We are pleased to provide below some relevant studies and reports dedicated to the multimedia search:
TECHNO-ECONOMIC AND SOCIO-ECONOMIC ANALYSIS OF MOBILE SEARCH
Following the extraordinary commercial and technical success of web search over fixed platforms, many experts consider mobile search is likely to become the "next big thing".
For several years the IPTS has been studying the market dynamics of this important sector, and in particular the techno-economic and socio-economic aspects of mobile search, in collaboration with reputed professionals in the field.
The objective of this document is to survey the existing applications for visual-based mobile image search and investigate their technical and socio-economic aspects. To this end, we go through the basic architecture of these applications and list the utilized technologies. Moreover, we provide an overview of the user needs and usage patterns of such applications, as well as a brief description of the business models that are currently employed. The most significant part of the document is devoted on presenting 12 of such mobile image search applications, where for each one we provide brief background information, we describe the functionality of the offered service and the domain of target users, and we discuss the adopted business model. In concluding, we compare the examined applications in terms of the adopted technology, target users and business model and identify the most important trends in the sector both from a technological and socio-economic perspective.
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