Intelligent Innovations in Multimedia Data

Dear Colleagues,

In the last years, the spread of online social networks (OSNs) has provided users with new ways to interact on an interactive platform to create and share multimedia content such as text, image, video, audio, and so on. It is noteworthy that OSNs, both for the amount of data they produce and for the high peace of streaming, represent without any doubt the essence of big data.

As a consequence, this new availability of data has allowed researchers to investigate the suitability of big data, machine learning and, more recently, deep learning approaches to the development of intelligent innovations in multimedia data processing. Common applications include social dynamic analysis, user behavior prediction, multimedia content and social graph evolution modeling, computer vision, text mining and pattern discovery on graphs, usually aimed at designing human-centric multimedia applications and services, such as information retrieval, recommendation, summarization, viral marketing, event recognition, expert finding, community detection, user profiling, security and social data privacy.

The aim of this Special Issue is to collect the most recent innovation in the processing of multimedia data generated by user interaction and activities over online social networks. We would like to gather researchers from different disciplines and methodological backgrounds to discuss new ideas, research questions, recent results, and future challenges in this emerging area of research and public interest. Potential topics include, but are not limited to:

• Multimedia information retrieval
• Text processing and information mining
• Multimedia recommendations
• Spreading news on social media
• Event detection
• User profiling
• Computer vision to track user habits and activities
• Fake news detection and countermeasures

Dr. Vincenzo Moscato
Dr. Giancarlo Sperlì
Dr. Stefano Marrone
Guest Editors

Manuscript Submission Information

Manuscripts should be submitted online at www.mdpi.com by registering and logging in to this website. Once you are registered, click here to go to the submission form. Manuscripts can be submitted until the deadline. All submissions that pass pre-check are peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will be published continuously in the journal (as soon as accepted) and will be listed together on the special issue website. Research articles, review articles as well as short communications are invited. For planned papers, a title and short abstract (about 250 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for assessment.

Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Future Internet is an international peer-reviewed open access monthly journal published by MDPI.

Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 1600 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.