5F SIGMA CENTER, 49 ZHICHUN ROAD, BEIJING 100080, P.R.CHINA (OFFICE) PHONE +86 10 58963200 (OFFICE) EMAIL: XSHUA@MICROSOFT.COM PHONE +86 13521968891 (CELL) EMAIL: HUAXS@MSN.COM (PERSONAL) Xian-Sheng Hua PERSONAL INFORMATION Date of Birth Oct 6, 1973 Place of Birth Hubei Province, P.R.China Phone +86 10 58963200 (office) +86 13521968891 (cell) E-mail xshua@microsoft.com URL http://research.microsoft.com/~xshua EDUCATION 09/1996 ~ 07/2001 Degree: Ph.D. University: School of Mathematical Science, Peking University Dissertation: Local Multiple Watermarks for Still Images 09/1991 ~ 07/1996 Degree: Bachelor of Science University: School of Mathematical Science, Peking University Major: Applied Mathematics RESEARCH EXPERIENCES 07/2001 ~ present Microsoft Research Asia Position: Lead Researcher in Internet Media Group Oversee a four-member team working on video search (including indexing, ranking, presentation, and management), multimedia advertising and multimedia content analysis. Research Area: Multimedia content analysis and applications. Topics include: video search, video advertising, image advertising, video management, mobile multimedia, video authoring/sharing, video content analysis, media visualization, media user interface, video representation, video summarization, video quality assessment, video signature, sports video analysis, video commercial detection, and videotext detection. Mentor for Interns: Supervised more than 30 interns to accomplish research projects, papers, and dissertations. Students include those from both local leading universities such as Peking University, Tsinghua University, and University of Science and Technology of China, as well as international ones such as University of California, Santa Barbara, and Queen Mary, University of London. More details (bio, publications, demonstrations, media reports, etc.): Please visit my homepage for more details about my research experiences at Microsoft Research Asia. 11/2000 ~ 07/2001 Microsoft Research Asia Position: Visiting Student at Media Computing Group Research Area: Videotext Detection and Performance Evaluation 09/1996 ~ 07/2001 School of Mathematical Sciences of Peking University Position: Ph.D. Candidate Research Area: Image Data Hiding, Image Watermarking ADDITIONAL PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Multimedia (since 2007) Editorial Board Member of Multimedia Tools and Applications (since 2007) Adjunct Professor of University of Science and Technology of China (since 2007) Vice Program Chair and Technical Demonstration Co-Chair VCIP 2005 Visual Communications and Image Processing 2005, Beijing, July 2005 Technical Program Committee Member Of: ACMMM 2008 ACM Multimedia 2008 (Content Track), Vancouver, Canada, 2008. CIVR 2008 ACM Intl Conf on Image and Video Retrieval, Canada, July 2007 MMSP 2008 Intl Workshop on Multimedia Signal Processing, Australia, 2008. MMM 2008 Intl Multimedia Modeling Conference, Kyoto, Japan, 2008. SLAM 2008 3rd Intl Workshop on Semantic Learning and Applications in Multimedia AMR 2008 Intl Workshop on Adaptive Multimedia Retrieval, Berlin, Germany, 2008 AusVideo2008 1st Australia Annul Video Conference, Brisbane, Australia, 2008 VC2008 IADIS International Conference Visual Communication, Netherlands. ACMMM 2007 ACM Multimedia 2007 (Content Track), Augsburg, Germany, Sep 2007 PCM 2007 Pacific-Rim Conference on Multimedia, Hong Kong, China, 2007 ICME 2007 IEEE Intl Conf on Multimedia and Expo, Beijing, July 2007 CIVR 2007 ACM Intl Conf on Image and Video Retrieval, Amsterdam, July 2007 AMR 2007 Intl Workshop on Adaptive Multimedia Retrieval, Paris, July 2007 SLAM 2007 2nd Intl Workshop on Semantic Learning and Applications in Multimedia ACMMM 2006 ACM Multimedia 2006 (Short Paper), Santa Barbara, USA, Oct. 2006 ICME 2006 IEEE Intl Conf on Multimedia and Expo, Toronto, Canada, July 2006 MMM 2006 12th Intl Multimedia Modeling Conference, Beijing, Jan. 2006 SLAM 2006 1st Intl Workshop on Semantic Learning and Applications in Multimedia PCM 2005 the Sixth Pacific-Rim Conference on Multimedia, Jeju, Korea, Nov. 2005 ICIP 2005 IEEE Intl Conf on Image Processing, Genoa, Italy, Sept. 2005 VCIP 2005 Visual Communications and Image Processing 2005, Beijing, July 2005 PCM 2004 the Fifth Pacific-Rim Conf on Multimedia, Tokyo, Japan, Dec. 2004 ICIP 2004 IEEE International Conf on Image Processing, Singapore, Oct. 2004 ACMMM 2004 ACM Multimedia 2004 (Short Paper), NYC, USA, Oct. 2004 ICME 2004 IEEE Intl Conf on Multimedia and Expo, Taipei, Taiwan, June 2004 Guest Co-Editor Computer Vision and Image Understanding (Elsevier) special issue on Video Analysis Technical Session Moderator 1st China Online Video Advertising Conference -Beijing, China, 2007 Special Session Organizer MMSP 2008 Search and Beyond Search: Online Video Applications ICME 2006 Interactive Multimedia Content Analysis and Application Member Of ACM Member of the Association for Computing Machinery since 2002. IEEE Member of IEEE since 2005. SHIPPED PRODUCTS 2007 Microsoft Live Search Video Shipped Feature: Smart Static/Motion Thumbnail, Quality Assessment 2007 Microsoft Windows Vista Shipped Features: TV Thumbnail, Video Metadata, and AutoMovie 2006 Microsoft MSN Video Shipped Feature: Video Thumbnail 2005 Microsoft Windows XP Media Center Edition Shipped Feature: TV/Video Smart Thumbnail (Priority 0 feature) 2003 Microsoft Windows Movie Maker 2.0 Shipped Feature: AutoMovie (5-Star breakthrough feature) AWARDS AND HONORS 2007 Best Paper Award, ACM Multimedia 2007 (the most prestigious conference in multimedia research) 2007 Best Demonstration Award, ACM Multimedia 2007 2007 Was selected into Microsoft HiPo (High Potential) Program Tier 2 2007 Microsoft Research Asia "Best Research Team of the Year" 2007 Microsoft Ship-It Award (Live Search Video) 2005 Microsoft Ship-It Award (Windows XP Media Center Edition) 2003 Microsoft Ship-It Award (Windows MovieMaker 2.0) 2000 Wusi Scholarship, Outstanding Student Scholarship (Peking University) 1995 Jiuzhang Arithmetic Scholarship (Peking University) 1994 Japanese Okamatsu Scholarship (Peking University) 1993 Excellent Student Scholarship (Peking University) PATENTS More than 30 patents or pending applications - In the area of multimedia content analysis and related applications, including video search, multimedia desktop search, video/image annotation, video/image advertising, video segmentation, video authoring, commercial detection, video/photo capturing, video/photo sharing, video summarization, video representation, and video/photo browsing. PUBLICATIONS Summary Total: 124 Book Chapters: 6 Journals: 13 Conference Papers: ACM Multimedia: 28 = 8 (Full Paper) + 12 (Short Paper) + 7 (Demos) CVPR: 6 ICME: 23 ICIP: 6 Others (ICDM, SIGIR, ICSC, MIR, MMM, ISCAS, ICASSP, PAKDD, CIVR, PCM, etc.): 42 * - Interns mentored at Microsoft Research Asia. Book Chapters 1.Meng Wang *, Xian-Sheng Hua, Jinhui Tang, Guo-Jun Qi. Active Video Annotation: To Minimize Human Effort. Book Chapter. To appear in Semantic Mining Technologies for Multimedia Databases, edited by D. Tao, D. Xu, and X. Li. Idea Group Inc. 2008. 2.Jinhui Tang *, Xian-Sheng Hua and Meng Wang. Image/Video Semantic Analysis by Semi- Supervised Learning. Book Chapter. To appear in Semantic Mining Technologies for Multimedia Databases, edited by D. Tao, D. Xu, and X. Li. Idea Group Inc. 2008. 3.Tao Mei, Xian-Sheng Hua. Intelligent Video Content Analysis and Applications. Book Chapter. To appear in Computational Intelligence and Its Applications. Edited by Chang Wen Chen. USTC Press. 2008. 4.Meng Wang *, Tao Mei, Xian-Sheng Hua. Video Annotation: Supervised, Semi-Supervised, and Active Learning Approaches. Book chapter. To appear in Computational Intelligence and Its Applications. Edited by Chang Wen Chen. USTC Press. 2008. 