Carnegie Mellon University
June 06, 2017

What Makes Paris Look Like Paris?

Paris is one of those cities that has a look all its own, something that goes beyond landmarks such as the Eiffel Tower or Notre Dame. Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University and INRIA/Ecole Normale Supérieure in Paris have developed visual data mining software that can automatically detect these sometimes subtle features, such as street signs, streetlamps and balcony railings, that give Paris and other cities a distinctive look.

Our data mining technique was able to go through millions of image patches automatically — something that no human would be patient enough to do," said Alexei Efros, who collaborated with colleagues including Abhinav Gupta, assistant research professor of robotics, and Carl Doersch, a Ph.D. student in the Machine Learning Department. Read More

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