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Grants

1. Principal Investigator, a gift grant from Akiira Media Systems, Inc., 2010.

2. Principal Investigator, Wang Kuancheng Science and Research Project Award, 2008, Chinese Academy of Science (CAS), China.

3. Principal Investigator, a gift grant of US $ 1000 from HP Media Understanding Laboratory, Palo Alto, CA.

4. Co-PI, U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Funded Establishing Research Center called Multi-modal Information Access and Synthesis Center (MIAS), N0014-07-1-0151, PI: Dan Roth, co-PIs in alphabetic order: Kevin Chen-Chuan Chang, Anhai Doan, David Forsyth, Jiawei Han, Cinda Heeren, William H. Hsu, Stephen Kwek, Lenny Pitt, Qi Tian, Chengxiang Zhai, in the amount of $2.4 Million, 12/01/2006-11/30/2009.

5. Principal Investigator, "Self-Supervised Learning and Information Fusion for Multimodal Systems," funded by Army Research Office (ARO), the 2005 Historically Black Colleges and Universities and Minority Institutions (HBCU/MI) Program, W911NF-05-1-0404, in the amount of $282,536, 08/01/2005-07/31/2008.

6. Principal Investigator at UTSA, Feng Liu, PI at UTHSCSA, "Self-Supervised Learning for High Throughput Data," funded by San Antonio Life Science Institute (SALSI), in the amount of $118,157 for 09/01/2005-08/31/2007 (UTSA portion: $85,657).

7. UTSA Faculty Research Award 2004, "Biometrics: A Killer Pattern Recognition Application," in the amount of $4,500, 01/01/2005-12/31/2005.

8. Principal Investigator, "Learning Semantic Content for Image Indexing", Center for Infrastructure Assurance and Security (CIAS), UTSA, in the amount of $89,291, 06/01/2004-09/30/2006.

Recent Publications

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Year 2010
Journal
1. Y. Lu, L. Zhang, J. Liu, and Q. Tian, "Constructing Lexica of High-Level Concepts with Small Semantic Gap," IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, pp. 288-299, Vol. 12, No. 4, June, 2010.

2. S. Zhang, Q. Huang, S. Jiang, W. Gao, and Q. Tian, "Affective Visualization and Retrieval for Music Video", accepted to IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, Special Issue on Multimodal Afftective Interaction, to appear in October, 2010.

3. W. Zhou, Q. Tian, Y. Lu, L. Yang, and H. Li, "Latent Visual Context Learning for Web Image Applications," accepted, Pattern Recognition, Special Issue on Semi-Supervised Learning for Visual Content Analysis and Understanding, Aug. 2010.

4. R. Ji, H. Yao, and Q. Tian, "Context-aware Semi-Local Feature Detector," accepted, ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology (TIST), Aug. 2010.

5. Y. Lu, N. Sebe, and Q. Tian, "Personalized Multimedia", to appear in International Journal of Multimedia Tools and Applications, Special Issue: Survey Papers in Multimedia by World Experts, Editors: R. Jain, A. Del Bimbo, T-S. Chua, and B. Furht, 2010.

6. Q. Tian, N. Sebe, et al., "Building Descriptive and Discriminative Visual Codebook for large-scale Image Applications," to appear in International Journal of Multimedia Tools and Applications, Special Issue: Hot Research Topics in Multimedia, Editors: R. Jain, A. Del Bimbo, T-S. Chua, and B. Furht, 2010.

   Conferences

7. S. Zhang, Q. Huang, G. Hua, S. Jiang, W. Gao, and Q. Tian, "Building Contextual Visual Vocabulary for Large-scale Image Applications," Full Paper (acceptance rate: 16%) at ACM Multimedia, Florence, Italy, October 25-29, 2010.

8. S. Wang, Q. Huang, S. Jiang, and Q. Tian, "S3MKL: Scalable Semi-supervised Multiple Kernel Learning for Image Data Mining," Full Paper (acceptance rate: 16%) at ACM Multimedia, Florence, Italy, October 25-29, 2010.

9. W. Zhou, Y. Lu, H. Li, Y. Song, and Q. Tian, "Spatial Coding for Large Scale Partial-Duplicate Web Image Search," Full Paper (acceptance rate: 16%) at ACM Multimedia, Florence, Italy, October 25-29, 2010.

10. F. Wu, Y. Han, Q. Tian, and Y. Zhuang, "Multi-label Boosting for Image Annotation by Structural Grouping Sparsity," Full Paper (acceptance rate: 16%) at ACM Multimedia, Florence, Italy, October 25-29, 2010.

11. B. Chen, B. Ni, S. Yan, and Q. Tian, "Learning to Photograph," Full Paper (acceptance rate: 16%) at ACM Multimedia, Florence, Italy, October 25-29, 2010.

12. S. Wang, Q. Huang, S. Jiang, and Q. Tian, "Nearest-Neighbor Classification Using Unlabeled Data for Real World Image Application," short paper at ACM Multimedia, Florence, Italy, October 25-29, 2010.

13. W. Zhou, Y. Lu, H. Li, Y. Song, and Q. Tian, "Large Scale Partially Duplicated Web Image Retrieval," demo paper at ACM Multimedia, Florence, Italy, October 25-29, 2010.

14. Z. Niu, Q. Tian, and X. Gao, "Real-World Trajectory Extraction for Attack Pattern Analysis in Soccer Video," short paper at ACM Multimedia, Florence, Italy, October 25-29, 2010.

15. W. Zhou, Y. Lu, H. Li, and Q. Tian, "Canonical Image Selection by Visual Context Learning," oral presentation, 20th International Conference on Pattern Recognition, August 23-26, 2010, Istanbul, Turkey.

