Michael Lew

Prof. Michael S. Lew (born 19 April 1965[1]) is a scientist in multimedia information search and retrieval at Leiden University, Netherlands.[2] He has published over a dozen books and 150 scientific articles in the areas of multimedia search, computer vision, human computer interaction, and information retrieval.[3][4] Notably, he had the most cited paper in the highest impact multimedia research journal indexed by the Web of Science (ISI Thomson Reuters),[5] and the most cited article from the ACM International Conference on Multimedia Information Retrieval in 2008 and also in 2010.[6] He was the opening keynote speaker for the 9th International Conference on Visual Information Systems,[7] the Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Multimedia Information Retrieval (Springer), the co-founder of influential conferences such as the International Conference on Image and Video Retrieval (which became the ACM International Conference on Multimedia Retrieval),[8] and the IEEE Workshop on Human Computer Interaction.[9] He was also a founding member of the international advisory committee for the TRECVID video retrieval evaluation project,[10] chair of the steering committee for the ACM International Conference on Multimedia Retrieval and a member of the ACM SIGMM Executive Committee (the highest board of the SIGMM) . His work is frequently cited in both scientific and popular news sources.

Published works

Books by Michael Lew include:

Representative Papers by Michael Lew include:

References

  1. Lew, Michael S. at the Library of Congress Authorities site.
  2. Advances in Visual Information Systems, ISBN 978-3-540-76413-7, Springer-Verlag, London, 2007
  3. Who's Who in Science and Engineering 2006-2007, 9th Edition, ISBN 978-0-8379-5766-1, Marquis Who's Who, 2006
  4. Google Scholar: Recent Articles by Michael Lew
  5. ACM SIGMM Record, vol. 1, no. 3, Sept. 2009.
  6. ACM SIGMM Record, vol. 6, no. 1, March 2014.
  7. 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.
  8. Image and Video Retrieval, ISBN 3-540-43899-8, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 2002
  9. Computer Vision in Human Computer Interaction, ISBN 978-3-540-29620-1, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 2005
  10. TRECVID 2003 Video Evaluation Overview, in Proceedings of TRECVID 2003, National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), Gaithersburg, Maryland, 2003.
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