Abstract
This study aims to track down representative images and elements of sightseeing attractions by analyzing the photos uploaded on Flickr by Seoul tourists with the image mining technique. For this purpose, we crawled the photos uploaded on Flickr and classified users into residents and tourists; drew 11 region of attractions (RoA) in Seoul by analyzing the spatial density of the photos; classified the photos into 1000 categories and then 14 categories by grouping 1000 categories by utilizing Inception V3 model; analyzed the characteristics of the photo image by RoA. Key findings of this study are that tourists are interested in old palaces, historical monuments, stores, food, etc. and those key elements are distinguished from the major sightseeing attractions in Seoul. More specifically, tourists are more interested in palaces and cultural assets in Jongno and Namsan, food and restaurants in Shinchon, Hongdae, Itaewon, Yeouido, Garosu-gil, and Apgujeong, war monuments or specific artifacts in War Memorial and the National Museum of Korea, facilities, temples, and pictures of cultural properties in Samsung Station, and toyshops in Jamsil. This study is meaningful in three folds: first, it tries to analyze urban image through the photos posted on SNS by tourists. Second, it uses deep learning technique to analyze the photos. Third, it classifies and analyzes the whole photos posted by Seoul tourists while most of other researches focus on only specific objects. However, this study has a limitation because the Inception v3 model which has been used in this research is a pre-trained model created by training the ImageNet data. In future research, it is necessary to classify photo categories according to the purpose of tourism and retrain the model by creating new training data set focusing on elements of Korea.
Highlights
Today people prefer to share the posts such as texts, images, and videos via Social Network Services (SNS) with others without regard to time and location
This study aims to track down representative images and elements of sightseeing attractions by analyzing the photos uploaded on Flickr by Seoul tourists with the image mining technique
The purpose of this study is to analyze representative images and elements of sightseeing attractions by analyzing the photos uploaded on Flickr by Seoul tourists
Summary
Today people prefer to share the posts such as texts, images, and videos via Social Network Services (SNS) with others without regard to time and location. As the touristic images on SNS can be continually produced and reproduced, we are able to ascertain the perceptions and the trends of representative sightseeing elements and locations by analyzing the images uploaded on SNS. This process contributes to the basic research on tourism for discovering, developing, and improving sightseeing attractions [3]. Examples of researches on analyzing the photos posted on the SNS include classification of food [11], analysis of bird observations between experts and ordinary people [17], estimation of weather preference by visiting specific places [18]. There have been no studies to analyze the image of tourists in the area by classifying the whole photos posted by the tourists who visit the specific area
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