I just joined ResearchGate (replying to an invitation from my esteemed colleague Spyros Magliveras). If you want to follow me on ResearchGate, follow this link: http://www.researchgate.net/profile/Oge_Marques/
Read more →IBM is looking for a creative and forward-thinking individual to join their Mobile CIO Lab Innovations Team! Located in Somers, New York, you’ll work closely with seasoned developers to develop applications that deliver innovative experiences on mobile devices to their employees worldwide. For more information and to apply visit: Software Developer Intern https://jobs3.netmedia1.com/cp/job_summary.jsp?job_id=CHQ-0475586
Read more →And speaking of minimum class size requirements (driven by the widely publicized budget cuts that FAU will face for the next fiscal year), this page contains a summary of the budget-related suggestions submitted to the Provost office so far. What do you think? Which suggestions do you agree with? Which ones would you add?
Read more →I’ve posted the syllabus for my upcoming (Fall 2012) “Digital Image Processing” course under the Teaching page. If you think you know someone who may be interested in taking the course, please pass this information along. As you probably know, FAU is adopting strict measures about minimum class sizes and course cancellations… I want...
Read more →Our college will host the 25th Florida Conference on Recent Advances in Robotics and Robot Showcase (FCRAR) 2012 (May 10-11, 2012). Click here for more information.
Read more →On June 11 I’ll return to FAU and resume my duties as one of the Associate Chairmen of the CEECS department. I’ll remain in that capacity until July 2013. I just got the gadget below from Amazon to help me keep track of the time left before “retirement”. The 387 (+/- 3) day countdown...
Read more →I’ve made some (much needed and long overdue) changes and improvements to my FAU website. I was inspired by Liam Mayron’s site (and his use of the PressWork WordPress theme, which I liked very much: clean, modern, and — very important — mobile friendly!). The main differences (besides the change of theme, colors, and layout)...
Read more →My colleague and friend Klaus Schöffmann has just released an iPhone/iPad app that allows photo browsing using a zoomable 3D ring interface. It is a truly unique and novel way to browse photos that includes color sorting technology (which allows you to easily group your photos by color tone) and a powerful interactive 3D slideshow feature. Highly recommended!
Read more →It gives me great pleasure to announce that my latest textbook, “Practical Image and Video Processing Using MATLAB®” has been published. Please visit http://www.ogemarques.com/ for additional information and help me spread the word. Your comments and suggestions will be very much appreciated. Cheers.
Read more →CALL FOR PAPERS **Video Browser Showdown** http://mmm2012.org/vbshowdown/ January 6, 2012, Klagenfurt University, Klagenfurt, Austria. The Video Browser Showdown (held as a separate session of MMM 2012) is a live video browsing competition where international researchers, working in the field of interactive video search, evaluate and demonstrate the efficiency of their tools in presence of the audience. The...
Read more →The 2011-12 academic year starts (in practice) today. Yes, I know, I’m on sabbatical (and away from campus), but I’m following closely the most relevant developments at FAU and reporting some noteworthy highlights in this blog. Today’s official FAU announcements page proudly reports record numbers of applications: FAU received more than 24,600 freshman applications...
Read more →President Saunders said earlier this year that she wanted it ready for the Fall and here it is! Will download and play with it soon. Updated: played with it for a bit and enjoyed it very much! Yes, there are sections (e.g., library, athletics) that are richer, much better implemented, and more useful than others...
Read more →Next week my former PhD student Liam M. Mayron will start a new job as Assistant Professor of Computer Sciences at the Florida Institute of Technology. According to Liam’s official note on Facebook: “my main goal is to develop a new graduate curriculum in cybersecurity. My home will be within the Harris Institute for Assured Information.” Liam...
Read more →I’m intrigued by the sudden success (and almost unanimous good reviews, see this for an example) of Snapseed, a new image editing software for iPhone and iPad. It goes to show that: The market for mobile image processing-related apps is booming (and the success of Instagram, among many others, doesn’t appear to be a fluke). The...
Read more →Today is the first day of my sabbatical year. As the frequent readers of this blog (all three of them!) will probably notice, it was preceded by a much-needed (and very enjoyable) 30-day vacation. During my sabbatical leave from FAU I plan to visit several places, read a lot (technical and non-technical stuff), teach...
Read more →Well, not quite. But, effective today, I’m on sabbatical leave from FAU for one year. I plan to continue working on my book’s website (and also blog at) http://ogemarques.com/ during the next 12 months. As for FAU, see you in August 2012!
