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Efficient Access Control in Multimedia Social Networks

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Social Media Modeling and Computing

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Multimedia social networks (MMSNs) have provided a convenient way to share multimedia contents such as images, videos, blogs, etc. Contents shared by a person can be easily accessed by anybody else over the Internet. However, due to various privacy, security, and legal concerns people often want to selectively share the contents only with their friends, family, colleagues, etc. Access control mechanisms play an important role in this situation. With access control mechanisms one can decide the persons who can access a shared content and who cannot. But continuously growing content uploads and accesses, fine grained access control requirements (e.g. different access control parameters for different parts in a picture), and specific access control requirements for multimedia contents can make the time complexity of access control to be very large. So, it is important to study an efficient access control mechanism suitable for MMSNs. In this chapter we present an efficient bit-vector transform based access control mechanism for MMSNs. The proposed approach is also compatible with other requirements of MMSNs, such as access rights modification, content deletion, etc. Mathematical analysis and experimental results show the effectiveness and efficiency of our proposed approach.

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Thanks to the Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A-STAR), Singapore for supporting this work under the project “Digital Rights Violation Detection for Digital Asset Management” (Project No: 0721010022).

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    Amit Sachan & Sabu Emmanuel

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  1. School of Computer Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, 639798, Singapore

    Steven C.H. Hoi

  2. Kodak Research Laboratories, Lake Avenue 1999, Rochester, 14650, New York, USA

    Jiebo Luo

  3. Media Informatics and Multimedia Systems, University of Oldenburg, Escherweg 2, Oldenburg, 26121, Germany

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    Irwin King

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Sachan, A., Emmanuel, S. (2011). Efficient Access Control in Multimedia Social Networks. In: Hoi, S., Luo, J., Boll, S., Xu, D., Jin, R., King, I. (eds) Social Media Modeling and Computing. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-85729-436-4_7

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