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Showing 1 to 20 of 36 for “"Flickr"”.
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Reading Clouds: An Analysis of Group Tag Clouds on Flickr
… of this thesis investigated social tagging on Flickr, examined several collectively produced tag clouds on the Web site, and analyzed the discourses generated by, and generating, the tags displayed in these tag clouds. By applying a semiotic analysis, this thesis found that tag clouds are sign …
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Analysis of spatio-social relations in a photographic archive (Flickr)
… of spatio-social data used in this work is Flickr. Flickr is a yahoo photo sharing site. Users have a social network of friends and a collection of photos on their profiles. According to available statistics1 the Flickr database contains more than three billion photos, out of which a hundred …
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Motivations to Upload and Tag Images vs. Tagging Practice: An Investigation of the Web 2.0 Site Flickr
… of these digital images are being uploaded to Flickr, one of the most popular of the new web 2.0 image management and sharing applications. Flickr supports secure storage, sharing, online communities, and tagging. Tagging is intended to aid with the organisation, description, and retrieval of …
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Localizing the media, locating ourselves: a critical comparative analysis of socio-spatial sorting in locative media platforms (Google AND Flickr 2009-2011)
… current location-enabled platforms: Google and Flickr. Drawing from the medium-specific approach to media analysis characteristic of the subfield of Software Studies, together with the methodological apparatus of Cultural Analytics (data mining and visualization methods), the thesis focuses on …
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Photo engagement: how presentation and content of images impact their engagement and diffusion
… goal, I study the image sharing communities, Flickr, Instagram and Pinterest, using quantitative and qualitative methods. First, I show how colors -- a fundamental property of an image -- could impact the virality of an image on Pinterest. I consider three dimensions of color: hue, saturation …
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Framework for policy aware reuse of content on the WWW
… on CC attribution license violations on Flickr images revealed the attribution license violation rate on the Web to be around 70-90% from samples of Websites that had at least one embedded Flickr image. Therefore, it is evident that there should be robust mechanisms for detecting license …
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Exploiting Social Networks for Recommendation in Online Image Sharing Systems
… large web-scale image sharing systems like Flickr, Picasa Web, Facebook and others for image recommendation. I have shown how such systems can be significantly improved through personalisation that takes into account the social context of users by modelling their interactions by mining data, …
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Datasets, features, learning, and models in visual recognition
… knowledge resources (Wikipedia pages for text; Flickr and Caltech data sets for images). The resources provide rich text and object appearance information. This dissertation describes results on two datasets. The first is Berg’s collection of 10 animal categories; on this dataset, we significantly …
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On recommendations in heterogeneous social media networks
… of scenarios. Many social media sites such as Flickr or YouTube contain multimedia objects, which occur in the context of an extensive amount of content information such as tags, image content, in addition to the user preferences for the different objects. Thus, there is a plethora of …
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Noodle, Noodle, Cat: Extra-Subjective Agency in Web-based Art practice
… of a Shakespearean verse along with images from Flickr. I draw on digital sociological methods to create a hybrid approach in which the web is understood as an evolving medium made up of digital objects and devices that can be repurposed for art practice. This approach underpins 'Flickr Nude or …
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Evaluation and Improvement of Semantically-Enhanced Tagging System
… and Wikis. Tagging systems like YouTube and Flickr offer their users the simplicity and freedom in creating and sharing their own contents and thus folksonomy is a very active research area where many improvements are presented to overcome existing disadvantages such as the lack of semantic …
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CSISE: cloud-based semantic image search engine
… images on the Web, e.g., more than 6 billion in Flickr, 1.5 billion in Google image engine, and more than 1 billon images in Instagram [1]. Since big data are not only a matter of a size, but are also heterogeneous types and sources of data, image searching with big data may not be scalable in …
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Understanding patterns of outdoor recreation in Canadian parks using volunteered geographic information and big data
… across Canada. I find that the VGI sources Flickr, AllTrails, and Strava can be used to model visitation in Canadian national parks, with the combination of AllTrails and Strava producing the best model. I also find that combining VGI sources with de-identified and aggregated network …
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BP's Use of Twitter as a Crisis Communication Tool During the Gulf Oil Spill Crisis Response Phase
… feed, Facebook page, YouTube channel, and Flickr photostream. This content analysis examines BP's use of Twitter during the crisis response phase of the oil spill. BP tweeted on 1,161 occasions from the time of the explosion to the capping of the well. All tweets during this 13-week period …
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CloudCV: Deep Learning and Computer Vision on the Cloud
… data on the web. Photo-sharing websites like Flickr and Facebook now host more than 6 and 90 billion photos, respectively. Unfortunately, scaling existing computer vision algorithms to large datasets leaves researchers repeatedly solving the same algorithmic and infrastructural problems. …
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Foundations for a Network Model of Destination Value Creation
… obtained from 4.6 million photographs shared on Flickr. Results of econometric analysis indicate that both seasonal effects and DVS network structures have statistically significant relationships with total tourism-related sales within a destination. Specifically, network density, network …
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Urban data mining : social media data analysis as a complementary tool for urban design
… social media (Crunch Base, Yelp, Twitter, and Flickr, and Trip Advisor) data on two primary urban issues. First, we aimed to explore an important 21st century urban problem: how to make successful "Innovative district". Using data mining, we discovered several important characteristics of …
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Integration Of Multi-Sensory Earth Observations For Characterization Of Air Quality Events
… gathered from social media websites such as Flickr, Twitter and YouTube. In this thesis, the service-oriented approach is demonstrated using two case studies. The first explains the benefits of data reuse in real-time event analysis focusing on the 2009 Southern California Smoke event. The …
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Mining the relation and implication of user generated content in social media
… sites, such as Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Flickr and YouTube, not only revolutionized the way people communicate and think, but also revolutionized the way how corporations do business. During the current age of social media, web usage can be characterized as the decentralization of online …
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