5.Xian-Sheng Hua, Yong Rui. Content-Based Multimedia Retrieval. To appear in Wiley Encyclopedia of Computer Science and Engineering. Edited by Benjamin Wah. John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 6.Xian-Sheng Hua, Meng Wang *. Video Content Structure. To appear in Encyclopedia of Database Systems. Edited by Ling Liu, M. Tamer Ozsu. Springer-Verlag. Journal Papers 7.Jinhui Tang *, Xian-Sheng Hua, Guo-Jun Qi, Yan Song, Xiuqing Wu. Video Annotation Based on Kernel Linear Neighborhood Propagation. To appear in IEEE Transaction on Multimedia. 8.Meng Wang *, Xian-Sheng Hua, Tao Mei, Jinhui Tang, Guo-Jun Qi, Yan Song, Li-Rong Dai. Interactive Video Annotation by Multi-concept Multi-modality Active Learning. To appear in International Journal of Semantic Computing. 9.Guo-Jun Qi *, Xian-Sheng Hua, Yong Rui, Hong-Jiang Zhang. A Unifying Multi-Label Temporal Kernel Machine with Its Application to Video Annotation. In Submission (Invited) to ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing, Communications and Applications. 10.Meng Wang *, Xian-Sheng Hua, Tao Mei, Richang Hong, Guo-Jun Qi, Yan Song and Li-Rong Dai. Semi-Supervised Kernel Density Estimation for Video Annotation. To appear in Computer Vision and Image Understanding, Elsevier. 11.Jinhui Tang *, Xian-Sheng Hua, Yan Song, Tao Mei, Xiuqing Wu. Optimizing Training Set Construction for Video Semantic Classification. EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing. Vol 2008. Article ID 693731. 10 pages. 12.Tao Mei *, Xian-Sheng Hua. Structure and Event Mining in Sports Video with Efficient Mosaic. To appear in Multimedia Tools and Applications. 2008. 13.Jinhui Tang *, Xian-Sheng Hua, Tao Mei, Guo-Jun Qi, Xiuqing Wu. Video Annotation Based on Temporally Consistent Gaussian Random Field. Electronics Letters. Vol. 43, Issue 8, 2007. 14.Tao Mei *, Cai-Zhi Mei *, Xian-Sheng Hua, He-Qin Zhou, Shipeng Li. Home Video Visual Quality Assessment with Spatio-Temporal Factors. To appear in IEEE Trans. on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology. 15.Tao Mei *, Xian-Sheng Hua, He-Qin Zhou, Shipeng Li. Modeling and Mining of Users' Capture Intention for Home Videos. IEEE Trans. on Multimedia. Vol 9, Issue 1. Jan 2007. 16.Xian-Sheng Hua, Lie Lu, Hong-Jiang Zhang. Photo2Video - A System for Automatically Converting Photographic Series into Video. IEEE Trans. on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, Vol 16, Issue 7, pp 803-819. July 2006. 17.Yufei Ma, Xian-Sheng Hua, Lie Lu, Hong-Jiang Zhang. A Generic Framework of User Attention Model and Its Application in Video Summarization. IEEE Transactions on Multimedia Journal. Vol 17, No. 5, October 2005. 18.Xian-Sheng Hua, Lie Lu, Hong-Jiang Zhang. Optimization-Based Automated Home Video Editing System. IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, May 2004, Vol 14, No. 5, pp 572-583. 2004. 19.Xian-Sheng Hua, Liu Wenyin, Hong-Jiang Zhang. An Automatic Performance Evaluation Protocol for Video Text Detection Algorithms. IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, April 2004, Vol 14, No. 4, pp 498-507. 2004. Conference Papers 2008 20.Guo-Jun Qi *, Xian-Sheng Hua, et al. Two-Dimensional Active Learning for Image Classification. To appear in IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR 2008), Anchorage, Alaska, USA. June, 2008. 21.Zhengjun Zha *, Xian-Sheng Hua, et al. Joint Multi-Label Multi-Instance Learning for Image Classification. To appear in IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR 2008), Anchorage, Alaska, USA. June, 2008. 22.Guo-Jun Qi *, Xian-Sheng Hua, et al. A Joint Appearance-Spatial Distance for Kernel-Based Image Categorization. To appear in IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR 2008), Anchorage, Alaska, USA. June, 2008. 23.Tao Mei, Yong Wang, Xian-Sheng Hua, et al. Coherent Image Annotation by Learning Semantic Distance. To appear in IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR 2008), Anchorage, Alaska, USA. June, 2008. 