Organizing Committee

General Co-Chairs

• Wen Gao (Peking Univesity, China)
• Yong Rui (Microsoft, China)
• Alan Hanjalic (Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands)

Program Coordinator

• Qi Tian (Microsoft Research Asia)

Program Co-Chairs

• Content: Changsheng Xu (Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China)
• Systems: Eckehard Steinbach (Technische Universitaet Muenchen, Germany)
• Applications: Abdulmotaleb El Saddik (University of Ottawa, Canada)
• Human-centered Multimedia: Michelle Zhou (IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, US)

Short Paper Co-Chairs

• Content: Marcel Worring (University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
• Systems: Baochun Li (University of Toronto, Canada)
• Applications: Berna Erol (RICOH Corp., USA)
• Human-centered Multimedia: Daniel Gatica-Perez (IDIAP Research Institute, Switzerland)

Tutorial Co-Chairs

• Svetha Venkatesh (Curtin University of Technology, Australia)
• Shin'ichi Satoh (National Institute of Informatics, Japan)

Panel Co-Chairs

• Ramesh Jain (University of California at Irvine, USA)
• Chang Wen Chen (State University of New York at Buffalo, USA)

Workshops Co-Chairs

• Ed Chang (Google Corp., USA)
• Kiyoharu Aizawa (University of Tokyo, Japan)

Brave New Ideas Co-Chairs

• Mohan Kankanhalli (National University of Singapore, Singapore)
• Dick Bulterman (Centrum voor Wiskunde en Informatica, Germany)

Multimedia Grand Challenge Co-Chairs

• Tat-Seng Chua (National University of Singapore, Singapore)
• Mor Naaman (Rutgers University, USA)

Open Source Competition Chair

• Apostol Natsev (IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center, USA)

Interactive Art Program Co-Chairs

• Frank Nack (University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
• Yingqing Xu (Microsoft Research Asia, China)
• Andruid Kerne (TAMU)

Video Program Co-Chairs

• Hari Sundaram (Arizona State University, USA)
• Jie Yang (Carnegie Mellon University, USA)

Demonstrations Co-Chairs

• Oscar Au (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hongkong, China)
• Xian-Sheng Hua (Microsoft Research Asia, China)

Doctoral Symposium Co-Chairs

• Rainer Lienhart (University of Augsburg, Germany)
• Benoit Huet (EURECOM, France)

Publicity Co-Chairs

• Wei-Ying Ma (Microsoft Research Asia, China)
• Chitra Dorai (IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center, USA)
• Susanne Boll (University of Oldenburg, Germany)

Proceedings Co-Chairs

• Yuanchun Shi (Tsinghua University, China)
• Timothy Shih (National Taipei Univeresity of Education, China)

Preservation Chair

• Qingming Huang (Graduate University, Chinese Academy of Sciences,China)

Sponsoring Co-Chairs

• Huifang Sun (MERL Research, USA)
• Shiqiang Yang (Tsinghua University, China)

Finance Chair

• Tiejun Huang (Peking University, China)

Registration Co-Chairs

• Hanqing Lu (Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China)
• Xiaowu Chen (Beihang University, China)

Local Arrangement Co-Chairs

• Xilin Chen (Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China)
• Hongbin Zha (Peking University, China)

Web Chair

• Yonghong Tian (Peking University, China)

SIG MM Chair

• Klara Nahrstedt (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA)

SIG MM Director of Conferences

• Nevenka Dimitrova (Philips Research, USA)

Conference Secretary

• Tracy Liu (Peking University, China)

Technical Program Committee