Given a large repository of geotagged imagery provided by Google Street View, five scholars from Carnegie Mellon and the École normale supérieure found local visual elements, such as street signs, windows, or balconies, that are most distinctive for a given locale, such as the city of Paris.
Carl Doersch
Saurabh Singh
Abhinav Gupta
Josef Sivic
Alexei A. Efros
http://graphics.cs.cmu.edu/projects/whatMakesParis/
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