24.Jingdong Wang, Yangqing Jia, Xian-Sheng Hua, et al. Normalized Tree Partitioning for Image Segmentation. To appear in IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR 2008), Anchorage, Alaska, USA. June, 2008. 25.Zheng-Jun Zha *, Tao Mei, Jingdong Wang, Zengfu Wang, Xian-Sheng Hua. Graph-Based Semi-Supervised Learning with Multi-Label. To appear in IEEE International Conference on Multimedia & Expo (ICME 2008). Hannover, Germany, June 2008. 26.Xinmei Tian *, Linjun Yang, Jingdong Wang, Xiuqing Wu, Xian-Sheng Hua. Transductive Video Annotation via Local Learnable Kernel Classifier. To appear in IEEE International Conference on Multimedia & Expo (ICME 2008). Hannover, Germany, June 2008. 27.Bo Geng *, Linjun Yang, Zheng-Jun Zha, Chao Xu, Xian-Sheng Hua. Unbiased Active Learning for Image Retrieval. To appear in IEEE International Conference on Multimedia & Expo (ICME 2008). Hannover, Germany, June 2008. 28.Yuan Liu *, Tao Mei, Jinhui Tang, Xiuqing Wu, Xian-Sheng Hua. Learning To Video Search Re- Rank Via Pseudo Preference Feedback. To appear in IEEE International Conference on Multimedia & Expo (ICME 2008). Hannover, Germany, June 2008. 29.Jingdong Wang, Xinmei Tian, Linjun Yang, Zheng-Jun Zha, Xian-Sheng Hua. Optimized Video Scene Segmentation. To appear in IEEE International Conference on Multimedia & Expo (ICME 2008). Hannover, Germany, June 2008. 30.Yuan Liu *, Tao Mei, Guojun Qi, Xiuqing Wu, Xian-Sheng Hua. Query-Independent Learning for Video Search. To appear in IEEE International Conference on Multimedia & Expo (ICME 2008). Hannover, Germany, June 2008. 31.Emily Moxley *, Tao Mei, Xian-Sheng Hua, Wei-Ying Ma, B.S. Manjunath. Automatic Video Annotation through Search and Mining. To appear in IEEE International Conference on Multimedia & Expo (ICME 2008). Hannover, Germany, June 2008. 32.Bo Yang *, Tao Mei, Li-Feng Sun, Shi-Qiang Yang, Xian-Sheng Hua. Free-Shaped Video Collage. International Conference on Multi-Media Modeling (MMM), Kyoto, Japan, Jan. 2008. 33.Zhiwei Gu *, Tao Mei, Jinhui Tang, Xiuqing Wu, Xian-Sheng Hua. MILC^2: A Multi-Layer Multi-Instance Learning Approach to Video Concept Detection. International Conference on Multi- Media Modeling (MMM), Kyoto, Japan, Jan. 2008. 2007 34.Guo-Jun Qi *, Xian-Sheng Hua, Yong Rui, Jinhui Tang, Tao Mei, Hong-Jiang Zhang. Correlative Multi-Label Video Annotation. ACM International Conference on Multimedia (ACM MM 2007), Augsburg, Germany, Sept. 2007. (Best Paper Award) 35.Tao Mei, Xian-Sheng Hua, Linjun Yang, Shipeng Li. VideoSense - Towards Effective Online Video Advertising. ACM International Conference on Multimedia (ACM MM 2007), Augsburg, Germany, Sept. 2007. (Full paper) 36.Meng Wang *, Xian-Sheng Hua, Xun Yuan *, Yan Song, Li-Rong Dai. Optimizing Multi-Graph Learning: Towards a Unified Video Annotation Scheme. ACM International Conference on Multimedia (ACM MM 2007), Augsburg, Germany, Sept. 2007. (Full paper) 37.Jinhui Tang *, Xian-Sheng Hua, Guo-Jun Qi, Meng Wang, Tao Mei, Xiuqing Wu. Structure- Sensitive Manifold Ranking for Video Concept Detection. ACM International Conference on Multimedia (ACM MM 2007), Augsburg, Germany, Sept. 2007. (Full paper) 38.Jingjing Liu *, Wei Lai, Xian-Sheng Hua, Yalou Huang, Shipeng Li. Video Search Re-Ranking via Multi-Graph Propagation. ACM International Conference on Multimedia (ACM MM 2007), Augsburg, Germany, Sept. 2007. (Full paper) 39.Jinhui Tang *, Xian-Sheng Hua, Guo-Jun Qi *, Xiuqing Wu. Typicality Ranking via Semi- Supervised Multiple-Instance Learning. ACM International Conference on Multimedia (ACM MM 2007), Augsburg, Germany, Sep. 23-29. (Short paper) 40.Zhiwei Gu *, Tao Mei, Xian-Sheng Hua, Jinhui Tang *, Xiuqing Wu. Multi-Layer Multi-Instance Kernel for Video Concept Detection. ACM International Conference on Multimedia (ACM MM 2007), Augsburg, Germany, Sept. 2007.