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:

• 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:

• Learning and Feature Selection in Stereo Matching, Michael Lew, et al., IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, pp. 869–881, 1994.
• Toward Improved Ranking Metrics, Michael Lew, et al., IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, pp. 1132–1143, 2000.
• Next Generation Web Searches for Visual Content, Michael Lew, IEEE Computer, pp. 46–53, 2000.
• Content-based Multimedia Information Retrieval: State of the Art and Challenges, Michael Lew, et al., ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing, Communications, and Applications, pp. 1–19, 2006.

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.