Title :
Let´s Weave the Visual Web
Author_Institution :
Univ. of California, Irvine, Irvine, CA, USA
Abstract :
A major disruption is taking place in terms of how photographs are captured and the role they play in modern society, offering the tantalizing possibility of creating visual connections and conversations beyond anything we´ve yet seen or imagined. The author reviews the evolution of visual documentation and considers where we´re headed, introducing the Visual Web. This department is part of a special issue on social multimedia and storytelling.
Keywords :
Internet; social networking (online); visual databases; photograph; social multimedia; visual Web; visual documentation; Big data; Context modeling; Data analysis; Information retrieval; Multimedia communication; Videos; Visualization; Web and internet services; Internet/Web technologies; big data; data analysis; graphics; mobile; multimedia; the Visual Web; visual documentation; visualization;
Journal_Title :
MultiMedia, IEEE
DOI :
10.1109/MMUL.2015.60
