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Urban Function Recognition by Integrating Social Media and Street-Level Imagery

Recognizing urban functions is crucial for understanding urban spatial structures and urban planning. Previous work has investigated urban functions based on human activities that were derived from mobile phone positioning data, check-in data, taxi …

A BiLSTM-CNN Model for Predicting Users' next Locations Based on Geotagged Social Media

Location prediction based on spatio-temporal footprints in social media is instrumental to various applications, such as travel behavior studies, crowd detection, traffic control, and location-based service recommendation. In this study, we propose a …

Quantifying the Scale Effect in Geospatial Big Data Using Semi-Variograms

The scale effect is an important research topic in the field of geography. When aggregating individual-level data into areal units, encountering the scale problem is inevitable. This problem is more substantial when mining collective patterns from …

Building a Model-Based Personalised Recommendation Approach for Tourist Attractions from Geotagged Social Media Data

When travelling, people are accustomed to taking and uploading photos on social media websites, which has led to the accumulation of huge numbers of geotagged photos. Combined with multisource information (e.g. weather, transportation, or textual …