External Research & Programs: RFP Awards

The Design of A Real-Time, Multimodal Biofeedback System for Stroke Patient Rehabilitation
Y. Chen, H. Huang, W. Xu, R. Wallis, H. Sundaram, T. Rikakis, J. He, T. Ingalls and L. Olson
Arizona State University, U.S.
(2006). Proc. SIG ACM Multimedia 2006, also AME-TR-2006-07, Oct. 2006, Santa Barbara, CA.

A Real-Time, Multimodal Biofeedback System for Stroke Patient Rehabilitation (Demo Paper)
Y. Chen, H. Huang, W. Xu, R. Wallis, H. Sundaram, T. Rikakis, J. He, T. Ingalls and L. Olson
Arizona State University, U.S.
(2006). Proc. SIG ACM Multimedia 2006, also AME-TR-2006-08, Oct. 2006, Santa Barbara, CA.

Novel Design of Interactive Multimodal Biofeedback System for Neurorehabilitation
H. Huang, Y. Chen, X. Weiwei, H. Sundaram, L. Olson, T. Ingalls, T. Rikakis and J. He
Arizona State University, U.S.
(2006). 28th IEEE EMBS Annual International Conference, also AME-TR-2006-04, Aug. 2006, New York City, New York, USA.

The Design of Multimodal Archival, Real-Time Collaborative Annotation and Information Visualization in a Biofeedback System for Stroke Patient Rehabilitation
W. Xu, Y. Chen, H. Sundaram and T. Rikakis
Arizona State University, U.S.
(2006). Proc. 3rd Workshop on Capture Archival, Retrieval of Personal Experiences, in Conjunction with ACM MM 2006, also AME-TR-2006-10, ACM Press, Oct. 2006, Santa Barbara, CA

Columbia University

Voice Activity Detection in Personal Audio Recordings Using Autocorrelogram Compensation Interspeech
K. Lee and D. Ellis
Columbia University, U.S.
(2006). ICSLP-06, Pittsburgh (to appear), 2006. http://www.ee.columbia.edu/~dpwe/pubs/LeeE06-vad.pdf

Dublin City University

Using Bluetooth and GPS Metadata to Measure Event Similarity in SenseCam Images
D. Byrne, B. Lavelle, A. Doherty, Gareth J.F. Jones, and Alan F. Smeaton
Dublin City University, IE
Accepted for presentation at IMAI'07 - 5th International Conference on Intelligent Multimedia and Ambient Intelligence, Salt Lake City, Utah, 18-24 July, 2007.

Multimodal Segmentation of Lifelog Data
A. Doherty, Alan F. Smeaton, K. Lee, and D. Ellis
Dublin City University, IE
Accepted for presentation at 8th RIAO Conference - Large-Scale Semantic Access to Content (Text, Image, Video and Sound), Pittsburgh, PA, 30 May - 1 June, 2007.

SenseCam Flow Visualization for LifeLog Image Browsing
D. Byrne
Dublin City University, IE
BCS IRSG Informer, Spring Issue (No. 22).

Organizing a Daily Visual Diary using Multi-Feature Clustering
C. O'Conaire, Noel E. O'Connor, Alan F. Smeaton, and Gareth J.F. Jones
Dublin City University, IE
SPIE Electronic Imaging - Multimedia Content Access: Algorithms and Systems (EI121), San Jose, CA, 28 January - 1 February 2007.

SenseCam Visual Diaries Generating Memories for Life
Alan F. Smeaton, Noel E. O'Connor, Gareth J.F. Jones, G. Gaughan, Hyowon Lee, and C. Gurrin
Dublin City University, IE
Poster presented at the Memories for Life Colloquium 2006, British Library Conference Centre, London, UK, 12 December 2006. Memories for Life Web site. (poster)

Computing and Material Sciences for LifeLogging
Alan F. Smeaton, D. Diamond, and B. Smyth
Dublin City University, IE
Presented at the Memories for Life Network Workshop 2006, British Library Conference Centre, London, UK, 11 December 2006. Memories for Life Web site.

Content vs. Context for Multimedia Semantics: The Case of SenseCam Image Structuring
Alan F. Smeaton
Dublin City University, IE
SAMT 2006 - Proceedings of the First International Conference on Semantics and Digital Media Technology. Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS), Athens, Greece, 6-8 December 2006.

