@conference {420, title = {Social Signal Processing for Real-time Situational Understanding: a Vision and Approach}, booktitle = {First International Workshop on Social Sensing (SocialSens 2015)}, year = {2015}, address = {Dallas, Texas, USA}, abstract = {

The US Army Research Laboratory (ARL) and\ the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) have established a\ collaborative research enterprise referred to as the Situational\ Understanding Research Institute (SURI). The goal is to develop\ an information processing framework to help the military obtain\ real-time situational awareness of physical events by harnessing\ the combined power of multiple sensing sources to obtain insights\ about events and their evolution. It is envisioned that one could\ use such information to predict behaviors of groups, be they local\ transient groups (e.g., protests) or widespread, networked groups,\ and thus enable proactive prevention of nefarious activities. This\ paper presents a vision of how social media sources can be\ exploited in the above context to obtain insights about events,\ groups, and their evolution.

}, author = {Kasthuri Jayarajah and Shuochao Yao and Raghava Mutharaju and Archan Misra and Geeth De Mel and Julie Skipper and Tarek Abdelzaher and Michael Kolodny} }