Travel Search Through Images

Expedia, Inc. Computer Science, 2013-14

Liaison(s): Troy Seeborn, George Hatoun, Prashanth Kotte Prakasam, Suvendu Dash, Brian Gill
Advisor(s): Daniel Zimmerman
Students(s): Alana Shine, Jake Low, Haley Erickson, Jessica Schroeder (PM)

The Expedia team has created a vacation search Web application that allows customers to search for destinations implicitly by selecting evocative images. The application presents images in an iterative selection process, culminating in a ranked list of vacation recommendations. Vacation recommendations are derived from the attributes encoded in the customer selected image set, including geography, climate, activities, and themes. The application matches these attributes to actual vacation destinations using data derived from traveler review text analysis.