Multimedia Cloud and Big Data

Multimedia plays a vital role in the smarter cities eco-system because of vast presence of multimodal sensors and smart objects in the environment, increased multimedia collaboration totally different organizations, and real-time media sharing between socially-connected people. Consequently, high volume of sensory media, social media, M2M data, IoT data, open data, and mobile phone information become available in smarter cities, which need effective processing, analysis, and sharing in order to make them useful by the citizens, city government, and businesses.