Title :
Crowdsourcing What Is Where: Community-Contributed Photos as Volunteered Geographic Information
Author_Institution :
Univ. of California at Merced, Merced, CA, USA
Abstract :
Leveraging large collections of georeferenced, community-contributed photographs can help solve three knowledge-discovery problems: annotating novel images, annotating geographic locations, and performing geographic discovery.
Keywords :
data mining; geographic information systems; image retrieval; community-contributed photographs; crowdsourcing; geographic discovery; geographic location annotation; image anotation; knowledge-discovery problems; volunteered geographic information; Georeferenced photographs; multimedia and graphics; volunteered geographic information;
Journal_Title :
MultiMedia, IEEE
DOI :
10.1109/MMUL.2010.79
