TY - JOUR
T1 - Automatic tourist attraction and representative icon determination for tourist map generation
AU - Lin, Chao Hung
AU - Chen, Jyun Yuan
AU - Hsu, Shun Siang
AU - Chung, Yun Huan
N1 - Funding Information:
This paper was supported in part by the National Science Council, Taiwan (contracts NSC 101-2221-E-006-257-MY2 and 101-2119-M-006-005), and was supported in part by the Central Geological Survey, Ministry of Economic Affairs, Taiwan.
Copyright:
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PY - 2014/1
Y1 - 2014/1
N2 - Tourist maps are designed to direct tourists to tourist attractions in unfamiliar areas. A well-designed tourist map can provide tourists with sufficient and intuitive information about places of interest. Thus, providing upto- date information on places of interest and selecting their representative icons are fundamental and important in automatic generation of tourist maps. In this article, approaches for determining places of interest and for determining their representative icons are introduced. In contrast to general digital tourist maps that use text, simple shapes, or three-dimensional models, we use photos that offer abundant visual features of places of interest as icons in tourist maps. The photos are automatically extracted from a repository of photos downloaded from photo-sharing communities. Tourist attractions and their corresponding image icons are determined by means of photo voting and photo quality assessment. Qualitative analyses, including a user study and experiments in several areas with numerous tourist attractions, indicated that the proposed method can generate visually pleasant and elaborate tourist maps. In addition, the analyses indicated that the map produced by our method is better than maps generated by related methods and is comparable to handdesigned tourist maps.
AB - Tourist maps are designed to direct tourists to tourist attractions in unfamiliar areas. A well-designed tourist map can provide tourists with sufficient and intuitive information about places of interest. Thus, providing upto- date information on places of interest and selecting their representative icons are fundamental and important in automatic generation of tourist maps. In this article, approaches for determining places of interest and for determining their representative icons are introduced. In contrast to general digital tourist maps that use text, simple shapes, or three-dimensional models, we use photos that offer abundant visual features of places of interest as icons in tourist maps. The photos are automatically extracted from a repository of photos downloaded from photo-sharing communities. Tourist attractions and their corresponding image icons are determined by means of photo voting and photo quality assessment. Qualitative analyses, including a user study and experiments in several areas with numerous tourist attractions, indicated that the proposed method can generate visually pleasant and elaborate tourist maps. In addition, the analyses indicated that the map produced by our method is better than maps generated by related methods and is comparable to handdesigned tourist maps.
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U2 - 10.1177/1473871612472177
DO - 10.1177/1473871612472177
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84940294551
SN - 1473-8716
VL - 13
SP - 18
EP - 28
JO - Information Visualization
JF - Information Visualization
IS - 1
ER -