Computational Intelligence - August 2016 - 2

CIM Editorial Board
Editor-in-Chief
Hisao Ishibuchi
Osaka Prefecture University
Graduate School of Engineering
Department of Computer Science
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Hisao Ishibuchi
Osaka Prefecture University, JAPAN

Power of a Single Photo in the Big Data Era

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n the current Big Data Era, an enormous amount of data has
been automatically collected by various devices such as security cameras, sensor networks and automatic ticket gates with
the advent of IoT. At the same time, billions of people are creating, sending and uploading a lot of information in various forms
such as chats, photos and videos. With this daily information
flood, it may be almost impossible for us to calculate the visible
impact of uploading a single photo. For example, it is unlikely that my photo below
at the Rusutsu Ski Resort will increase the number of foreign visitors for the next
ski season.
However, on the contrary, there exists a number of surprising other stories. One
well known story in Japan is about a photo of a young singer. Three years ago, she was
a junior high-school student and a member of an unfamiliar local group of singers. A
photo was taken by her fan at a small local event and uploaded to an online message
board. Within a few days, the photo went viral and was widely shared. The photo of
her had high visible attention. Now she is a popular singer and movie star. This success story shows that even a single photo can generate a large impact in our daily
information flood. A similar story could happen with your WCCI paper amongst
thousands of presentations. My favorite story is about a lost camera. An underwater
camera was found on a beach of an island. A diving shop owner on the island took a
photo of the camera and uploaded the photo as a lost-and-found item. Surprisingly,
the owner of the camera was found in Taiwan within three days. The camera was lost
in Taiwan ten months earlier and amazingly floated all the way to Japan.
The feature topic in the current CIM issue is "Big Social Data Analysis". The
proposal of this special issue was inspired by the great success of the two previous
special issues in 2014 on "Natural Language Processing" and "Big Data". Those articles in the special issues have received a lot of attention. I hope that you will also
enjoy all the articles in our current CIM issue.

Holiday at Rusutsu Resort in Hokkaido, Japan (February 2016).

Digital Object Identifier 10.1109/MCI.2016.2572461
Date of publication: 18 July 2016

Digital Object Identifier 10.1109/MCI.2016.2572460
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