Patent ID: 11948472
Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
Field: Computer technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 6:
7. A method, implemented by circuitry of a popularity estimation system that estimates the popularity of a particular point which is geographically identified, the method comprising:
acquiring a first map image including a first particular point which is a particular point to be estimated and to acquire a plurality of second map images including a second particular point which is a particular point of which a popularity score indicating popularity is known;
generating a first feature vector and a second feature vector indicating geographical features of the first map image and the second map images by inputting the first map image and the second map images to a geographical feature generation model which has been trained by machine learning with a map image as an input and with a feature vector indicating geographical features of the map image as an output;
calculating a popularity score of the first particular point from a popularity score of the second particular point based on a degree of similarity between the first feature vector and the second feature vector; and
outputting the calculated popularity score of the first particular point,
wherein the method further includes:
generating a geographical feature generation model with a map image of a particular point as an input and with a feature vector indicating geographical features of the map image as an output and including a neural network,
acquiring, for generating the geographical feature generation model, anchor training data including a map image of a first area, positive-example training data including a map image of a second area with an attribute value of which a difference from a predetermined attribute value of the first area is equal to or less than a predetermined value, and negative-example training data including a map image of a third area with an attribute value of which a difference from the predetermined attribute value of the first area is greater than the predetermined value,
generating, for generating the geographical feature generation model, an anchor feature vector, a positive-example feature vector, and a negative-example feature vector by inputting the anchor training data, the positive-example training data, and the negative-example training data to the geographical feature generation model, and
adjusting, for generating the geographical feature generation model, parameters of the neural network such that a difference between the anchor feature vector and the positive-example feature vector approaches zero and a difference between the anchor feature vector and the negative-example feature vector increases.