John R. Smith Image and Advanced Television Lab Center for Image Technology for New Media and Center for Telecommunications Research and Department Electrical Eningeering Columbia University New York, NY 10027-6699 jrsmith@ctr.columbia.edu http://www.ctr.columbia.edu/~jrsmith	Selected topics: Content-based visual query, including Image retrieval systems Color Texture Spatial layout Feature extraction Web image search Image compression Digital libraries Video-on demand

Content-based visual query

JRS97

J. R. Smith. Integrated Spatial and Feature Image Systems: Retrieval, Compression and Analysis. Ph.D. thesis, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Columbia University, February, 1997. [html file] [ps files]

SC97b

J. R. Smith and S.-F. Chang. Enhancing Image Search Engines in Visual Information Environments IEEE 1997 Workshop on Multimedia Signal Processing, 1997. IEEE. [ html file ]

LCS97

C.-S. Li, V. Castelli and J. R. Smith Similarity Search Through Iterative Refinement. Submitted to Symposium on Electronic Imaging: Science and Technology - Storage & Retrieval for Image and Video Databases VI, 1998. IS&T/SPIE.

Image retrieval systems

SC96l

J. R. Smith and S.-F. Chang. WebSEEk: a content-based image and video search engine for the Web [ html file ]

SC97c

J. R. Smith and S.-F. Chang. SaFe: A General Framework for Integrated Spatial and Feature Image Search IEEE 1997 Workshop on Multimedia Signal Processing, 1997. IEEE. [ html file]

SC96c

J. R. Smith and S.-F. Chang. VisualSEEk: a fully automated content-based image query system. ACM Multimedia '96, November, 1996. [ ps file] [ html file ]

Color

SC96e

J. R. Smith and S.-F. Chang. Querying by color regions using the VisualSEEk content-based visual query system. In M. T. Maybury, editor, Intelligent Multimedia Information Retrieval. IJCAI, 1997. [ ps file]

SC96b

J. R. Smith and S.-F. Chang. Local Color and Texture Extraction and Spatial Query In IEEE Proc. Int. Conf. Image Processing, Lausanne, Switzerland, September 1996. IEEE. [ ps file] [ html file ]

SC96a

J. R. Smith and S.-F. Chang. Tools and techniques for color image retrieval. In Symposium on Electronic Imaging: Science and Technology - Storage & Retrieval for Image and Video Databases IV, volume 2670, San Jose, CA, February 1996. IS&T/SPIE. [ ps file] [ html file ]

SC95a

J. R. Smith and S.-F. Chang. Single color extraction and image query. In IEEE Proc. Int. Conf. Image Processing, Washington, DC, October 1995. IEEE. [ ps file] [ html file ]

SC95b

J. R. Smith and S.-F. Chang. Automated image retrieval using color and texture. Technical Report CU/CTR 408-95-14, Columbia University, July 1995. [ ps file] [ html file ]

Texture

SC96i

J. R. Smith and S.-F. Chang. Automated binary texture feature sets for image retrieval. In Proc. Int. Conf. Acoust., Speech, Signal Processing, Atlanta, GA, May 1996. IEEE. [ ps file] [ html file ]

SC94b

J. R. Smith and S.-F. Chang. Transform features for texture classification and discrimination in large image databases. In IEEE Proc. Int. Conf. Image Processing, Austin, TX, November 1994. IEEE. [ ps file] [ html file ]

SC94a

J. R. Smith and S.-F. Chang. Quadtree segmentation for texture-based image query. In Proc. ACM Intern. Conf. Multimedia, San Francisco, CA, October 1994. ACM. [ ps file] [ html file ]

Spatial layout

SC97a

J. R. Smith and S.-F. Chang. Integrated Spatial and Feature Image Query ACM Multimedia SYstems Journal, 1997. ACM. To appear.