(Short paper) 41.Zhengjun Zha *, Tao Mei, Xian-Sheng Hua, Guo-Jun Qi *, Zengfu Wang. Refining Video Annotation by Exploiting Pairwise Concurrent Relation. ACM International Conference on Multimedia (ACM MM 2007), Augsburg, Germany, Sept. 2007.(Short paper) 42.Tao Mei, Linjun Yang, Xian-Sheng Hua, Hao Wei, Shipeng Li. VideoSense: A Contextual Video Advertising System. ACM International Conference on Multimedia (ACM MM 2007), Augsburg, Germany, Sept. 2007. (Demo) 43.Xueliang Liu *, Tao Mei, Xian-Sheng Hua, Bo Yang *, He-Qin Zhou. Video Collage. ACM International Conference on Multimedia (ACM MM 2007), Augsburg, Germany, Sept. 2007. (Best Demonstration Award) 44.Linjun Yang, Jiemin Liu *, Tao Mei, Xiaokang Yang, Xian-Sheng Hua. Multi-Modal Web Video Categorization. ACM SIGMM International Conference Workshop on Multimedia Information Retrieval (ACM MIR), in conjunction with ACM Multimedia, Augsburg, Germany, Sept. 2007. (Invited Paper) 45.Zhengjun Zha *, Tao Mei, Zengfu Wang, Xian-Sheng Hua. Building a Comprehensive Ontology to Refine Video Concept Detection. ACM SIGMM International Conference Workshop on Multimedia Information Retrieval (ACM MIR), in conjunction with ACM Multimedia, Augsburg, Germany, Sept. 2007. 46.Meng Wang *, Xian-Sheng Hua, Yan Song, Jinhui Tang *, Li-Rong Dai. Multi-Concept Multi- Modality Active Learning for Interactive Video Annotation. First IEEE International Conference on Semantic Computing (ICSC 2007), Irvine, California, USA, September, 2007. (Invited Paper) 47.Guo-Jun Qi *, Xian-Sheng Hua, Yong Rui, Tao Mei, Jinhui Tang *, Hong-Jiang Zhang. Concurrent Multiple Instance Learning for Image Categorization. IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR 2007), Minneapolis, Minnesota, June, 2007. 48.Tao Mei, Bo Yang *, Xian-Sheng Hua, Linjun Yang, Shi-Qiang Yang. VideoReach: An Online Video Recommendation System. 30th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference (SIGIR 2007), Amsterdam, The Netherlands, July 2007. 49.Bo Yang *, Tao Mei, Xian-Sheng Hua, Linjun Yang, Shi-Qiang Yang, Mingjing Li. Online Video Recommendation Based on Multimodal Fusion and Relevance Feedback. ACM International Conference on Image and Video Retrieval (CIVR 2007), Amsterdam, The Netherlands, July 2007. 50.Guo-Jun Qi *, Xian-Sheng Hua, Yan Song, Jinhui Tang *, Hong-Jiang Zhang. Transductive Inference with Hierarchical Clustering for Video Annotation. IEEE International Conference on Multimedia & Expo (ICME 2007). Beijing, July 2007. 51.Meng Wang *, Xian-Sheng Hua, Xun Yuan *, Yan Song, Li-Rong Dai .Multi-Graph Semi- Supervised Learning for Video Semantic Feature Extraction. IEEE International Conference on Multimedia & Expo (ICME 2007). Beijing, July 2007. 52.Meng Wang *, Xian-Sheng Hua, Yan Song, Li-Rong Dai. Lazy Learning Based Efficient Video Annotation. IEEE International Conference on Multimedia & Expo (ICME 2007). Beijing, July 2007. 53.Xun Yuan *, Xian-Sheng Hua, Meng Wang, Guo-Jun Qi, Xiu-Qing Wu. A Novel Multiple Instance Learning Approach For Image Retrieval Based On Adaboost Feature Selection. IEEE International Conference on Multimedia & Expo (ICME 2007). Beijing, July 2007. 54.Zhiwei Gu *, Tao Mei, Xian-Sheng Hua, Xiuqing Wu, Shipeng Li. EMS: Energy Minimization Based Video Scene Segmentation. IEEE International Conference on Multimedia & Expo (ICME 2007). Beijing, July 2007. 55.Jinhui Tang *, Xian-Sheng Hua, Guo-Jun Qi *, Zhiwei Gu *, Xiuqing Wu. Beyond Accuracy: Typicality Ranking for Video Annotation. IEEE International Conference on Multimedia & Expo (ICME 2007). Beijing, July 2007. 56.Jinhui Tang, Xian-Sheng Hua, Guo-Jun Qi *, Tao Mei, Xiuqing Wu. Anisotropic Manifold Ranking for Video Annotation. IEEE International Conference on Multimedia & Expo (ICME 2007). Beijing, July 2007. 57.Tang Wang, Tao Mei, Xian-Sheng Hua, Xue-Liang Liu, Heqin Zhou. Video Collage: A Novel Presentation of Video. IEEE International Conference on Multimedia & Expo (ICME 2007). Beijing, July 2007. 