 2058-2071

  Li, Jing ^a   Qian, Xueming ^a   Tang, Yuan Yan ^b   Yang, Linjun ^c   Mei, Tao ^c  

^a XI'AN JIAOTONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MACAU   (Macao)

^c MICROSOFT RESEARCH ASIA   (China)

Author keywords

BoW; GPS Estimation; Hierarchical Structure; Inverted File Structure; K NN; Social Media; User

Indexed keywords

BOW; HIERARCHICAL STRUCTURES; INVERTED FILES; K-NN; SOCIAL MEDIA; USER;

ESTIMATION; FEATURE EXTRACTION; IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM;

EID: 84888389520     PISSN: 15209210     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMM.2013.2280127     Document Type: Article

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