What Makes Paris Look Like Paris?

How do we recognize the "look and feel" of a city? Often it boils down to stylistic elements such as the design of windows, balconies, doors or street signs. The authors present a clustering method weakly supervised by geographic location to discover a city's representative visual features from Google Street View imagery.

Carl Doersch, Saurabh Singh, Abhinav Gupta, Josef Sivic, and Alexei A. Efros. What Makes Paris Look like Paris? ACM Transactions on Graphics (SIGGRAPH 2012).

http://graphics.cs.cmu.edu/projects/whatMakesParis/paris_sigg_reduced.pdf