16. S. Wang, S. Jiang, Q. Huang, and Q. Tian, "Multiple Kernel Learning with High Order Kernels," Analysis and Search," oral presentation, 20th International Conference on Pattern Recognition, August 23-26, 2010, Istanbul, Turkey.

17. Q. Hu, L. Qin, Q. Huang, S. Jiang, and Q. Tian, "Action Recognition Using Spatial-Temporal Context," Analysis and Search," oral presentation, 20th International Conference on Pattern Recognition, August 23-26, 2010, Istanbul, Turkey.

18. B. Wang, J. Wang, L. Duan, Q. Tian, H. Lu, and W. Gao, "Interactive Web Video Advertising with Context Analysis and Search," 20th International Conference on Pattern Recognition, August 23-26, 2010, Istanbul, Turkey.

19. Z. Chen, L. Qin, Q. Huang, S. Jiang, and Q. Tian, "Group Activity Recognition by Gaussian Processes Estimation," 20th International Conference on Pattern Recognition, August 23-26, 2010, Istanbul, Turkey.

20. Y. Song, Q. Tian, M. Wang, H. Liu, and L. Dai, "Multiple Instance Learning Using Visual Phrases for Object Classification," acceptance rate: 30%, IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME), July 19-23, 2010, Singapore.

21. W. Zhou, Q. Tian, L. Yang, and H. Li, "Latent Visual Context Analysis for Image Re-ranking,", acceptance rate: 38%, ACM International Conference on Image and Video Retrieval (CIVR), Xi'an, China, July 5-7, 2010.

22. Y. Cui, J.S. Jin, S. Zhang, S. Luo, and Q. Tian, "Music Video Affective Understanding Using Feature Importance Analysis," acceptance rate: 38%, ACM International Conference on Image and Video Retrieval (CIVR), Xi'an, China, July 5-7, 2010.

23. D. Ji, M. Wang, Q. Tian, and X. S. Hua, "Semi-Supervised Photo Classification with Distance Metric Learning," Visual Communications and Image Processing, Huang Shan, Anhui, China, July 11-14, 2010.

24. S. Zhang, Q. Huang, Y. Lu, W. Gao, and Q. Tian, "Building Pair-Wise Visual Word Tree for Efficient Image Re-ranking," IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP) , March 14-19, 2010, Dallas, TX.

25. W. Zhou, H. Li, Y. Lu, and Q. Tian, "Large Scale Partial-Duplicate Image Retrieval with Bi-Space Quantization and Geometric Consistency," IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP) , March 14-19, 2010, Dallas, TX.

26. Y. Su, Y. Fu, Q. Tian, and X. Gao, "Cross-database Age Estimation Based on Transfer Learning," IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP) , March 14-19, 2010, Dallas, TX.

27. S. Chen, J. Wang, Y. Ouyang, B. Wang, Q. Tian, and H. Lu, "Multi-level Trajectory Modeling for Video Copy Detection," IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP) , March 14-19, 2010, Dallas, TX.

Year 2009

Journal
1. Y. Lu and Q. Tian, "Discriminant Subspace Analysis: an Adaptive Approach for Image Classification," IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, Vol. 11. No. 7, pp. 1289-1300, 2009.

   Conferences

2. W. Zhou, Q. Tian, H. Li, "Visual Block Link Analysis for Image Re-ranking," The First ACM International Conference on Internet Multimedia Computing and Services (ICIMCS), Kunming, Yunnan, China, November 23-25, 2009.

3. C. Zhang, J. Liu, Y. Ouyang, Q. Tian, H. Lu, and S. Ma, "Concept-Specific Visual Vocabulary Construction for Object Classification," The 2009 IEEE Pacific-Rim Conference on Multimedia, Bangkok, Thailand, December 15-18, 2009.

4. S.Zhang, Q. Tian, G. Hua, Q. Huang, and S. Li, "Descriptive Visual Words and Visual Phrases for Image Applications," Full Paper, acceptance rate: 16.7%, ACM Multimedia, Beijing, China, October 19-24, 2009.

5. G. Guan, Z. Wang, Q. Tian, and D. Feng, "Improved Concept Similarity Measuring in Visual Domain," IEEE 2009 International Workshop on Multimedia Signal Processing, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Oct. 5-7, 2009.

6. S. Zhang, Q. Tian, Q. Huang, W. Gao, and S. Li, "Utilizing Affective Analysis for Efficient Movie Browsing," IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP), Cario, Egypt, November 7-10, 2009.

7. C. Zhang, J. Liu, Y. Ouyang, Q. Tian, H. Lu, and S. Ma, "Category Sensitive Codebook Construction for Object Recognition," IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP), Cario, Egypt, November 7-10, 2009.

8. S. Wang, Q. Huang, S. Jiang, L. Qin, and Q. Tian, "Visual ContextRank for Web Image Re-ranking," ACM International Workshop of Large-Scale Multimedia Retrieval and Mining (LS-MMRM), in conjunction with ACM Multimedia 2009, October 19-23, 2009, Beijing, China.

9. G. Hua and Q. Tian, "What Visual Content Analysis Do for Text Based Image Search?" Oral, IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME), Canjun, Mexico, June 29-July3, 2009.

10. J. Liu, Q. Tian, Y. Lu, C. Wang, L. Zhang, X. Yang, and S. Li, "A Lexica Family with Small Semantic Gap," Oral, IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME), Canjun, Mexico, June 29-July3, 2009.

11. J. Xiao, Y. Fu, Y. Lu, and Q. Tian, "Refining Image Retrieval Using One-Class Classification," Oral, IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME), Canjun, Mexico, June 29-July3, 2009.

