Alan Smeaton - Program Committees, Reviews and other Professional Activities
2009
Program Committees, etc.
- Member of the Technical Program Committee of the the 7th International Workshop on Content-Based Multimedia Indexing (CBMI), Chania, Crete, 3-5 June 2009.
- Program Co-Chair of the 15th International MultiMedia Modeling Conference (MMM2009), Sophia Antipolis, France, 7-9 January 2009.
- Member of the Technical Program Committee for the Rich Media Track of the World Wide Web 2009 Conference, Madrid, Spain, April 2009;
- Member of the Technical Program Committee for the 31st European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR 2009), Toulouse, France, April 6-9, 2009;
2008
Program Committees, etc.
- Member of the Technical Program committee for the 9th VAST International Symposium on Virtual Reality, Archaelogy and Cultural Heritage (VAST 2008), Braga, Portugal, December 2-6, 2008;
- Member of the Technical Program Committee for the 3rd International Conference on Semantic and Digital Media Technologies (SAMT), Koblenz, Germany, December 3-5, 2008;
- Member of the Technical Program Committee for the International Conference on Collaborative Computing over Social Networking, Korea University, Seoul, Korea, November 13-14, 2008;
- Member of the Technical Program Committee for the ACM Multimedia 2008 Conference, Vancouver, BC, Canada, October 27 - November 1 2008;
- Member of the Program Committee of the ACM International Conference on Multimedia Information Retrieval 2008 (MIR 2008), Vancouver, BC, Canada, October 2008.
- Member of the Program Committee of the 17th ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM 2008), Napa Valley, California, USA, October 26-30, 2008.
- Member of the Program Commitee of the Fifth International Conference on Visual Information Engineering, VIE'08, Xi'an, China, July 29-August 1, 2008.
- Member of the Program Commitee of the 5th Adaptive Hypermedia and Adaptive Web-Based Systems Conference (AH2008), Hannover, Germany, July 28 - August 1, 2008;
- Member of the Program Commitee of the Workshop on Adaptation for the Social Web in Association with Adaptive Hypermedia 2008, Hannover, Germany, July 29, 2008;
- Member of the Program Committee for the ACM International Conference on Image and Video Retrieval (CIVR), Niagra Falls, Canada, July 7-9, 2008;
- Member of the Program Committee for the 6th Workshop on Adaptive Multimedia Retrieval (AMR 2008), Berlin, Germany, June 26-27, 2008;
- Member of the Program Committee for the Multimedia Systems area of the 28th International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS 2008),
Beijing, China, June 17 - 20, 2008.
- Member of the Program Committee for the Workshop on Collaborative Information Retrieval, at the 8th Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL), Pittsburgh, Pa., USA, June 16-20, 2008;
- Member of the Program Committee of the Rich Media track for the World Wide Web conference, Beijing, China, April 21-25, 2008;
- Member of the Program Committee for the 30th European Conference on Information Retrieval, Glasgow, Scotland, March 30 - April 3, 2008;
- Member of the Technical Program Committee for the Sixth International Workshop on Content-Based Multimedia Indexing (CBMI 2008), London, UK, March 18-20th, 2008;
- Member of the Program Committee for the 28th ACM Symposium on Applied Computing 2008, special track on Information Access and Retrieval (ACM SAC-IAR), Fortaleza, Ceara, Brazil, March 16-20, 2008;
- Member of the Program Committee for the IS&T/SPIE 20th Annual Symposium on Electronic Imaging: Conference on Multimedia Content Access: Algorithms and Systems II, San Jose, Calif., January 27-31, 2008.
Reviewer:
- Reviewer of short paper submissions for the 1st International Conference on Designing Interactive User Experiences for TV and Video (uxTV), Silicon Valley (San Francisco Bay Area), California, USA, October 22-24, 2008.
