Multimedia Information Extraction : Advances in Video, Audio, and Imagery Analysis for Search, Data Mining, Surveillance and Authoring

This collection is intended to serve several purposes, including reporting the current state of the art, stimulating novel research, and encouraging cross-fertilization of distinct research disciplines. The collection and integration of a common base of intellectual material will provide an invaluable service from which to teach a future generation of cross disciplinary media scientists and engineers. 

MARK T. MAYBURY, PhD, is an Executive Director at MITRE, a federally funded research and development center. In 2010, Dr. Maybury took a leave of absence from MITRE when appointed to the role of Chief Scientist of the United States Air Force. He is a former member of the board of directors of the Object Management Group and the Air Force Scientific Advisory Board. An IEEE Fellow, Dr. Maybury is a member of the ACM Intelligent User Interface Steering Committee and has served on the Advanced Visual Interfaces Program Committee for over ten years. He holds several patents and has edited, coedited, or coauthored a number of books on information retrieval and related topics.