skip to main content
10.1145/1743384.1743460acmconferencesArticle/Chapter ViewAbstractPublication PagesmmConference Proceedingsconference-collections
demonstration

From microblogs to social images: event analytics for situation assessment

Published: 29 March 2010 Publication History

Abstract

With the rising popularity of microblogging sites like Twitter and Jaiku, we are seeing huge volumes of user generated spatio-temporal-thematic data being created in real time. If combined effectively, this multimedia data can be used to detect events, and understand various 'situations' as they are evolving at different spatio-temporal granularity across the world. In this work, we demonstrate the use of a 'social pixel' based approach to situation assessment. Taking inspiration from traditional image pixels which represent aggregation of photon energies at a location, we consider aggregation of user interest levels at a different geo-locations as 'social pixels'. Combining such pixels spatio-temporally allows for creation of social images and video. We demonstrate how the use of relevant media operators upon such 'images', and use of domain based rules can be used to decide relevant control action decisions to be taken at both, micro and macro levels. The ideas are showcased using a Swine flu monitoring application which uses Twitter data.

References

[1]
S. Few. Information dashboard design: the effective visual communication of data. Sebastopol, 2006.
[2]
a. Nagarajan, Spatio-temporal-thematic analysis of citizen sensor data: Challenges and experiences. WISE 2009.
[3]
V. Singh and R. Jain. Situation based control for cyber-physical systems. In IEEE workshop on Situation Management, MilCom, 2009.

Cited By

View all

Index Terms

  1. From microblogs to social images: event analytics for situation assessment

    Recommendations

    Comments

    Information & Contributors

    Information

    Published In

    cover image ACM Conferences
    MIR '10: Proceedings of the international conference on Multimedia information retrieval
    March 2010
    600 pages
    ISBN:9781605588155
    DOI:10.1145/1743384
    Permission to make digital or hard copies of all or part of this work for personal or classroom use is granted without fee provided that copies are not made or distributed for profit or commercial advantage and that copies bear this notice and the full citation on the first page. Copyrights for components of this work owned by others than ACM must be honored. Abstracting with credit is permitted. To copy otherwise, or republish, to post on servers or to redistribute to lists, requires prior specific permission and/or a fee. Request permissions from [email protected]

    Sponsors

    Publisher

    Association for Computing Machinery

    New York, NY, United States

    Publication History

    Published: 29 March 2010

    Permissions

    Request permissions for this article.

    Check for updates

    Author Tags

    1. analytics
    2. control
    3. detection
    4. microblogs
    5. situation
    6. twitter

    Qualifiers

    • Demonstration

    Conference

    MIR '10
    Sponsor:
    MIR '10: International Conference on Multimedia Information Retrieval
    March 29 - 31, 2010
    Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA

    Contributors

    Other Metrics

    Bibliometrics & Citations

    Bibliometrics

    Article Metrics

    • Downloads (Last 12 months)0
    • Downloads (Last 6 weeks)0
    Reflects downloads up to 21 Jan 2025

    Other Metrics

    Citations

    Cited By

    View all
    • (2018)Event detection from Twitter – a surveyInternational Journal of Web Information Systems10.1108/IJWIS-11-2017-007514:3(262-280)Online publication date: 20-Aug-2018
    • (2017)BibliographyFrontiers of Multimedia Research10.1145/3122865.3122878(315-377)Online publication date: 19-Dec-2017
    • (2017)The influence of affective cues on positive emotion in predicting instant information sharing on microblogsInformation Processing and Management: an International Journal10.1016/j.ipm.2017.02.00353:3(721-734)Online publication date: 1-May-2017
    • (2017)Frontiers of Multimedia ResearchundefinedOnline publication date: 19-Dec-2017
    • (2016)Visualizing High-Risk Paths using Geo-tagged Social Data for Disaster MitigationProceedings of the 9th ACM SIGSPATIAL Workshop on Location-based Social Networks10.1145/3021304.3021308(1-8)Online publication date: 31-Oct-2016
    • (2016)Case Studies: Using EventShop for Creating Multiple Situation Recognition ApplicationsSituation Recognition Using EventShop10.1007/978-3-319-30537-0_9(121-135)Online publication date: 1-Jun-2016
    • (2013)EventShopProceedings of the 22nd International Conference on World Wide Web10.1145/2487788.2488175(1359-1368)Online publication date: 13-May-2013
    • (2011)From multimedia data to situation detectionProceedings of the 19th ACM international conference on Multimedia10.1145/2072298.2072501(875-876)Online publication date: 28-Nov-2011
    • (2011)From Earthquakes to "#morecowbell": Identifying Sub-topics in Social Network Communications2011 IEEE Third Int'l Conference on Privacy, Security, Risk and Trust and 2011 IEEE Third Int'l Conference on Social Computing10.1109/PASSAT/SocialCom.2011.114(541-544)Online publication date: Oct-2011
    • (2010)Social pixelsProceedings of the 18th ACM international conference on Multimedia10.1145/1873951.1874030(481-490)Online publication date: 25-Oct-2010

    View Options

    Login options

    View options

    PDF

    View or Download as a PDF file.

    PDF

    eReader

    View online with eReader.

    eReader

    Media

    Figures

    Other

    Tables

    Share

    Share

    Share this Publication link

    Share on social media