Are safer looking neighborhoods more lively? A multimodal investigation into urban life

MM 2016 - Proceedings of the 2016 ACM Multimedia Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2016, Pages 1127-1135

  De Nadai, Marco ^a   Vieriu, Radu L ^a   Zen, Gloria ^a   Dragicevic, Stefan ^a   Naik, Nikhil ^b   Caraviello, Michele ^c   Hidalgo, Cesar A ^b   Sebe, Nicu ^a   Lepri, Bruno ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TRENTO   (Italy)

^b MIT MEDIA LAB   (United States)

^c TIM SKIL   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NEURAL NETWORKS;

CONVOLUTIONAL NEURAL NETWORK; HUMAN ACTIVITIES; MOBILE PHONE DATUM; OCCLUSION TECHNIQUE; POPULATION DENSITIES; URBAN FEATURES; URBAN PLANNERS; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

POPULATION STATISTICS;

EID: 84994666228     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2964284.2964312     Document Type: Conference Paper

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