Social Media Retrieval (Computer Communications and Networks) - Softcover

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Dr. Naeem Ramzan is a Senior Researcher at Queen Mary University of London, UK.

Dr. Roelof van Zwol is Director of Product Information, Search at Netflix, USA.

Dr. Jong-Seok Lee is an Assistant Professor at Yonsei University, South Korea.

Dr. Kai Clüver is a Research Associate at the Technical University of Berlin, Germany.

Dr. Xian-Sheng Hua is a Lead Researcher at Microsoft, USA.

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Social media is now ubiquitous on the internet, generating both new possibilities and new challenges in information analysis and retrieval.

This comprehensive text/reference examines in depth the synergy between multimedia content analysis, personalization, and next-generation networking. The book demonstrates how this integration can result in robust, personalized services that provide users with an improved multimedia-centric quality of experience. Each chapter offers a practical step-by-step walkthrough for a variety of concepts, components and technologies relating to the development of applications and services.

Topics and features:

• Provides contributions from an international and interdisciplinary selection of experts in their fields
• Introduces the fundamentals of social media retrieval, presenting the most important areas of research in this domain
• Examines the important topic of multimedia tagging in social environments, including geo-tagging
• Discusses issues of personalization and privacy in social media
• Reviews advances in encoding, compression and network architectures for the exchange of social media information
• Describes a range of applications related to social media

Researchers and students interested in social media retrieval will find this book a valuable resource, covering a broad overview of state-of-the-art research and emerging trends in this area. The text will also be of use to practicing engineers involved in envisioning and building innovative social media applications and services.