Nicu Sebe

Contact Information

I have moved to the University of Trento, Italy in spring 2009.

Recent Activities

• Technical Program Chair for International Conference on Image and Video Retrieval - CIVR'2003
• Guest Editor for the Journal of Computer Vision and Image Understanding Special Issue on Video Retrieval and Summarization
• Program Committee Member for IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo - ICME'2003
• Program Committee Member for International Conference on Computer Analysis of Images and Patterns - CAIP'2003
• Program Committee Member for Multimedia Information Retrieval Workshop 2003 - in conjunction with the 26th annual ACM SIGIR conference on Information Retrieval
• Program Committee Member and Editor of the Proceedings for International Conference on Image and Video Retrieval - CIVR'2002

Research

Content based retrieval from image databases

ImageSearch using annotations

ImageSearch engine

Publications

1. Robust Computer Vision - Theory and Applications

N. Sebe, M.S. Lew, Kluwer Academic Publishers, ISBN 1-4020-1293-4, April, 2003.

2. Image and Video Retrieval, Proceedings of the International Conference on Image and Video Retrieval, CIVR 2003

E. Bakker, T.S. Huang, M.S. Lew, N. Sebe, X. Zhou, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 2728, Springer-Verlag, ISBN 3-540-40634-4, July, 2003

3. Image and Video Retrieval, Proceedings of the International Conference on Image and Video Retrieval, CIVR 2002

M.S. Lew, N. Sebe, J.P. Eakins, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 2383, Springer-Verlag, ISBN 3-540-43899-8, July, 2002

4. Texture Features for Content-based Retrieval

N. Sebe, M.S. Lew, Principles of Visual Information Retrieval, Springer, ISBN 1-852333-381-2, pp. 51-86, January, 2001

5. Video Indexing and Understanding

M.S. Lew, N. Sebe, P. Gardner, Principles of Visual Information Retrieval, ISBN 1-852333-381-2, Springer, pp. 163-196, January, 2001

1. Evaluation of Salient Point Techniques

N. Sebe, Q. Tian, E. Loupias, M.S. Lew, T.S. Huang, Image and Vision Computing, to appear, 2003

2. Complete Performance Graphs in Content-Based Image Retrieval: GReP and GRiP Graphs

D.P. Huijsmans, N. Sebe, IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Inteligence, in revision

3. Facial Expression Recognition from Video Sequences: Temporal and Static Modeling

I. Cohen, N. Sebe, L. Chen, A. Garg, T.S. Huang, Computer Vision and Image Understanding, in Special Issue on Face Recognition, Vol. 91, No. 1-2, pp. 160-187, July, 2003

4. Comparing Salient Points Detectors,

N. Sebe, M.S. Lew, Pattern Recognition Letters, Vol. 24, No. 1-3, pp. 89-96, January, 2003

5. Image Retrieval using Wavelet-based Salient Points,

Q. Tian, N. Sebe, M.S. Lew, E. Loupias, T.S. Huang, Journal of Electronic Imaging, Vol. 10, No. 4, pp. 835-849, October, 2001

6. Color Based Retrieval,

N. Sebe, M.S. Lew, Pattern Recognition Letters, Vol. 22, No. 2, pp. 223-230, February, 2001

7. Toward Improved Ranking Metrics,

N. Sebe, M.S. Lew, D.P. Huijsmans, IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Inteligence, Vol. 22, No. 10, pp. 1132-1141, October, 2000

8. Towards Optimal Ranking Metrics,

N. Sebe, M.S. Lew, D.P. Huijsmans, Romanian Journal of Information Science and Technology, Vol. 1, No. 3, pp. 267-285, 1998.

9. Image Compression using Vectorial Quantization with a Kohonen Neural Network

N. Sebe, A. Barbu, Romanian Journal of Automatization nr 4/1996

Conferences:
 

1. Learning Bayesian Network Classifiers for Facial Expression Recognition using both Labeled and Unlabeled Data

I. Cohen, N. Sebe, T.S. Huang, to appear in IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR'03), Madison, USA, June, 2003.

2. An Overcomplete Discrete Wavelet Transform for Video Compression

N. Sebe, C. Lamba, M.S. Lew, IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME'02), vol I, pp. 641-644, Lausanne, Switzerland, August 2002

3. Facial Expression Recognition from Video Sequences

I. Cohen, N. Sebe, A. Garg, M.S. Lew, T.S. Huang, IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME'02), vol II, pp. 121-124, Lausanne, Switzerland, August 2002

4. Emotion Recognition Using a Cauchy Naive Bayes Classifier

N. Sebe, I. Cohen, A. Garg, M.S. Lew, T.S. Huang, International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR'02), vol I, pp. 17-20, Quebec City, Canada, August 2002

5. Detecting Automobiles and People for Semantic Video Retrieval

R. Visser, N. Sebe, M.S. Lew, International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR'02), vol II, pp. 733-736, Quebec City, Canada, August 2002

6. Challenges of Image and Video Retrieval

M.S. Lew, N. Sebe, J.P. Eakins, International Conference on Image and Video Retrieval (CIVR'02), pp. 1-6, London, UK, July 2002

7. Robust Shape Matching

N. Sebe, M.S. Lew, International Conference on Image and Video Retrieval (CIVR'02), pp. 17-28, London, UK, July 2002

8. Object Recognition for Video Retrieval

R. Visser, N. Sebe, E.M. Bakker, International Conference on Image and Video Retrieval (CIVR'02), pp. 262-270, London, UK, July 2002

9. Evaluation of Salient Point Techniques

N. Sebe, Q. Tian, E. Loupias, M.S. Lew, T.S. Huang, International Conference on Image and Video Retrieval (CIVR'02), pp. 367-377, London, UK, July 2002

10. Maximum Likelihood Shape Matching,

N. Sebe, M.S. Lew, Asian Conference on Computer Vision (ACCV'02), pp. 713-718, Melbourne, Australia, January, 2002.

11. Extended Performance Graphs for Cluster Retrieval,

D.P. Huijsmans, N. Sebe, IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR'01), vol I, pp. 26-31, Kauai, Hawaii, December, 2001.