58.Jinhui Tang *, Xian-Sheng Hua, Yan Song, Xiu-Qing Wu. Kernel-based Linear Neighborhood Propagation for Video Annotation. The 11th Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (PAKDD 2007), May 2007, Nanjing, China. 59.Lu Liu *, Wei Lai, Xian-Sheng Hua, Shi-Qiang Yang. On Real-Time Detecting Duplicate Web Videos. Proceedings of the International Conference on Acoustic, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP 2007), April, 2007, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA. 60.Meng Wang *, Xian-Sheng Hua, Yan Song, Li-Rong Dai, Ren-Hua Wang. An Interactive Video Annotation Framework With Multiple Modalities. Proceedings of the International Conference on Acoustic, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP 2007), April, 2007, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA. 61.Meng Wang *, Xian-Sheng Hua, Yan Song, Wei Lai, Li-Rong Dai, Ren-Hua Wang. An Efficient Automatic Video Shot Size Annotation Scheme. Proceedings of International Multimedia Modeling Conference (MMM 2007), Singapore, Jan. 2007. 62.Lu Liu *, Wei Lai, Xian-Sheng Hua, Shi-Qiang Yang. Video Histogram: A Novel Video Signature for Efficient Web Video Duplicate Detection. Proceedings of International Multimedia Modeling Conference (MMM 2007), Singapore, Jan. 2007. 2006 63.Meng Wang *, Xian-Sheng Hua, Yan Song, Li-Rong Dai, and Hong-Jiang Zhang. Semi- Supervised Kernel Regression. IEEE Intl Conf. on Data Mining 2006 (ICDM 2006), Hong Kong, Dec 18-22 2006. 64.Meng Wang *, Xian-Sheng Hua, Yan Song, Xun Yuan, Shipeng Li, and Hong-Jiang Zhang. Automatic Video Annotation by Semi-supervised Learning with Kernel Density Estimation. ACM Multimedia 2006 (ACM MM 2006), Santa Barbara, CA, USA, Oct 23-27 2006. (Long paper) 65.Jinhui Tang *, Yan Song *, Xian-Sheng Hua, Tao Mei, Xiuqing Wu. To Construct Optimal Training Set For Video Annotation. ACM Multimedia 2006 (ACM MM 2006), Santa Barbara, CA, USA, Oct 23-27 2006. 66.Xun Yuan *, Xian-Sheng Hua, Meng Wang, Xiuqing Wu. Manifold-Ranking Based Video Concept Detection on Large Database and Feature Pool. ACM Multimedia 2006 (ACM MM 2006), Santa Barbara, CA, USA, Oct 23-27 2006. 67.Wei Lai, Xian-Sheng Hua, Wei-Ying Ma. Towards Content-Based Relevance Ranking for Video Search. ACM Multimedia 2006 (ACM MM 2006), Santa Barbara, CA, USA, Oct 23-27 2006. 68.Xian-Sheng Hua, Shipeng Li. Interactive Video Authoring and Sharing Based on Two-Layer Templates. Workshop on Human-Centered Multimedia 2006 (HCM 2006 - ACM MM 2006 Workshop). 69.Yan Song *, Xian-Sheng Hua, Guo-Jun Qi *, Li-Rong Dai, Meng Wang, Hong-Jiang Zhang. Efficient Semantic Annotation Method for Indexing Large Personal Video Database. Workshop on Multimedia Information Retrieval 2006 (MIR). 70.Guo-Jun Qi *, Yan Song *, Xian-Sheng Hua, Li-Rong Dai, Hong-Jiang Zhang. Video Annotation by Active Learning and Cluster Tuning. International. Workshop on Semantic Learning Applications in Multimedia (SLAM 2006). In association with CVPR 2006. 71.Meng Wang *, Xian-Sheng Hua, Yan Song, Li-Rong Dai, Shipeng Li. Automatic Video Annotation Based on Co-Adaptation and Label Correction. IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems 2006 (ISCAS 2006), Greece, May 2006. 72.Yan Song *, Xian-Sheng Hua, Li-Rong Dai, Meng Wang *, Ren-Hua Wang. 'An Automatic Video Semantic Annotation Scheme Based on Combination of Complementary Predictors. The 31st International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP 2006), May 14-19, Toulouse, France. 73.Xun Yuan *, Wei Lai, Tao Mei *, Xian-Sheng Hua, Xiu-Qing Wu. Automatic Video Genre Categorization Using Hierarchical SVM. The International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP 2006), Atlanta, GA, USA, Oct 8-11, 2006. 74.Tao Mei *, Bin Wang, Xian-Sheng Hua, He-Qin Zhou, Shipeng Li. Probabilistic Multimodality Fusion For Event Based Home Photo Clustering. IEEE International Conference on Multimedia & Expo (ICME 2006), Toronto, Canada, July 9-12, 2006. 