Personalized Multimedia Retrieval: The New Trend?

The aim of this paper is to present an overview of the current situation in this hot topic of Multimedia Information Retrieval: Personalization. We are considering several aspects of this problem. On one hand, the user will want to have a personalized access to his image/video collections and this can be achieved by providing intuitive and natural browsing capabilities and customized features. Furthermore, the system is required to perform user profiling and to adapt the existing parameters of the system to the user needs and interest. On the other hand, it is also important to consider the devices and applications in which this technology is going to be deployed. Mobile media is a high growth area but the state-of-the-art technologies are lagging behind the consumers expectations. We are addressing in this paper precisely these three important aspects.