12. Content-based Retrieval using Salient Point Techniques

N. Sebe, Q. Tian, E. Loupias, M.S. Lew, T.S. Huang, IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR'01), Technical Demo, Electronic Proceedings, Kauai, Hawaii, December, 2001.

13. Salient Points for Content-based Retrieval

N. Sebe, M.S. Lew, British Machine Vision Conference (BMVC'01), pp. 401-410, Manchester, UK, 2001

14. Comparing Salient Points Detectors,

N. Sebe, M.S. Lew, IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo, pp. 65-68, Tokyo, Japan, 2001

15. Content-Based Image Retrieval Using Wavelet-Based Salient Points,

Q. Tian, N. Sebe, E. Loupias, M.S. Lew, T.S. Huang, SPIE - Storage and Retrieval for Media Databases (EI28), pp. 425-436, San Jose, USA, 2001

16. Wavelet-based Salient Points: Applications to Image Retrieval Using Color and Texture Features,

E. Loupias, N. Sebe, Visual'00, pp. 223-232, Lyon, France

17. A Ground-truth Training Set for Hierarchical Clustering in Content-based Image Retrieval,

D.P. Huijsmans, N. Sebe, M.S. Lew, Visual'00, pp. 500-510, Lyon, France

18. Wavelet-Based Salient Points for Image Retrieval,

E. Loupias, N. Sebe, S. Bres, J-M. Jolion, International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP'00), Vancouver, Canada, 2000

19. Wavelet-based Texture Classification,

N. Sebe, M.S. Lew, International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR'00), vol III, pp. 959-962, Barcelona, Spain, 2000

20. Maximum Likelihood Stereo Matching,

N. Sebe, M.S. Lew, International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR'00), vol I, pp. 900-903, Barcelona, Spain, 2000

21. Color Based Retrieval and Recognition,

N. Sebe, M.S. Lew, IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo, pp. 311-314, New York, USA, 2000

22. Color Indexing Using Wavelet-based Salient Points,

N. Sebe, Q. Tian, E. Loupias, M.S. Lew, T.S. Huang, IEEE Workshop on Content-based Access of Image and Video Libraries (CBAIVL'00), pp. 15-19, Hilton Head Island, USA, 2000

23. Improving Visual Matching,

M.S. Lew, N. Sebe, T.S. Huang, IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR'00), vol II, pp. 58-65, Hilton Head Island, USA, 2000

24. Visual Websearching using Iconic Queries,

M.S. Lew, N. Sebe, IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR'00), vol II, pp. 788-789, Hilton Head Island, USA, 2000

25. A Maximum Likelihood Investigation into Color Indexing,

N. Sebe, M.S. Lew, Visual Interface'00, pp. 101-106, Montreal, Canada

26. A Maximum Likelihood Investigation into Texture Classification,

N. Sebe, M.S. Lew, D.P. Huijsmans, Asian Conference on Computer Vision (ACCV'00), pp. 1094-1099, 8-11.01.2000, Taipei, Taiwan

27. Robust Color Indexing,

N. Sebe, M.S. Lew, ACM Multimedia'99, vol I, pp. 239-242, 1999, Orlando, USA

28. Multi-Scale Sub-Image Search,

N. Sebe, M.S. Lew, D.P. Huijsmans, ACM Multimedia'99, vol II, pp. 79-82, 1999, Orlando, USA

29. Adapting k-d Trees to Visual Retrieval,

R. Egas, D.P. Huijsmans, M.S. Lew, N. Sebe, Visual'99, pp. 533-540, Amsterdam, Netherlands

30. Towards Optimal Ranking Metrics,

N. Sebe, M.S. Lew, D.P. Huijsmans, IEEE International Symposium on Computer Graphics, Image Processing and Vision (SIBGRAPI'98), pp. 379-386, 20-23.10.1998, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

31. Which Ranking Metric Is Optimal - with applications in image retrieval and stereo matching,

N. Sebe, M.S. Lew, D.P. Huijsmans, International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR'98), pp. 265-271, 16-20.8.1998, Brisbane, Australia

32. Generation of the HDL-A-model of a micromembrane from its finite-element-description,

K. Hofmann, M. Glesner, N. Sebe, A. Manolescu, S. Marco, J. Samitier, J.M. Karam, B. Courtois, European Design and Test Conference(ED&TC), pp. 108-112, 17-20.3.1997, Paris, France

33. HDL-A Code Generation for Heterogenous Systems,

K. Hofmann, N. Sebe, A Manolescu, M. Glesner, ITG/GI/GMM-Workshop Hardwarebeschreibungssprachen und Modellierungsparadigmen, 26.-28.2.97, Holzhau, Germany

34. Tree Grouping for HDL-A Models ,

N. Sebe, in Proceedings of International Conference on Semiconductors (CAS), pp. 323-326, Sinaia, Romania, October 1996

 

Some Photos from Taiwan

Images from the Dolomites