Pleasant Route Suggestion based on Color and Object Rates

For a tourist who wishes to stroll in an unknown city, it is useful to have a recommendation of not just the shortest routes but also routes that are pleasant. This paper demonstrates a system that provides pleasant route recommendation. Currently, we focus on routes that have much green and bright views. The system measures pleasure scores by extracting colors or objects in Google Street View panorama images and re-ranks shortest paths in the order of the computed pleasure scores. The current prototype provides route recommendation for city areas in Tokyo, Kyoto and San Francisco.

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