Using Social Media Images for Building Function Classification

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2202.07315v1
• Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2022 11:05:10 GMT
• Title: Using Social Media Images for Building Function Classification
• Authors: Eike Jens Hoffmann, Karam Abdulahhad, and Xiao Xiang Zhu
• Abstract summary: This study proposes a filtering pipeline to yield high quality, ground level imagery from large social media image datasets. We analyze our method on a culturally diverse social media dataset from Flickr with more than 28 million images from 42 cities around the world. Fine-tuned state-of-the-art architectures yield F1-scores of up to 0.51 on the filtered images.
• Score: 12.99941371793082
• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
• Abstract: Urban land use on a building instance level is crucial geo-information for many applications, yet difficult to obtain. An intuitive approach to close this gap is predicting building functions from ground level imagery. Social media image platforms contain billions of images, with a large variety of motifs including but not limited to street perspectives. To cope with this issue this study proposes a filtering pipeline to yield high quality, ground level imagery from large social media image datasets. The pipeline ensures that all resulting images have full and valid geotags with a compass direction to relate image content and spatial objects from maps. We analyze our method on a culturally diverse social media dataset from Flickr with more than 28 million images from 42 cities around the world. The obtained dataset is then evaluated in a context of 3-classes building function classification task. The three building classes that are considered in this study are: commercial, residential, and other. Fine-tuned state-of-the-art architectures yield F1-scores of up to 0.51 on the filtered images. Our analysis shows that the performance is highly limited by the quality of the labels obtained from OpenStreetMap, as the metrics increase by 0.2 if only human validated labels are considered. Therefore, we consider these labels to be weak and publish the resulting images from our pipeline together with the buildings they are showing as a weakly labeled dataset.

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