IEEE Access Special Section Editorial: Intelligent Sensing On Mobile and Social Media Analytics

The proliferation of mobile devices has led to an increasingly interconnected era, and a recent trend is the migration of multimedia search and analysis from the desktop to the cloud. This is, perhaps, partly due to the ease of capturing images and videos on a mobile device and associating them with social and contextual metadata such as comments and GPS tags. Such a hybrid data structure can benefit a wide variety of potential (mobile) multimedia applications, such as location recognition, landmark search, augmented reality, and commercial recommendations. One intrinsic potential solution is to explore large-scale social multimedia to assist and facilitate location related applications on the go and in real-time. With the combination of social and mobile cues, several problems that are previously difficult to be tackled in multimedia content analysis have also become more tractable. Current research in Intelligent Sensing is addressing the following: