This book provides a timely and unique survey of next-generation social computational methodologies. The text explains the fundamentals of this field, and describes state-of-the-art methods for inferring social status, relationships, preferences, intentions, personalities, needs, and lifestyles from human information in unconstrained visual data. Topics and features: includes perspectives from an international and interdisciplinary selection of pre-eminent authorities; presents balanced coverage of both detailed theoretical analysis and real-world applications; examines social relationships in human-centered media for the development of socially-aware video, location-based, and multimedia applications; reviews techniques for recognizing the social roles played by people in an event, and for classifying human-object interaction activities; discusses the prediction and recognition of human attributes via social media analytics, including social relationships, facial age and beauty,
and occupation.
Part I: Social Relationships in Human-Centered MediaBridging Human-Centered Social Media Content across Web DomainsSuman Deb Roy, Tao Mei, and Wenjun ZengLearning Social Relations from Videos: Features, Models and AnalyticsLei Ding and Alper YilmazCommunity Understanding in Location-Based Social NetworksYi-Liang Zhao, Qiang Cheng, Shuicheng Yan, Daqing Zhang, and Tat-Seng ChuaSocial Role Recognition for Human Event UnderstandingVignesh Ramanathan, Bangpeng Yao, and Li Fei-FeiIntegrating Randomization and Discrimination for Classifying Human-Object Interaction ActivitiesAditya Khosla, Bangpeng Yao, and Li Fei-FeiPart II: Human Attributes in Social Media AnalyticsRecognizing People in Social ContextGang Wang, Andrew Gallagher, Jiebo Luo, and David ForsythFemale Facial Beauty Attribute Recognition and EditingJinjun Wang, Yihong Gong, and Douglas GrayFacial Age Estimation: A Data Representation Perspective Xin GengIdentity and Kinship Relations in Group Pict
uresMing Shao, Siyu Xia, and Yun FuRecognizing Occupations through Probabilistic Models: A Social ViewMing Shao and Yun Fu