TY - GEN

T1 - Urban tribes

T2 - 2012 IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Workshops, CVPRW 2012

AU - Murillo, Ana C.

AU - Kwak, Iljung S.

AU - Bourdev, Lubomir

AU - Kriegman, David

AU - Belongie, Serge

PY - 2012

Y1 - 2012

N2 - The explosive growth in image sharing via social networks has produced exciting opportunities for the computer vision community in areas including face, text, product and scene recognition. In this work we turn our attention to group photos of people and ask the question: what can we determine about the social subculture or urban tribe to which these people belong? To this end, we propose a framework employing low- and mid-level features to capture the visual attributes distinctive to a variety of urban tribes. We proceed in a semi-supervised manner, employing a metric that allows us to extrapolate from a small number of pairwise image similarities to induce a set of groups that visually correspond to familiar urban tribes such as biker, hipster or goth. Automatic recognition of such information in group photos offers the potential to improve recommendation services, context sensitive advertising and other social analysis applications. We present promising preliminary experimental results that demonstrate our ability to categorize group photos in a socially meaningful manner.

AB - The explosive growth in image sharing via social networks has produced exciting opportunities for the computer vision community in areas including face, text, product and scene recognition. In this work we turn our attention to group photos of people and ask the question: what can we determine about the social subculture or urban tribe to which these people belong? To this end, we propose a framework employing low- and mid-level features to capture the visual attributes distinctive to a variety of urban tribes. We proceed in a semi-supervised manner, employing a metric that allows us to extrapolate from a small number of pairwise image similarities to induce a set of groups that visually correspond to familiar urban tribes such as biker, hipster or goth. Automatic recognition of such information in group photos offers the potential to improve recommendation services, context sensitive advertising and other social analysis applications. We present promising preliminary experimental results that demonstrate our ability to categorize group photos in a socially meaningful manner.

UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84864974234&partnerID=8YFLogxK

U2 - 10.1109/CVPRW.2012.6239352

DO - 10.1109/CVPRW.2012.6239352

M3 - Conference article

AN - SCOPUS:84864974234

SP - 28

EP - 35

JO - IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Workshops

JF - IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Workshops

SN - 2160-7508

Y2 - 16 June 2012 through 21 June 2012

ER -