Multimedia Cloud and Big Data

Multimedia plays a vital role in the smarter cities eco-system due to the huge presence of multimodal sensors and smart objects in the environment, increased multimedia collaboration among different organizations, and real-time media sharing between socially-connected people. Consequently, high volume of sensorial media, social media, M2M data, IoT data, open data, and mobile phone data become available in smarter cities, which need effective processing, analysis, and sharing in order to make them useful by the citizens, city government, and businesses. The capture, process, and analysis of such media data require a rich pool of on-demand resources, massive computation capability, and scalable infrastructure that is hardly supported by traditional multimedia computing facilities. Cloud computing Events Conferences fits well as an enabling technology in this scenario as it provides a flexible stack of computing, storage, and software services at low cost. As a result, we are witnessing a paradigm shift toward multimedia cloud computing (MCC), where the computationally-intensive components of multimedia systems, services, and applications are moving onto the cloud, and the end user’s mobile device is being used as an interface for accessing those services.