Read more →————————————————————————————————– Call for Participation – Registration deadline: 30 September 2011 PROMISE Winter School 2012 on Information Retrieval meets Information Visualization Zinal, Valais – Switzerland 23 - 27 January 2012 http://www.promise-noe.eu/events/winter-school-2012/ ————————————————————————————————–
Read more →============================================================================ CALL FOR PAPERS The 18th International MultiMedia Modeling Conference (MMM2012) January 4-6, 2012 Klagenfurt University, Klagenfurt, Austria. ============================================================================ The International MultiMedia Modeling (MMM) Conference is a leading international conference (http://mmm2012.org) for researchers and industry practitioners to share their new ideas, original research results and practical development experiences from all MMM related areas. The...
Read more →Students who are pre-registered at FAU for the coming semester as well as students who were registered at FAU the previous semester can now join current students in borrowing books and accessing the databases at FAU Libraries, under a revised policy now in effect. In the past, only current students had such privileges. The...
Read more →Mr. Rafael Giusti will defend his MS thesis “A systematic evaluation of object detection and recognition approaches with context capabilities” on Friday July 1, 2011 at 4:30 p.m., in Room EE 405 (CEECS Conference Room). Dr. Oge Marques is his advisor. Everyone is welcome to attend.
Read more →A message from President Saunders to the University Community: On June 2, 1961, the Palm Beach Post ran a front page story that carried the headline “Lacerated Boca U Bill Passes Legislature.” The report told how the budget conference committee had slashed the original allocation of $300,000 in start-up operating funds down to $100,000,...
Read more →If you watch videos online (and who doesn’t?), I’d like to kindly ask you to consider filling out this survey on Video searching, watching and sharing habits (for a research study that my colleague Mathias Lux, his student Christoph Lagger, and I are conducting): http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/F92CDJV I’ve placed a related paper that we have on...
Read more →I’m happy to report that three students from the Spring 2010 “iPhone Programming” class have released their apps in the iTunes AppStore. Read the press release for more info.
Read more →This just in… To the FAU Community: As FAU grows, the Athletics Department is striving to bring national recognition to the University. With construction of the 30,000-seat on-campus stadium under way, we wish to allow the FAU family the opportunity to see the progress firsthand. The Athletics Department has launched a stadium-specific website to educate...
Read more →I’m glad to announce that the iPhone Programming class will be offered again in the Spring 2011. Syllabus will be posted soon. Meanwhile, for more information, please check the FAQ page.
Read more →This is a beautiful, state-of-the-art, facility! I’m looking forward to watching many movies in it! The Living Room Theaters digital movie complex on the Boca Raton campus will start showing independent, foreign and classic films on Friday, Nov. 19. The theaters are located in the new Culture and Society Building on the Boca Raton...
Read more →Good advice for all of us who must write scientific papers on a regular basis. Dennis R. Morgan, “Dos and don’ts of technical writing,” IEEE Potentials, vol. 24, no. 3, pp. 22–25, Aug. 2005.
Read more →The CEECS department has officially moved to the new (“Green”) “East Engineering (EE) Building”. My new office number is EE 441 (4th floor). All other contact information remains the same.
Read more →Interested parties are encouraged to submit their materials to the address below by November 30, 2010 to assure optimal consideration. FAU VPR Search R. William Funk & Associates 100 Highland Park Village, Suite 200 Dallas, Texas 75205 krisha.creal@rwilliamfunk.com fax: 214.295.3312 For complete information, please check: http://www.fau.edu/research/vpsearch
Read more →Florida Atlantic University seeks an Assistant Provost for eLearning. The successful individual will be responsible for the development and administration of the new Center for eLearning. The responsibilities for this position will include developing, monitoring, and overseeing Florida Atlantic University’s eLearning capabilities by leading and facilitating the University’s efforts to implement eLearning across all...
Read more →In another much-needed and long-overdue move, President Saunders announced this morning: To the FAU Community: I am pleased to announce that Dr. Barry Rosson, Dean of the Graduate College, will also begin serving as Interim Vice President for Research onMonday, Oct. 11. We thank Dr. Michael Moriarty for his exemplary service to FAU as he...
Read more →My trip to the Netherlands just got better: I’ll also be able to visit my former student, co-author, colleague, and friend Vladimir Nedovic, currently living, working (as a CTO of aixiom studio), and studying (finishing his PhD in Computer Vision) in Amsterdam. Vladimir was one of my brightest students ever! He has a level...
Read more →Among my fondest memories from the time I spent at Philips International Institute (PII) was the opportunity of taking a ‘Digital Audio’ course with the eminent researcher, scientist, and inventor Kees Schouhamer Immink. What an opportunity and a privilege: to learning about digital audio coding straight from one of the world’s greatest authorities in the...