Year 2008

Journal
1. J. Yu and Q. Tian, "Semantic Subspace Projection and Its Application in Image Retrieval," IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology (CSVT), Vol. 18, No. 4, pp. 544-548, April 2008.

2. Y. Lu, Q. Tian, J. Neary, F. Liu, and Y. Wang, "Adaptive Discriminant Analysis for Microarray-based Classification," ACM Transactions on Knowledge Discovery from Data (TKDD), Special Issue on Bioinformatics, Vol.2, No. 1, Article 5, pp:5:1-5:20, March, 2008.

3. J. Yu, J. Amores, N. Sebe, P. Radeva, and Q. Tian, "Distance Learning for Similarity Estimation," IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, Vol. 30, No. 3, pp. 451-462, March 2008.

   Conferences

4. S. L. Zhang, Q. Huang, Q. Tian, S. Jiang, and W. Gao, "Personalized MTV Affective Analysis Using User Profile," Pacific Conference on Multimedia (PCM), December 9-13, 2008, Tainan, Taiwan, China.

5. S. L. Zhang, Q. Huang, Q. Tian, S. Jiang, and W. Gao, "i.MTV - An Integrated System for MTV Affective Analysis," accepted to ACM Multimedia 2008 Technical Demonstrations, Pan Pacific Hotel, Vancouver, BC, Canada, October 27-November 1, 2008.

6. Y. Lu, L. Zhang, Q. Tian, and W. Y. Ma, "What Are the High-Level Concepts with Small Semantic Gaps?" IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR 2008), Anchorage, Alaska, June 24-26, 2008.

7. S. L. Zhang, Q. Tian, S. Q. Jiang, Q. Huang, and W. Gao, "Affective MTV Analysis based on Arousal and Valence Features," IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME), June 23-26, 2008, Hannover, Germany.

8. L. Zhuang, W. Zhou, Q. Tian, and N. Yu, "Learning Object from Small and Imbalanced Dataset with Boost-BFKO," IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME), June 23-26, 2008, Hannover, Germany.

Year 2007

Journal
1. Y. Lu, Q. Tian, M. Sanchez, J. Neary, F. Liu, and Y. Wang,"Learning Microarray Gene Expression Data by Hybrid Discriminant Analysis," IEEE Multimedia Magazine, pp. 22-31, October-December 2007.

2. Y. Lu, Q. Tian, F. Liu, M. Sanchez, and Y. Wang, "Interactive Semi-Supervised Learning for Microarray Analysis," IEEE Transactions on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, Special Issue on Computational Intelligence Approaches in Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, Vo. 4, No. 2, pp: 190-203, April-June 2007.

3. J. Yu, Q. Tian, T. Rui, and T.S. Huang, "Integrating Discriminant and Descriptive Information for Dimension Reduction and Classification," IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, Special Issue on the Convergence of Knowledge Engineering, Semantics, and Signal Processing in Audiovisual Information Retrieval, Vol. 17, No.3, pp: 372-377, March 2007.

   Conferences

4. Y. Lu, I. Cohen, X. Zhou, and Q. Tian, "Feature Selection Using Principal Feature Analysis," acceptance rate: 27%, 70 papers out of 255 submissions, ACM Multimedia 2007, Short Paper Track, September 24-29, 2007, Augsburg, Germany.

5. N. Sebe and Q. Tian, "Personalized Multimedia Retrieval: The New Trend," invited paper, 9th ACM SIGMM International Workshop on Multimedia Information Retrieval, Special Session on Personalized Multimedia Information Retrieval, September 28-29, 2007, University of Augsburg, Germany.

6. Y. Lu, J. Ma, and Q. Tian, "FADA: An Efficient Dimension Reduction Scheme for Image Classification," Best Paper Candidate in Retrieval Track, acceptance rate: 29%, 73 out of 247 submissions, Pacific-rim Conference on Multimedia (PCM 2007), December 11-14, 2007, LNCS 4810, pp. 1-9, Hong Kong.

7. Y. Lu, Q. Tian, and T. S. Huang, "Interactive Boosting for Image Classification," acceptance rate: 46 out of 139 submissions, 33%, International Workshop on Multimedia Content Analysis and Mining (MCAM 2007), June 30 - July 1, 2007, Weihai, Shandong, China.

8. C. Xu and Q. Tian, "Semantic Analysis and Personalization for Mobile Media Applications," Invited Paper, IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME 2007), Special Session on Mobile Media, July 2-5, 2007, Beijing, China.

9. Y. Lu, T. Zhang, and Q. Tian, "i.Boosting for Image Classification," IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME 2007), July 2-5, 2007, Beijing, China.

10. J. Yu, Y. Lu, Y. Xu, N. Sebe, and Q. Tian, "Integrating Relevance Feedback in Boosting for Content-Based Image Retrieval," (acceptance rate: 1344 out of 2912 submissions) IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP 2007), April 15-20, 2007, Honolulu, Hawaii.

11. Y. Lu, J. Yu, N. Sebe, and Q. Tian, "Two Dimensional Adaptive Discriminant Analysis," (acceptance rate: 1344 out of 2912 submissions) IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP 2007), April 15-20, 2007, Honolulu, Hawaii.

Year 2006

Journal
1. Z. Xiong, X. Zhou, Q. Tian, Y. Rui, and T.S. Huang, "Semantic Retrieval of Video," invited paper, IEEE Signal Processing Magazine, Special Issue on Semantic Retrieval of Multimedia, 23(2):18-27, March 2006.

