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WWW
2008
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
Acquisition of a vernacular gazetteer from web sources
Vernacular place names are names that are commonly in use to refer to geographical places. For purposes of effective information retrieval, the spatial extent associated with thes...
Florian A. Twaroch, Christopher B. Jones, Alia I. ...
MM
2009
ACM
233views Multimedia» more  MM 2009»
14 years 7 hour ago
Enhancing semantic and geographic annotation of web images via logistic canonical correlation regression
Photo community sites such as Flickr and Picasa Web Album host a massive amount of personal photos with millions of new photos uploaded every month. These photos constitute an ove...
Liangliang Cao, Jie Yu, Jiebo Luo, Thomas S. Huang
AIRS
2004
Springer
14 years 22 days ago
A Bootstrapping Approach for Geographic Named Entity Annotation
Abstract. Geographic named entities can be classified into many subtypes that are useful for applications such as information extraction and question answering. In this paper, we ...
Seungwoo Lee, Gary Geunbae Lee
ICMCS
2005
IEEE
90views Multimedia» more  ICMCS 2005»
14 years 28 days ago
An Indexing System for Photos Based on Shooting Position and Orientation with Geographic Database
With the spread of digital cameras, shooting photos has been becoming an everyday affair. However, there are few methods or systems to manage photos simply, and a huge amount of ...
Kiyoko Iwasaki, Kazumasa Yamazawa, Naokazu Yokoya
JCDL
2004
ACM
151views Education» more  JCDL 2004»
14 years 23 days ago
Automatic organization for digital photographs with geographic coordinates
We describe PhotoCompas, a system that utilizes the time and location information embedded in digital photographs to automatically organize a personal photo collection. PhotoCompa...
Mor Naaman, Yee Jiun Song, Andreas Paepcke, Hector...