Categorizing Listing Photos at Airbnb

Large-scale deep learning models are changing the way we think about images of homes on our platform.

Shijing Yao

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The Airbnb Tech Blog

11 min readMay 2, 2018

Authors: Shijing Yao, Qiang Zhu, Phillippe Siclait

Walking into our new office in San Francisco, meeting rooms evoke the variety of our listing photos in a search!

Airbnb is a marketplace featuring millions of homes. Travelers around the world search on the platform and discover the best homes for their trips. Aside…

Categorizing Listing Photos at Airbnb

Large-scale deep learning models are changing the way we think about images of homes on our platform.

Written by Shijing Yao