RECENT INVITED TALKS

• Invited talk at Ubiquitous User Modeling Workshop in conjunction with UMAP 09, Trento, Italy, June 2009.Panel at User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization (UMAP 09), Trento, Italy, June 2009.
• Keynote presentation at SPIE Electronic Imaging 2009 (Multimedia Content Access: Algorithms and Systems III), San Jose, California, January 2009.
• Invited panelist at ACM Recommender Systems 2008, Lausanne, Switzerland, October 2008.
• Keynote presentation at 30^th Annual Symposium of the German Association for Pattern Recognition (DAGM 2008), Munich, Germany, June 2008.
• Keynote presentation at OrigAmi Symposium on Smart Surroundings, U. Twente, November, 2007.
• Keynote presentation at ICCV 2007 International Workshop on HCI, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Oct. 14-20, 2007.
• Tutorial on “Human-Centered Multimedia Systems” at ACM Multimedia 2007, Augsburg, Germany, Sept. 24-29, 2007.
• Tutorial on “Human-Centered Computer Vision Systems” at ICCV 2007, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Oct. 14-20, 2007.
• Talk on “Human-Centered Image Retrieval” at U. Fribourg Summer school on Multimedia, U. Fribourg, November, 2007.

EDITORIAL

• IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, special issue on Integration of Context and Content for Multimedia Management (January 2009)
• IEEE Computer Magazine, special issue on Human-Centered Computing (May, 2007)

RECENT PROGRAM COMMITTEES/ORGANIZATION

• KDD 2009, UMAP 2009, WWW 2009, WSDM 2009, ECML-PKDD 2009, Creatiity & Cognition 2009, ACM Multimedia 2009,  

Chair/Co-Chair

KDD 2009 Panels

UMAP 2009 Industry track

ECML-PKDD 2009 Demonstration Session

ICME 2009 Workshops

ACM Multimedia 2008 Human-Centered Multimedia Track

Special sessions chair, CIVR 2007

ACM Multimedia 2007 Interactive Art Program (ACM MM 2007)

ACM Multimedia 2006 Interactive Art Program (ACM MM 2006)

ACM Multimedia 2005 Interactive Art Program (ACM MM 2005)

Poster/Exhibition chair, 7^th Pacific Rim Conference on Multimedia (PCM 2006)

Panel chair, ACM International Workshop on Multimedia Information Retrieval (MIR 2005) in conj. with ACM Multimedia 2005.

ACM Multimedia 2004 Interactive Art Program (ACM MM 2004)

IEEE International Workshop on Technology for Education In Developing Countries (TEDC 2005, TEDC 2004, TEDC 2003)

Special Session on Novel Techniques for Browsing in Large Multimedia Collections at Intl. Conf. on Multimedia and Expo (IEEE ICME 2004)

Special Session on “Immersive Conferencing: Novel Interfaces and Paradigms for Remote Collaboration” at the 5^th Pacific Rim Conference on Multimedia (IEEE/ACM PCM 2004)

Editorial            

• IEEE Computer Magazine, new column on Human-Centered Computing (2008-)
• IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, special issue on Integration of Context and Content for Multimedia Management (January 2009)
• IEEE Computer Magazine, guest editor, special issue on Human-Centered Computing (May, 2007) [with Nicu Sebe, Daniel Gatica-Perez, and Thomas Huang]
• IEEE Multimedia Magazine, Art Beat column (2004-2005) (IEEE Multimedia Magazine)

Tutorials & Short Courses

Tutorial on “Human-Centered Multimedia Systems” at International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME 2007), Beijing, China, July 2-5, 2007.

“Human-Centered Vision Systems” at International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR 2006), Hong Kong, China, August 20, 2006.

“Human-Centered Vision Systems” at Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR 2006), New York City, USA, June 17, 2006

“Human-Centered Multimedia Information Systems and Remote Collaboration” at ACM Multimedia 2005, Singapore, November 6-12, 2005

“Human-Centered Vision Systems” at International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV 2005), Beijing, China, October 15-21, 2005.

“Human-Centered Multimedia Information Systems” at ICME 2005, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, July 5, 2005.

“Human-Centered Multimedia Information Systems” at the 5^th Pacific Rim Conference on Multimedia (IEEE/ACM PCM 2004). [PDF][HTML]

Advisory Board

ACTIVE EU project (2009-)

AMI project (2004-May 2006) (Industrial)

Working Groups & Juries

World Summit Award Grand Jury, Bahrain, Sept. 3-10, 2005

ISEA 2006 Pacific Rim New Media Summit, Latin American-Pacific/Asia New Media Initiative

ISEA 2006 Pacific Rim New Media Summit, Residencies, Symposia And Directory Working Group

Member of Technical Program Committee

World Wide Web Conference (WWW 2009)

Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD 2009)

User Modeling and Personalization (UMAP 2009)

ACM Multimedia (ACM MM 2009)

ISEA 2009, 2008

Int. Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR 2008)

International Conference on Creativity and Cognition (C&C 2007, C&C 2009)

International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI 2007)

3rd Joint Workshop on Multimodal Interaction and Related Machine Learning Algorithms (MLMI 2006)

ACM Multimedia Interactive Art Program/Curatorial Committee (ACM MM 2006, ACM MM 2005, ACM MM 2004)

ACM Multimedia Workshop on Information Retrieval (ACM MIR 2005, ACM MIR 2004)

ACM Multimedia Video Program (ACM MM 2005, ACM MM 2004)

International Conference on Image and Video Retrieval (CIVR 2005, CIVR 2004)

International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME 2005, ICME 2004)

International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP 2005, ICIP 2004)

ECCV 2004 Workshop on Human-Computer Interaction (HCI 2004)

ICCV 2005 Workshop on Human-Computer Interaction (HCI 2005)

SPIE Multimedia Content Analysis, Management, and Retrieval (2006)

IADIS International Conference on Web based Communities (WBC 2004, WBC 2005)

Encuentro Internacional de Ciencias de la Computacion (ENC 2004)

Reviewer (journals)

Journal of Information Science and Engineering (2006)

ACM TOMCCAP (2005)

International Journal of Image and Vision Computing

ACM Springer Verlag Multimedia Journal

Journal on Multimedia Tools and Applications

International Journal on Computer Vision and Image Understanding (2002)

ACM Trans. on Information Systems (2006, others)

Multimedia Signal Processing

IEEE Transactions in Image Processing (2004, 2003, other years)

Multimedia Tools and Applications

Journal of Personal and Ubiquitous Computing (2005)

IEEE Transactions on Multimedia (2005, 2004, others)

International Journal on Web based Communities (IJWBC)

Reviewer (conferences & workshops)

ACM CHI (2004, 2002)

ACM Multimedia (Brave New Topics 2004, also 2002, 2000, 1999, other years)

IEEE ICME (2003, 2002, 2001, 2000)

IEEE ICIP (2002, 2001, 2000)

IEEE ICASSP (2004)

CVPR CBIR Workshop