PCM'11 Best Paper Award
The paper "Image Re-emotionalizing" of Mengdi Xu and Bingbing Ni won the Best Paper Award in Pacific-Rim Conference on Multimedia (PCM), 2011. [12/24/2011]
Discovery.news reported "The Future of Intelligent Ads: Reading Your Weight"
Discovery.news reported NGUYEN VAN TAM's work "Seeing Your Weight – An application in targeted advertisement" shown in ICCV'11 as a demo. [12/10/2011]
Physorg.com featured "Researchers hope to build universal human age estimator"
Physorg.com reported Bingbing NI and Zheng SONG's work "Web Image and Video Mining towards Universal and Robust Age Estimator" published in IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, 2011. [12/05/2011]
Singapore Young Scientist Award 2011
Dr. YAN Shuicheng is conferred the Singapore Young Scientist Award, 2011 [1, 2, 3] "for his research on computer vision, multimedia and machine learning". [11/12/2011]
PASCAL VOC2011 Challenge Winner
Our joint team with Panasonic Singapore Laboratories (PSL) is the winner of the object classification task in PASCAL VOC2011 Challenge! We again achieved No.1 place for 12 object classes among totally 20 classes! Also our team is ranked 2nd in object segmentation task this year! [11/07/2011]
Multimedia vs. Game
In HHME'11, Dr. YAN Shuicheng gave a keynote to introduce the new research direction on how multimedia and game may benefit from each other, "Multimedia vs. Game". [09/17/2011]
Neural Computation and IJCV
One paper from Xiaotong Yuan, Non-degenerate Piecewise Linear Systems: A Finite Newton Algorithm and Applications in Machine Learning, is accepted to be published in Neural Computation.
One paper from Hairong Liu, Dense Neighborhoods on Affinity Graph, is accepted to be published in International Journal of Computer Vision. [09/08/2011]
2010 Young Faculty Research Award
Dr. YAN Shuicheng won the 2010 Young Faculty Research Award. [08/11/2011]
ACM MM 2011
We have six papers and one demo accepted to ACM MM 2011, with one full paper on Multi-Semantic Image Annotation. [08/08/2011]
ICCV 2011
We have six papers accepted to ICCV 2011, with one ORAL presentation from SONG Zheng and NI Bingbing on "Learning Universal Multi-view Age Estimator by Video Contexts". [slides] [07/23/2011]
TCSVT'11 Best Associate Editor (BAE) Award
Dr. YAN Shuicheng won the 2011 Best Associate Editor (BAE) Award of IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology (TCSVT). [04/29/2011]
AAAI 2011
Two papers on feature selection and block-diagonal regularization are accepted to AAAI'11. [04/28/2011]
AISTATS 2011
One paper from Xiaotong Yuan is accepted to International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics (AISTATS). [03/07/2011]
CVPR 2011
Four papers are accepted to IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) 2011, including one oral presentation. [03/07/2011]
PREMIA 2011 Best Student Paper Award
Group member, Mr. CHENG Bin, received the Best Student Paper Award (second prize) from Pattern Recognition and Machine Intelligence Association, Singapore (PREMIA) for his TIP-2010 paper on L1-graph. [02/17/2011]
ACM MM'10: Multimedia Grand Challenge Video
In ACM MM Multimedia Grand Challenge 2010, we present the work "Learning to Photograph", guiding unprofessional photographer to capture professional photos based on the photo compositional rules learnt from online professional photo corpus.
[09/12/2010]
Another [link] in case you cannot access YouTube.com.ACM MM'10 Best Paper Award
The joint work from Prof. Chua‘s group and our group, "Richang Hong, Meng Wang, Mengdi Xu, Shuicheng Yan, Tat-Seng Chua, Dynamic Captioning: Video Accessibility Enhancement for Hearing Impairment", won the best paper award of ACM MM'10 in Italy. [10/30/2010]
IBM Watson Emerging Leaders in Multimedia and Signal Processing 2010
Congratulations to Bingbing NI for being selected as IBM Watson Emerging Leaders in Multimedia and Signal Processing 2010. The awardees, selected from a large pool of nominees, were highlighted in a two-day workshop presenting the state-of-the-art and trend of multimedia and signal processing research. [10/20/2010]
PASCAL VOC2010 Challenge Winner
Our team is the winner of the object classification task in PASCAL VOC2010 Challenge! Achieved No.1 place for 12 object classes among totally 20 classes! Also NUS team won the honorable mention prize in the object detection task! [09/12/2010]
NIPS 2010
Congratulations to Hairong Liu for his paper "Robust Clustering as Ensembles of Affinity Relations" accepted to NIPS 2010. [09/02/2010]
ICME'10 Best Paper Award
Group's paper "Automated Assembly of Shredded Pieces from Multiple Photos" from Shengjiao Cao and Hairong Liu won the Best Paper Award in IEEE International Conference on Multimedia & Expo, 2010.
(associated love story. 07/21/2010]
ACM MM 2010
We have six full papers accepted to ACM MM 2010. [07/15/2010]
Congratulations to Wedding of Bingbing and Xiuxiu

LV group members witnessed the most precious moment of Bingbing and Xiuxiu!
[04/26/2010]
CVPR 2010
We have seven papers accepted to IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) 2010, including two oral presentations. [03/01/2010]
ICCV'09 Demo: Demographics-Targeted Advertisement System
This demo offers unique functionalities over the traditional advertising systems, (e.g., bill board, digital signage or multimedia advertising machines), and the style as well as content of the displayed media can change adaptively in real time according to the statistics of the age and gender of the audience.
(Presentation and Demo) [12/01/2009]
ICIMCS'09 Best Paper Award
Our group member Bing-kun BAO's paper "Hidden-?Concept Driven Image Decomposition Towards Semi-?Supervised Multi-?Label Image Annotation" won the Best Paper Award in International Conference on Internet Multimedia Computing and Service, 2009. [28/11/2009]
ACM MM 2009
We have three full papers accepted to ACM MM 2009. [07/01/2009]
ICCV 2009
We have two collaborated ORAL papers accepted to IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision. [06/20/2009]
CVPR 2009
We have six papers accepted to IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), including one for oral presentation. [02/26/2009]
AISTATS 2009
We have one paper accepted to International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics (AISTATS). [01/09/2009]
PREMIA 2008 Best Student Paper Award
Our group member, Mr. Ni Bingbing, received the Best Student Paper Award from Pattern Recognition and Machine Intelligence Association, Singapore (PREMIA) for his ICDM2008 paper. [02/07/2009]
Website Kicks Off
Dr. Yan joined NUS/ECE on Dec. 21, 2007 and our first group member Mr. Bingbing Ni appeared on Dec. 22, 2007. Our research group website kicks off officially today. [12/10/2008]