2. Q. Tian, "A Foundational Pespective for Visual Information Retrieval," invited book review for Exploration of Visual Data, IEEE MultiMedia Magazine, April 2006.

   Book Chapter

3. J. Yu, J. Amores, N. Sebe and Q. Tian, "Ranking Metrics and Evaluation Measures," invited book chapter, Advances in Imaging and Electron Physics, Elsevier, Vol. 144, pp. 291-316, 2006.

   Conference

4. J. Yu and Q. Tian, "Learning Image Manifolds by Semantic Subspace Projection," accepted as Full paper (21 out of 128 submissions), ACM Multimedia (2006), October 23-27, 2006, Santa Barbara, CA.

5. J. Yu and Q. Tian, " Adaptive Discriminant Projection for Content-based Image Retrieval," accepted as Oral Paper (15% acceptance rate for oral paper over 2000 submissions), IEEE International Conference on Pattern Recognition, August 20-24, 2006, Hong Kong.

6. J. Yu, J. Amores, N. Sebe, and Q. Tian, "Toward Robust Distance Metric Analysis for Similarity Estimation," accepted (318 papers out of about 1400 submissions) in IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR 2006), New York, NY, June 17-22, 2006.

7. J. Yu and Q. Tian,"Constructing Descriptive and Discriminant Features for Face Classification," to appear in IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP 2006), Best Student Paper, May 14-19, 2006, Toulouse, France.

8. J. Yu, J. Amores, N. Sebe, and Q. Tian, "A New Study on Distance Metrics as Similarity Measurement,"(Lecture paper: 20% acceptance rate out of 1028 submissions) IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME 2006), July 9-12, 2006, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

9. J. Yu and Q. Tian, "Toward Intelligent Use of Semantic Information on Subspace Discovery for Image Retrieval," (Lecture paper: 20% acceptance rate out of 1028 submissions) IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME 2006), July 9-12, 2006, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

10. Y. Lu, Q. Tian, Feng Liu, Maribel Sanchez, and Yufeng Wang, "A Self-Supervised Learning Framework for Classifying Microarray Gene Expression Data," 2nd International Workshop on Bioinformatics Research and Applications, acceptance rate 37.6%, 35 out of 93 submissions, May 28-31, 2006, University of Reading, UK.

11. Y. Lu, Q. Tian, Maribel Sanchez, and Yufeng Wang, "Interactive Learning for Classifying Microarray Gene Expression Data," IEEE International Workshop on Genomic Signal Processing and Statistics, May 28-30, 2006, College Station, Texas.

12. Y. Lu, Q. Tian, Maribel Sanchez, and Yufeng Wang, "Self-Supervised Learning for Gene Classification on Microarray Data," IEEE International Workshop on Genomic Signal Processing and Statistics, May 28-30, 2006, College Station, Texas.

Year 2005

Journal papers
1. Q. Tian, Y. Wu, J. Yu, and T.S. Huang, "Self-Supervised Learning Based on Discriminative Nonlinear Features for Image Classification," Pattern Recognition, Special Issue on Image Understanding for Digital Photographs, Vol. 38, No. 6, pp. 903-917, 2005.

2. T. Rui, C.L Shen, Q. Tian, and J. Ding, "Invariance-Based Target Recognition Using Independent Component Analysis (ICA)", Journal of Mini-Micro Systems, Vol. 26, No.3, March, 2005.

3. T. Rui, C. Shen, Q. Tian, and J. Zhang, "Identity Verification Based on Keystrokes Using HMM", Journal of the Chinese Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)- Computer Engineering, Vol. 31, No.1, January, 2005.
   

4. T. Rui, C.L Shen, Q. Tian, and J. Ding, "Comparison and Analysis on ICA & PCA's Ability in Feature Extraction," Pattern Recognition and Artificial Intelligence, Vol. 18, No. 1, pp. 124-128, 2005.

   Book chapter

5. Q. Tian, Y. Wu, J. Yu and T.S. Huang, "Self-Supervised Learning Based on Discriminative Nonlinear Features and Its applications for Pattern Classification," Chapter 3, pp.52-75, Book Chapter of Managing Multimedia Semantics, edited by Dr. U. Srinivasan and Dr. S. Nepal, ICT Centre CSIRO, Australia, July, 2005, ISBN 1-59140-569-6.

6. Q. Tian, B. Moghaddam, N. Lesh, C. Shen, and T.S. Huang, "Visualization, Estimation and User-Modeling for Interactive Browsing of Personal Photo Libraries," Chapter 9, pp. 193-222, Book Chapter of Managing Multimedia Semantics, edited by Dr. U. Srinivasan and Dr. S. Nepal, ICT Centre CSIRO, Australia, July 2005, ISBN 1-59140-569-6.

   Conference paper

7. Y. Lu, Q. Tian, M. Sanchez, and Y. Wang, "Hybrid PCA and LDA Analysis of Microarray Gene Expression Data," 2005 IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, San Diego, CA, Nov. 14-15, 2005.

8. J. Yu and Q. Tian, "Boosting Multiple Classifiers by Hybrid Discriminant Analysis for Face Identification," Optics East, Multimedia Systems and Applications VIII, October 23-26, 2005, Boston, MA.

9. Q. Tian, J. Yu, and T. S. Huang, "Boosting Multiple Classifiers Constructed by Hybrid Discriminant Analysis", Sixth International Workshop on Multiple Classifier Systems, Seaside, California, June 13-15, 2005. In Lecture Notes in Computer Science, editors N. C. Oza, R. Polikar, J. Kittler, et al, Springer-Verlag, Vol. 3541, 2005.