75.Meng Wang *, Xian-Sheng Hua, Li-Rong Dai, Yan Song. Enhanced Semi-Supervised Learning For Automatic Video Annotation. IEEE International Conference on Multimedia & Expo (ICME 2006), Toronto, Canada, July 9-12, 2006. 76.Yan Song *, Guo-Jun Qi *, Xian-Sheng Hua, Li-Rong Dai, Ren-Hua Wang. Video Annotation by Active Learning and Semi-Supervised Ensembling. IEEE Intl Conf on Multimedia & Expo (ICME 2006), Toronto, Canada, July 9-12, 2006. 2005 77.Xian-Sheng Hua, Shipeng Li. Personal Media Sharing and Authoring On the Web. ACM Multimedia 2005 (ACM MM 2005). Singapore. Nov 6-11, 2005. 78.Xian-Sheng Hua, Zengzhi Wang *, Shipeng Li. LazyCut - Content-Aware Template-Based Media Authoring. ACM Multimedia 2005 (ACM MM 2005). Singapore. Nov 6-11, 2005. 79.Tao Mei *, Xian-Sheng Hua. Intention-Based Home Video Browsing. ACM Multimedia 2005 (ACM MM 2005). Singapore. Nov 6-11, 2005. 80.Tao Mei *, Xian-Sheng Hua, He-Qin Zhou. Tracking Users' Capture Intention: A Novel Complement View for Home Video Content Analysis. ACM Multimedia 2005 (ACM MM 2005). Singapore. Nov 6-11, 2005. 81.Tao Mei *, Cai-Zhi Mei *, He-Qin Zhou, Xian-Sheng Hua. Spatio-Temporal Quality Assessment for Home Videos. ACM Multimedia 2005 (ACM MM 2005). 82.Hong-Wen Kang *, Xian-Sheng Hua. To Learn Representativeness of Video Frames. ACM Multimedia 2005 (ACM MM 2005). Singapore. Nov 6-11, 2005. 83.Cai-Zhi Mei *, Tao Mei *, Xian-Sheng Hua. Video Booklet - Natural Video Browsing. ACM Multimedia 2005 (ACM MM 2005). Singapore. Nov 6-11, 2005. 84.Jun Wu *, Dayong Ding, Xian-Sheng Hua, Bo Zhang. Tracking Concept Drifting - with an Online-Optimized Incremental Learning Framework. 7th ACM SIGMM International Workshop on Multimedia Information Retrieval (MIR 2005). Singapore. Nov 10-11, 2005. 85.Cai-Zhi Mei *, Xian-Sheng Hua, Tao Mei, Xiu-Qing Wu. Video Booklet - A Natural Video Searching and Browsing Interface. 7th ACM SIGMM International Workshop on Multimedia Information Retrieval (MIR 2005). Singapore. Nov 10-11, 2005. 86.Yan Song *, Xian-Sheng Hua, Li-Rong Dai, Meng Wang. Semi-Automatic Video Annotation Based on Active Learning with Multiple Complementary Predictors. 7th ACM SIGMM International Workshop on Multimedia Information Retrieval (MIR 2005). Singapore. Nov 10-11, 2005. 87.Xian-Sheng Hua, Shipeng Li, Hong-Jiang Zhang. Video Booklet. IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME 2005), July 6-8, Amsterdam, Netherlands. 2005. 88.Xian-Sheng Hua, Shipeng Li, Hong-Jiang Zhang. Camera Notes. IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME 2005), July 6-8, Amsterdam, Netherlands. 2005. 89.Xian-Sheng Hua, Lie Lu, Hong-Jiang Zhang. Robust Learning-Based TV Commercial Detection. IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME 2005), July 6-8, Amsterdam, Netherlands. 2005. 90.Hao-Da Huang *, Xian-Sheng Hua, Shipeng Li, Hong-Jiang Zhang. Online End Detection for Live-Broadcast TV Programs. IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME 2005), July 6-8, Amsterdam, Netherlands. 2005. 91.Tao Mei *, Xian-Sheng Hua, He-Qin Zhou, Shipeng Li, Hong-Jiang Zhang. Efficient Video Mosaicing Based On Motion Analysis. International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP 2005), September 11-14, Genoa, Italy. 2005. 92.Tao Mei *, Xian-Sheng Hua, He-Qin Zhou, Shipeng Li. To Mine Capture Intention of Camcorder Users. International Conference on Visual Communications and Image Processing (VCIP 2005), July 12-15, Beijing, China. 2005. 93.Yang Song *, Xian-Sheng Hua, Li-Rong Dai, Ren-Hua Wang. Semi-Automatic Video Semantic Annotation Based on Active Learning. International Conference on Visual Communications and Image Processing (VCIP 2005), July 12-15, Beijing, China. 2005. 94.Jun Wu *, Xian-Sheng Hua, Bo Zhang. Tracking Concept Drifting with Gaussian Mixture Model. International Conference on Visual Communications and Image Processing (VCIP 2005), July 12-15, Beijing, China. 2005. 