An overview of context types within multimedia and social computing

Mylonas, Phivos

doi:10.1145/2797143.2797184

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“…This contextual aspect is nowadays considered to be the very first, basic aspect of contextual information. As depicted in our past works on the subject [3,4], it is safe to presume that visual context forms a long-established approach to context, interpreting it from an integrated view on environmental parameters inherent in content items processing. Being a rather exploited and analyzed field, visual context is considered today as the fundamental layer (see Figure 2) on top of which all other, newer contextual aspects are built.…”

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“…In this paper we attempt to focus on the sub-fields of computer science that undertake their own way of understanding, and thus defining, what the term context ( Figure 1) really represents. For the sake of both space and clarity, we shall omit in the following the analytical presentations included in our past attempts to identify and categorize context, mainly because at the time they focused in primitive context aspects that aided towards the establishment of the term, but currently are considered to be rather obsolete in nature; of course, the interested reader may consult them in detail for the sake of completeness [3,4]. Still, the evolving nature of the notion of context, coupled together with updated, recent advances in modern informatics and the introduction of aspects that did not exist only a couple of years ago, constitute this survey work a necessity of great research significance.…”

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The Evolution of Contextual Information Processing in Informatics

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2018

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After many decades of flourishing computer science it is now rather evident that in a world dominated by different kinds of digital information, both applications and people are forced to seek new, innovative structures and forms of data management and organization. Following this blunt observation, researchers in informatics have strived over the recent years to tackle the non-unique and rather evolving notion of context, which aids significantly the data disambiguation process. Motivated by this environment, this work attempts to summarize and organize in a researcher-friendly tabular manner important or pioneer related research works deriving from diverse computational intelligence domains: Initially, we discuss the influence of context with respect to traditional low-level multimedia content analysis and search, and retrieval tasks and then we advance to the fields of overall computational context-awareness and the so-called human-generated contextual elements. In an effort to provide meaningful information to fellow researchers, this brief survey focuses on the impact of context in modern and popular computing undertakings of our era. More specifically, we focus to the presentation of a short review of visual context modeling methods, followed by the depiction of context-awareness in modern computing. Works dealing with the interpretation of context by human-generated interactions are also discussed herein, as the particular domain gains an ever-increasing proportion of related research nowadays. We then conclude the paper by providing a short discussion on (i) the motivation behind the included context type categorization into three main pillars; (ii) the findings and conclusions of the survey for each context category; and (iii) a couple of brief advices derived from the survey for both interested developers and fellow researchers.

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Section: Visual Contextmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%