We have witnessed significant advances in multimedia research and applications due to the rapid increase in digital media, computing power, communication speed, and storage capacity. Multimedia has become an indispensable aspect in contemporary daily life, and we can feel its presence in many applications ranging from online multimedia search, Internet Protocol Television (IPTV), and mobile multimedia, to social media. The proliferation of diverse multimedia applications has been the motivating force for the research and development of numerous paradigm-shifting technologies in multimedia processing.