- Reviewer for the journal Computer Vision and Image Understanding (Elsevier);
- Reviewer for the Journal of the Franklun Institute (Elsevier);
- Reviewer of research proposal for Australian Research Council Discoery Project;
- Reviewer of research proposal for City University of New York;
- Reviewer of research proposal for Swiss National Science Foundation;
- Reviewer of IEEE Transactions on Multimedia;
- Reviewer of ACM Transactions on Information Systems;
- Reviewer of research proposal to Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO);
- Reviewer for Pervasive 2008 Late Breaking Results, Sydney, Australia, May 19-22, 2008;
- Reviewer for IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology;
- Reviewer for IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security (twice);
- Reviewer for the Journal of Information Science;
- Reviewer for book Chapter for "Intelligent Techniques for Warehousing and Mining Sensor Network Data", IGI Global Publishers;
External Examiner:
- Jun Jie Foo, RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia, external examiner for PhD;
Other:
2007
Program Committees, etc.
- Member of the technical program committee for the Conference on
Semantic and Digital Media Technology (SAMT'07) Genova, Italy, 5-7 December 2007;
- Member of the program committee for LIVE and BOEMIE combined SAMT 2007 Workshop on Knowledge Acquisition from Multimedia Content (KAMC), Genova, Italy, 7 December 2007;
- Member of the program committee for the Workshop on Personalized Access to Web Information (PAWI), Nancy, France, in December 3-7, 2007;
- Member of the Scientific Committee for the 8th International Symposium (VAST 2007), part of the 5th EUROGRAPHICS workshop on Graphics and Cultural Heritage
Brighton, November 26-29, 2007;
- Member of the technical program committee for the ACM Multimedia 2007 Conference (Content Track), Augsburg, Germany,
September 23-29, 2007;
- Co-chair / organiser of the TRECVID BBC Rushes Summarization Workshop in conjunction with ACM Multimedia 2007, Augsburg, Germany, 28 September 2007;
- Member of the program committee for the 9th ACM SIGMM International Workshop on
Multimedia Information Retrieval (MIR),
in conjunction with ACM Multimedia 2007 in Augsburg, Germany
September 28-29, 2007;
- Member of the program committee for the Irish Machine Vision and Information Processing Conference (IMVIP), NUI Maynooth, September 5-7, 2007;
- Member of the programme committee for the BCS IRSG Symposium: Future Directions in Information Access,
Glasgow, Scotland, August 28-29, 2007;
- Member of the scientific committee of SSMS 2007, the Second Summer School on Multimedia Semantics Analysis, Annotation, Retrieval and Applications, Glasgow, UK, July 15-21, 2007;
- Member of the technical programe committee of the ACM International Conference on Image and Video Retrieval (CIVR2007), Amsterdam, the Netherlands, July 9-11, 2007;
- Member of the program committee of the 5th International Workshop on Adaptive Multimedia Retrieval (AMR2007), Paris, France, 5-6 July 2007;
- Member of the technical program committee for IEEE International Conference on Multimedia & Expo (ICME'07), Beijing, China, July 2-5, 2007, under the
Multimedia Content Analysis Track;
- Member of the International Steering Committee and the Program Committee for the International Workshop on Multimedia Content Analysis and Mining (MCAM'07), Shandong University, WeiHai, China, June 30-July 1 2007;
- Member of the Program Committee of the Fifth International Workshop on
Content-Based Multimedia Indexing (CBMI'2007), Bordeaux, France, June 25-27 2007;
- Member of the technical program committee for the Eight International Workshop on Image Analysis for Multimedia Interactive Services (WIAMIS), Santorini, Greece, 6-8 June 2007;
- Member of the Program Committee for the 8th Conference on Recherche d'Information Assistee par Ordinateur (RIAO), Pittsburgh, PA, USA, 30 May-1 June, 2007;
- Member of the program committee for the 29th European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR), Rome, 2-5 April, 2007;
- Member of the program committee for the Quatrième conférence francophone en Recherche d'Information et Applications (CORIA 2007), á l'École Nationale Supérieure des Mines de Saint-Étienne, France, 28 au 30 March, 2007;
- Member of the program committee for the ACM SAC 2007 Track on Information Access and Retrieval (ACM SAC-IAR), Seoul, Korea, 11-15 March, 2007;
- Member of the program committee for the International MultiMedia Modeling Conference (MMM) 2007, Singapore, 9-12 January, 2007;
Reviewer:
- Reviewer for International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces, 2008, Canary Islands, Spain, 13-16 January 2008.
