JMM 2013 - Special Issue on Social Multimedia Computing: Challenges, Techniques, and Applications

Special Issue on
Social Multimedia Computing: Challenges, Techniques, and Applications
TOPICAL THEME
The explosive growth of social multimedia content on the Internet is
revolutionizing the way of content distribution and social
interaction. Often, multimedia content such as photos and videos
pervade social networking sites (e.g. FaceBook), and content-sharing
sites (e.g. YouTube) also support social networking. This hybrid of
multimedia and social media (referred to as social multimedia) has the
great potential to change the manner in which we communicate and
collaborate each other, and presents a new computing paradigm in the
Internet era. By focusing on the study of analyzing, modeling and
utilizing social multimedia, social multimedia computing is emerging
as a multi-disciplinary research and application field between
computational social science and multimedia technology. In a broad
sense, social multimedia computing can be used in any application area
and social platform that gives rise to social multimedia as input
data, such as online social media communities, interactive
entertainment, business and public sector applications. Meanwhile, it
can also offer different avenues for research and engineering in the
multimedia domain by improving existing multimedia applications and
spawning novel attractive applications .
The goal of this special issue is thus to provide a forum for
researchers working on the aforementioned social multimedia aspects to
present their recent research results. Topics of interest include, but
are not limited to:
・ theoretical underpinnings and computational infrastructure of social
multimedia computing;
・ multimedia social network analysis, in particular on large-scale datasets;
・ social multimedia search, especially the search and ranking
algorithms from collaboratively tagged images, and online
user-generated videos;
・ social multimedia mining and learning from user data, social context
and socially collected data;
・ multimedia communication and networking by utilizing multimedia
social network analysis;
・ the design and development of new multimedia social interaction tools;
・ privacy and copyright issues over social multimedia data；
・ distributed/parallel algorithms and paradigms for large-scale social
multimedia computing, and
・ novel and challenging applications of social multimedia.
More details could be found at
http://www.academypublisher.com/jmm/si/jmmsi_smcct...
IMPORTANT DATES
Paper submission deadline
November 1, 2012
Notifications of the first round of reviews
February 1, 2013
Deadline of the revised submissions Aprial 1, 2013
Final decisions for all the accepted papers May 15, 2013
Publication of the special issue
August, 2013
PAPER SUBMISSION
Prospective authors should submit high quality and original
contributions that have not appeared, nor are under consideration, in
any other journals. Submissions should follow the guidelines of
Journal of Multimedia, which can be found at:
http://academypublisher.com/jmm/authorguide.html. When submitting a
paper to the Special Issue, please choose Track on “Social Media
Computing: Challenges, Techniques, and Applications” at the JMM’s EDAS
submission page. For further questions or inquiries, please contact
the corresponding Guest Editor, Dr. Yonghong Tian by Email at:
yhtian-AT-pku.edu.cn.