Professional Activities

  • Co-Principal Investigator, IBM VACE Phase III Project, Analyst-centric workbench for Large-scale Cross-domain Video Intelligence
  • Co-Principal Investigator, IBM VACE Phase III Project, Analyst-centric workbench for Large-scale Cross-domain Video Intelligence
  • Principal Investigator: DTO Challenge Workshop on Large Scale Concept Ontology for Multimedia Understanding
  • Technical Program Chair, Conference on Image and Video Retrieval, Tempe, AZ, July 2006
  • General Chair: CVPR International Workshop on Semantic Learning Applications in Multimedia, New York, NY, June 2006
  • Lecturer, Joint DELOS-MUSCLE Summer School on “Multimedia digital libraries: Machine learning and cross-modal technologies for access and retrieval”, San Vincenzo, Italy June 12-17 2006
  • Technical Program Chair, First IEEE International Conference on Semantic Computing, to be held in Irvine, CA, September 2007
  • Lecturer, Summer School on Multimedia Semantics, Chalkidiki, Greece, Sep 2006
  • Senior Member, IEEE
  • Brave New Topic Session Chair "Effect of Benchmarking on Advances in Semantic Multimedia Retrieval", ACM 2004, New York, NY
  • Tutorial Presentation at IEEE ICME 2003 on Multimedia Learning for Semantic Modeling
  • Special Session Organizer, " Machine Learning in Multimedia Signal Processing". IEEE ICASSP 2002
  • Special Session Organizer, "Multimedia Learning" at IEEE ICIP 2003
  • Special Session Organizer, "Active Learning in Multimedia" at IEEE ICME 2004
  • Session Chair on "Video Mining" at IEEE ICME 2003
  • Program Committee Member, IEEE ICME, IAPR ICPR, IASTED, CIVR
  • NSF Panelist on "Multimedia"
  • Organizer and Co-chair, "Watson Workshop on Multimedia, June 2003
  • Panel Organizer, Watson Workshop on Multimedia, June 2003
  • IBM Research Faculty Awards Committee Member, representing the Multimedia PIC, 2003-2004
  • Technical Committee Member,  IEEE Circuits and Systems Society Multimedia Systems and Applications