Exploiting category-specific information for image popularity prediction in social media

Eric Massip, Shintami Chusnul Hidayati, Wen Huang Cheng, Kai Lung Hua

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Abstract

Social media has become an important part of each individual's life and an invaluable tool for companies to know their customers better in the market. The problem of popularity prediction in social media has been studied extensively over the past few years. Yet, it is still a challenging task due to various factors, including the difficulty to measure the preference of viewers towards specific post contents, the influence of user popularity, and the properties of social media itself. Accordingly, this paper focuses on image popularity prediction by analyzing early popularity patterns of posts in the same content category, fused with user information data. We conduct extensive experiments on a dataset crawled from Instagram. The experimental results show that our proposed model achieves considerable performance in predicting the number of likes of an Instagram input photo. Moreover, we also provide in-depth analysis of the importance of category-specific information in popularity prediction.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publication2018 IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo Workshops, ICMEW 2018
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
ISBN (Electronic)9781538641958
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 28 Nov 2018
Externally publishedYes
Event2018 IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo Workshops, ICMEW 2018 - San Diego, United States
Duration: 23 Jul 201827 Jul 2018

Publication series

Name2018 IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo Workshops, ICMEW 2018

Conference

Conference2018 IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo Workshops, ICMEW 2018
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CitySan Diego
Period23/07/1827/07/18

Keywords

  • affective computing
  • image populality
  • knowledge extraction
  • popularity prediction
  • social network

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