Intelligent Innovations in Multimedia Data

A special issue of Future Internet (ISSN 1999-5903). This special issue belongs to the section "Big Data and Augmented Intelligence".

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Department of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology, University of Naples Federico II, Via Claudio 21, 80125 Naples, Italy
Interests: social network analytics; multimedia recommender systems; big data; artificial intelligence; graph mining; IoT; deep learning
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Department of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology (DIETI), University of Naples Federico II, 21-80125 Naples, Italy
Interests: social network analysis and modelling; designing of artificial intelligence models; deception activities
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Department of Electrical Engineering and of Information Technology, University of Naples Federico II, Via Claudio 21, 80125 Naples, Italy
Interests: pattern recognition and computer vision; medical imaging; applications for AI; approximate computing; parallelisation on multi-CPU/GPU systems
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Dear Colleagues,

In the last years, the spread of online social networks (OSNs) has provided users with new ways to interact on an interactive platform to create and share multimedia content such as text, image, video, audio, and so on. It is noteworthy that OSNs, both for the amount of data they produce and for the high peace of streaming, represent without any doubt the essence of big data.

As a consequence, this new availability of data has allowed researchers to investigate the suitability of big data, machine learning and, more recently, deep learning approaches to the development of intelligent innovations in multimedia data processing. Common applications include social dynamic analysis, user behavior prediction, multimedia content and social graph evolution modeling, computer vision, text mining and pattern discovery on graphs, usually aimed at designing human-centric multimedia applications and services, such as information retrieval, recommendation, summarization, viral marketing, event recognition, expert finding, community detection, user profiling, security and social data privacy.

The aim of this Special Issue is to collect the most recent innovation in the processing of multimedia data generated by user interaction and activities over online social networks. We would like to gather researchers from different disciplines and methodological backgrounds to discuss new ideas, research questions, recent results, and future challenges in this emerging area of research and public interest. Potential topics include, but are not limited to:

  • Multimedia information retrieval
  • Text processing and information mining
  • Multimedia recommendations
  • Spreading news on social media
  • Event detection
  • User profiling
  • Computer vision to track user habits and activities
  • Fake news detection and countermeasures

Dr. Vincenzo Moscato
Dr. Giancarlo Sperlì
Dr. Stefano Marrone
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Consortium Blockchain Smart Contracts for Musical Rights Governance in a Collective Management Organizations (CMOs) Use Case
by Nikolaos Kapsoulis, Alexandros Psychas, Georgios Palaiokrassas, Achilleas Marinakis, Antonios Litke, Theodora Varvarigou, Charalampos Bouchlis, Amaryllis Raouzaiou, Gonçal Calvo and Jordi Escudero Subirana
Future Internet 2020, 12(8), 134; https://doi.org/10.3390/fi12080134 - 11 Aug 2020
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Private and permissioned blockchains are conceptualized and mostly assembled for fulfilling corporations’ demands and needs in the context of their own premises. This paper presents a complete and sophisticated end-to-end permissioned blockchain application for governance and management of musical rights endorsed by smart [...] Read more.
Private and permissioned blockchains are conceptualized and mostly assembled for fulfilling corporations’ demands and needs in the context of their own premises. This paper presents a complete and sophisticated end-to-end permissioned blockchain application for governance and management of musical rights endorsed by smart contract development. In a music industry use case, this disclosed solution monitors and regulates conflicting musical rights of diverse entities under a popular permissioned distributed ledger technology network. The proposed implementation couples various and distinct business domains across the music industry organizations and non-profit blockchain associations. Full article
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Real-Time Stream Processing in Social Networks with RAM3S
by Ilaria Bartolini and Marco Patella
Future Internet 2019, 11(12), 249; https://doi.org/10.3390/fi11120249 - 29 Nov 2019
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The avalanche of (both user- and device-generated) multimedia data published in online social networks poses serious challenges to researchers seeking to analyze such data for many different tasks, like recommendation, event recognition, and so on. For some such tasks, the classical “batch” approach [...] Read more.
The avalanche of (both user- and device-generated) multimedia data published in online social networks poses serious challenges to researchers seeking to analyze such data for many different tasks, like recommendation, event recognition, and so on. For some such tasks, the classical “batch” approach of big data analysis is not suitable, due to constraints of real-time or near-real-time processing. This led to the rise of stream processing big data platforms, like Storm and Flink, that are able to process data with a very low latency. However, this complicates the task of data analysis since any implementation has to deal with the technicalities of such platforms, like distributed processing, synchronization, node faults, etc. In this paper, we show how the RAM 3 S framework could be profitably used to easily implement a variety of applications (such as clothing recommendations, job suggestions, and alert generation for dangerous events), being independent of the particular stream processing big data platforms used. Indeed, by using RAM 3 S, researchers can concentrate on the development of their data analysis application, completely ignoring the details of the underlying platform. Full article
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A Context-Aware Conversational Agent in the Rehabilitation Domain
by Thanassis Mavropoulos, Georgios Meditskos, Spyridon Symeonidis, Eleni Kamateri, Maria Rousi, Dimitris Tzimikas, Lefteris Papageorgiou, Christos Eleftheriadis, George Adamopoulos, Stefanos Vrochidis and Ioannis Kompatsiaris
Future Internet 2019, 11(11), 231; https://doi.org/10.3390/fi11110231 - 1 Nov 2019
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Conversational agents are reshaping our communication environment and have the potential to inform and persuade in new and effective ways. In this paper, we present the underlying technologies and the theoretical background behind a health-care platform dedicated to supporting medical stuff and individuals [...] Read more.
Conversational agents are reshaping our communication environment and have the potential to inform and persuade in new and effective ways. In this paper, we present the underlying technologies and the theoretical background behind a health-care platform dedicated to supporting medical stuff and individuals with movement disabilities and to providing advanced monitoring functionalities in hospital and home surroundings. The framework implements an intelligent combination of two research areas: (1) sensor- and camera-based monitoring to collect, analyse, and interpret people behaviour and (2) natural machine–human interaction through an apprehensive virtual assistant benefiting ailing patients. In addition, the framework serves as an important assistant to caregivers and clinical experts to obtain information about the patients in an intuitive manner. The proposed approach capitalises on latest breakthroughs in computer vision, sensor management, speech recognition, natural language processing, knowledge representation, dialogue management, semantic reasoning, and speech synthesis, combining medical expertise and patient history. Full article
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