- Reviewer for Marine Institute (Ireland) Research proposals;
- Reviewer for papers for the ACM CHI 2008 Conference, Florence, Italy, April 2008;
- Referee for European Research Council evaluation of Stage 2
proposals of the first ERC Starting Grant;
- Member of the International Evaluation Committee for the large-scale Dutch MultimediaN project, funded by the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO);
- Reviewer for ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing Communications and Applications;
- Reviewer for IEEE Transactions on Multimedia;
- Reviewer for project proposals for Australian Research Council discovery projects;
- Reviewer for CONTEXT 2007, the Sixth International Interdisciplinary Conference on Modeling and User Context, Roskilde University, Denmark, 20-24 August 2007;
- Reviewer for Cognitive Processing (Springer);
- Reviewer for Signal Processing: Image Communication (Elsevier);
- Reviewer for IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security;
- Reviewer for Enterprise Ireland Proof of Concept project proposals;
- Research project proposal reviewer for Nederlandse Organisatie voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek (Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research, NWO);
- Research project proposal reviewer for the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF);
- Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the X-Media FP6 Integrated Project (FP6);
- Reviewer for ACM Transactions on Database Systems;
- Reviewer for ACM Transactions on Information Systems;
- Reviewer for IEEE Multimedia Magazine;
- Project reviewer for the EU FP6 integrated project VIKEF (January 2007);
- Reviewer for EURASIP Journal on Image and Video Processing;
External Examiner:
- Matt Mouley Bouamrane, Trinity College Dublin, external examiner for PhD;
Other:
2006
Program Committees, etc.
- Member of the program committee for the 1st International Conference on Semantic and Digital Media Technologies (SAMT 06), Athens, Greece, 7-8 Dec, 2006;
- Member of the program committee for the ACM Multimedia 2006 (Content Track), and member of the best paper selection committee for ACM Multimedia 2006 Conference, Santa Barbara, California, USA, 22-28 October, 2006;
- Member of the Program committee for CASCON 2006: DUBLIN SYMPOSIUM
in association with CASCON 2006 the 16th Annual International
Conference on Computer Science and Software Engineering, October 16-19, 2006.
- Member of the program committee for the International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP2006), Atlanta, Ga., USA, October 8-11, 2006;
- Member of the program committee for the 10th European Conference on Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries (ECDL06), Alicante, Spain, September, 17-22, 2006;
- Member of the best paper and best student paper selection committee for the 10th European Conference on Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries (ECDL06), Alicante, Spain, September, 17-22, 2006;
- Member of the organising commitee of the Summer School on Multimedia Semantics, Analysis, Annotation, Retrieval and Applications, Chalkidiki, Greece, 4-8 September 2006;
- Member of the program committee for the 10th Irish Machine Vision and Image Processing (IMVIP) Conference, Dublin, Ireland, 30 Aug-1 Sept 2006;
- Member of the program committee for the 4th International Workshop on Adaptive Multimedia Retrieval (AMR2006), Geneva, Switzerland, 27-28 July, 2006;
- Member of the program committee for the International Conference on Image and Video Retrieval, Tempe, Arizona, 13-15 July, 2006;
- Member of the program committee and Track Chair for "Multimedia Interfaces and Interactions" for the 7th IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME), Toronto, Canada, 9-12 July 2006;
- Member of the program committee for the 4th International Conference on Adaptive Hypermedia and Adaptive Web-Based Systems (AH 2006) Dublin, Ireland, June 19-23, 2006;
