Awards

  • Fellow of IEEE, for contributions to multimedia analysis and applications, 2019.
  • Best Associate Editor Award of ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing, Communications, and Applications (TOMM), 2018.
  • Distinguished Industry Speaker of IEEE Signal Processing Society, 2018-2019.
  • Nicolas D. Georganas Best Paper Award, ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing, Communications, and Applications (TOMM), 2017. “Automatic Generation of Visual-Textual Presentation Layout,” with Xuyong Yang, Ying-Qing Xu, Yong Rui, and Shipeng Li.
  • Fellow of IAPR, for contributions to large-scale video analysis, understanding, and applications, 2016.
  • Distinguished Scientist of ACM, for contributions in large-scale video analysis, 2016.
  • IEEE Communications Society MMTC Best Journal Paper Award, 2015. “Towards Cross-Domain Learning for Social Video Popularity Prediction,” IEEE Trans. on Multimedia, with Suman Deb Roy, Wenjun Zeng, and Shipeng Li.
  • Best Associate Editor Award of Multimedia Systems, 2014.
  • Best Paper Award, IEEE Circuits and Systems Society Circuits and Systems for Video Technology (TCSVT), 2014. “Contextual Bag-of-Words for Visual Categorization,” with Teng Li, In So Kweon, Xian-Sheng Hua.
  • Prize Paper Award, IEEE Transactions on Multimedia (TMM), 2013. “Video Annotation Through Search and Graph Reinforcement Mining,” with Emily Moxley, Bangalore S. Manjunath.
  • Best Student Paper Award, IEEE International Conference on Visual Communications and Image Processing (VCIP), 2012. “Assessing Photo Quality with Geo-context and Crowdsourced Photos,” with Wenyuan Yin and Chang Wen Chen.
  • Top 10% Paper Award, “Interactive Mobile Visual Search for Social Activities Completion Using Query Image Contextual Model,” IEEE International Workshop on Multimedia Signal Processing (MMSP), 2012, with Ning Zhang, Xian-Sheng Hua, Ling Guan, and Shipeng Li.
  • Best Paper Award, “Visual Query Suggestion“, ACM International Conference on Multimedia (ACM MM), 2009, with Zheng-Jun Zha, Linjun Yang, Meng Wang, and Zengfu Wang.
  • Best Poster Paper Award, “When Multimedia Advertising Meets the New Internet Era,” IEEE International Workshop on Multimedia Signal Processing (MMSP), 2008, with Xian-Sheng Hua and Shipeng Li.
  • Best Paper Award, “Correlative Multi-Label Video Annotation,” ACM International Conference on Multimedia (ACM MM), 2007, with Guo-Jun Qi, Xian-Sheng Hua, Yong Rui, Jinhui Tang, and Hong-Jiang Zhang.
  • President Scholarship of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, 2006.
  • Microsoft Research Fellow (18/Asia), Microsoft Research Asia, 2002.