Journal Papers and Book Chapters

[1]

A. Natsev, R. Rastogi, and K. Shim. WALRUS: A Similarity Retrieval Algorithm for Image Databases. IEEE Trans. on Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE), 16(3):301–316, 2004.

[2]

J. R. Smith, C.-Y. Lin, M. Naphade, and A. Natsev. Multisource Video Clustering Using Semantic Model Vectors. In R. Raieli and P. Innocenti, editors, Multimedia Information Retrieval. AIDA Informazioni, March 2004.

[3]

J. R. Smith, C.-Y. Lin, M. Naphade, A. Natsev, and B. Tseng. Statistical Techniques for Video Analysis and Searching. In A. Rosenfeld, D. Doermann, and D. DeMenthon, editors, Video Mining, chapter 9. Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2003.

[4]

P. M. Long, A. Natsev, and J. S. Vitter. Text compression via alphabet re-representation. Neural Networks, 12(4-5):755–765, 1999.

Conference and Workshop Papers (2007)

[5]

D. Joshi, M. R. Naphade, and A. Natsev. Semantics reinforcement and fusion learning for multimedia streams. In Proc. Intl. Conf. on Image and Video Retrieval (CIVR'07), Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 2007.

[6]

J. Tešić, A. Natsev, and J. R. Smith. Cluster-based data modeling for semantic video search. In Proc. Intl. Conf. on Image and Video Retrieval (CIVR'07), Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 2007.

[7]

J. Tešić, A. Natsev, L. Xie, and J. R. Smith. Data modeling strategies for imbalanced learning in video search. In Proc. IEEE Intl. Conf. on Multimedia and Expo (ICME'07), Beijing, China, 2007.

[8]

L. Xie, A. Natsev, and J. Tešić. Dynamic multimodal fusion in video search. In Proc. IEEE Intl. Conf. on Multimedia and Expo (ICME'07), Beijing, China, 2007.

[9]

L. K. Liu, Q. Liu, A. Natsev, K. A. Ross, J. R. Smith, and A. L. Varbanescu. Digital media indexing on the STI CELL broadband engine processor. In Proc. IEEE Intl. Conf. on Multimedia and Expo (ICME'07), Beijing, China, 2007.

Conference and Workshop Papers (2006)

[10]

A. Natsev. Multimodal search for effective video retrieval. In Proc. Intl. Conf. on Image and Video Retrieval (CIVR'06), pages 525–528, Tempe, AZ, July 2006.

[11]

A. Haubold, A. Natsev, and M. Naphade. Semantic multimedia retrieval using lexical query expansion and model-based reranking. In Proc. IEEE Intl. Conf. on Multimedia and Expo (ICME'06), Toronto, Canada, July 2006. Recipient of ICME 2006 Best Poster Award.

[12]

T. Volkmer and A. Natsev. Exploring automatic query refinement for text-based video retrieval. In Proc. IEEE Intl. Conf. on Multimedia and Expo (ICME'06), Toronto, Canada, July 2006.

[13]

M. G. Christel, M. R. Naphade, A. Natsev, and J. Tešić. Assessing the filtering and browsing utility of automatic semantic concepts for multimedia retrieval. In Intl. Workshop on Semantic Learning Applications in Multimedia (SLAM), page 117, New York, NY, USA, June 2006. In association with IEEE Conf. on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR'06).

[14]

M. Campbell, A. Haubold, S. Ebadollahi, M. Naphade, A. Natsev, J. R. Smith, J. Tešić, and L. Xie. IBM Research TRECVID-2006 Video Retrieval System. In NIST TREC Video Retrieval Workshop (TRECVID'06), Gaithersburg, MD, Nov. 2006.

Conference and Workshop Papers (2005)

[15]

A. Natsev, M. R. Naphade, and J. Tešić. Learning the semantics of multimedia queries and concepts from a small number of examples. In Proc. ACM Intl. Conf. on Multimedia (MM'05), pages 598–607, Singapore, Nov. 2005. Plenary paper nominated for ACM Multimedia Best Paper Award.

