Apollo

Apollo is a real-time social media data analysis toolkit for tracking current events and for attaining a reliable situation understanding from noisy streaming social media data. Social networks such as Twitter and Instagram offer an up-to-date window into current events as reported by their participants. Apollo distills large amounts of social media chatter on ongoing events into a smaller amount of high-value content, expressed in the original words and images of its sources. It offers both a real-time situation view, and an archival event analysis capability.

Acknowledgement: Funded by ARL

Apollo (2011):

The video reviews the original purpose of Apollo when created in 2011.

Apollo (2017):

The video reviews is an update on Apollo functionality, recorded in 2017.

References

  • The Age of Social Sensing
    Dong Wang, Bolek Szymanski, Tarek Abdelzaher, Heng Ji, and Lance Kaplan
    IEEE Computer, March 2019.
  • A Constrained Maximum Likelihood Estimator for Unguided Social Sensing
    Huajie Shao, Shuochao Yao, Yiran Zhao, Chao Zhang, Jinda Han, Lance Kaplan, Lu Su, Tarek Abdelzaher
    In Proc. IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (IEEE Infocom), Honolulu, HI, April 2018.
  • The Event Tracking Dashboard: From Multilingual Social Media Feeds to Event Patterns and Anomalies
    Prasanna Giridhar, Jongdeog Lee, Tarek Abdelzaher, and Lance Kaplan
    In Proc. SPIE Security and Defense, Next-Generation Analyst VI, International Society for Optics and Photonics, Orlando, FL, April 2018.
  • Social Fusion: Integrating Twitter and Instagram for Event Monitoring
    Prasanna Giridhar, Shiguang Wang, Tarek Abdelzaher, Tanvir Al Amin, Lance Kaplan
    In Proc. 14th IEEE International Conference of Autonomic Computing (ICAC), Columbus, OH, July 2017.
  • Optimizing Source Selection in Social Sensing in the Presence of Influence Graphs
    Huajie Shao, Shiguang Wang, Shen Li, Shuochao Yao, Yiran Zhao, Md Tanvir Al Amin, Tarek Abdelzaher and Lance Kaplan
    In Proc. 37th IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS), Atlanta, GA, June 2017.
  • Unsupervised Event Tracking by Integrating Twitter and Instagram
    Shiguang Wang, Prasanna Giridhar, Lance Kaplan, Tarek Abdelzaher
    In Proc. 2nd International Workshop on Social Sensing (SocialSens), Pittsburgh, PA, April 2017.
  • StoryLine: On Physical Event Demultiplexing and Tracking in Social Spaces
    Shiguang Wang, Prasanna Giridhar, Hongwei Wang, Lance Kaplan, Tien Pham, Aylin Yener, Tarek Abdelzaher
    In Proc. 2nd ACM/IEEE International Conference on Internet of Things Design and Implementation, Pittsburgh, PA, April 2017.
  • Unveiling Polarization in Social Networks: A Matrix Factorization Approach
    Md Tanvir A. Amin, Charu Aggarwal, Chuochao Yao, Tarek Abdelzaher, Lance Kaplan
    In Proc. IEEE Infocom, Atlanta, GA, May 2017.
  • On Localizing Urban Events with Instagram
    Prasanna Giridhar, Shiguang Wang, Tarek Abdelzaher, Raghu Ganti, Lance Kaplan, Jemin George
    In Proc. IEEE Infocom, Atlanta, GA, May 2017.
  • ClariSense+: An Enhanced Traffic Anomaly Explanation Service Using Social Network Feeds
    Prasanna Giridhar, Md Tanvir Amin, Tarek Abdelzaher, Dong Wang, Lance Kaplan, Jemin George, Raghu Ganti
    Pervasive and Mobile Computing, December 2016.
  • Investigating Social Bias in Social Media Information Transmission
    Heather Roy, Elizabeth Bowman, Sue Kase and Tarek Abdelzaher
    In Proc. 21st International Command and Control Research and Technology Symposium, London, UK, September 2016.
