From bikers to surfers: Visual recognition of Urban tribes

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  • Iljung S. Kwak
  • Ana C. Murillo
  • Peter N. Belhumeur
  • David Kriegman
  • Belongie, Serge

The terms Biker, Punk, Hipster, Goth or Surfer often spark visual depictions of individuals with very distinct fashion styles. These visually salient styles can provide insight into the social identity of an individual. However, despite its potential usefulness, little work has been done to automatically classify images of people into social categories. We tackle this problem by analyzing pictures of groups of individuals and creating models to represent them. We capture the features that distinguish each subculture and show promising results for automatic classification. This work gives vision algorithms access to the social identity of an individual and helps improve the quality of socially motivated image search, relevance of advertisements, and recommendations of social groups.

Original languageEnglish
Publication date2013
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2013
Externally publishedYes
Event2013 24th British Machine Vision Conference, BMVC 2013 - Bristol, United Kingdom
Duration: 9 Sep 201313 Sep 2013

Conference

Conference2013 24th British Machine Vision Conference, BMVC 2013
CountryUnited Kingdom
CityBristol
Period09/09/201313/09/2013
SponsorDyson, HP, IET Journals - The Institution of Engineering and Technology, Microsoft Research, Qualcomm

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