Cathal Gurrin

Benoit Huet

Wen-Huang Cheng

Vasileios Mezaris

Stefanos Vrochidis

Ioannis Kompatsiaris

The two-volume set LNCS 11295 and 11296 constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the 25th International Conference on MultiMedia Modeling, MMM 2019, held in Thessaloniki, Greece, in January 2019. Of the 172 submitted full papers, 49 were selected for oral presentation and 47 for poster presentation; in addition, 6 demonstration papers, 5 industry papers, 6 workshop papers, and 6 papers for the Video Browser Showdown 2019 were accepted. All papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 204 submissions.

25th International Conference, MMM 2019, Thessaloniki, Greece, January 8–11, 2019, Proceedings, Part I

MultiMedia Modeling

Babak Akhgar

Marco Gercke

Helen Gibson

This edited volume explores the fundamental aspects of the dark web, ranging from the technologies that power it, the cryptocurrencies that drive its markets, the criminalities it facilitates to the methods that investigators can employ to master it as a strand of open source intelligence. The book provides readers with detailed theoretical, technical and practical knowledge including the application of legal frameworks. With this it offers crucial insights for practitioners as well as academics into the multidisciplinary nature of dark web investigations for the identification and interception of illegal content and activities addressing both theoretical and practical issues.

Dark Web Investigation

Edward Y. Chang

A timely overview of cutting edge technologies for multimedia retrieval with a special emphasis on scalability The amount of multimedia data available every day is enormous and is growing at an exponential rate, creating a great need for new and more efficient approaches for large scale multimedia search. This book addresses that need, covering the area of multimedia retrieval and placing a special emphasis on scalability. It reports the recent works in large scale multimedia search, including research methods and applications, and is structured so that readers with basic knowledge can grasp the core message while still allowing experts and specialists to drill further down into the analytical sections. Big Data Analytics for Large-Scale Multimedia Search covers: representation learning, concept and event-based video search in large collections; big data multimedia mining, large scale video understanding, big multimedia data fusion, large-scale social multimedia analysis, privacy and audiovisual content, data storage and management for big multimedia, large scale multimedia search, multimedia tagging using deep learning, interactive interfaces for big multimedia and medical decision support applications using large multimodal data. Addresses the area of multimedia retrieval and pays close attention to the issue of scalability Presents problem driven techniques with solutions that are demonstrated through realistic case studies and user scenarios Includes tables, illustrations, and figures Offers a Wiley-hosted BCS that features links to open source algorithms, data sets and tools Big Data Analytics for Large-Scale Multimedia Search is an excellent book for academics, industrial researchers, and developers interested in big multimedia data search retrieval. It will also appeal to consultants in computer science problems and professionals in the multimedia industry.

Big Data Analytics for Large-Scale Multimedia Search

25th International Conference, MMM 2019, Thessaloniki, Greece, January 8–11, 2019, Proceedings, Part II

Pierre Bonnet

Kostas Karatzas

Alexis Joly

Ari Karppinen

This edited volume focuses on the latest and most impactful advancements of multimedia data globally available for environmental and earth biodiversity. The data reflects the status, behavior, change as well as human interests and concerns which are increasingly crucial for understanding environmental issues and phenomena. This volume addresses the need for the development of advanced methods, techniques and tools for collecting, managing, analyzing, understanding and modeling environmental & biodiversity data, including the automated or collaborative species identification, the species distribution modeling and their environment, such as the air quality or the bio-acoustic monitoring. Researchers and practitioners in multimedia and environmental topics will find the chapters essential to their continued studies.

Multimedia Tools and Applications for Environmental & Biodiversity Informatics

Klaus Schoeffmann

Jakub Lokoč

Tomáš Skopal

Xirong Li

Ioannis Patras

The two-volume set LNCS 12572 and 1273 constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the 27th International Conference on MultiMedia Modeling, MMM 2021, held in Prague, Czech Republic, in June2021. Of the 211 submitted regular papers, 40 papers were selected for oral presentation and 33 for poster presentation; 16 special session papers were accepted as well as 2 papers for a demo presentation and 17 papers for participation at the Video Browser Showdown 2021. The papers cover topics such as: multimedia indexing; multimedia mining; multimedia abstraction and summarization; multimedia annotation, tagging and recommendation; multimodal analysis for retrieval applications; semantic analysis of multimedia and contextual data; multimedia fusion methods; multimedia hyperlinking; media content browsing and retrieval tools; media representation and algorithms; audio, image, video processing, coding and compression; multimedia sensors and interaction modes; multimedia privacy, security and content protection; multimedia standards and related issues; advances in multimedia networking and streaming; multimedia databases, content delivery and transport; wireless and mobile multimedia networking; multi-camera and multi-view systems; augmented and virtual reality, virtual environments; real-time and interactive multimedia applications; mobile multimedia applications; multimedia web applications; multimedia authoring and personalization; interactive multimedia and interfaces; sensor networks; social and educational multimedia applications; and emerging trends.

27th International Conference, MMM 2021, Prague, Czech Republic, June 22–24, 2021, Proceedings, Part I

27th International Conference, MMM 2021, Prague, Czech Republic, June 22–24, 2021, Proceedings, Part II

Stefanos Vrochidis

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