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Stefanos Vrochidis is a Senior Researcher with the Information Technologies Institute (CERTH-ITI) in Greece. His research interests include multimedia retrieval, semantic multimedia analysis, multimodal big data analytics, web data mining, multimodal interaction and security applications.

Benoit Huet is Assistant Professor in the Data Science Department of EURECOM, France. His current research interests include large scale multimedia content analysis, mining and indexing, multimodal fusion, and affective and socially-aware multimedia.

Edward Y. Chang has acted as the President of AI Research and Healthcare at HTC since 2012. Prior to his current post, he was a director of research at Google from 2006 to 2012, and a professor at the University of California, Santa Barbara, from 1999 to 2006. He is an IEEE Fellow for his contribution to scalable machine learning.

Ioannis Kompatsiaris is a Senior Researcher with the Information Technologies Institute (CERTH-ITI) in Greece, leading the Multimedia, Knowledge and Social Media Analytics Lab. His research interests include large-scale multimedia and social media analysis, knowledge structures and reasoning, eHealth, security and environmental applications.

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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 book companion website 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.