Pattern Recognition Letters: Intelligent Multimedia Interactivity

Pattern Recognition Letters
Special Issue on Intelligent Multimedia Interactivity
The explosive growth of digital photos and videos, the prevalence of capture devices, and the advent of media-sharing services on the Internet have drastically increased the volume of community-contributed multimedia resources. Billions of photos, videos, and music clips shared on websites bring profound social impacts on the human society and pose new challenges for analyzing such large-scale multimedia data. On the other hand, we have witnessed the power of human efforts in the Web 2.0 era in providing quality-controlled interactions such as annotations, ratings, question answering, and so on. By incorporating those human efforts into computational process of multimedia, it is promising to solve conventional problems in the multimedia domain such as tagging or annotation, interactive search, user-targeted services, as well as personalized recommendation. Recently, many research efforts are dedicated to developing new technologies, pipelines, tools, or even games to leverage user interactions for multimedia analysis. This trend of exploring human knowledge for computing is anticipated to spread across a still wider range of research communities.