Audio travel podcasts are a valuable source of information for travelers. Yet, travel is, in
many ways, a visual experience and the lack of visuals in travel podcasts can make it difficult …

We have witnessed the popularity of image-sharing websites for sharing personal
experiences through photos on the Web. These websites allow users describing the content …

We propose a novel algorithm for uncovering the colloquial boundaries of locally
characterizing regions present in collections of labeled geospatial data. We address the …

This paper presents Near2me, a prototype system implementing a travel recommender
concept that generates recommendations that are not only personalized, but also authentic …

We propose an approach to automatically select a set of representative images to generate
a concise visual summary of a real-world event from the Tumblr microblogging platform …

In this work we deal with the problem of summarizing image collections that correspond to a
single event each. For this, we adopt a clustering-based approach, and we perform a …

Points of interest are an important requirement for location-based services, yet they are
editorially curated and maintained, either professionally or through community. Beyond the …

In this paper we address the issue of optimizing the actual social photo retrieval technology
in terms of users' requirements. Typical users are interested in taking possession of …

Representative images generation offers a comprehensive knowledge for landmark and is a
hot research area recent years. This paper presents a representative images generation …

The needs and expectations regarding multimedia content access have grown rapidly with
the fast development of multimedia technology and the explosion of multimedia content …