Guest Editorial Special Issue on Multimedia Big Data in Internet of Things

Multimedia big data is one of the cornerstones of Internet of Things (IoT). IoT research subjects naturally connect with multimedia and big data. At the same time, multimedia data and application occupies a large proportion of the landscape of IoT. Moreover, there are many exciting new research directions in multimedia big data based IoT, such as directional sensor networks, video opportunistic transmission, physical object location, image or voice based physical object searching, and so on. Due to the dramatic development of IoT, we have bigger and bigger data sets, and we are stepping into the world of multimedia big data.