Editorial: advanced semantic and social multimedia technologies for future computing environment

摘要

With the popularity of multimedia data on the internet, efficiently accessing and managing the explosively growing multimedia content from large-scale multimedia database has become essential. During the last decades, extensive research efforts have been dedicated to automatic multimedia analysis and processing, such as acquisition, generation, storage, and retrieval of large-scale multimedia information. However, despite these techniques already provide promising results, there are still several key difficulties such as semantic gap and user gap in multimedia analysis/processing and annotation/tagging, respectively. The aim of this special issue is to provide an overview of emerging research challenges in Semantic Multimedia and to help reducing the Semantic and User Gap between low-level content descriptions of multimedia and the semantics in high-level human interpretations of audiovisual media. Semantic Web and multimedia community researchers are encouraged to join the workshop to benefit from the presentation of results from multimedia based research, which demonstrate important multimedia applications which could be enhanced by Semantic Web technologies. We have received 48 manuscripts. After the pre-review process, 32 manuscripts were selected for the first review. Seventeen manuscripts were finally selected for this special issue after the first, second review processes. Each manuscript selected was blindly reviewed by at least three reviewers consisting of guest editors and external reviewers. In the following section, we present a brief overview on each manuscript. In the last section, we conclude the paper with some observations and future work.