Human-Centered Social Media Analytics

  • 4h 12m
  • Yun Fu (ed)
  • Springer
  • 2014

This book provides a timely and unique survey of next-generation social computational methodologies. The text explains the fundamentals of this field, and describes state-of-the-art methods for inferring social status, relationships, preferences, intentions, personalities, needs, and lifestyles from human information in unconstrained visual data. Topics and features: includes perspectives from an international and interdisciplinary selection of pre-eminent authorities; presents balanced coverage of both detailed theoretical analysis and real-world applications; examines social relationships in human-centered media for the development of socially-aware video, location-based, and multimedia applications; reviews techniques for recognizing the social roles played by people in an event, and for classifying human-object interaction activities; discusses the prediction and recognition of human attributes via social media analytics, including social relationships, facial age and beauty, and occupation.

In this Book

  • Bridging Human-Centered Social Media Content Across Web Domains
  • Learning Social Relations from Videos: Features, Models, and Analytics
  • Community Understanding in Location-based Social Networks
  • Social Role Recognition for Human Event Understanding
  • Integrating Randomization and Discrimination for Classifying Human-Object Interaction Activities
  • Recognizing People in Social Context
  • Female Facial Beauty Attribute Recognition and Editing
  • Facial Age Estimation: A Data Representation Perspective
  • Identity and Kinship Relations in Group Pictures
  • Recognizing Occupations Through Probabilistic Models: A Social View