Style-oriented landmark retrieval and summarization

Abstract

While the task of visual summarization aims to select representative images from an image collection, we solve a unique problem of style-oriented landmark retrieval and summarization from photographic images of a city. Instead of performing summarization or clustering on landmark images from a city, we allow the user to provide a query input which is not from the city of interest, while the goal is to retrieve and summarize the landmark images with similar style-dependent landmark images, followed by a style-consistent image summarization across landmark categories. As a result, our summarized outputs from various landmarks would exhibit similar image style as that of the query. Our experiments will confirm that the use of our proposed method is able to perform favorably against existing or baseline approaches with improved query-dependent style consistency.