[16]

L. S. Kennedy, A. Natsev, and S.-F. Chang. Automatic discovery of query-class-dependent models for multimodal search. In Proc. ACM Intl. Conf. on Multimedia (MM'05), pages 882–891, Singapore, Nov. 2005.

[17]

T. Volkmer, J. R. Smith, and A. Natsev. A web-based system for collaborative annotation of large image and video collections: an evaluation and user study. In Proc. ACM Intl. Conf. on Multimedia (MM'05), pages 892–901, Singapore, Nov. 2005.

[18]

J. R. Smith, M. Naphade, A. Natsev, and J. Tešić. Multimedia Research Challenges for Industry. In Proc. Intl. Conf. on Image and Video Retrieval (CIVR'05), volume 3568/2005 of Lecture Notes in computer Science, pages 28–37, 2005.

[19]

J. R. Smith, M. Campbell, M. Naphade, A. Natsev, and J. Tešić. Learning and Classification of Semantic Concepts in Broadcast Video. In 1st Intl. Conf. on Intelligence Analysis. Assistant Director of Central Intelligence for Analysis and Production, Apr. 2005.

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A. Amir, J. Argillander, M. Campbell, A. Haubold, G. Iyengar, S. Ebadollahi, F. Kang, M. Naphade, A. Natsev, J. R. Smith, J. Tešić, and T. Volkmer. IBM Research TRECVID-2005 Video Retrieval System. In NIST TREC Video Retrieval Workshop (TRECVID'05), Gaithersburg, MD, Nov. 2005.

Conference and Workshop Papers (2004)

[21]

A. Natsev, M. R. Naphade, and J. R. Smith. Semantic representation, search and mining of multimedia content. In Proc. ACM Intl. Conf. on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD'04), pages 641–646, Seattle, WA, USA, Aug. 2004.

[22]

A. Natsev, M. R. Naphade, and J. R. Smith. Over-complete representation and fusion for semantic concept detection. In Proc. IEEE Intl. Conf. on Image Processing (ICIP'04), pages 2375–2378, Singapore, Oct. 2004. Invited paper in Special Session on Content Understanding for Home Photograph Management.

[23]

J. R. Smith, C. Y. Lin, M. R. Naphade, A. Natsev, and B. L. Tseng. Validity-weighted model vector-based retrieval of video. In Proc. SPIE Electronic Imaging: Storage and Retrieval Methods and Applications for Multimedia, volume 5307, pages 271–279, San Jose, CA, USA, Jan. 2004. Invited paper.

[24]

M. R. Naphade, A. Natsev, C.-Y. Lin, and J. R. Smith. Multi-granular detection of regional semantic concepts. In Proc. IEEE Intl. Conf. on Multimedia and Expo (ICME'04), pages 109–112, Taipei, Taiwan, 2004.

[25]

Ching-Yung Lin, A. Natsev, B. L. Tseng, M. Hill, J. R. Smith, and C.-S. Li. Content transcoding middleware for pervasive geospatial intelligence access. In Proc. IEEE Intl. Conf. on Multimedia and Expo (ICME'04), pages 2139–2142, Taipei, Taiwan, 2004.

[26]

A. Amir, G. Iyengar, C.-Y. Lin, M. Naphade, A. Natsev, C. Neti, H. J. Nock, J. R. Smith, and B. Tseng. Multimodal video search techniques: late fusion of speech-based retrieval and visual content-based retrieval. In Proc. IEEE Intl. Conf. on Acoustics Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP'04), volume 3, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, May 2004.

[27]

A. Amir, J. O. Argillander, M. Berg, S. F. Chang, M. Franz, W. Hsu, G. Iyengar, J. R. Kender, L. Kennedy, C.-Y. Lin, M. Naphade, A. Natsev, J. R. Smith, J. Tešić, G. Wu, R. Yan, and D. Zhang. IBM Research TRECVID-2004 Video Retrieval System. In NIST TREC Video Retrieval Workshop (TRECVID'04), Gaithersburg, MD, Nov. 2004.

