The complexity of multimedia contents is significantly increasing in the current digital world.
This yields an exigent demand for developing highly effective retrieval systems to satisfy …

The amount of user-generated multimedia content (UGC) has increased rapidly in recent
years due to the ubiquitous availability of smartphones, digital cameras, and affordable …

Social media becomes a vital part in our daily communication practice, creating a huge
amount of data and covering different real-world situations. Currently, there is a tendency in …

Due to the ubiquitous availability of smartphones and digital cameras, the number of
photos/videos online has increased rapidly. Therefore, it is challenging to efficiently browse …

Photos are excellent means for keeping and refreshing memories. Digital photography,
however, imposes new challenges for keeping photos accessible on the long run due to …

Social graphs are very useful for many applications, such as recommendations and
community detections. However, they are only accessible to big social network operators …

Thanks to the spread of digital photography and available devices, taking photographs has
become effortless and tolerated nearly everywhere. This makes people easily ending up …

This paper describes the results of our participation to the Synchronization of Multi-User
Event Media Task at the MediaEval 2015 challenge. Using multiple similarity measures, we …

Each year makes it easier to accumulate large numbers of photos and videos in the social
and personal digital space. Their long-term existence is mostly driven by chance rather than …

In this fast-growing digital world, social media analytics is gaining attention in the field of big
data. Big data is the collection of huge amounts of raw digital data that is difficult to analyze …