Professional Activities

Editorial Board

Editor-in-Chief, IEEE Multimedia Magazine, 2014 - Present

Associate Editor, ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing Communication and Applications (TOMM), 2007 - Present

Founding Editor, International Journal of Multimedia Information Retrieval, 2011 - present

Founding Associate Editor, IEEE Access, 2013 - present

Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, 2006 - 2010

Associate Editor-in-Chief, IEEE Multimedia Magazine, 2010 - 2014

Member of Editorial Board, IEEE Multimedia Magazine, 2007 - 2009

Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, 2004 - 2008

Editor, ACM/Springer Multimedia Systems Journal, 2005 - 2007

Member of Editorial Board, International Journal of Multimedia Tools and Applications, 2005 - 2007

Guest Editor, Multimedia Tools and Applications Special Issue on Internet Multimedia Computing and Service (July 2012)

Guest Editor, IEEE Multimedia Magazine Special Issue on Advances in Multimedia Computing (July 2007)

Advisory Board, IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering, 2006 - Present

Steering Committee

Executive Memember, ACM SIG Multimedia, 2014- Present

ACM Multimedia, 2011- 2013

ACM International Conference on Multimedia Retrieval (ICMR), 2010- Present

IEEE International Conference on Multimedia Expo (ICME), 2009- Present

Pacific Rim Conference on Multimedia (PCM), 2006 - Present

International Conference on Image and Video Retrieval (CIVR), 2006 - 2009

2014

General Co-Chair, ACM Multimedia Conference'2014, Nov., Orlando, USA

2013

Panel Chair, ACM Multimedia Conference'2013, Oct. 21-25, Barcelona, Spain

Industry & Exhibition Co-Chair, IEEE ISCAS, May 19-23, Beijing, China

Program Committee Member, IEEE ISCAS, May 19-23, Beijing, China

General Co-Chair, ACM ICMR, June 5-8, Hong Kong.

Panel Chair, ACM Multimedia Conference'2012 , Oct. 29 - Nov. 2, Nara, Japan

Program Committee Member, IEEE ISCAS, May 20-23, Seoul, Korea

2012

General Co-Chair, ACM ICMR, June 5-8, Hong Kong.

Panel Chair,ACM Multimedia Conference'2012  , Oct. 29 - Nov. 2, Nara, Japan

Program Committee Member, IEEE ISCAS, May 20-23, Seoul, Korea

2011

General Co-Chair, Pacific-Rim Conference on Multimedia, Dec 20 - Dec 22 Sydney, Australia.

Sponsorship Chair, ACM Multimedia Conference'2011 , Scottsdale, AZ, Nov. 28 - Dec 1, 2011

Tutorial Chair, The International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Multimedia (MUM), Dec 7-9, 2011, Beijing, China

Program Committee Member, IEEE ISCAS, May 15 - 18, 2011, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

2010

General Co-Chair, International Conference on Internet Multimedia Computing and Services , Dec.30-31, 2010, Harbin, China.

Publicity Co-Chair, ACM Multimedia Conference'2010 , October 25-29, 2010, Florence, Italy.

Program Committee Member, International Conference on Embedded and Multimedia Computing (EMC) 2010, Aug 11-20, 2010, Cebu, Philippines

Program Committee Member, IEEE ICME, July 19-23, 2010, Singapore

Program Committee Member, IEEE ISCAS, May 30 - June 2, 2010, Paris, France

Program Committee Member, 5th International Conference on Embedded and Multimedia Computing, August 11-13, 2010 Cebu, Philippine

2009

General Co-Chair, ACM Multimedia Conference'2009 , October 19-24, 2009, Beijing, China.

Technical Program Committee (TPC) Co-Chair, IEEE International Conference on Multimedia Expo (ICME2009),June 28 - July 3, 2009, Cancun, Mexico

2008

Publicity Co-Chair, ACM Multimedia Conference'2008 , October 27-31, 2008, Vancouver, BC, Canada.

Special Session Co-Chair, IEEE International Conference on Multimedia Expo (ICME2008),June 23-26, 2008, Hannover, Germany

Program Committee Member, IEEE CVPR'2008, June 24-26, 2008, Anchorage, Alaska, USA.

2007

Guest Editor, Special Issue on Advances in Multimedia Computing, IEEE Magazine,July 2007

Program Committee Member, IEEE ICCV'2007, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, October 14-20, 2007.