Conference and Workshop Papers (2003)

[28]

A. Natsev, M. R. Naphade, and J. R. Smith. Exploring semantic dependencies for scalable concept detection. In Proc. IEEE Intl. Conf. on Image Processing (ICIP'03), pages 625–628, Barcelona, Spain, 2003. Invited paper in Special Session: From Visual Models to Semantic Visual Information Retrieval.

[29]

A. Natsev and J. R. Smith. Active selection for multi-example querying by content. In Proc. IEEE Intl. Conf. on Multimedia and Expo (ICME'03), pages 445–448, Baltimore, MD, USA, 2003.

[30]

A. Natsev and J. R. Smith. New anchor selection methods for image retrieval. In Proc. SPIE Electronic Imaging: Storage and Retrieval for Media Databases, pages 474–481, San Jose, CA, USA, Jan. 2003.

[31]

A. Natsev, M. Naphade, and J. R. Smith. Lexicon design for semantic indexing in media databases. In Proc. 28th Intl. Conf. on Comm. Technologies & Programming (ICT&P'03), Varna, Bulgaria, June 2003.

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J. R. Smith, M. Naphade, and A. Natsev. Multimedia semantic indexing using model vectors. In Proc. IEEE Intl. Conf. on Multimedia and Expo (ICME'03), pages 445–448, Baltimore, MD, USA, 2003.

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J. R. Smith, A. Jaimes, C.-Y. Lin, M. R. Naphade, A. Natsev, and B. L. Tseng. Interactive search fusion methods for video database retrieval. In Proc. IEEE Intl. Conf. on Image Processing (ICIP'03), pages 741–744, Barcelona, Spain, 2003.

[34]

M. R. Naphade, C.-Y. Lin, A. Natsev, B. L. Tseng, and J. R. Smith. A framework for moderate vocabulary semantic visual concept detection. In Proc. IEEE Intl. Conf. on Multimedia and Expo (ICME'03), pages 437–440, Baltimore, MD, USA, 2003.

[35]

C.-Y. Lin, B. L. Tseng, M. R. Naphade, A. Natsev, and J. R. Smith. VideoAL: a novel end-to-end MPEG-7 video automatic labeling system. In Proc. IEEE Intl. Conf. on Image Processing (ICIP'03), pages 53–56, Barcelona, Spain, 2003.

[36]

C.-Y. Lin, B. L. Tseng, M. Naphade, A. Natsev, and J. R. Smith. Mpeg-7 video automatic labeling system. In Proc. ACM Intl. Conf. on Multimedia (MM'03), pages 98–99, Berkeley, CA, USA, 2003.

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H. J. Nock, W. Adams, G. Iyengar, C.-Y. Lin, M. Naphade, A. Natsev, C. Neti, J. R. Smith, and B. Tseng. User-trainable video annotation using multimodal cues. In Proc. ACM Intl. Conf. on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR'03), pages 403–404, Toronto, Canada, 2003.

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B. L. Tseng, C.-Y. Lin, M. R. Naphade, A. Natsev, and J. R. Smith. Normalized classifier fusion for semantic visual concept detection. In Proc. IEEE Intl. Conf. on Image Processing (ICIP'03), pages 535–538, Barcelona, Spain, 2003.

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A. Amir, M. Berg, S. F. Chang, W. Hsu, G. Iyengar, C.-Y. Lin, M. Naphade, A. Natsev, C. Neti, H. Nock, J. R. Smith, B. Tseng, Y. Wu, and D. Zhang. IBM Research TRECVID-2003 Video Retrieval System. In NIST TREC Video Retrieval Workshop (TRECVID'03), Gaithersburg, MD, Nov. 2003.

