Martha Larson

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My research focuses on search engines and systems for retrieval and recommendation that provide users with intelligent access to multimedia content. I work in the Delft Multimedia Information Retrieval Lab.

My expertise lies in speech and language technologies and how meaning is expressed and interpreted by humans. Much of my research has concentrated on methods for automatically structuring audio and for indexing audio using speech recognition techniques. Recently, my work has focused increasingly on multimedia in social networks and on human computation, including crowdsourcing.

2013 Program Commitees

MMM 2013, Huangshan, China
ACM MMSys 2013, Oslo, Norway
ACM ICMR 2013, Dallas, Texas
ACM SIGIR 2013, Dublin, Ireland
AAM Workshop 2013, San Jose, CA
SoHuman 2013, Paris, France
IEEE ICME 2013, San Jose, CA
SLAM 2013, Marseille, France
Interpeech 2013, Lyon, France
ACM Multimedia 2013, Barcelona

Delft University of Technology

Research Group:
Delft Multimedia Information Retrieval Lab

Department:
Department of Intelligent Systems

Faculty:
Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science

Martha Larson m.a.(lastname)@tudelft.nl Multimedia Information Retrieval Lab Delft University of Technology Mekelweg 4, 2628 CD Delft Netherlands HB 11.040 +31(0)15 278 7357

Current activities

MediaEval is a multimedia retrieval benchmark evaluation focusing on speech, language and context. Participation is open to any group that wishes to sign-up.

CrowdMM 2013 Kuan-Ta Chen, Wei-Ta Chu and myself are organizing the second ACM Multimedia Workshop on Crowdsourcing for Multimedia.

Martha Larson and Gareth J. F. Jones (2012) "Spoken Content Retrieval: A Survey of Techniques and Technologies", Foundations and Trends in Information Retrieval: Vol. 5: No 4-5, pp 235-422. download .pdf

ACM Transactions on Information Systems Special Issue on Searching Speech together with Franciska de Jong, Wessel Kraaij and Steve Renals.

Mercan Topkara and I were the Demo Chairs of ICME 2012 (9-13 July in Melbourne, Australia). We organized a "Time Machine Session" for Expert Talks on Innovating the Future by Leveraging the Past. See also videolectures.net.

Recent Events

CrowdMM 2012 Kuan-Ta Chen, Wei-Ta Chu, Wei Tsang Ooi and myself organized a workshop on Crowdsourcing for Multimedia at ACM Multimedia 2012.

GeoMM 2012 I also had the privilege of being involved with Gerald Frieland and Lianglinag Cao in ACM international workshop on geotagging and its applications in multimedia ACM Multimedia 2012.

Multimedia Search Tutorial Alan Hanjalic and I gave a tutorial on Frontiers in Multimedia Search at ACM Multimedia 2011 [tutuorial slides 6.3M]

MediaEval Special Session A special session entitled "Automatic Tagging and Geotagging in Video Collections and Communities" was organized by Mohammad Soleymani, Pavel Serdyukov and myself at the ACM International Conference on Information Retrieval, Trento, Italy, 17-20 April 2011.

ACM Multimedia Fourth Workshop of Searching Spontaneous Conversational Speech (SSCS 2010) Thanks to everyone for making this a great event.

A special session entitled "Multimedia Retrieval in Networked Communities", was organized by Naeem Ramzan, Frederic Dufaux, Kai Cluver and myself, was held at 11th ACM SIGMM International Conference on Multimedia Information Retrieval, Philadelphia, PA, 29-31 March 2010.

The Journal of Digital Information special issue on Information Access to Cultural Heritage guest edited by Johan Oomen, Kate Fernie and myself appeared in December 2009.