- Member of the program committee for the Symposium on Applied Computing Information Access and Retrieval, Dijon, France, April 23-27 2006;
- Member of the program committee for the 2nd Int'l Workshop on Document Image Analysis for Libraries (DIAL'06), Lyon, France, 27-28 April 2006;
- Member of the program committee for the 10th International Conference on Extending DataBase Technology (EDBT 2006), Munich, Germany, March 27-31, 2006;
- Member of the program committee for the Conférence en Recherche d'Infomations et Applications (CORIA'06), Lyon, France, 15-17 March 2006;
- Member of the program committee for Multimedia Content Analysis, Management and Retrieval (EI121), - Part of the IS&T/SPIE International Symposium on Electronic Imaging, San Jose, Calif., January 2006;
Reviewer:
- Annual Review of Information Science and Technology;
- Research project proposal reviewer for Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC), UK;
- IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence;
- Project reviewer for the EU FP6 integrated project VIKEF (June 2006);
- 14th European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO), Florence, Italy, September 4-8 2006;
- ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing, Communications and Applications (TOMCCAP);
- Enterprise Ireland Commercialisation Fund - Technology Development, evaluation of proposals;
- Springer Multimedia Systems Journal;
- IEEE Transactions on Multimedia (3 times);
- Academic promotions panel, University College Dublin;
- Australian Research Council Discovery Projects;
- Reviewer for Distinguished dissertation for the joint UK Council of Professors and Heads of Computing (CPHC) / British Computer Society (BCS) best British PhD/DPhil dissertation in Computer Science, 2006;
External Examiner:
- Jana Urban, University of Glasgow, Scotland, external examiner for PhD;
- Mika Rautiainen, University of Oulu, Finland, external examiner for PhD;
- Yan Xu, University of Surrey, UK, external examiner for PhD;
- David Lillis, University College Dublin, external examiner for M.Sc. by research;
Other:
- Appointed member of the Editorial Board of the ACM Journal on Computers and Cultural Heritage, 2006-;
- Member of the steering committee of the International Conference on Semantic and Digital Media Technologies formerly the European Workshop on the Integration of Knowledge, Semantic and Digital Media Technologies;
- Invited Lecturer at the joint K-Space-aceMedia Summer School on Multimedia Semantics - Analysis, Annotation, Retrieval and Applications (SSMS'06), Chalkidiki, Greece, 4-8 September 2006;
- Invited Lecturer at the joint DELOS-MUSCLE Summer School on "Multimedia digital libraries: Machine learning and cross-modal technologies for access and retrieval",
San Vincenzo, Italy, 12 to 17 June 2006;
- Invited member of scientific advisory committee to the Frontiers of Engineering and Science Directorate, Science Foundation Ireland, April 2006-;
2005
Program Committees:
- Member of the program committee for the Second European Workshop on the Integration of Knowledge, Semantic and Digital Media Technologies, EWIMT 2005, 29 November/December, 2005, London, UK;
- Member of the program committee for ACM Multimedia 2005 (Content Track and Short Papers Track), November, Singapore;
- Member of the program committee for the Multimedia Information Retrieval Workshop in conjunction with the ACM Multimedia Conference, November 2005, Singapore.
- Member of the program committee for the Fourteenth ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM), 31th October - 5th November, 2005, Bremen, Germany;
- General chair and host of the 5th European Summer School in Information Retrieval, ESSIR2005, Dublin, September 2005;
- Co-chair of the program committee for the International Conference and Multimedia Expo (ICME2005), Amsterdam, July 2005;
- Member of the program committee for the ICML Workshop on Learning in Web Search, Bonn, Germany, August 2005;
- Member of the program committee for the Third International Workshop on Adaptive Multimedia Retrieval, AMR2005, Glasgow, July 2005.
