Alan Hanjalic

Associate Professor
Coordinator of the Delft Multimedia Information Retrieval Lab

Profile

Dr. Alan Hanjalic is an Associate Professor and Coordinator of the Multimedia Information Retrieval Lab at the Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands. He was a visiting scientist at Hewlett-Packard Labs, British Telecom Labs, Philips Research and Microsoft Research Asia.

Research interests of Dr. Hanjalic are in the broad field of multimedia computing, with focus on multimedia information retrieval and personalized multimedia content delivery. He (co-)authored more than 80 publications, among which the books Image and Video Databases: Restoration, Watermarking and Retrieval (Elsevier, 2000) and Content-Based Analysis of Digital Video (Kluwer, 2004).

Dr. Hanjalic was a Keynote Speaker at the Pacific-Rim Conference on Multimedia, Hong-Kong, December 2007, and an invited member and chair of the panels at ACM Multimedia conference (2007), the Picture Coding Symposium (2007) and the ACM Multimedia Information Retrieval conference (2010).

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Professional assignments:

Journal editorial board member

• IEEE Transactions on Multimedia
• IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing
• Elsevier Image and Vision Computing Journal
• Journal of Multimedia
• Advances in Multimedia

Journal special issues (most recent)

• (Lead) Guest Editor, