ABS researchers predict success of restaurants with machine learning

Location and menu important - The multidisciplinary study is valuable in different ways. 'For computer sciences, we wanted to demonstrate that you can create a multimodal graph with many different nodes, using noisy data. We certainly succeeded there.' For marketing purposes, the model is the basis of further research. 'Its practical usefulness is still limited for now. But this can change if we also learn to better interpret photos and images.' Effect of photos. Understanding the atmosphere in a restaurant and the effect of photos on TripAdvisor is part of further research by Sharma, as a component of his PhD programme. 'This work is still very much ongoing, but we know that people make assumptions about the quality of a restaurant from just a few pictures.