Read more →On Monday, I’ll be traveling to the Netherlands, a country where I’ve lived for 1.5 years in the late 1980s, and of which I have the fondest memories. It will be, indeed, “a trip down memory lane”: I will participate in a very special alumni reunion in Eindhoven, reconnecting with old colleagues and meeting...
Read more →The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has designated the Center for Ocean Energy Technology (COET) at Florida Atlantic University as a national center for ocean energy research and development. I’m glad to be part of the effort (with my colleague Hari Kalva and four Master’s students). More details here.
Read more →I’m happy to announce that Professor Christian Timmerer from Klagenfurt University (Austria) will visit FAU next week. He is a world renowned expert in the fields of multimedia adaptation in constrained and streaming environments, distributed multimedia adaptation, and Quality of Service (QoS) / Quality of Experience (QoE). He will present an IEEE Signal Processing...
Read more →A very useful list of resources maintained by David Lowe.
Read more →Our paper: Lux M., Pitman A., Marques O. Can Global Visual Features Improve Tag Recommendation for Image Annotation?. Future Internet. 2010; 2(3):341-362. is now available online.
Read more →The Fall term starts officially tomorrow (in practice, on Monday, for most students and faculty). I’m getting my three classes ready to go. I’ll be using Blackboard 9 for the first time, as part of a pilot group here at FAU. As always, I’m looking forward to a new academic semester/year.
Read more →* * * CALL FOR PAPERS * * * ————————— OMIR-2010: International Workshop on Ontologies for Multimedia Interpretation and Retrieval 1-3 December, 2010 Saarbruecken, Germany Collocated with SAMT-2010: the 5th International Conference on Semantic and Digital Media Technologies || http://www.samt2010.org/ ==================================================================== Invited Speakers: —————– Yiannis Kompadsiaris, Informatics and Telematics Institute, Thermi-Thessaloniki, Greece Cees Snoek...
Read more →================================================================================ Call for Contributions SMDT2010 || 2nd Workshop on Semantic Multimedia Database Technologies 12th International Workshop of the Multimedia Metadata Community The workshop is collocated with the 5th International Conference on Semantic and Digital Media Technologies (SAMT) 1-3 December 2010 Saarbrücken, Germany http://smdt2010.fim.uni-passau.de/ ================================================================================ The 2nd Workshop on Semantic Multimedia Database Technologies (SMDT2010) searches...
Read more →Finished reviewing a paper for the Special Thematic Session on Interactive Multimedia Applications (WIMA) of the 6th Symposium of the WG HCI&UE of the Austrian Computer Society (USAB 2010).
Read more →When I visited Klagenfurt University’s Research Group on Distributed Multimedia Systems last month I was surprised (and very glad) to see my name in a list of selected guests, on the same page as none less than famed Professor and Turing Award winner Niklaus Wirth! If you want to see the entire (and excellent)...
Read more →President Saunders reviews her first month on the job and invites all to the ‘State of the University’ address.
Read more →Brainier than the average bear
Read more →Springer will publish the book ImageCLEF: Experimental Evaluation in Visual Information Retrieval in mid-August. Looking forward to it.
Read more →I’ve said before that ‘the best meeting is a canceled meeting’. Today I learned two other things: ‘The second-best meeting is one that ends much earlier than planned’ (after a 60-min meeting that was over after 20 min) ‘The worst meeting is the one you have no business attending to’ (after an invitation for...
Read more →Another important lesson from PhD Comics
Read more →Google Image Search has incorporated the attractive Image Swirl option to navigate results and launched Google Image Search Ads. Learn more about it on Google’s official blog or take it for a spin. I sure did! (see sample screenshot below).
Read more →I’ve updated my website. Here are some highlights: I’ve changed the template to iBlog2 by PageLines (thanks to Michael Ransburg for the ‘inspiration’ :-) I’ve imported my blog (originally at Blogger) and its entries (dating back to April 2008) I’ve added a list of Open MS Theses topics (inspired by Mathias Lux’s similar list)....
Read more →Our paper (co-written by Hari Kalva, Ricardo Castellanos, and Borko Furht) “Event detection in video using motion analysis” has been accepted for presentation at the 1st ACM ARTEMIS 2010 International Workshop on Analysis and Retrieval of Tracked Events and Motion in Imagery Streams, part of ACM Multimedia 2010.
Read more →I’ve accepted an invitation to become a PC Member of the Special Thematic Session on Interactive Multimedia Applications (WIMA) of the 6th Symposium of the WG HCI&UE of the Austrian Computer Society (USAB 2010).
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