VirtualTour: An online travel assistant based on high quality images

Feng Jing, Lei Zhang, Wei-Ying Ma

Research output: Chapters, Conference Papers, Creative and Literary WorksRGC 32 - Refereed conference paper (with host publication)peer-review

30 Citations (Scopus)

Abstract

With the popularity of both travel and Web, more and more people use online travel services to facilitate their travel activities or share their travel experiences. Considering that existing services emphasize more on the textual content with the pictorial content only as supplement, we propose the VirtualTour system. It is an online travel service dedicated on high quality images, which helps travelers plan their trip. The images of VirtualTour are from photo forum sites. They have rich and accurate metadata which could be used to extract geographic location information of them and assess the quality of them. A representative sights identification algorithm is also proposed to automatically identify the possible related sights of a region. Based on the map services that seamlessly integrated into the system, a wieldy UI is designed to support several useful features, e.g. query by map, location or path.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings of the 14th Annual ACM International Conference on Multimedia, MM 2006
Pages599-602
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2006
Externally publishedYes
Event14th Annual ACM International Conference on Multimedia, MM 2006 - Santa Barbara, CA, United States
Duration: 23 Oct 200627 Oct 2006

Publication series

NameProceedings of the 14th Annual ACM International Conference on Multimedia, MM 2006

Conference

Conference14th Annual ACM International Conference on Multimedia, MM 2006
PlaceUnited States
CitySanta Barbara, CA
Period23/10/0627/10/06

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Research Keywords

  • High quality image search
  • Representative sights identification
  • Travel assistant
  • User interface design

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