Like Partying? Your Face Says It All. Predicting the Ambiance of Places with Profile Pictures

Authors

  • Miriam Redi Yahoo Labs
  • Daniele Quercia University of Cambridge
  • Lindsay Graham University of Texas, Austin
  • Samuel Gosling University of Texas, Austin

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.1609/icwsm.v9i1.14617

Keywords:

profile pictures analysis, place ambience prediction, computational aesthetics

Abstract

To choose restaurants and coffee shops, people are increasingly relying on social-networking sites. In a popular site such as Foursquare or Yelp, a place comes with descriptions and reviews, and with profile pictures of people who frequent them. Descriptions and reviews have been widely explored in the research area of data mining. By contrast, profile pictures have received little attention. Previous work showed that people are able to partly guess a place's ambiance, clientele, and activities not only by observing the place itself but also by observing the profile pictures of its visitors. Here we further that work by determining which visual cues people may have relied upon to make their guesses; showing that a state-of-the-art algorithm could make predictions more accurately than humans at times; and demonstrating that the visual cues people relied upon partly differ from those of the algorithm.

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Published

2021-08-03

How to Cite

Redi, M., Quercia, D., Graham, L., & Gosling, S. (2021). Like Partying? Your Face Says It All. Predicting the Ambiance of Places with Profile Pictures. Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media, 9(1), 347-356. https://doi.org/10.1609/icwsm.v9i1.14617