Multimedia Data Management in Mobile Computing

Abstract

This special issue focuses on the management and exploitation of multimedia data in mobile computing environments. The main goal was to collect articles reporting the latest advances on the technologies, algorithms, models, standards, and applications for managing and exploiting multimedia data in mobile computing. Specifically, this issue includes four representative articles that encompass topics such as image databases for mobile devices, mobile photo recommendation, logbook generation from context-tagged images, keyword-based multimedia retrieval, and querying multimedia data in vehicular networks.