Urban tribes: Analyzing group photos from a social perspective

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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.

Original languageEnglish
JournalIEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Workshops
Pages (from-to)28-35
Number of pages8
ISSN2160-7508
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2012
Externally publishedYes
Event2012 IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Workshops, CVPRW 2012 - Providence, RI, United States
Duration: 16 Jun 201221 Jun 2012

Conference

Conference2012 IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Workshops, CVPRW 2012
CountryUnited States
CityProvidence, RI
Period16/06/201221/06/2012

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