Multimedia Data Mining and Analytics

This book provides fresh insights into the cutting edge of multimedia data mining, reflecting how the research focus has shifted towards networked social communities, mobile devices and sensors. The work describes how the history of multimedia data processing can be viewed as a sequence of disruptive innovations. Across the chapters, the discussion covers the practical frameworks, libraries, and open source software that enable the development of ground-breaking research into practical applications. Features: reviews how innovations in mobile, social, cognitive, cloud and organic based computing impacts upon the development of multimedia data mining; provides practical details on implementing the technology for solving real-world problems; includes chapters devoted to privacy issues in multimedia social environments and large-scale biometric data processing; covers content and concept based multimedia search and advanced algorithms for multimedia data representation, processing and visualization.

Aaron K. Baughman is a member of the Special Events Group at IBM (USA) for World Wide Sports. Previously, he was Technical Lead on a DeepQA Embed Research project that included an instance of the Jeopardy! Challenge.

Jiang (John) Gao is a Principal Scientist in the Advanced Development and Technology Group at Nokia USA, working on multimedia and mobile applications, data mining and computer vision.

Jia-Yu Pan is a software engineer at Google (USA), working on data mining and anomaly detection in big data.

Valery A. Petrushin is a Principal Scientist in the Research and Development Group at Opera Solutions (USA). His previous publications include the successful Springer title Multimedia Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery.