With an exponential increase in the provisioning of multimedia devices over the Internet of
Things (IoT), a significant amount of multimedia data (also referred to as multimedia big data …

Digital photographs and visual data have become increasingly available, especially on the
Web considered as the largest image database to date. However, the value of multimedia …

This chapter provides an accessible introduction for point processes, and especially Hawkes
processes, for modeling discrete, inter-dependent events over continuous time. We start by …

Today's digital contents are inherently multimedia: text, audio, image, video, and so on.
Video, in particular, has become a new way of communication between Internet users with …

We are living in an Age of Information where the amount of accessible data from science
and culture is almost limitless. However, this also means that finding an item of interest is …

Architectural design projects are heavily reliant on electronic information seeking. However,
there have been few studies on how architects look for and use information on the Web. We …

With the proliferation of social media, which is largely fostered by the boom of the Internet
and mobile ecosystems, a huge amount of multimedia data has been generated, forming the …

Today's multimedia search engines are expected to respond to queries reflecting a wide
variety of information needs from users with different goals. The topical dimension (“what” …

Implicit and explicit gender biases in media representations of individuals have long existed.
Women are less likely to be represented in gender-neutral media content (representation …

Image search engines show results differently from general Web search engines in three
key ways:(1) most Web-based image search engines adopt the two-dimensional result …