Guoping Qiu

Advances in Multimedia Information Processing -- PCM 2010, Part II: 11th Pacific Rim Conference on Multimedia, Shanghai, China, September 21-24, 2010 Proceedings - Lecture Notes in Computer Science Guoping Qiu

Publisher Marketing: The 2010 Pacific-Rim Conference on Multimedia (PCM 2010) was held in Shanghai at Fudan University, during September 21 24, 2010. Since its inauguration in 2000, PCM has been held in various places around the Pacific Rim, namely Sydney (PCM 2000), Beijing (PCM 2001), Hsinchu (PCM 2002), Singapore (PCM 2003), Tokyo (PCM 2004), Jeju (PCM 2005), Zhejiang (PCM 2006), Hong Kong (PCM 2007), Tainan (PCM 2008), and Bangkok (PCM 2009). PCM is a major annual international conference organized as a forum for the dissemination of state-of-the-art technological advances and research results in the fields of theoretical, experimental, and applied multimedia analysis and processing. PCM 2010 featured a comprehensive technical program which included 75 oral and 56 poster presentations selected from 261 submissions from Australia, Canada, China, France, Germany, Hong Kong, India, Iran, Italy, Japan, Korea, Myanmar, Norway, Singapore, Taiwan, Thailand, the UK, and the USA. Three distinguished researchers, Prof. Zhi-Hua Zhou from Nanjing University, Dr. Yong Rui from Microsoft, and Dr. Tie-Yan Liu from Microsoft Research Asia delivered three keynote talks to the conference. We are very grateful to the many people who helped to make this conference a s- cess. We would like to especially thank Hong Lu for local organization, Qi Zhang for handling the publication of the proceedings, and Cheng Jin for looking after the c- ference website and publicity. We thank Fei Wu for organizing the special session on large-scale multimedia search in the social network settings."

Contributor Bio:  Lew, Michael S Nicu Sebe received his PhD degree from Leiden University in 2001. Currently, he is an Assistant Professor at Leiden University in the Netherlands. His main interest is in the fields of computer vision and pattern recognition, in particular content-based retrieval and robust techniques in computer vision. He was co-editing the proceedings of the International Conference on Image and Video Retrieval 2002. He is also acting as the technical program co-chair for the International Conference on Image and Video Retrieval 2003. Michael S. Lew received his PhD degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He is currently an Associate Professor at Leiden University in the Netherlands. He has published over 100 scientific papers and helped organize several large conferences including IEEE Multimedia, ACM Multimedia, and the International Conference on Image and Video Retrieval.