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Rong Yan Intelligent Information Management Dept. |
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I am now with IBM TJ Watson Research center as a research staff member.
My current project is Multimedia Analysis and Retrieval, an award-winning
project managed by John R. Smith and Murray Campbell.
Dissertation: abstract (.txt),
summary (.ps, .pdf), full thesis (.ps, .pdf)
· Recent
services:
Panelist, NSF CAREER proposal review panel
Co-Chair, Industrial program in International Symposium on Multimedia (ISM) 2008
Co-Chair, VideOlympics showcase event in ACM CIVR'07-'08
Co-Chair, Special session on “Closing the semantic gap: concept-based multimedia
mining and retrieval”, in IEEE International Conference on Semantic Computing
2007
Program committee member for Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM) 2007
Program committee member for European Conference on Information Retrieval
(ECIR), 2008
Program committee member for ACM Multimedia 2007, Short Paper track / Open
Source Software track
Program committee member for ACM International
Conference on Image and Video Retrieval (CIVR), 2007-08
Program committee member for ACM SIGIR Conference,
2007-08
Program committee member for International Conference on Multimedia and
Expo (ICME), 2006-08
Program committee member for Signal processing and multimedia
applications (SIGMAP), 2007-08
Program committee member for Workshop on Visual Information Processing
(VIP), 2007
Program committee member for ACM Multimedia’04, Short Paper track
Conference Reviewer: CVPR’04/’05/’06, ECCV’06, ICCV’03, ACCV’03,
ICIP’04, ICPR’06, ACM Multimedia’04/’05, MMSP’05, CIVR’06
Journal Reviewer: IEEE Trans. on PAMI, IEEE Trans. on Neural Network,
IEEE Trans. on Multimedia, IEEE Trans. on TKDE, IEEE Trans. on SMC-B,
Multimedia System Journal
Information Retrieval, Pattern Analysis and Applications, Journal of Electronic
Imaging, EUSAIP Image and Video Processing, Journal of Multimedia.
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Updates on the list of publications
· Our paper “How many high-level concepts will fill the semantic gap in news video retrieval?” (joint work with Alex G. Hauptmann, Wei-hao Lin) won the best paper runner-up award in CIVR’07
· Updates on the MATLAB classification package, MATLABArsenal
Personal Info:
- I’ve got my PhD degree of Language and Information
Technologies from Language Technologies
Institute, School of Computer
Science of Carnegie Mellon
University in Oct. 2006.
Research interests: (multimedia) information retrieval, data mining, machine learning, video content analysis and computer vision / surveillance
Advisor: Alex G. Hauptmann Affiliation: Language Technologies Institute, Informedia / CareMedia project - I’ve got my B.S. degree in Computer Science Department from Tsinghua University in July 2001
- Non-research interest: Basketball, Badminton, Swimming, Go, Pool, Soccer, Reading, Movies, Travel
(My Wife: Yan)
(High School Friends: Zheng Wang, Di Yu, Jiajun Chen and more w/o homepages)
(College Friends: Wen Wu Xiaoliang Wei Ke Xu Chang Liu Zhong Xiu Song Gang Xinyang Li and more w/o homepages)
(CMU Friends : Jiazhi Ou Jun Yang Jian Zhang Joy Jie Lu and more w/o homepages)
Last modified: Jan 30, 2007