10. Q. Tian, Y. Lu, M. Sanche, and Y. Wang, "Interactive Learning for Microarray Analysis," (Poster), Ninth Annual International Conference on Research in Computational Molecular Biology (RECOMB 2005), Cambridge, MA, May 14-18, 2005.

11. X. Su, Q. Tian, Q. Xue, N. Sebe, and J. Ma, "Neighborhood Issue in Single-Frame Image Superresolution", International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME 2005), Amsterdam, The Netherlands, July 6-8, 2005.

12. L. Zhang, Q. Tian, N. Sebe, and J. Ma, "Video Object Boundary Reconstruction by 2-Pass Voting", International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME 2005), Amsterdam, The Netherlands, July 6-8, 2005.

13. Q. Tian, L. Zhang, and J. Ma, "Voting Based Object Boundary Reconstruction", Visual Communications and Image Processing, Beijing, China, July 12-15, 2005.

14. N. Sebe, N. Huijsmans, Q. Tian, and T. Gevers, "Towards Complete Performance Characterization in Content-based Retrieval," (oral) in Internet Imaging VI, IS&T/SPIE's 17th Annual Symposium, Eletrocnic Imaging, Science and Technology, January 16-20, 2005, San Jose, CA.

Year 2004

Journal paper
1. B. Moghaddam, Q. Tian, N. Lesh, C. Shen, T. S. Huang, "Visualization and User-Modeling for Browsing Personal Photo Libraries", International Journal of Computer Vision, Special Issue on Content-Based Image Retrieval, January-February, Vol. 56, Issue, 1-2, pp. 109-130, 2004.

2. T. Rui, C. Shen, J. Ding, and Q. Tian, "Handwritten Character Recognition Using HMM Based on Optimal Discriminant Transformation," Journal of Image and Graphics (JIC), Vol. 19, No. 8, pp. 1008-1013, 2004.
   

   Conference paper

3. Q. Tian, Q. Xue, J. Yu, N. Sebe, and T. S. Huang, "Toward An Improved Error Metric," IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP 2004), October 24-27, 2004, Singapore.

4. Q. Tian, J. Yu, T. Rui, and T. S. Huang, "A Hybrid Feature Dimension Reduction Approach for Image Classification", (Oral) Information Technology and Communication (IT Com), SPIE International Symposium, Vol. 5601, pp. 13-23, Philadelphia, PA, October 25-28, 2004.

5. Q. Tian, Q. Xue, N. Sebe, and T. S. Huang, "Error Metric Analysis and Its Applications", (Oral) Information Technology and Communication (IT Com), SPIE International Symposium, Vol. 5601, pp. 46-57, Philadelphia, PA, October 25-28, 2004.

6. Q. Tian, J. Yu, Q. Xue, N. Sebe, and T. S. Huang, "Robust Error Metric for Noise Estimation in Image Indexing," (Oral) 4th International Workshop on Multimedia Data and Document Engineering (MDDE-04), in conjunction with IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR 2004), Washington, DC, June 27-July 2, 2004.

7. Q. Tian, B. Moghaddam, and T. S. Huang, "Towards An Improved Visualization and User-Modeling for Image Libraries," the 4th IASTED International Conference on Visualization, Imaging, and Image Processing (VIIP 2004), September 6-8, 2004, Marbella, Spain.

8. N. Sebe, D. P. Huijsmans, and Q. Tian, "Complete Performance Graphics in Probabilistic Information Retrieval," will appear in 2004 Pacafic-Rim Conference on Multimedia (PCM 2004), November 30 - December 3, 2004, Tokyo Waterfront City, Japan.

9. Q. Tian, J. Yu, Y. Wu, and T.S. Huang, "Learning Based on Kernel Discriminant-EM Algorithm for Image Classification," (oral) IEEE International Conferenece On Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP04), V:461-464, May 17-24, 2004, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
   

10. Q. Tian, J. Yu, Q. Xue, N. Sebe, "A New Analysis of the Value of Unlabeled Data in Semi-Supervised Learning for Image Retrieval," (oral) International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME 2004), Taipei, Taiwan, ROC, June 27-30, 2004.

11. Q. Tian, J. Yu, T. Rui, and T. S. Huang, "Parameterized Discriminant Analysis for Image Classification," (oral) International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME 2004), Taipei, Taiwan, ROC, June 27-30, 2004.

Year 2003
Journal paper
1. N. Sebe, Q. Tian, E. Loupias, M. Lew, T. S. Huang, "Evaluation of Salient Points Techniques", Image and Vision Computing, Special Issue on Machine Vision, Vol. 21, No. 13-14, pp. 1087-1095, December, 2003.

Full Publication list before 2003, click here

Research Demo

Salient Points Detection Using Wavelet Transform

Recent Professional Activities

Adjunct Assistant Professor of Department of Radiation Oncology, University of Texas Health Science Center, 2003-2007.


Organizer of Data and Vision Weekly Seminar(co-organized with Kay Robbins, Weining Zhang, and Yufei Huang), Department of Computer Science, UTSA, since Fall 2004.
Research Conference Committee, College of Science, UTSA, 2009-present Graduate Recruiting Committee, College of Science, UTSA, 2007-present
Graduate Studies Committee, Department of Computer Science, UTSA 2005-2007, 2007-2009
Ph.D. Steering Committee, Department of Computer Science, UTSA 2003-2005
Colloquium Coordinator, Department of Computer Science, UTSA, 2003-2005

Curriculum Subcommittee Members 2006-2007 for Computer Organization I & II and Computer Architecture; and Discrete Math and Analysis of Algorithms.

Steering Committee Member of ACM Multimedia Information Retrieval (MIR) Workshop, Term 2006-2010.

