Recent advances in social multimedia big data mining and applications

In the past decade, social media contributes significantly to the arrival of the Big Data era. Big Data has not only provided new solutions for social media mining and applications, but brought about a paradigm shift to many fields of data analytics. This special issue solicits recent related attempts in the multimedia community. We believe that the enclosed papers in this special issue provide a unique opportunity for multidisciplinary works connecting both the social media and big data contexts to multimedia computing.