SGMA 2014 - Special Session on Social Geo-Media Analytics and Retrieval

As one of the most exciting trends in computing today, social geo-media holds greatest potential for fundamentally changing how information is accessed and presented, how knowledge is processed and extracted, and how business (e.g., branding and customer relationship management) is conducted. Indeed, over the past few years, it has begun to usher in a new and exciting era of knowledge discovery and information retrieval research. An immense amount of media information about users and their social interactions based on a specific geo-location can be harvested from the Web and explored through advanced data mining/information retrieval techniques. Many believes social geo-media analysis and retrieval present a unique opportunity for the scholars from different disciplines to develop methodical approaches and (or) intelligent systems at many different levels using many different ways.
This special session is devoted to the publications of high quality papers on technical developments and practical applications around social, geo-media analysis and retrieval. It will serve as a forum for recent advances in the fields of social and geo-media content analysis, mining, search, and emerging new applications, such as geo-media systems, context-aware advertising, and personalized socio-mobile experience.
Scope and Topics: The special session of MMM 2014 invites unpublished, original research relating to all aspects of social geo-media analytics and retrieval. Relevant topics include, but are not limited to, the following:
Contextual models for social geo-media analysis
Novel features for social geo-media analysis
Event recognition and detection in social media
Efficient learning and mining algorithms for social geo-media analysis
Cloud support for large scale social geo-media analysis and retrieval
Multimedia indexing and mining on mobile devices
Social media interaction and visualization on mobile devices
Location-based social geo-media applications
Social geo-media applications
Social geo-media recommendation
Organizers:
Dr. Xueming Qian, Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’An, China.
Dr. You Yang, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China.
Dr. Jialie Shen, Singapore Management University, Singapore.