Member of Best Paper Committee of IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME 2006), Toronto, Canada, July 9-12, 2006.

Conference Chairs and Organizers of

1. Program Chair, ACM International Conference on Image and Video Retrieval (CIVR), Xi'an, China, July 5-7, 2010.
2. Program Chair, International Conference on Multimedia Modeling (MMM), January 2010, Chongqing, China.
3. Program Chair, The First ACM International Conference on Internet Multimedia Computing and Services, November 23-25, 2009, Kunming, Yunnan, China.
4. Program Chair, The ACM Multimedia Workshop on Large-Scale Multimedia Retrieval and Mining (LS-MMRM), Beijing, China, October 23, 2009.
5. Program Track Chair, Multimedia Content Analysis, IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME), Canjun, Mexico, June 28-July 3, 2009.
6. Program Coordinator, ACM Multimedia 2009, October 19-24, 2009, Beijing University, Beijing, China.
7. General Chair, Asia-Pacific Workshops on Visual Information Processing (VIP 2008), December 8-9, 2008, Tainan, Taiwan.
8. Content Track Chair, IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME), June 23-26, 2008, Hannover, Germany.
9. Publicity Chair, Pacific-rim Conference on Multimedia, December 9-12, 2008, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan.
10. Special Session Chair, ACM International Conference on Image and Video Retrieval (CIVR'08), July 7-9, 2008, Niagara Falls, Canada.
11. Program Co-Chair, Asia-Pacific Workshops on Visual Information Processing (VIP 2007), December 15-17, 2007, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan City, Taiwan, R.O.C.
12. Program Co-Chair, Fifth International Conference on Intelligent Multimedia and Ambient Intelligence, July 15-22, 2007, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA.
13. Special Session Chair, 2007 Pacific-Rim Conference on Multimedia, December 11-14, 2007, Hong Kong.
14. Publicity Co-Chair, ACM International Conference on Image and Video Retrieval (CIVR 2007), Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 2007.
15. Publicity Co-Chair, ACM Multimedia 2006, October 22-28, 2006, Santa Barbara, CA.
16. Track Chair of Multimedia Content Analysis, IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME 2006), July 9-12, 2006, Toronto, Canada.
17. Program Co-Chair, Multimedia Systems and Applications VIII, SPIE's International Symposium on Optics East 2006, October 1-4, 2006, Boston, MA.
18. Program Co-Chair, The 7th ACM SIGMM International Workshop on Multimedia Information Retrieval (MIR 2005), November 10-11, 2005, Singapore, in conjunction with ACM Multimedia 2005.
19. Program Co-Chair, SPIE Internet Multimedia Management Systems, Boston, MA, October 23-26, 2005.

Session Chair of
1. IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME), Session Chair of "Challenges in Large-Scale Image Retrieval," June 28-July 3, 2009, Canjun, Mexico.
2. ACM Multimedia 2008, Session Chair of Image Retrieval, October 27-31, 2008, Vancouver, Canada.
3. Pacific-Rim Conference on Multimedia (PCM), Session Chair of Image Classification and Retrieval, December 11-14, 2007, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong.
4. 9th ACM SIGMM International Workshop on Multimedia Information Retrieval, Session Chair of Personalized Multimedia Information Retrieval, in conjunction with ACM Multimedia 2007, September 28-29, 2007, University of Augsburg, Germany.
5. IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME 2007), Session Chair of Multimedia Tools, Applications, and Hypermedia Technologies (III), July 5, 2007, Beijing, China.
6. IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP 2007), Session on Video Coding, April 18, 2007, Honolulu, Hawaii.
7. IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME 2007), Special Session Chair of Mobile Media, July 2-5, 2007, Beijing, China.
8. ACM Multimedia, October 23-26, 2006. Session Chair, Applications - Searching Media, Wednesday, October 25, 2006, Santa Barbara, CA.
9. IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP 2006), Session Chair , IMDSP-P15 "Image Restoration and Denoising", May 19, 2006.
10. The 7th ACM SIGMM International Workshop on Multimedia Information Retrieval (MIR 2005), Session Chair, November 10-11, 2005, Singapore, in conjunction with ACM Multimedia 2005.
11. The IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME 2006), Special Session on "Interactive Multimedia Content Analysis and Applications", co-organized with Xian-Sheng Hua, Microsoft Research Asia (MSRA), July 9-12, 2006, Toronto, Canada.
12. SPIE's Optics East 2005, Multimedia Systems and Applications VIII (Conference 6015), Session chair of Content-Based Image/Video Retrieval, October 23-26, 2005, Boston, MA.
13. Visual Communications and Image Processing (VCIP2005), Beijing, China, July 12-15, 2005, Session Chair of TLB-2, "Media Processing for Digital Entertainment"(Special session).
14. Visual Communications and Image Processing (VCIP 2005) , Beijing, China, July 12-15, 2005, Session Chair of TLB-1, "Image Content Analysis".
15. Internet Multimedia Management Systems V, Session Chair, "Adaptation and Mining," OpticsEast, SPIE, October 26-28, 2004, Philadelphia, PA.

Technical Program Committee Member of

Year 2009

1. The 32nd Annual ACM SIGIR Conference, Boston, July 19-23, 2009.
2. ACM Multimedia, Content Track, October 19-24, 2009, Beijing, China.
3. The 10th International Workshop on Image Analysis for Multimedia Interactive Systems (WIAMIS 2009), May 6-8, 2009, London, UK.

