AUTOMATED IDENTIFICATION AND SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION OF TOURIST ACTIVITIES FROM ONLINE PHOTOGRAPHS

Ma, Shihan (David); Kirilenko, Andrei

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AUTOMATED IDENTIFICATION AND SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION OF TOURIST ACTIVITIES FROM ONLINE PHOTOGRAPHS

dc.contributor.author	Ma, Shihan (David)
dc.contributor.author	Kirilenko, Andrei
dc.contributor.department	University of Florida
dc.contributor.department	University of Florida
dc.date	2023-09-23T20:01:40.000
dc.date.accessioned	2024-04-26T21:30:57Z
dc.date.available	2024-04-26T21:30:57Z
dc.date.issued	2018
dc.description	<p>Shihan (David) Ma is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Tourism, Recreation, and Sport Management at University of Florida. His research concentration is social network and massive media data analysis in tourism, regarding tourist perception, behavior, mobility pattern and destination marketing opportunities through big data mining.</p>
dc.description	Oral Presentation, Graduate Student Colloquium
dc.description.abstract	Travel photographs have been identified as an important source of data on tourists’ motion patterns, experience and impressions of the destination. With large volume of imagery data obtainable from the social media, however, the traditional manual processing of the photographs has become a tedious task. Automated classification presents an attractive alternative to manual processing. Yet the viability of this alternative in tourism research has received little attention in the academy. We explored viability of automated identification of attraction locations and leisure activities exercised by the locals and visitors to Lake Texoma, which is one of the largest reservoirs in the United States shared between Texas and Oklahoma. Data mining and spatial statistics methods were used to differentiate locals from visitors, and to identify and classify images to various activities. We found that despite multiple recreational opportunities including well over 50 state- and federally managed parks, space use on Texoma Lake is highly heterogeneous, with recreational activities localized in several hot spots identified as popular attractions. Further, the locals and visitors to the lake tend to differentiate in their popular recreational localities. Eight different leisure activities were identified with respective spatial distributions based on the users’ hashtags. In conclusion, we found the automated recognition of activity type and place from the online photography both reliable and practical.
dc.identifier.uri	https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14394/49024
dc.relation.url	https://scholarworks.umass.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2193&context=ttra&unstamped=1
dc.source.status	published
dc.title	AUTOMATED IDENTIFICATION AND SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION OF TOURIST ACTIVITIES FROM ONLINE PHOTOGRAPHS
dc.type	event
dc.type	event
digcom.contributor.author	isAuthorOfPublication\|email:david.ma@ufl.edu\|institution:University of Florida\|Ma, Shihan (David)
digcom.contributor.author	isAuthorOfPublication\|email:andrei.kirilenko@ufl.edu\|institution:University of Florida\|Kirilenko, Andrei
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