Fuelling Big Data Intelligence into Future Multimedia System: Reflection and Outlook

The last decade has witnessed an explosive growth in multimedia big data, with the invention of big data analytics technologies, such as Hadoop, Spark, Storm. All these technologies are valuable to mine intelligence from multimedia big data, and further shed new insights into multimedia networks. This paper presents an outlook on the development of future multimedia networks and discuss utilizing the big data intelligence into the design and optimization. We start with an end-to-end view for future multimedia networks, including contents, multimedia networks, and consumers. For each part, we enumerate several representative applications and technologies that bring new challenges and opportunities. After that, we discuss the common idea of utilizing the big data intelligence to benefit the whole ecosystem, and highlight some open research issues for the future.