Multimedia Intelligence: When Multimedia Meets Artificial Intelligence

Owing to the rich emerging multimedia applications and services in the past decade, super large amount of multimedia data has been produced for the purpose of advanced research in multimedia. Furthermore, multimedia research has made great progress on image/video content analysis, multimedia search and recommendation, multimedia streaming, multimedia content delivery etc. At the same time, Artificial Intelligence (AI) has undergone a "new" wave of development since being officially regarded as an academic discipline in 1950s, which should give credits to the extreme success of deep learning. Thus, one question naturally arises: What happens when multimedia meets Artificial Intelligence? To answer this question, this tutorial disseminates and promotes the concept of Multimedia Intelligence through discussing the mutual-influence between multimedia and Artificial Intelligence, which is an exciting and fast-growing research direction in both multimedia and machine learning. We will advocate novel, high-quality research findings, and innovative solutions to multimedia intelligence through exploring the mutual influences between multimedia and Artificial Intelligence from two aspects: i) multimedia drives Artificial Intelligence to experience a paradigm shift towards more explainability and ii) Artificial Intelligence in turn injects new ways of thinking for multimedia research. As such, these two aspects form a loop in which multimedia and Artificial Intelligence interactively enhance each other. In this tutorial, we discuss what and how efforts have been done in literature and share our insights on research directions that deserve further study to produce potentially profound impact on multimedia intelligence. This topic is at the core of the scope of ACM Multimedia, and is attractive to MM audience from both academia and industry.