Large-Scale Multimedia Retrieval and Mining [Guest editors´ introduction]

This special issue samples the state of the art in large-scale multimedia analysis techniques and explores how advanced multimedia analysis techniques can be leveraged to address the challenges in large-scale data collections. In particular, from a total of 20 submissions, the guest editors selected five representative articles, that investigate large-scale multimedia analysis theory and systems across multiple application domains, such as Web event detection, landmark detection, image annotation, musical content mining, and cloud computing.