Social media is now ubiquitous on the internet, generating both new possibilities and new challenges in information analysis and retrieval.
This comprehensive text/reference examines in depth the synergy between multimedia content analysis, personalization, and next-generation networking. The book demonstrates how this integration can result in robust, personalized services that provide users with an improved multimedia-centric quality of experience. Each chapter offers a practical step-by-step walkthrough for a variety of concepts, components and technologies relating to the development of applications and services.
Topics and features: provides contributions from an international and interdisciplinary selection of experts in their fields; introduces the fundamentals of social media retrieval, presenting the most important areas of research in this domain; examines the important topic of multimedia tagging in social environments, including geo-tagging; discusses issues of personalization and privacy in social media; reviews advances in encoding, compression and network architectures for the exchange of social media information; describes a range of applications related to social media.
Researchers and students interested in social media retrieval will find this book a valuable resource, covering a broad overview of state-of-the-art research and emerging trends in this area. The text will also be of use to practicing engineers involved in envisioning and building innovative social media applications and services.
Part I: Fundamentals of Social Media.- Social Video Retrieval.- Social Media Recommendation.- Multimedia Indexing, Search and Retrieval in Large Databases of Social Networks.- Survey on Social Community Detection.- Detecting Multimedia Contents of Social Events in Social Networks.- Part II: Tagging of Social Media.- Georeferencing in Social Networks.- Predicting User Tags in Social Media Repositories Using Semantic Expansion and Visual Analysis.- A Rule-Based Flickr Tag Recommendation System.- Sentic Computing for Social Media Analysis, Representation, and Retrieval.- Highlights Detection in Movie Scenes Through Inter-Users Physiological Linkage.- Towards Emotional Annotation of Multimedia Contents.- Part III: Privacy and Personalisation of Social Media.- Privacy in Recommender Systems.- Geotag Propagation with User Trust Modelling.- Context Aware Content Adaptation for Personalised Social Media Access.- Part IV: Applications and Services.- Progression in Social Media: How PetaMedia Facilitate?.- Video Technology for Storage and Distribution of Personalised Media.- Social Aware TV Content Delivery over Intelligent Networks.- Distributed Media Synchronization for Shared Video Watching.- eGuided: Sharing Media in Academic and Social Networks based on Peer-Assisted Learning e-Portfolios.- Exploiting Social Media for Music Information Retrieval.