Can Instagram posts help characterize urban micro-events?

• Main Authors: JAYARAJAH, Kasthuri, MISRA, Archan
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2016
• Subjects: Semantics; Twitter; Feature extraction; Spatiotemporal phenomena; Media; Sensors; Event detection; Information fusion; Social networking (online); Databases and Information Systems; Social Media
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sis_research/3639; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/sis_research/article/4641/viewcontent/fusion16_kjayarajah.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

Social media content, from platforms such as Twitter and Foursquare, has enabled an exciting new field of social sensing, where participatory content generated by users has been used to identify unexpected emerging or trending events. In contrast to such text-based channels, we focus on image-sharin...