This workshop presents cutting-edge search computing solutions that have been developed to provide users with access to networked media and in particular, social multimedia. It will showcase new techniques and applications have been developed in European research laboratories and focus on those solutions that are ripe for industry application.
The opening talk presented a vision on the area of search computing entitled "Search Computing: Business Areas, Research and Socio-Economic Challenges". Then, a selection of leading researchers presentd highlights and applications from a range of areas important for search and social media search.
The afternoon session concentrated on the "Triple Synergy", the combination of multimedia content, user-derived annotations and the structures of peer-to-peer and social networks. The Triple Synergy is deployed in order to improve user access (including search, recommendation, browsing and discovery) to multimedia online and in social communities. Here, the PetaMedia Network of Excellence presented multimedia applications that it has developed within the framework of its field trials.
Finally, the workshop ended with a panel that put a critical look at the future of multimedia search, and in particular investigated the question of the contribution that search computing can make to innovation within the area of social media.
Presentations have been videorecorded by VideoLectures and will be soon online.
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