EventEnricher: a novel way to collect media illustrating events

Exploiting event context to organize social media draws lots of interest from the multimedia community. In this paper, we present our system, called EventEnricher, to infer the semantics behind events and explore social media to illustrate events. We extend the set of illustrating images for a particular event by querying social media with diverse multi-modal features and subsequently pruning the results using content based visual analysis. We integrate the solution into an intelligent interface that enables the user to browse the media collection illustrating events in an easy, effective and informative way.