Joe Dev on Tech - Thomas Steiner - Summarizing Events with Social Media
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Smartphones, tablets, or digital cameras together with social networks enable people to create, share, and consume enormous amounts of media items like videos or photos. Mobile devices are omnipresent at all sorts of events, where, given a stable network connection, part of the event-related media items are published on social networks, both as the event happens, or afterwards, once a stable network connection has been re-established. Our research question is: "Can user-customizable media galleries that summarize given events be created solely based on textual and multimedia data from social networks"? We have developed and evaluated an application and related methods for media item enrichment, leveraging social networks, utilizing the Web of Data, techniques known from Content-based Image Retrieval (CBIR) and Content-based Video Retrieval (CBVR), and fine-grained media item addressing schemes like Media Fragments URIs, to provide a scalable and near real-time solution to realize event summarization and media item compilation.