Adaptive Visual Summary of LifeLog Photos for Personal Information Management
Hyowon Lee, Alan F. Smeaton, Noel E. O'Connor, and Gareth J.F. Jones
Dublin City University, IE
AIR 2006 - First International Workshop on Adaptive Information Retrieval, Glasgow, UK, 14 October 2006. (poster)

Exploiting Context Information to aid Landmark Detection in SenseCam Images
M. Blighe, H. Le Borgne, Noel E. O'Connor, Alan F. Smeaton, and Gareth J.F. Jones
Dublin City University, IE
ECHISE 2006 - 2nd International Workshop on Exploiting Context Histories in Smart Environments - Infrastructures and Design, 8th International Conference of Ubiquitous Computing (Ubicomp 2006), Orange County, CA, 17-21 September 2006.

Princeton University

A Toolkit for Content-Based Similarity Search of Feature-Rich Data
Qin Lv, William Josephson, Zhe Wang, Moses Charikar, and Kai Li Ferret
Princeton University, U.S.
To appear in Proceedings of EuroSys2006.

Image Similarity Search with Compact Data Structures
Qin Lv, Moses Charikar, Kai Li
Princeton University, U.S.
In Proceedings of ACM 13th Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM), Washington D.C., USA. November 2004.

Filtering Image Spam with Near-Duplicate Detection
Zhe Wang, Christine Lv, William Josephson, Kai Li
Princeton University, U.S.
To Appear in Proceedings of the 4th Conference on Email and Anti-Spam, August, 2007.

Sizing Sketches: A Rank-Based Analysis for Similarity Search
Zhe Wang, Wei Dong, William Josephson, Qin Lv, Moses Charikar, Kai Li
Princeton University, U.S.
To appear in Proceedings of ACM SIGMETRICS 2007, San Diego, CA, USA. June 2007.

VFerret: Content-Based Similarity Search Tool for Continuous Archived Video
Zhe Wang, Matthew D. Hoffman, Perry R. Cook, Kai Li
Princeton University, U.S.
Proceedings of the 3rd ACM Workshop on Capture, Archival and Retrieval of Personal Experiences (CARPE). Santa Barbara, California, USA. October 2006.

University of Massachusetts

Combining Generative and Discriminative Methods for Pixel Classification with Multi-Conditional Learning
Michael Kelm, Chris Pal, and Andrew McCallum
University of Massachusetts, U.S.
(2006). To appear in the proceedings of the International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR).

CC Prediction with Graphical Models
Chris Pal and Andrew McCallum
University of Massachusetts, U.S.
(2006). Proceedings of The Third Conference on Email and Anti-Spam, (CEAS).

Multi-Conditional Learning: Generative/Discriminative Training for Clustering and Classification
Andrew McCallum, Chris Pal, Greg Druck, and Xuerui Wang
University of Massachusetts, U.S.
(2006). In the proceedings of American Association for Artificial Intelligence National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI).

Sparse Forward-Backward using Minimum Divergence Beams for Fast Training of Conditional Random Fields
Chris Pal, Charles Sutton, and Andrew McCallum
University of Massachusetts, U.S.
In the proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), vol. 5, pp. 581-584.

Semi-Supervised Classification with Hybrid Generative/Discriminative Methods
Druck, G., Pal, C., Zhu, X., and Andrew McCallum.
University of Massachusetts, U.S.
Proceedings of Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, (KDD) 2007.

Generalized Component Analysis for Text with Heterogeneous Attributes
University of Massachusetts, U.S.
Wang, X., Pal, C., and McCallum, A.
Proceedings of Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, (KDD) 2007.

Learning Conditional Random Fields for Stereo
Scharstein, D. and Pal, C.
University of Massachusetts, U.S.
Proceedings of IEEE Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, (CVPR) 2007.

Improving Author Co-reference by Resource-bounded Information Gathering from the Web
Kanani, P., McCallum, A. and Pal, C.
University of Massachusetts, U.S.
Proceedings of the Twentieth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, (IJCAI) 2007.

Sparse Forward-Backward using Minimum Divergence Beams for Fast Training of Conditional Random Fields
Pal, C., Sutton, C., and McCallum, A.
University of Massachusetts, U.S.
Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, (ICASSP) 2006.

Multi-Conditional Learning: Generative/Discriminative Training for Clustering and Classification
McCallum, A., Pal, C., Druck, G., and Wang, X.
University of Massachusetts, U.S.
Proceedings of AAAI 2006.