Year 2008

1. ACM Multimedia, Multimedia Content Analysis, Processing, and Retrieval Track, October 27-November 1, 2008, Vancouver, BC, Canada.
2. 1st International Workshop on: Robust Multimedia Learning in Broad Domains, October 31, Vancouver, BC, Canada.
3. The IEEE International Workshop on Data Semantics for Multimedia Systems and Applications (DSMSA2008), in conjunction with The IEEE International Symposium on Multimedia (ISM2008), December 15-17, 2008, Berkeley, California, USA.
4. 2008 IEEE International Conference on Multimedia & Expo (ICME 2008), June 23-26, 2008, Hannover, Germany.
5. ACM International Conference on Multimedia Information Retrieval (MIR), October 30-31, 2008, Vancouver, Canada.
6. First International Workshop on Video Mining (VM08) , In association with ICDM 2008, Pisa, Italy, December 15, 2008.
7. 3rd International Workshop on Semantic Learning and Applications in Multimedia (SLAM), CVPR Workshop, June 27, 2008, Anchorage, Alaska.
8. 2008 ICPR Workshop on Media Processing on Mobile/Portable Applications, December 8-11, 2008, Tampa, FL.
9. 3rd International Conference on Computer Vision Theory and Applications (VISAPP), January 22-25, 2008, Funchal, Madeira, Portugal.
10. The 10th IASTED International Conference on Signal and Image Processing (SIP 2008), August 18-20, 2008, Kailua-Kona, Hawaii, USA.
11. International Conference on Signal Processing and Multimedia Applications (SIGMAP 2008), July 26-29, 2008, Porto, Portugal.
12. IEEE International Workshop on Genomic Signal Processing and Statistics (GENSIPS 2008), June 8-10, 2008, Phoenix, Arizona.
13. IS&T/SPIE's 20th Annual Symposium Electronic Imaging, Multimedia Content Access: Algorithms and Systems II, January 27-31, 2008, San Jose, California.

Year 2007

1. ACM Multimedia 2007, September 23-29, 2007 University of Augsburg, Augsburg, Germany.
2. IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME 2007), July 2-5, 2007, Beijing, China.
3. ACM SIGMM International Workshop on Multimedia Information Retrieval (MIR 2007), in conjunction with the ACM Multimedia 2007 in Augsburg, Germany, September 2007.
4. The 2nd International Workshop on Human-Centered Multimedia (HCM 2007), September 28, 2007, Augsburg, Germany, in conjunction with the ACM Multimedia.
5. 2007 Pacific-Rim Conference on Multimedia, December 11-14, 2007, Hong Kong.
6. First IEEE International Conference on Semantic Computing (ICSC07), September 17-19, 2007, Irvine, California, USA.
7. 2007 IEEE International Workshop on Semantic Learning Applications in Multimedia (SLAM 2007, in association with IEEE CVPR 2007, Minneapolis, MN, USA, June 18, 2007.
8. IEEE International Workshop on Human Computer Interaction (HCI), October 21, 2007, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in conjunction with ICCV 2007.
9. International Workshop on Multimedia Content Analysis and Mining (MCAM 2007), June 31-July 1st, 2007, Weihai, Shandong, China.
10. Multimedia Systems and Applications X (IT 405), SPIE International Symposium on Optics East 2007, September 9-12, 2007, Boston, MA, USA.
11. Mobile Multimedia Information Retrieval workshop, December 3-5, 2007, Jakarta, Indonesia.
12. The 9th International Conference on Visual Information Systems (VIUSAL 2007), June 28-29, 2007, Shanghai, China.
13. The 2007 IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology (CIBCB 2007), Honolulu, Hawaii, USA, April 1-5, 2007.
14. Multimedia Content Access: Algorithms and Systems, Eletronic Imaging, SPIE/IS&T conference, San Jose, January 2007.
15. 2nd International Conference on Computer Vision Theory and Applications (VISAPP 2007), March 8-11, 2007, Barcelona, Spain.
16. the 2007 Information Resources Management Association (IRMA) International Conference, May 19-23, 2007, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
17. The IASTED International Conference on Signal and Image Processing, SIP 2007, Honolulu, USA, August 20 - 22, 2007.
18. SIGMAP 2007 International Conference on Signal Processing and Multimedia Applications, Barcelona, Spain, July 28-31, 2007.

Year 2006

1. The First Workshop on Human-Centered Multimedia (HCM), in conjunction with ACM Multimedia (ACM MM), October, 2006, Santa Barbara, CA.
2. The 8th ACM SIGMM International Workshop on Multimedia Information Retrieval (MIR 2006), in conjunction with ACM Multimedia 2006, October 2006, Santa Barbara, CA.
3. IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME 2006), July 9-12, 2006, Toronto, Canada.
4. CVPR Workshop on Semantic Learning Applications in Multimedia, June 18, 2006, in association with IEEE CVPR 2006, New York City.
5. The 1st International Workshop on Mobile Information Retrieval (MoMIR), in conjunction with 4th International Conference on Mobile Computing and Multimedia (MoMM2006), December 7, 2006, Yogyakarta, Indonesia.
6. Asia-Pacific Workshop on Visual Information Processing (VIP06), Nov. 7-9, 2006, Beijing, China.
7. The 5th International Conference on Image and Video Retrieval (CIVR2006), Arizona State Univ (ASU), July 2006.
8. International Workshop on Human-Computer Interaction (HCI 2006), May 13, 2006, Graz, Austria, in conjunction with ECCV 2006.
9. 2006 IEEE International Symposium on Signal Processing and Information Technology (ISSPIT), August 27-30, 2006, Vancouver, Canada.
10. the International Conference on Signal Processing and Multimedia Applications (SIGMAP), August 2006, Setubal, Portugal.
11. International Conference on Computer Vision Theory and Applications(VISAPP05), February 22-25, 2006, Setúbal, Portugal.
12. Multimedia Content Analysis, Management, and Retrieval 2006, Electronic Imaging, San Jose, CA, January 2006.
13. The IASTED International Conference on Signal and Image Processing (SIP 2006), Honolulu, USA, August 14-16, 2006.
    