North America Liaison, IEEE International Conference on Multimedia Expo (ICME2007),July 2-5, 2007, Beijing, China

Asia Liaison, ACM Multimedia Conference'2007 , September 23-28, 2007, Augsburg, Germany.

Program Committee Member, ACM Multimedia Conference'2007 , September 23-28, 2007, Augsburg, Germany.

Advisory Committee Member, Asia-Pacific Workshop on Visual Information Processing 2007, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, December 15-17 2007.

Panelist, International Workshop on Multimedia Content Analysis and Mining (MCAM)'2007 , June 30-July 1 2007, Shandong University, WeiHai, China.

Reviewer for ACM SIGCHI'07

2006

General Co-Chair, The 5th International Conference on Image and Video Retrieval (CIVR2006) , July 12-14, Tempe, AZ

Program Co-Chair, ACM Multimedia Conference'2006, , Oct. 22-28, 2006, Santa Barbara, CA.

Program Co-Chair, Pacific Rim Multimedia (PCM) Conference'2006, , Nov 2-4, 2006, Hangzhou, CA.

Program Committee Member, WWW-Hypermedia, May 23rd-26th, Edinburgh, UK.

Reviewer for ACMTOMM'06

2005

Program Area Co-Chair, Multimedia content management and delivery, IEEE ICME (Multimedia Expo)'2005, July 6-8, 2005, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Panel Co-Chair, ACM Multimedia Conference'2005 , Nov. 6-12, 2005, Singapore.

Program Committee Member, ACM Multimedia Conference'2005 , Nov. 6-12, 2005, Singapore.

Program Committee Member, The 4th International Conference on Image and Video Retrieval (CIVR2005) , July 20-22 2004, Singapore.

Program Committee Member, Storage and Retrieval Methods(or Techniques) and Applications for Multimedia 2005 SPIE/IS&T Electronic Imaging Conference San Jose, CA, 25-27 Jan 2005

Program Committee Member, Internet Imaging VI, SPIE/IS&T 17th Annual Symposium Electronic Imaging Science and Technology Conference, San Jose, CA, 16-20 Jan 2005

Reviewer for ACMTOMM'05

Reviewer for IEEE PAMI'05

2004

Tutorial Co-Chair, ACM Multimedia Conference'2004 , Oct. 10-15, 2004, New York, NY, USA.

Program Committee Member, ACM Multimedia Conference'2004 , Oct. 10-15, 2004, New York, NY, USA.

Program Committee Member, IEEE European Conf on Computer Vision (ECCV), May 11-14, 2004, Prague, Czech Republic

Program Committee Member, IEEE Asian Conf on Computer Vision (ACCV), Jan. 27-30, 2004, Jeju, South Korea

Program Committee Member, IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP) , Oct. 24-27, 2004, Singapore

Program Committee Member, The 3rd International Conference on Image and Video Retrieval (CIVR2004) , July 21-23 2004, Dublin, Ireland

Program Committee Member, Int. Conf. on Pattern Recognition (ICPR), Aug 23-26 2004, Cambridge, UK

Program Committee Member, The 2nd ACM International Workshop on Multimedia Databases , Hyatt Arlington Hotel, Arlington, VA, USA, November 12, 2004

Program Committee Member, SPIE ITCom 2004, Internet Multimedia Management Systems V, October 25-28, 2004 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

Reviewer for ACM CHI'04

Reviewer for NIPS'04

2003

Co-Chair, IEEE International Workshop on Multimedia Technologies in E-Learning and Collaboration (WOMTEC), Nice, France, October 17, 2003

Program Committee Member, The First ACM International Workshop on Multimedia Databases ,New Orleans, Louisiana, November 7, 2003

Program Committee Member, ACM Multimedia Conference'2003 , November 2-8, 2003, Berkeley, CA, USA.

Technical Demo Chair, ACM Multimedia Conference'2003 , November 2-8, 2003, Berkeley, CA, USA.

Co-organizer, Special session on Multi-stream audio and video processing for telepresence, IEEE International Conference on Multimedia Expo (ICME), July 6-9, 2003, Baltimore, MD

Program Committee Member, IEEE International Conference on Multimedia Expo (ICME), July 6-9, 2003, Baltimore, MD

Program Committee Member, IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP) , Sept 14-17, 2003, Barcelona, Spain

Program Committee Member, IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems , May 19-22, 2003, Providence, Rhode Island

Program Committee Member, International Conference on Image and Video Retrieval (CIVR) , July 24-25, 2003, Urbana-Champaign, IL, USA

Program Committee Member, SPIE ITCom 2003, Internet Multimedia Management Systems IV, 7-11 September 2003, Orlando, Florida USA

Program Committee Member, The 2003 International Conference on Imaging Science, Systems, and Technology (CISST'03) , June 23-26, 2003, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA

Reviewer for ACM Transaction on Human Computer Interaction

Reviewer for IEEE Transaction on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (PAMI)

Reviewer for IEEE CVPR'03

Reviewer for NIPS'03

2002

Program Area Co-Chair, Multimedia databases,  IEEE ICME (Multimedia Expo)'2002, August 26-29, 2002, Lausanne, Switzerland.

