Visual summarization of landmarks is an interesting and non-trivial task with the availability of gigantic community-contributed resources. In this work, we investigate ways to generate representative and distinctive views of landmarks by automatically discovering the underlying Scenic Themes (e.g. sunny, night view, snow, foggy views, etc.) via a content-based analysis. The challenge is that t...

Abstract In recent years, Chinese cities have begun to pay attention their rivers, and a large number of waterfront linear parks been built in the riverside areas, so that public can easily enjoy landscape entertainment functions. this study, visual quality trails greenbelt Waterfront Park around Hunhe river Shenyang was evaluated basis Scenic Beauty Estimation Method Semantic Differential Meth...

Lake Malombe supports various ecosystem services (ESs). However, it is increasingly experiencing human-induced pressure. This study used geospatial, household surveys, focus group discussion, key informant interviews, consultative meetings, and field observation on assessing the Land use/Land cover dynamics (LULCD), its trade-offs, implications ESs. The findings demonstrated a decrease in fores...

Would you find it enticing to live in a country that has temperatures of 15 to 30°C year round? Would you consider living in a country situated between two continents, with coastlines so close to each other that easy access is available to both the Pacific Ocean and the Caribbean Sea? What if there was such ecological diversity that recreational possibilities included fishing, hiking, jungle ex...

The spatial pattern of color patches plays a crucial role in affecting the visual quality peri-urban forests dominated by Cotinus coggygria var. cinerea Engl. autumn. impact mechanism has been studied to facilitate algorithm-based automatic estimation. patterns 120 photographs were calculated after quantization and substitution. scenic beauty forest was estimated 698 respondents. Multiple corre...

Design traveling route for tourist is a challenging problem. According to the actual scenic spots, the mathematical model of the traveling routes was established. In order to get the best attractions which we want to choose, the complex decisions are analyzed by method of analytic hierarchy process. And four relative important aspects of the objectives are compared including culture and history...

Beautiful outdoor locations are protected by governments and have recently been shown to be associated with better health. But what makes an outdoor space beautiful? Does a beautiful outdoor location differ from an outdoor location that is simply natural? Here, we explore whether ratings of over 200 000 images of Great Britain from the online game Scenic-Or-Not, combined with hundreds of image ...

The Upper Paraná River floodplain is the last lotic stretch of an ecosystem seriously threatened given that circa 50% of the original ecosystem has been converted into reservoirs. To assess the recreational value of the Upper Paraná River floodplain, 174 tourists were interviewed using the Willingness to Pay--WTP and Travel Cost--TC methods. The annual aggregated WTP attributed by tourists was ...

Scenic is a program that allows the user to graphically specify an event to be detected by the RFID Ecosystem in the Paul G. Allen Center at the University of Washington. The user drags icons representing people, places, items and “event primitives” [5]. In this paper we discuss how Scenic has been extended to (1) save and recall an event definition, (2) edit previously created events, and (3) ...