Is Artificial Intelligence New to Multimedia?

Abstract

The field of multimedia covers a broad range of research and technologies that aim to develop solutions for individual disciplines as well as multidisciplinary domains. From the beginning, multimedia research has employed Artificial Intelligence (AI) techniques to address various challenges in this area. Specifically, AI has been extensively used for multimedia retrieval, management, and analysis. Over the past few years, multimedia has continued to utilize AI to bring revolutionary advancement in numerous applications and domains, mainly thanks to the recent progress in machine learning algorithms and computing powers. However, many challenges remain, which calls for the need to extend Multimedia AI to tackle these problems and to lead to great opportunities in the near future.