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WebSci14

This project holds the code for most of components of the published work on WebSci 2014: 'The Impact of Visual Features on Online Image Diffusion'.

Copyright (C) 2014 by Luam Totti

This code is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published
by the Free Software Foundation. We hope it is useful, however NO
WARRANTY IS PROVIDED. Not even the implied warranty of FITNESS FOR
FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE or MERCHANTABILITY.

Data

The data collected and generated in this work is hosted at FigShare in the link below. The images had to be split into multiple files due to FigShare's maximum file restriction.

The Impact of Visual Attributes on Online Image Diffusion

Database

If you wish only to use the data provided (instead of running the extractors), this section should be enough for you.

All the data (apart from the image files) was provided as a MySQL dump. First download and decompress it.

wget http://todo.link.to.db
bunzip2 websci-db.bz2

Now install a MySQL server and a client if you don't already have it. The following commands should create a database and restore the dump into it.

mysql -uuser -ppasswd -e 'CREATE DATABASE dbname'
mysql -uuser -ppasswd dbname < websci-db.sql

Finally, configure the config.py file in the project's root according to your MySQL installation.

You should be ready to use the data directly. You can also check the demo.py script to see how the data can be consume in a python script. Some libraries may be required in this case.

How to Run

The project is implemented in python with extensions written in C/C++. The instructions provided assume a debian based Unix system. Most of the components should still work on different systems.

We first need to install some libraries for the C/C++ modules to be compiled and wrapped to python.

sudo apt-get install libboost-python1.49-dev libboost-python1.49.0
sudo apt-get install libfftw3-3 libfftw3-bin libfftw3-dev

We used the Boost.Numpy project for an easier python/C++ interface. The following commands should download and install it in your system. You may need to install scons.

wget https://github.com/ndarray/Boost.NumPy/archive/master.zip
unzip master.zip
cd Boost.NumPy-master/
scons
sudo scons --install-lib=/usr/lib install

Note the last command changes the lib path to install the *.so. This is because the default path /usr/local/lib may not work with python directly. Alternatively, you may leave the default configuration and include it the paths python looks for compiled modules (not tested).

Now the required python libraries must be installed. You should pip installed and properly configured to the python interpretable you wish to use with this project:

pip install https://pypi.python.org/packages/source/s/scipy/scipy-0.14.0.tar.gz
pip install https://pypi.python.org/packages/source/s/scikit-learn/scikit-learn-0.14.1.tar.gz
pip install https://pypi.python.org/packages/source/M/MySQL-python/MySQL-python-1.2.5.zip
pip install https://pypi.python.org/packages/source/m/mahotas/mahotas-1.1.0.tar.gz
pip install https://pymeanshift.googlecode.com/files/pymeanshift-0.2.1.zip
pip install https://pypi.python.org/packages/source/P/PyUblas/PyUblas-2013.1.tar.gz

Before compiling we need to tell the compiler where to find pyublas headers file. Run the following command to find the path:

echo `python -c 'import os,pyublas; print os.path.dirname(pyublas.__file__)'`/include

And append the returned value to the variable PYUBLAS_INC in the Makefile of the project (in the root). For example:

export PYUBLAS_INC = /home/luamct/websci/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pyublas/include

At last, you should be able to run make to compile de C/C++ modules.

Check the extractor.py file to understand the architecture of the system. Basically the script launches x working processes (given as the only command line argument, defaulted to 1 if not provided), each processing images marked as 'AVAILABLE' from the jobs table and found in the config.IMAGES_FOLDER (check config.py). One example of execution is given below.

python extractor.py 4

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