2004 95.Xian-Sheng Hua, Lie Lu, Hong-Jiang Zhang. Automatically Converting Photographic Series into Video. ACM Multimedia (ACM MM 2004), October 10-16, New York, NY USA. 2004. (Long paper) 96.Xian-Sheng Hua, Lie Lu, Hong-Jiang Zhang. Automatic Music Video Generation Based on Temporal Pattern Analysis. ACM Multimedia (ACM MM 2004), October 10-16, New York, NY USA. 2004. 97.Xian-Sheng Hua, Lie Lu, Hong-Jiang Zhang. P-Karaoke: Personalized Karaoke System. ACM Multimedia (ACM MM 2004), October 10-16, New York, USA. 2004. 98.Jun Wu *, Xian-Sheng Hua, Bo Zhang, Hong-Jiang Zhang. An Online-Optimized Incremental Learning Framework for Video Semantic Classification. ACM Multimedia (ACM MM 2004), October 10-16, New York, NY USA. 2004. 99.Xian-Sheng Hua, Xian Chen *, Hong-Jiang Zhang. Robust Video Signature Based on Ordinal Measure. International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP 2004), October 24-27, Singapore. 2004. 100.Xian-Sheng Hua, Hong-Jiang Zhang. Content and Transformation Effect Matching for Automated Home Video Editing. International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP 2004), October 24-27, Singapore. 2004. 101.Liexian Gu *, Xiaoqing Ding, Xian-Sheng Hua. Online Play Segmentation for Broadcasting American Football TV Programs. Pacific-Rim Conference on Multimedia (PCM 2004), Tokyo, Japan. 2004. 102.Jun Wu *, Xian-Sheng Hua, Jian-Min Li, Bo Zhang, Hong-Jiang Zhang. An Online Learning Framework for Sports Video View Classification. Pacific-Rim Conference on Multimedia (PCM 2004), Tokyo, Japan. 2004. 103.Xian-Sheng Hua, Hong-Jiang Zhang. An Attention-Based Decision Fusion Scheme for Multimedia Information Retrieval. Pacific-Rim Conference on Multimedia (PCM 2004), Tokyo, Japan. 2004. 2003 104.Xian-Sheng Hua, Lie Lu, Hong-Jiang Zhang. Photo2Video. ACM Multimedia (ACM MM 2003), November 2-8, Berkeley, CA, USA. 2003. 105.Xian-Sheng Hua, Lie Lu, Hong-Jiang Zhang. AVE - Automated Home Video Editing. ACM Multimedia (ACM MM 2003), November 2-8, Berkeley, CA, USA. 2003. (Long paper) 106.Xian-Sheng Hua, Lie Lu, Hong-Jiang Zhang. Content-Based Photo Slide Show with Incidental Music. IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS 2003), May 25-28, Bangkok, Thailand. 107.Xian-Sheng Hua, Lie Lu, Hong-Jiang Zhang. Personalized Karaoke. IEEE Pacific-Rim Conference on Multimedia (PCM 2003), December 15-18, Singapore. 2003. 2002 108.Xian-Sheng Hua, Pei Yin *, Hong-Jiang Zhang. Efficient Video Text Recognition Using Multiple Frame Integration. International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP 2002), Sept 22-25, Rochester, New York. 2002. 109.Pei Yin *, Xian-Sheng Hua, Hong-Jiang Zhang. Automatic Time Stamp Extraction System for Home Videos. IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS 2002), May 26-29, Scottsdale, Arizona, USA. 2002. 110.Xian-Sheng Hua, Dong Zhang, Mingjing Li, Hong-Jiang Zhang. Performance Evaluation Protocol for Video Scene Detection Algorithms. Workshop on Multimedia Information Retrieval (MIR 2002), December 6, Juan Les Pins, France. 2002. 2001 111.Xian-Sheng Hua, Liu Wenyin, Hong-Jiang Zhang. Automatic Performance Evaluation for Video Text Detection. International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition (ICDAR 2001), September 10-13, Seattle, Washington, USA, 2001. 112.Jie Xi, Xian-Sheng Hua, Xiang-Rong Chen, Liu Wenyin, Hong-Jiang Zhang. A Video Text Detection and Recognition System. IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME 2001), August 22-25, Tokyo, Japan, pp 1080-1083. 2001. 113.Xian-Sheng Hua, Xiang-Rong Chen, Liu Wenyin, Hong-Jiang Zhang. Automatic Location of Text in Video Frames. Workshop on Multimedia Information Retrieval (MIR 2001), October 5, Ottawa, Canada. 2001. 114.X. S. Hua, J. F. Feng, Q.Y. Shi. Public Multiple Watermarking Resistant to Cropping. International Conference Pattern Recognition and Information Processing. Belarus, Russia. 2001. 2000 115.X. S. Hua, Q. Y. Shi. 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