  • On Source Dependency Models for Reliable Social Sensing: Algorithms and Fundamental Error Bound
    Shuochao Yao, Shaohan Hu, Shen Li, Yiran Zhao, Lu Su, Lance Kaplan, Aylin Yener, Tarek Abdelzaher
    In Proc. 36th International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS), Osaka, Japan, June 2016.
  • A Recursive Ground Truth Estimator for Social Data Streams
    Shuochao Yao, Md Tanvir Amin, Lu Su, Shaohan Hu, Shen Li, Shiguang Wang, Yiran Zhao, Tarek Abdelzaher, Lance Kaplan, Charu Aggarwal, Aylin Yener
    In Proc. 15th ACM/IEEE Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks (IPSN), Vienna, Austria, April 2016.
  • SocialTrove: A Self-summarizing Storage Service for Social Sensing
    Md Tanvir Al Amin, Shen Li, Muntasir Raihan Rahman, Panindra Tumkur Seetharamu, Tarek Abdelzaher, Indranil Gupta, Mudhakar Srivatsa, Raghu Ganti, Reaz Ahmed
    In Proc. The 12th IEEE International Conference on Autonomic Computing (ICAC), Grenoble, France, July 2015.
    Best Paper Award.
  • Joint Localization of Events and Sources in Social Networks
    Prasanna Giridhar, Shiguang Wang, Tarek Abdelzaher, Jemin George, Lance Kaplan, Raghu Ganti
    In Proc. International Conference on Distributed Computing in Sensor Systems (DCoSS), Fortaleza, Brazil, June 2015.
  • Scalable Social Sensing of Interdependent Phenomena
    Shiguang Wang, Lu Su, Shen Li, Shuochao Yao, Shaohan Hu, Lance Kaplan, Tanvir Amin, Tarek Abdelzaher, Hongwei Wang
    In Proc. 14th ACM/IEEE Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks (IPSN), Seattle, WA, April 2015.
  • Exploiting social media for Army operations: Syrian civil war use case
    Sue E. Kase, Elizabeth K. Bowman, Md Tanvir Al Amin, Tarek Abdelzaher
    In Proc. SPIE Defense, Security, and Sensing, Baltimore, Maryland, May 2014.
  • Humans as Sensors: An Estimation Theoretic Perspective
    Dong Wang, Tanvir Amin, Shen Li, Tarek Abdelzaher, Lance Kaplan, Siyu Gu, Chenji Pan, Hengchang Liu, Charu Aggrawal, Raghu Ganti, XinLei Wang, Prasant Mohapatra, Boleslaw Szymanski, and Hieu Le
    In Proc. 13th International Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks (ACM/IEEE IPSN), Berlin, Germany, April 2014.
  • Recursive Fact-finding: A Streaming Approach to Truth Estimation in Crowdsourcing Applications
    Dong Wang, Tarek Abdelzaher, Lance Kaplan, and Charu Aggarwal
    In Proc. 33rd International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS), Philadelphia, PA, July 2013.
  • On Diversifying Source Selection in Social Sensing
    Md Yusuf S Uddin, Md Tanvir Al Amin, Hieu Le, Tarek Abdelzaher, Boleslaw Szymanski, Tommy Nguyen
    In Proc. 9th International Conference on Networked Sensing Systems, Antwerp, Belgium, June 2012.
  • On Scalability and Robustness Limitations of Real and Asymptotic Confidence Bounds in Social Sensing
    Dong Wang, Lance Kaplan, Tarek Abdelzaher, Charu Aggarwal
    In Proc. 9th Annual IEEE Communications Society Conference on Sensor, Mesh and Ad Hoc Communications and Networks (SECON), Seoul, Korea, June 2012.
  • On Truth Discovery in Social Sensing: A Maximum Likelihood Estimation Approach
    Dong Wang, Hieu Le, Lance Kaplan, Tarek Abdelzaher
    In Proc. 11th ACM/IEEE Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks (IPSN), April 2012.
  • Human-centric Sensing
    Mani Srivastava, Tarek Abdelzaher, Boleslaw K. Szymanski
    Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, special issue on Wireless Sensor Networks, Vol. 370, No. 1958, pp. 176-197, January 2012. (invited).