Textual documents published on the Web where people describe traveling experiences, usually called travelogues, can provide interesting information about the experiences lived by the respective authors while traveling. Nowadays, several websites can be used for sharing these textual documents, and the use of Web information for travel planning has also increased. Still, the usage of the travelo...

Geo-tagged photo-based tourist attraction recommendation can discover users’ travel preferences from their taken photos, so as to recommend suitable attractions them. However, existing visual content-based methods cannot fully exploit the user and information of photos extract features, do not differentiate significance different photos. In this article, we propose multi-level similarity-based ...

Aim: To assess whether retinal vascular caliber measurement from digital fundus photographs using IVAN software (University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI) is affected by bicubic image interpolation using image processing software (Photoshop version 5.5, Adobe Systems Inc., San Jose, CA). Material and methods: 32 good quality optic disc centered retina photos (slides) acquired in healthy volunteers ...

Photography is a visual way to capture a moment in time. Photos can be used for artistic expression, and to remember significant events. Because photo taking, organizing and sharing traditionally requires visual information, those with no or limited sight often have problems with these activities. Previous work has made photo capturing without sight easier, however, there is little work that ma...

The modern literature explaining the under-representation of women in science often relate to the shortage of women ‘in the pipeline’. The pipeline flows from one stage to another, and the flow of women diminishes over the stages. Speaking of the stages of career during which women scientists ‘leak’ the most, the commercialisation of science as one of the ultimate stages should be taken into co...

In this work, we analyze more than two million news photos published in January 2016. To our best knowledge, this is the first large-scale study of news photos by the GDELT project and deep learning-based vision APIs.

We investigated body-related attentional biases in eating disorders by testing whether individuals with anorexia nervosa (AN, n = 19) and bulimia nervosa (BN, n = 18) differ from healthy controls (HC, n = 21) in their bias for attending to a photo of their own body (self-photo) relative to a photo of a matched control participant's body (other photo). In a modified dot-probe task, self- and oth...

In this paper, we present a method that uses web photos for measuring frame interestingness of a travel video. Web photo collections, such as those on Flickr, tend to contain interesting images because their images are more carefully taken, composed, and selected. Because these photos have already been chosen as subjectively interesting, they serve as evidence that similar images are also inter...