Relational user attribute inference in social media

IEEE Transactions on Multimedia

Volumn 17, Issue 7, 2015, Pages 1031-1044

  Fang, Quan ^a   Sang, Jitao ^a   Xu, Changsheng ^a   Hossain, M Shamim ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF AUTOMATION   (China)

^b KING SAUD UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

Attribute relation; latent SVM (LSVM); user attribute inference

Indexed keywords

MULTIMEDIA SYSTEMS; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

ATTRIBUTE RELATION; DEPENDENCY RELATION; EMOTIONAL ORIENTATIONS; LATENT SVM; MULTIMEDIA INFORMATION; MULTIMEDIA MESSAGES; UNIFIED FRAMEWORK; USER ATTRIBUTE INFERENCE;

SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

EID: 84933565196     PISSN: 15209210     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMM.2015.2430819     Document Type: Article

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