Yong Rui - Selected Publications#

1. Y. Rui, T. S. Huang, M. Ortega, and S. Mehrotra, “Relevance Feedback: A Power Tool in Interactive Content-Based Image Retrieval,” IEEE Trans. on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, vol.8, no.5, pp.644-655, 1998. {It is the No.1 cited paper in all of IEEE Trans CSVT papers in 1998 (goo.gl/H6jZSf).} [2300 citations].

2. Y. Rui, T. S. Huang, and S.-F. Chang, “Image Retrieval: Current Techniques, Promising Directions and Open Issues,” Journal of Visual Communication and Image Representation (JVCIR), vol.10, pp.39-62, 1999. {It won the Most Cited Paper of the Decade Award in 2010 from JVCIR (goo.gl/WaaDYk).} [3100 citations]

3. Y. Rui, T. S. Huang, and S. Mehrotra, “Constructing Table-of-Content for Videos”, Springer/ACM Multimedia Systems Journal, Vol.7, No.5, pp359-368, Sept. 1999. {This paper developed an effective semantic level ToC construction technique based on unsupervised clustering modeling both time locality and scene structure. It also led to one of the first MPEG-7 proposals ISO/IEC JTC1/SC29/WG11 M3110 (goo.gl/6ftRFt).} [380 citations]

4. Y. Rui, A. Gupta, and A. Acero, “Automatically Extracting Highlights for TV Baseball Programs,” Proc. of ACM Multimedia Conference 2000, Los Angeles, CA. {This paper is among the first that introduced automatic video highlight extraction using audio-visual features. US patents 7028325 and 7403894.} [575 citations]

5. R. Cutler, Y. Rui, A. Gupta, JJ Cadiz, I. Tashev, L. He, A. Colburn, Z. Zhang, Z. Liu, S. Silverberg Distributed Meetings: A Meeting Capture and Broadcasting System, Proc. of ACM Multimedia 2002 , Dec. Juan-les-Pins, France. {This paper is the first that described a meeting capture and broadcasting system that used multiple low-cost board cameras via video stitching. The key technologies developed in this paper resulted in Microsoft Office Roundtable®, a leading product in distributed meetings released in 2007.} [356 citations]

6. Y. Chen, Y. Rui, and T. S. Huang, “Multicue HMM-UKF for Real-Time Contour Tracking,” IEEE Trans. PAMI, vol.28, no. 9, pp.1525-1529, 2006. {This paper is the first to introduce unscented Kalman filter (UKF) into video tracking for accurate meeting video indexing. An earlier version of this paper won the Outstanding Student Paper Award in IEEE CVPR 2001 and also resulted in US patents 7130446, 7151843 and 7433495.}

7. Y. Chen and Y. Rui, “Real-time Speaker Tracking Using Particle Filter Sensor Fusion,” Proceedings of the IEEE, vol.92, no.3, pp.485-494, Mar. 2004. {This publication is among the first to conduct speaker tracking and indexing in meeting videos by developing a particle filter based sensor fusion framework, and also resulted in US patents 6882959 and 7035764.} [122 citations]

8. J Yu, D. Tao, M. Wang and Y. Rui, Learning to Rank Using Clicks and Visual Features for Image Retrieval, IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics, Vol.45, No.4, April 2015, 2017. {Andrew P. Sage Best Transactions Paper Award, IEEE SMC Society} [172 citations]

9. J. Yu, Y. Rui and D. Tao, Click prediction for Web image re-ranking using multimodal sparse coding, IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, Volume 23, No. 5, May 2014, 2016. {IEEE Signal Processing Society Best Paper Award} [285 citations]

10. X. Yang, T. Mei, Y. Xu, Y. Rui and S. Li, Automatic Generation of Visual-Textual Presentation Layout, ACM Trans. on Multimedia Computing Communications and Applications (TOMM), Vol. 12, Issue 2, 2016. {2017 ACM TOMM Nicolas Georganas Best Paper Award}