Research Interests



At Royal Delft Factory near campus

Martha Larson
m.a.(lastname)@tudelft.nl
Multimedia Information Retrieval Lab
Delft University of Technology
Mekelweg 4, 2628 CD Delft
Netherlands
HB 11.070
+31(0)15 278 5812

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


Mercan Topkara and I are the Innovation and Demo Chairs of ICME 2011 (9-13 July in Melbourne, Australia). We are organizing a "Time Machine Session" for Expert Talks on Innovating the Future by Leveraging the Past.Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre


Recent Events

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.