Research Article

A Deep Learning-Based Hotel Image Classifier for Online Travel Agencies

Volume: 23 Number: 67 January 15, 2021
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A Deep Learning-Based Hotel Image Classifier for Online Travel Agencies

Abstract

Along with the extensive application of information technologies, there has been increased usage of online travel agencies (OTA) to search holiday alternatives. Hotel images demonstrated by OTAs plays a critical role in providing information to ease selection process. Although serving the images in the right context is an important task to clearly reflect hotel properties, there has been no attempt in previous studies to organize hotel images into appropriate category. For this reason, we aim to conduct a study to organize and classify 20,000 hotel images using Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN), a prominent deep learning method widely applied in the field of computer vision. Due to the limited training data, we experiment transfer learning to train experimented models. In this phase, we choose a widely applied CNN models, VGG-16, VGG-19, and Inception-v3 which are trained on over one million images. The results demonstrate that experimented models achieve effective categorization of hotel images with the considerable accuracy scores. We believe that our study can help improve OTAs performance in competitive tourism market.

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Thanks

Funding for this work was partially supported by the Research and Development Center of Tatilbudur.com accredited on Turkey - Ministry of Science.

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Details

Primary Language

English

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Journal Section

Research Article

Publication Date

January 15, 2021

Submission Date

March 25, 2020

Acceptance Date

June 28, 2020

Published in Issue

Year 2021 Volume: 23 Number: 67

APA
Bozyiğit, F., Taşkın, A., Akar, K., & Kılınç, D. (2021). A Deep Learning-Based Hotel Image Classifier for Online Travel Agencies. Dokuz Eylül Üniversitesi Mühendislik Fakültesi Fen Ve Mühendislik Dergisi, 23(67), 257-264. https://doi.org/10.21205/deufmd.2021236722
AMA
1.Bozyiğit F, Taşkın A, Akar K, Kılınç D. A Deep Learning-Based Hotel Image Classifier for Online Travel Agencies. DEUFMD. 2021;23(67):257-264. doi:10.21205/deufmd.2021236722
Chicago
Bozyiğit, Fatma, Alperen Taşkın, Kadir Akar, and Deniz Kılınç. 2021. “A Deep Learning-Based Hotel Image Classifier for Online Travel Agencies”. Dokuz Eylül Üniversitesi Mühendislik Fakültesi Fen Ve Mühendislik Dergisi 23 (67): 257-64. https://doi.org/10.21205/deufmd.2021236722.
EndNote
Bozyiğit F, Taşkın A, Akar K, Kılınç D (January 1, 2021) A Deep Learning-Based Hotel Image Classifier for Online Travel Agencies. Dokuz Eylül Üniversitesi Mühendislik Fakültesi Fen ve Mühendislik Dergisi 23 67 257–264.
IEEE
[1]F. Bozyiğit, A. Taşkın, K. Akar, and D. Kılınç, “A Deep Learning-Based Hotel Image Classifier for Online Travel Agencies”, DEUFMD, vol. 23, no. 67, pp. 257–264, Jan. 2021, doi: 10.21205/deufmd.2021236722.
ISNAD
Bozyiğit, Fatma - Taşkın, Alperen - Akar, Kadir - Kılınç, Deniz. “A Deep Learning-Based Hotel Image Classifier for Online Travel Agencies”. Dokuz Eylül Üniversitesi Mühendislik Fakültesi Fen ve Mühendislik Dergisi 23/67 (January 1, 2021): 257-264. https://doi.org/10.21205/deufmd.2021236722.
JAMA
1.Bozyiğit F, Taşkın A, Akar K, Kılınç D. A Deep Learning-Based Hotel Image Classifier for Online Travel Agencies. DEUFMD. 2021;23:257–264.
MLA
Bozyiğit, Fatma, et al. “A Deep Learning-Based Hotel Image Classifier for Online Travel Agencies”. Dokuz Eylül Üniversitesi Mühendislik Fakültesi Fen Ve Mühendislik Dergisi, vol. 23, no. 67, Jan. 2021, pp. 257-64, doi:10.21205/deufmd.2021236722.
Vancouver
1.Fatma Bozyiğit, Alperen Taşkın, Kadir Akar, Deniz Kılınç. A Deep Learning-Based Hotel Image Classifier for Online Travel Agencies. DEUFMD. 2021 Jan. 1;23(67):257-64. doi:10.21205/deufmd.2021236722

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