A survey of event analysis and mining from social multimedia

In recent years, with the popularity of mobile devices and mobile Internet, more and more social media sites are growing in an explosive way. Therefore, the social hot event will be rapidly fermented by the interaction of a large number of network users, and a large amount of multimedia data (such as texts, images and videos) will be generated. Therefore, it is important and necessary to conduct the research of multimedia social event analysis to know the evolutionary trend of social event over time automatically. This paper provides a survey and summarizes major progresses in multimedia social event analysis. We focus on four areas: (1) multimedia social event representation; (2) multimedia social event detection and tracking; (3) multimedia social event evolutionary analysis; and (4) multimedia social event topic mining.