One of my most fruitful project while working at Yahoo! Research was a collaboration with the Yahoo! Image Search team. We built system for extracting and ranking points of interest for towns, countries and regions. The points of interest were extracted from Wikipedia, Yahoo! GeoPlanet and Yahoo! Travel. The ranking was based on co-occurrence statistics from Flickr photos and Yahoo! Image Search query logs. The resulting data package was generated by the research team and applied by Yahoo! Image Search to provide enhanced browsing of search results for towns, countries and regions.

Related publications

Ramu Adapala, Anand Ramani, Sriram J. Satish, Börkur Sigurbjörnsson, and Roelof van Zwol. Explore Points of Interest with Yahoo! Image Search. Yahoo! Search Blog. 2009.

Roelof van Zwol, Börkur Sigurbjörnsson, Ramu Adapala, Lluis Garcia Pueyo, Abhinav Katiyar, Kaushal Kurapati, Mridul Muralidharan, Sudar Muthu, Vanessa Murdock, Polly Ng, Anand Ramani, Anuj Sahai, Sriram Thiru Sathish, Hari Vasudev, and Upendra Vuyyuru. Faceted exploration of image search results. WWW ’10: Proceedings of the 19th international conference on World wide web. 2010.