Semantic Analysis and Personalization for Mobile Media Applications

The explosive proliferation of multimedia content leads to an increasing need for its ubiquitous access, anytime and anywhere, and over a wide variety of receiving devices. Mobile media is a high growth area due to rich multimedia content and rapidly increased number of portable multimedia players. However, current consumer expectations for mobile media technologies and applications still far exceed the achievement of today's state of the art technologies. This paper gives an overview of critical technologies for mobile media and emphasizes on state-of-the-art in semantic analysis and personalization for mobile media applications as well as addresses research challenges for mobile media technologies and applications.