Conference and Workshop Papers (2002)

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A. Natsev and J. R. Smith. A Study of Image Retrieval by Anchoring. In Proc. IEEE Intl. Conf. on Multimedia and Expo (ICME'02), Lausanne, Switzerland, 2002.

[41]

A. Natsev, G. Y. C. Fuh, W. Chen, C.-H. Chiu, and J. S. Vitter. Aggregate predicate support in DBMS. In Proc. 13th Australasian Database Conference (ADC'02), pages 111–120, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 2002.

[42]

J. R. Smith and A. Natsev. Spatial and Feature Normalization for Content Based Retrieval. In Proc. IEEE Intl. Conf. on Multimedia and Expo (ICME'02), volume 1, pages 193–196, Lausanne, Switzerland, 2002.

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J. R. Smith, C.-Y. Lin, M. R. Naphade, A. Natsev, and B. L. Tseng. Learning concepts from video using multi-modal features. In Tyrrhenian International Workshop on Digital Communications (IWDC'02) - Advanced Methods for Multimedia Signal Processing, Capri, Italy, Sep. 2002.

[44]

J. R. Smith, C.-Y. Lin, M. R. Naphade, A. Natsev, and B. L. Tseng. Statistical modeling and retrieval of video content. In DIMACS Workshop on Video Mining, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, USA, Nov. 2002.

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B. Adams, A. Amir, C. Dorai, S. Ghosal, G. Iyengar, A. Jaimes, C. Lang, C.-Y. Lin, A. Natsev, M. Naphade, C. Neti, H. Nock, H. Permuter, R. Singh, J. R. Smith, S. Srinivasan, B. Tseng, Ashwin T. V., and D. Zhang. IBM Research TREC-2002 Video Retrieval System. In NIST TREC Video Retrieval Workshop (TRECVID'02), pages 500–251, Gaithersburg, MD, Nov. 2002.

Conference and Workshop Papers (Duke University)

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A. Natsev, Y.-C. Chang, J. R. Smith, C.-S. Li, and J. S. Vitter. Supporting incremental join queries on ranked inputs. In Proc. Intl. Conf. on Very Large Data Bases (VLDB'01), pages 281–290, Rome, Italy, 2001.

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A. Natsev, J. R. Smith, Y.-C. Chang, C. S. Li, and J. S. Vitter. Constrained querying of multimedia databases: Issues and approaches. In Proc. SPIE Electronic Imaging: Storage and Retrieval for Media Databases, volume 4315, San Jose, CA, USA, Jan. 2001.

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A. Natsev, A. Chadha, J. S. Vitter, and B. Soetarman. CAMEL: Concept Annotated iMagE Libraries. In Proc. SPIE Electronic Imaging: Storage and Retrieval for Media Databases, volume 4315, pages 62–73, San Jose, CA, USA, Jan. 2001.

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A. Natsev, R. Rastogi, and K. Shim. Walrus: A similarity retrieval algorithm for image databases. In A. Delis, C. Faloutsos, and S. Ghandeharizadeh, editors, Proc. ACM Intl. Conf. on Management of Data (SIGMOD'99), pages 395–406, Philadelphia, PA, USA, 1999. Nominated for ACM SIGMOD Best Paper Award.

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P. M. Long, A. Natsev, and J. S. Vitter. Text compression via alphabet re-representation. In Proc. Data Compression Conference (DCC'97), page 161, Snowbird, Utah, March 1997.

Dissertations

[51]

A. Natsev. Multimedia retrieval by regions, concepts, and constraints. PhD thesis, Duke University, Dept. of Computer Science, Durham, NC, 2001. Advisor: Prof. Jeffrey Vitter.

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A. Natsev. Text compression via alphabet re-representation. Master's thesis, Duke University, Dept. of Computer Science, Durham, NC, 1997. Advisor: Prof. Jeffrey Vitter.

[53]

A. Natsev. Iterated function systems and fractal geometry. Bachelor's thesis, Belmont Abbey College, Dept. of Mathematics, 1993. Advisor: Prof. Damon Scott.