F-SED: Feature-Centric Social Event Detection

Abstract

In the context of social media, existent works offer socialevent-based organization of multimedia objects (e.g., photos, videos) by mainly considering spatio-temporal data, while neglecting other userrelated information (e.g., people, user interests). In this paper we propose an automated, extensible, and incremental Feature-centric Social Event Detection (F-SED) approach, based on Formal Concept Analysis (FCA), to organize shared multimedia objects on social media platforms and sharing applications. F-SED simultaneously considers various event features (e.g., temporal, geographical, social (user related)), and uses the latter to detect different feature-centric events (e.g., user-centric, location-centric). Our experimental results show that detection accuracy is improved when, besides spatio-temporal information, other features, such as social, are considered. We also show that the performance of our prototype is quasi-linear in most cases.