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Tech Report kmi-08-03 Abstract

Modelling social context to improve online multimedia search
Techreport ID: kmi-08-03
Date: 2008
Author(s): Adam Rae

As the cost of production, storage and dissemination has plummeted for images, audio and video, challenges have arisen regarding how to most e?ectively handle this wealth of information. Digital recording devices have become cheaper, more widely available and are able to recording in better quality than ever before. Media representation has given us lossy and lossless file formats suitable for many different situations, from satellite broadcast to mobile streaming, each with their unique requirements and capabilities. Digital file storage devices have grown more capacious, high performing and more reliable. The one area that has not caught up is how to search and retrieval multimedia efficiently and e?ectively in these new, vast data sets and this is the focus for my work. More specifically, I wish to investigate the relationship between social context data and its e?ect on multimedia information retrieval.

Publication(s):

Probation review report carried out around 9 months after the start of doctoral work. Submitted 28/08/08

Future Internet

Knowledge
Management Multimedia &
Information Systems Narrative
Hypermedia New Media Systems Semantic Web &
Knowledge Services

Future Internet is...

With over a billion users, today's Internet is arguably the most successful human artifact ever created. The Internet's physical infrastructure, software, and content now play an integral part of the lives of everyone on the planet, whether they interact with it directly or not. Now nearing its fifth decade, the Internet has shown remarkable resilience and flexibility in the face of ever increasing numbers of users, data volume, and changing usage patterns, but faces growing challenges in meetings the needs of our knowledge society. Globally, many major initiatives are underway to address the need for more scientific research, physical infrastructure investment, better education, and better utilisation of the Internet. Within Japan, USA and Europe major new initiatives have begun in the area.

To succeed the Future Internet will need to address a number of cross-cutting challenges including:

Scalability in the face of peer-to-peer traffic, decentralisation, and increased openness

Trust when government, medical, financial, personal data are increasingly trusted to the cloud, and middleware will increasingly use dynamic service selection