LSCB97

C.-S. Li, J. R. Smith, V. Castelli and L. Bergman. Sequential Processing for Content-based Retrieval of COmposite Objects. Submitted to Symposium on Electronic Imaging: Science and Technology - Storage & Retrieval for Image and Video Databases VI, 1998. IS&T/SPIE.

Feature extraction

SCMe97

Shih-Fu Chang, John R. Smith, Horace J. Meng, Hualu Wang, and Di Zhong. Finding Images/Video in Large Archives. D-lib Magazine. February, 1997. [ html file ]

SCM96

S.-F. Chang, J. R. Smith and J. Meng. Efficient Techniques for Feature-Based Image/Video Access and Manipulation In Proceedings, 33rd Annual Clinic on Library Applications of Data Processing: Digital Image Access and Retrieval, Illinois, March, 1996. [ ps file]

CS95a

S.-F. Chang and J. R. Smith. Extracting multi-dimensional signal features for content-based visual query. In Symposium on Visual Communications and Image Processing. SPIE, May 1995. [ ps file]

CSW95

S.-F. Chang, J. R. Smith, and H. Wang. Automatic feature extraction and indexing for content-based visual query. Technical Report CU/CTR 414-95-20, Columbia University, January 1995. [ ps file]

Web image search

PS97

S. Paek and J. R. Smith Detecting Image Purpose in Web Documents, Submitted to Symposium on Electronic Imaging: Science and Technology - Document Recognition V, 1998. IS&T/SPIE.

SC96h

J. R. Smith and S.-F. Chang. Visually searching the Web for content, IEEE Multimedia. Fall, 1997. To appear.

SC96k

S.-F. Chang, J. R. Smith and H. Meng. Exploring Image Functionalities in WWW Applications - Development of Image/Video Search and Editing Engines. To appear in special session of IEEE Proc. Int. Conf. Image Processing, October 1997. IEEE.

SC96g

J. R. Smith and S.-F. Chang. An Image and Video Search Engine for the World-Wide Web. In Symposium on Electronic Imaging: Science and Technology - Storage & Retrieval for Image and Video Databases V, San Jose, CA, February 1997. IS&T/SPIE. [ ps file] [ html file ]

SC96f

J. R. Smith and S.-F. Chang. Searching for Images and Videos on the World-Wide Web, Columbia Univeristy CTR Technical Report 459-96-25, August, 1996. [ ps file] [ html file ]

Image compression

SC97e

J. R. Smith and S.-F. Chang. Joint adaptive space and frequency graph. Submitted to IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, special issue on Theory and Applications of Filter Banks and Wavelets, 1997, IEEE.

SC97d

J. R. Smith and S.-F. Chang. Joint Adaptive Space and Frequency Basis Selection. IEEE Proc. Int. Conf. Image Processing, 1997. IEEE. To appear.

SC96j

J. R. Smith and S.-F. Chang. Space adaptive wavelet packet image compression. In Symposium on Electronic Imaging: Science and Technology - Still Image Compression 1996, volume 2669, San Jose, CA, January 1996. IS&T/SPIE. [ ps file] [ html file ]

SC95c

J. R. Smith and S.-F. Chang. Frequency and spatially adaptive wavelet packets. In Proc. Int. Conf. Acoust., Speech, Signal Processing, Detroit, MI, May 1995. IEEE. [ ps file] [ html file ]

Digital libraries

ACMet97

A. Aho and S.-F. Chang, K. McKeown, D. Radev, J. R. Smith and K. Zaman. Columbia Digital News System. International Conference on the Advances in Digital Libraries.. IEEE. May, 1997

Video-on demand

CAE+94

S.-F. Chang, D. Anastassiou, A. Eleftheriadis, J. Meng, S. Paek, S. Pejhan and J. R. Smith Development of Advanced Image/Video Servers in the Video on Demand Testbed In Proceedings of IEEE Visual Signal Processing Communications Workshop, New Brunswick, NJ, Sept. 1994. IEEE.