A Survey of Multimedia Big Data

Multimedia big data brings tremendous challenges as well as opportunities for multimedia applications/services. In this paper, we present a survey and tutorial for multimedia big data. After discussing the characteristics of multimedia big data such as human-centricity, multimodality, heterogeneity, unprecedented volume, and so on, this paper provides an overview of the state-of-the-art of multimedia big data, reviews the latest related technologies, and discusses the technical challenges. We conclude this paper with a discussion of open problems and future directions.