- Member of the program committee for the Workshop on New Technologies for Personalized Information Access at User Modeling 2005, Edinburgh, July 2005;
- Member of the program committee, (Area Coordinator), chair of the best paper awards committee and member of the workshops selection committee for ACM SIGIR 2005, Salvador, Brazil, July 2005;
- Member of the program committee of the Fourth International Workshop on Content Based Multimedia Indexing, CBMI 2005, Riga, Latvia, June 2005;
- Member of the program committee for CoLIS 5, Glasgow, June 2005;
- Member of the program committee for the ACM SAC Workshop on Information Access and Retrieval, (ACM SAC/IAR), New Mexico, March 2005;
- Member of the program committee for the 27th European Conference on Information Retrieval, ECIR 2005, Santiago de Compostela, Spain, March 2005;
- Member of the program committe for the Conférence en Recherche d'Informations et Applications (CORIA) 2005, Grenoble, France, March 2005;
- Member of the program committee for ACM SAC-IAR 2005, March 13-17, Santa Fe, New Mexico;
- Member of the program committee for the IS&T/SPIE Symposium on Electronic Imaging Storage and Retrieval Methods and Applications for Multimedia Conference 2005 (EI121), San Jose, Calif., January 2005;
Reviewer:
- Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, January 4-7, 2006;
- ACM Multimedia Systems Journal;
- Research project proposal reviewer for the Austrian Science Fund (Fonds zur Forderung der wissenschaftlichen Forschung, FWF);
- Research project proposal reviewer for the Australian Research Council, Discovery projects/Linkage projects;
- Reviewer for the Schweizerischer Nationalfonds zur Förderung der Wissenschaftlichen Forschung (Switzerland);
- Pattern Recognition Letters (Elsevier);
- IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence;
- ACM Transactions on Infomration Systems;
- Reviewer for the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) CATCH research programme;
- Project reviewer for the EU FP6 integrated project VIKEF (March 2005, May 2005);
- Enterprise Ireland Commercialisation Fund - Technology Development, evaluation of proposals;
- The Nuffield Foundation, applications for research funding;
- Information Systems (Elsevier) Journal;
PhD theses External Examiner:
- Mohammad Belkhatir, Universite Joseph Fourier, Grenoble, France;
- Trystan Upstill, Australian National University;
- Martin Robinson, University of Ulster, Jordanstown, Northern Ireland;
Other:
2004
Program Committees:
- Member of the program committee for the European Workshop on the Integration of Knowledge, Semantics and Digital Media Technology, London, November 2004;
- Member of the program committee for SPIRE 2004 - 11th Symposium on String Processing and Information Retrieval, Padova, October 2004;
- Member of the program committee of the IEEE International Conference on Image Processing, (ICIP2004), Singapore, October 2004;
- Member of the program committee for MIR2004 - 6th ACM SIGMM International Workshop on Multimedia Information Retrieval, New York, October 2004;
- Member of the Technical Program Committee for the 12th ACM Multimedia Conference, (MM2004), New York, October 2004;
- Member of the program committee for the 8th European Conference on Digital Libraries (ECDL 2004), Bath, UK, September 2004;
- Member of the selection committee for ECDL2004 best paper awards;
- Member of the program committee for 2nd International Workshop on Adaptive Multimedia Retrieval (AMR 2004), Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, Spain, August 2004;
- Member of the program committee for the 3rd International Conference on Adaptive Hypermedia and Adaptive Web-Based Systems, (AH'2004), Eindhoven, The Netherlands, August 2004;
- Member of the program committee for the ACM SIGIR Conference, Sheffield, UK, July 2004;
- General chair, host, and member of the program committee of the 4th International Conference on Image and Video Retrieval, CIVR 2004, July 2004;
- Workshops Co-chair for the Human Language Technology Conference / North American chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics annual meeting (HLT/NNACL), Boston, May 2004;
- Member of the program committe for the RIAO'2004 Conference University of Avignon (Vaucluse), France, April, 2004;
- Member of the program committee for the 26th European Conference on Information Retrieval, ECIR 2004, Sunderland, UK, April 2004;
- Member of the program committee for the International Workshop on
