Event analysis in social multimedia: A survey

Recent years have witnessed the rapid growth of social multimedia data available over the Internet. The age of huge amount of media collection provides users facilities to share and access data, while it also demands the revolution of data management techniques, since the exponential growth of social multimedia requires more scalable, effective and robust technologies to manage and index them. The event is one of the most important cues to recall people's past memory. The reminder value of an event makes it extremely

helpful in organizing data. The study of event based analysis on social multimedia data has drawn intensive attention in research community. In this article, we provide a comprehensive survey on event based analysis over social multimedia data, including event enrichment, detection, and categorization. We introduce each paradigm and summarize related research efforts. In addition, we also suggest the emerging trends in this research area.