Vision-based real estate price estimation

Machine Vision and Applications

Volumn 29, Issue 4, 2018, Pages 667-676

  Poursaeed, Omid ^a   Matera, Tomáš ^b   Belongie, Serge ^b,c  

^a Cornell University   (United States)

^b Cornell Tech ^*  (United States)

^c Department of Computer Science and School of Operations Research and Information Engineering   (United States)

Author keywords

Automated valuation method; Computer vision; Convolutional neural networks; Crowdsourcing; Real estate

Indexed keywords

COMMERCE; COMPUTER VISION; CONVOLUTION; CROWDSOURCING; DEEP NEURAL NETWORKS; HOUSES; NEURAL NETWORKS;

AUTOMATIC ESTIMATION; CONVOLUTIONAL NEURAL NETWORK; DEEP CONVOLUTIONAL NEURAL NETWORKS; PRICE ESTIMATION; REAL ESTATE; REAL ESTATE PRICES; VALUATION METHODS; VALUE ASSESSMENT;

COST ESTIMATING;

EID: 85044739259     PISSN: 09328092     EISSN: 14321769     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00138-018-0922-2     Document Type: Article

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