Michael Lew

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Prof. Michael S. Lew is a distinguished scientist in multimedia information search and retrieval at Leiden University, The Netherlands[1]. He has published over 7 books and 100 scientific articles in the areas of multimedia search, computer vision, human computer interaction, and information retrieval[2][3]. Notably, he was the opening keynote speaker for the 9th International Conference on Visual Information Systems (2007)[4], the co-founder of influential conferences such as the International Conference on Image and Video Retrieval[5] and the IEEE Workshop on Human Computer Interaction[6]. He was also a founding member of the international advisory committee for the TRECVID video retrieval evaluation project[7]. His work is frequently cited in both scientific and popular news sources.

[edit] Published works

Books by Michael Lew include:

  • Principles of Visual Information Retrieval, Springer-Verlag, London, 2001.
  • Robust Computer Vision, Kluwer, London, 2003.
  • Computer Vision in Human Computer Interaction, Springer-Verlag, London, 2006.

Representative Papers by Michael Lew include:

[edit] References

  1. ^ Advances in Visual Information Systems, ISBN: 978-3-540-76413-7, Springer-Verlag, London, 2007
  2. ^ Who's Who in Science and Engineering 2006-2007, 9th Edition, ISBN: 978-0837957661, Marquis Who's Who, 2006
  3. ^ Google Scholar: Recent Articles by Michael Lew
  4. ^ Visual Information Retrieval – Future Directions and Grand Challenges, in Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Visual Information Systems, Beijing, China, ISBN: 978-3-540-76413-7, Springer-Verlag, London, 2007.
  5. ^ Image and Video Retrieval, ISBN: 3-540-43899-8, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 2002
  6. ^ Computer Vision in Human Computer Interaction, ISBN: 978-3-540-29620-1, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 2005
  7. ^ TRECVID 2003 Video Evaluation Overview, in Proceedings of TRECVID 2003, National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), Gaithersburg, Maryland, 2003.