Topics

The workshop will provide a forum for researchers from all over the world to share information on their latest investigations on social media analysis, exploration, search, mining, and emerging new social media applications. The broader context of the workshop can be related in some respects to the areas of Web Search and Mining, Social Networks Analysis, Multimedia Information Retrieval, and Multimedia Data Ming. In addition to paper presentations and depending on time limitations, we will solicit an invited talk or a panel that will stress the interdisciplinary challenges of modeling social media.

Topics in modeling social media of interest include but not limited to:

• Theory and methodology for modeling of social media
• Social context-based media content analysis
• Web driven media creation
• Collaborative filtering and recommendation systems for social media
• Organization, indexing and navigation of multimedia content
• Behavior analysis in social media networks
• Multi-modality fusion for heterogeneous social media content
• Interactive/collaborative image, video and audio search in web environment
• Machine learning and data mining methods for social media content
• Large scale image, video and audio classification using social contextual cues
• Image, video and audio recommendation in social networks
• Social media-based advertisement
• Social network enablement via media
• Privacy and security issues in social media (e.g. media watermarking)