Year 2005

1. IEEE International Workshop on Human Computer Interaction 2005 (HCI 2005), in conjunction with ICCV'2005, Beijing, China.
   
2. Short Paper Technical Committee for the Application Track of ACM Multimedia 2005, November 6-12, 2005, Singapore.
   
3. International Conference on Image and Video Retrieval (CIVR 2005), July 20-22, 2005, National University of Singapore, Singapore.
   
4. The IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME 2005), July 6-8, 2005, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
   
5. The International Conference on E-business and Telecommunication Networks (ICETE), October 3-7, 2005, Microsoft Convention Centre at Reading, UK.
   
6. The Seventh IASTED International Conference on Signal and Image Processing (SIP 2005), August 15-17, 2005, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA
   

Year 2004

1. 6th ACM SIGMM International Workshop on Multimedia Information Retrieval (MIR 2004), in conjunction with the ACM Multimedia 2004, October 15, 2004, New York City, NY USA
   
2. International Workshop on Multidisciplinary Image, Video, and Audio Retrieval and Mining, October 25-26, 2004, Universite de Sherbrooke, Canada.
   
3. International Workshop on Human-Computer Interaction (HCI), in conjunction with ECCV 2004, May 2004, Praygue.
   
4. ACM Multimedia 2004 for the Poster track, October 10-15, New York, NY, U.S.A.
   
5. The 3rd International Conference on Image and Video Retrieval (CIVR 2004), July 21-23, 2004, Dublin, Ireland.
   
6. The 17th International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR 2004), Track Four: Multimedia Systems, August 23-26, 2004, Cambridge, United Kingdom.
   

Year 2003

1. The 5th International Workshop on Multimedia Information Retrieval (MIR 2003), in conjunction with the ACM Multimedia 2003, November 2-8, 2003, Berkeley, CA.
   
2. International Conference on Image and Video Retrieval (CIVR 2003), July 24-25, 2003, Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, USA.
   

Technical Committee of International Association of Science and Technology for Development (IASTED) on Image Processing, Term 2004- 2007.

Committee memeber of

• Ph.D. candiate: Jerry Yu (Chair), Fatma Turkay, Kenneth Holladay
• M.S. candidate: Rachel Smith, Ren Na, Krishna K. Kondraguntla, Rui Wu, Robert Baltimore, Hangsheng Cai (Chair)

NSF Panelist, CISE - Intelligent and Information Science Division (IIS), 2003, 2007

Invited Reviewer for Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO), 2006.

Reviewer for

• Journals
  IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, Multimedia, Circuits and Systems for Video Technology,
  Image Processing, Signal Processing, Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, Knowledge Database and Engineering,
  Systems, Man and Cybernetics, part B, Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control.
  

  International Journals: ACM Multimedia Systems Journal, ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing, Communications and Applications,
  Journal of Computer Vision and Image Understanding, EURASIP Journal on Applied Signal Processing,
  Journal of Image and Video Computing, Pattern Recognition, Pattern Recognition Letters, Pattern Analysis and Applications,
  Journal of Visual Languages and Computing, Information Sciences: An International Journal, Multimedia Tools and Applications: An International Journal,
  Journal of Data & Knowledge Engineering, Journal of Electronic Imaging.

• Conferences
  ACM-Multimedia, ICCV, CVPR, ICPR, NIPS, ICIP, ICME, ICASSP, ISCAS, ACCV, FG, VCIP, CIVR, ICMI, MIR, CIBCB.

Invited Talks and Presentations at

1. Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, August 14, 2007.
2. Chinese Academy of Science, August 9, 2007.
3. Google Beijing, China, August 8, 2007.
4. Web Search and Mining Group, Microsoft Research Asia (MSRA), July 26, 2007.
5. College of Computer Science, Zhejiang University, July 13, 2007.
6. Computer Vision Laboratory, Shanghai Jiaotong University, July 11, 2007.
7. IEEE ICME'07 Workshop in Multimedia Communications and Computing, Heifei, Anhui, China, July 9-10, 2007.
8. Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Science (CAS), Beijing, China, July 6, 2007.
9. Microsoft Research Asia (MSRA), Beijing, China, May 17, 2005.
10. Keynote Speech and invited lectures in Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) Workshop at Tsinghua University, May 16-19, 2005, Beijing, China.
11. Sarnoff Corporation, Princeton, NJ, October 29, 2004.
12. SPIE International Symposium, Information Technology and Communication (IT Comm), Philadelphia, PA, October 26, 2004.
13. 4th International Workshop on Multimedia Data and Document Engineering (MDDE-04), in conjunction with IEEE CVPR 2004, Washington, DC, July 2, 2004.
    
14. IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME'04), Taipei, Taiwan, ROC, June 28 and 29, 2004.
15. IEEE International Conference on Accoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP' 04), May 20, 2004, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
    
16. Image Formation and Processing (IFP) Group, Beckman Institute of Technology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, January 2004
    
17. NEC Laboratories America, Cupertino, CA, August 2003
    
18. HP Labs, Palo Alto, CA, August 2003
    
19. Cancer Therapy and Research Center, University of Texas Health and Science Center, February 2003
    
20. Research Imaging Center, University of Texas Health and Science Center, February 2003
    
21. Image Formation and Processing (IFP) Group, Beckman Institute of Technology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, January 2003
    

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