Honors
Appointment: Adjunct
Faculty Member at Curtin University of Technology, Perth,
Australia, 1999-.
Appointment:
External Departmental Referee for the University of Mysore,
Mysore, India.
Top-Ranked
Paper, "Finding the Beat: An Analysis of the Rhythmic
Elements in Motion Pictures," Asian Conference on Computer
Vision, 2002, Melbourne, Australia, January 2002.
Overall Best Paper
Award, "Role of Shot Length in Characterizing Tempo and
Dramatic Story Sections in Motion Pictures," IEEE Pacific Rim
Conference on Multimedia 2000, Sydney, Australia, December 2000.
Best
Industrial-Related Paper Award, "Automatic Text Extraction
from Video for Content-Based Annotation and Search," 14th
International Conference on Pattern Recognition, Brisbane, Australia,
August 1998.
Honorable Mention in
the Best Paper Award Contest of the Pattern Recognition Society,
"Practicing Vision: Integration, Evaluation and
Applications," Pattern Recognition Journal, 1997.
Distinguished
Academic Achievement Award, Department of Computer Science,
Michigan State University, April 1996.
Third Best Poster
Award, First Annual Graduate Student Poster Workshop, Department
of Computer Science, Michigan State University, March 1996.
Dissertation
Completion Fellowship, The Graduate School, Michigan State
University, January 1996.
Graduate Office
Fellowship, Department of Computer Science, Michigan State
University, August 1995.
Fellowship,
Innovision Corporation, Madison, Wisconsin, 1991.
Books, Special Issues, Editorship
Associate Editor,
IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, 2003-.
Organizer,
Special Session at the IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and
Expo, July 2003. Click here for the
Call for Papers.
Editor,
Media Computing Computational Media Aesthetics published in
June 2002 by Kluwer
Academic Publishers.
Guest
Co-Editor, Special Theme Issue of IEEE Multimedia, Spring
2003. Click here for the
Call for Papers.
Invited Presentations
Invited Speaker:
Department of Computer Science, New Jersey Institute of Technology,
Newark, New Jersey, April 2002.
Invited Speaker:
Department of Electrical Engineering, Columbia University, New York
City, New York, February 2002.
Invited Speaker:
"Building HDTV Content Management Systems," Fifth
International/National Biennial Conference on Digital Image Computing,
Techniques, and Applications, Perth, Australia, December 1999.
Invited Speaker:
"Generic Object Recognition: A Lack of Precision," IEEE Workshop on
Generic Object Recognition, San Juan, Puerto Rico, June 1997.
Invited Speaker:
Institute for Advanced Computer Studies, University of Maryland,
College Park, March 1999.
Invited Speaker:
Auckland Institute of Technology, in conjunction with UNITEC/MIT,
Auckland, New Zealand, September 1998.
Invited Speaker:
Special IEEE Initiative Series, IEEE Queensland Section, Queensland
University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia, August 1998.
Invited Speaker:
Department of Computer Science, Columbia University, New York, April
1998.
Invited Speaker:
Siemens Corporate Research, Princeton, New Jersey, January 1998.
Conference Organization and
Committees
International Program
Committee, 2nd International Workshop on Multimedia Data mining,
July 2002.
International Program
Committee, Internet and Multimedia Systems and Applications, IASTED,
August 2002.
Technical Program
Committee, Second IEEE International Conference and Multimedia and
Expo, August 2002.
International Program
Committee, Visual Data Mining Workshop in conjunction with ECML/PKDD
2001, September 2001.
International Program
Committee, 2nd International Workshop on Multimedia Data mining, August
26th 2001.
International Program
Committee, Internet and Multimedia Systems and Applications, IASTED,
August 2001.
Technical Program
Committee, Second IEEE International Conference and Multimedia and
Expo, August 2001.
International Program
Committee, Internet and Multimedia Systems and Applications, IASTED,
November 2000.
Technical Program
Committee, First IEEE International Conference and Multimedia and
Expo, July 2000.
Organizer and
Presenter: A half-day tutorial on "3D Objects --- Representation,
Recognition and Coding," in conjunction with the 14th International
Conference on Pattern Recognition, Brisbane, Australia, August
1998.
Organizer and
Presenter: Birds of a Feather session for "Young Professionals:
Getting Started and Getting Ahead," Grace Hopper Celebration of Women
in Computing Conference, San Jose, CA, September 1997.
Session Chair:
"Biometric Recognition and Texture Analysis," 14th International
Conference on Pattern Recognition, Brisbane, Australia, August
1998.
Other Interests and Activities
Co-Chair of Summer
Technical Program Committee, Software and Services Summer Program,
IBM Research, May 2001.
Summer Coordinator,
Internet Infrastructure and Computing Utilities Department, IBM
Research, April 2001.
Invited Participant,
IBM Multi-Cultural People in Technology Conference, October
2000.
Invited Participant
and poster presenter at the Women and Technology in the Next
Millennium IBM Conference for Technical Women, White Plains, New York,
October 1998.
Member of the 1998
IBM Research Future Team.
Invited Speaker, 2nd
Annual Women Summer Student luncheon, Yorktown Heights, New York,
August 1997, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center.