Document Image Analysis for Libraries, DIAL'2004, Palo Alto, Calif., January 2004;
Reviewer:
- Journal of Systems and Software;
- IEEE Transactions on Multimedia;
- IEEE Multimedia;
- EURASIP JASP Journal;
- Journal of the American Society for Information Science and technology (JASIST) - twice;
- International Journal on Document Analysis and Recognition (IJDAR);
- Reviewer of papers submitted to CHI2004 Conference;
- Reviewer of papers submitted to ACM SAC/IAR workshop, Cyprus, 2004;
- Journal of Digital Information;
- Science Foundation Ireland ICT Advisory Board member;
- Science Foundation Ireland E.T.S. Walton Visiting Scientist research proposals reviewer;
- National Science Foundation, USA, Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) research proposals;
- EPSRC (UK), Overseas Travel Grants proposal reviewer;
- Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) - ToKeN research program proposal reviewer;
- University of Tampere Research Evaluation Panel;
- European Young Investigator Award Scheme (EURYI) proposal reviewer;
- University Grants Committee of Hong Kong research proposals reviewer;
- Arts and Humanities Research Board (UK) Project reviewer;
- Enterprise Ireland Commercialisation Fund - Technology Development research project proposal evaluator;
- Enterprise Ireland Proof of Concept research project proposal evaluator;
PhD theses External Examiner:
- Jonathan Dukes, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland;
- Thijs Westerveld, University of Twente, The Netherlands;
- Markus Pickering, University of London, UK;
2003
Program Committees:
- Member of the program committee for the 6th International Conference on Asian Digital Libraries (ICADL 2003), Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, December 2003;
- Member of the program committee for the 5th ACM SIGMM International Workshop on Multimedia Information Retrieval, MIR 2003, Berkeley, Calif., November 2003;
- Member of the Associate Program Committee for the 11th ACM Multimedia Conference, (MM2003), Berkeley, Calif., November 2003;
- Member of the program committee for First International Workshop on Adaptive Multimedia Retrieval (AMR 2003), Hamburg, Germany, September 2004;
- Member of the program committee for the 4th European Summer School in Information Retrieval (ESSIR 2003), Aussois, France, September 2003;
- Member of the program committee for the 7th European Conference on Digital Libraries, (ECDL 2003), Trondheim, Norway, August 2003;
- Program committee co-chair for the ACM SIGIR Conference, Toronto, Canada, July 2003;
- Member of the program committee for the 3rd International Conference on Image and Video Retrieval, (CIVR2003), Urbana-Champaign, Ill., July 2003;
- Member of the program committee for the 5th DELOS Workshop on Multimedia Contents in Digital Libraries, Crete, Greece, June 2003;
- Member of the program committee for the 25th European Conference on Information Retrieval, (ECIR2003), Pisa, Italy, April 2003;
Reviewer:
- IEEE Transactions on Multimedia;
- Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology;
- The Computer Journal;
- IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology;
- Ingenierie des Systems d'Information (ISI) (France);
- Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) research project proposal reviewer;
- Irish Research Council for Science Engineering and Humanities (IRCSET) EMBARK Postgraduate Scholarships proposal reviewer;
- Arts and Humanities Research Board (UK) research project proposal reviewer;
- Enterprise Ireland Basic Research Grant Scheme research project proposal reviewer;
- Enterprise Ireland Commercialisation Fund Technology Development research project proposal reviewer;
- Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (UK) research project proposal reviewer;
- Australian Research Council research project proposal reviewer;
- University Grants Committee of Hong Kong research project proposal reviewer;
- Project reviewer for the EU FP5 project MIND (Luxembourg, Feb 2003);
- Project reviewer for the EU FP5 project ARION (Luxembourg, Feb 2003);
- Project reviewer for the EU FP5 project OAF (University of Bath, September 2003);
- Appointed reviewer of book proposals from Wiley and Co.
PhD theses External Examiner:
- Robert Villa, University of Glasgow;
- Philippe Mulhem, Habilitation a Diriger de Recherche, Université Josef Fourier, Grenoble, France;
pre-2003 ...
This record only goes back to the start of 2003 !