Combining Generative and Discriminative Methods for Pixel Classification with Multi-Conditional Learning
Kelm, M., Pal, C., and McCallum, A.
University of Massachusetts, U.S.
Proceedings of ICPR 2006.

CC Prediction with Graphical Models
Pal, C. and McCallum, A.
University of Massachusetts, U.S.
Proceedings of the Third Conference on Email and Anti-Spam, (CEAS) 2006.

Refereed Workshop Contributions

Putting Semantic Information Extraction on the Map: Noisy Label Models for Fact Extraction
Pal, C., Mann, G., and Minerich, R.
University of Massachusetts, U.S.
Proceedings of the AAAI Workshop on Information Integration on the Web (IIWeb) 2007.

On Discriminative and Semi-Supervised Dimensionality Reduction
Pal, C. Kelm, M., Wang, X., Druck, G. and McCallum, A.
University of Massachusetts, U.S.
In Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS) Workshop on Novel Applications of Dimensionality Reduction, 2006. (Refereed Workshop paper)

University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

Augmenting Memory for Student Learning: Designing a Context-Aware Capture System for Biology Education
D. Barreau, A. Crystal, J. Greenberg, A., Sharma, M. Conway, J. Oberlin, M. Shoffner, and S. Seiberling
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, U.S.
(in press). ASIST 2006 Annual Meeting: Information Realities: Shaping the Digital Future for All. Austin, TX, November 3-8, 2006. [Poster Paper]

Now that we're talking, what are we learning?
D. Barreau, A. Crystal, J. Greenberg, and A. Sharma
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, U.S.
(forthcoming, August 2006). Personal Information Management in Context Workshop, poster presentation. 29th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference Seattle, Washington, August 10-11, 2006: http://pim.ischool.washington.edu/pim06/index.htm. Corresponding poster paper Barreau, D (2006), publication place to be announced.

Design research for a context-aware capture system to support biology education
A. Crystal
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, U.S.
(2006) Abstract for DIS 2006 doctoral consortium in Proceedings of the Conference on Designing Interactive Systems (DIS 2006), University Park, PA, June 24-28, 2006: http://ils.unc.edu/~acrystal/crystal_DIS2006_doctoral_consortium_abstract_final.pdf

Memex Metadata (M2): Extending Microsoft MyLifeBits with Context Metadata
J. Greenberg, M. Shoffner, and A. Sharma
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, U.S.
(June 9, 2006). TAP Talks, Freaky Fridays: http://aster.its.unc.edu/blog/?p=37.

Memex Metadata (M2) for Personal Educational Portfolios
J. Greenberg, J. Oberlin., and D. Barreau
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, U.S.
(forthcoming, July 2006). Microsoft Faculty Research Summit. Seattle, WA, July 19, 2006.

Memex Metadata (M2) for Reflective Learning International
J. Greenberg, A. Sharma, E. Mendez, J. Oberlin, and M. Shoeffner
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, U.S.
(forthcoming, October 2006). Conference on Dublin Core and Metadata Applications, Colima, Mexico, October 3-6, 2006. [10 manuscript pages]

Metadata Ontologies for Organizing Students' Memories and Learning
J. Greenberg, A. Sharma, E. Mendez, J. Oberlin, and M. Shoeffner
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, U.S.
(forthcoming, 2006). Standards and Convergence Models for Content Awareness. International Conference on Multidisciplinary Information Sciences and Technologies, InSciT2006. Merida, Spain, October 25-28, 2006: http://www.instac.es/inscit2006/. [5 manuscript pages]

University of Tokyo

Life Log Platform for Continuous and Discrete Recording and Retrieval of Personal Media
D.Tancharoen, T.Yamasaki, K.Aizawa
University of Tokyo, JP
IWAIT International Workshop on Advanced Image Technology pp.207-212, Jan. 8-9, 2007, Bangkok.

Virginia Tech

Demonstrating the use of a SenseCam in two Domains
S. Yang, B. Congleton, G. Luc, M.A. Pérez-QuiÑones, and E.A. Fox
Virginia Tech, U.S.
In Proceedings of the 6th ACM/IEEE-CS Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (Chapel Hill, NC, USA, June 11 - 15, 2006). JCDL '06. ACM Press, New York, NY, 376-376. http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1141753.1141872

Digital Memories (Memex) RFP