Program Committee Member, International Conference on Image and Video Retrieval (CIVR) , July 18-19, 2002, British Library Conference Centre, London, UK

Program Committee Member, SPIE ITCom 2002, Internet Multimedia Management Systems III, 29 July - 2 August 2002, Boston, Massachusetts, USA

Reviewer for Transaction of HCI

Reviewer for ACM Multimedia Systems Journal

Reviewer for IEEE Transaction on Multimedia

Reviewer for IEEE Transaction on Image Processing

Reviewer for NISP'02

Reviewer for ACM Multimedia'02

Reviewer for Face and Gesture (FG)'02

2001

Panelist, NSF review panel in CISE/IIS (Division of Information and Intelligent Systems, the Computer and Iinformation Science and Engineering (CISE) Directorate.

Invitee, The Seventh Symposium of Frontiers of Engineering, National Aacademy of Engineering, Irvine, California, September 13 - 15, 2001 (Postponed to March 2002 due to the terrorist attack).

Panelist, Workshop on Content-Based Access of Image and Video Libraries 2001, in conjuntion with IEEE CVPR Conference'2001 , Kauai, Hawaii, December 10 - 15, 2001.

Program Committee Member, IEEE CVPR Conference'2001, Kauai, Hawaii, December 10 - 15, 2001.

Panelist, IEEE CVPR Workshop on Content-Based Access of Image and Video Libraries (CBAIVL'01) , Kauai, Hawaii, December 14, 2001.

Program Committee Member, IEEE CVPR Conference'2001 , Kauai, Hawaii, December 10 - 15, 2001.

Program Committee Member, ACM Multimedia Conference'2001 , Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, September 31 - October 5, 2001.

Program Committee Member, Infotech Oulu International Workshop on Information Retrieval , Oulu, Finland, September 20-21, 2001.

Program Committee Member, SPIE Intl. Symposium on The Convergence of Information Technologies and Communications (ITCOM) , August 20-24, 2001, Denver, CO.

Program Committee Member,  IEEE ICCV'2001 Workshop on Detection and Recognition of Events in Video , Vancouver, Canada, July 8, 2001

Reviewer for ACM Multimedia Systems Journal

Reviewer for IEEE Transaction on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (PAMI)

Reviewer for IEEE Transaction on Image Processing

Reviewer for IEEE Transaction on Multimedia

2000

Program Committee Member, Multimedia and Communication Track, IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems , May 2000, Geneva, Switzerland.

Program Committee Member, SPIE Multimedia Storage and Archiving Systems V (MSAS-2000) Conference at SPIE Photonics East 2000 , Boston, MA, November 6 - 8, 2000.

Reviewer for IEEE Signal Processing Letters

Reviewer for IEEE Transaction on Image Processing

Reviewer for IEEE Transaction on Multimedia

Reviewer for IEEE Transaction on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, Special Issue on "Streaming Video".

Reviewer for Journal of Computer Communication, Special Issue on "QoS".

Reviewer for Journal of Machine Vision and Applications

Reviewer for ACM SIG Multimedia conference

1999

Reviewer for Pattern Recognition Joural, Speical Issue on "Shape representation for Image databases: Fourier Theory".

Reviewer for IEEE Transaction on Image Processing

Reviewer for IEEE Transaction on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, Special Issue on "3-D Video Technology"

Reviewer for Signal Processing: Image Communication Journal, Special Issue on "MPEG-7".

Reviewer for ACM SIG Multimedia conference

Reviewer for IEEE CVPR

Reviewer for IEEE ICIP

1998

Reviewer for Journal of Visual Communication and Image Representation Special Issue.

Reviewer for IEEE Transaction on Image Processing

Reviewer for ACM SIG Multimedia conference

Reviewer for IEEE CVPR

Reviewer for IEEE ICIP

1997

Reviewer for ACM SIG Multimedia conference

Reviewer for IEEE CVPR

Reviewer for IEEE ICIP