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New challenges in multimedia research for the increasingly connected and fast growing digital society

We are living in an era with rapidly growing connectivity through digital networks. Multimedia research will continue to address crucial problems in the digital world, such as image/video/audio retrieval and tagging. On the other hand, new challenges and opportunities arise when we accumulate multimedia data and expand Internet social networks at astounding speed. This panel, formed by active researchers from both academia and the industry, discusses potential ways to enhance the management, sharing, and archiving of multimedia objects in socially networked environments, and reversely, ways to reach computational goals made possibly more achievable by the abundance of data and user connections. This paper records the opinions of the panelists.