Title
Manifold Learning for Real-World Event Understanding
Date Issued
01 January 2021
Access level
open access
Resource Type
journal article
Author(s)
Rodrigues C.M.
Lavi B.
Rocha A.
Dias Z.
Universidad de Campinas
Publisher(s)
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Abstract
Information coming from social media is vital to the understanding of the dynamics involved in multiple events such as terrorist attacks and natural disasters. With the spread and popularization of cameras and the means to share content through social networks, an event can be followed through many different lenses and vantage points. However, social media data present numerous challenges, and frequently it is necessary a great deal of data cleaning and filtering techniques to separate what is related to the depicted event from contents otherwise useless. In a previous effort of ours, we decomposed events into representative components aiming at describing vital details of an event to characterize its defining moments. However, the lack of minimal supervision to guide the combination of representative components somehow limited the performance of the method. In this paper, we extend upon our prior work and present a learning-from-data method for dynamically learning the contribution of different components for a more effective event representation. The method relies upon just a few training samples (few-shot learning), which can be easily provided by an investigator. The obtained results on real-world datasets show the effectiveness of the proposed ideas.
Start page
2957
End page
2972
Volume
16
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Ciencias de la computación Educación general (incluye capacitación, pedadogía)
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-85103758429
Source
IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security
ISSN of the container
15566013
Sponsor(s)
Manuscript received April 17, 2020; revised December 18, 2020 and March 4, 2021; accepted March 12, 2021. Date of publication April 2, 2021; date of current version April 19, 2021. This work was supported in part by the Coordination for the Improvement of Higher Education Personnel (CAPES) under Grant Capes Deep-Eyes; in part by the São Paulo Research Foundation (FAPESP) under Grant DéjàVu 2017/12646-3, Grant 2013/08293-7, Grant 2015/11937-9, Grant 2017/16246-0, Grant 2017/16871-1, Grant 2018/16214-3, Grant 2018/05668-3, and Grant 2018/16548-9; and in part by the National Council for Scientific and Technological (CNPq) under Grant 400487/2016-0, Grant 425340/2016-3, Grant 304380/2018-0, and Grant 304497/2018-5. The associate editor coordinating the review of this manuscript and approving it for publication was Dr. Marc Chaumont. (Corresponding author: Anderson Rocha.) The authors are with the Institute of Computing, University of Campinas, Campinas 13083-852, Brazil (e-mail: caroline.rodrigues@students. ic.unicamp.br; aurea.soriano@ic.unicamp.br; bahram.lavi@ic.unicamp.br; anderson.rocha@ic.unicamp.br; zanoni@ic.unicamp.br).
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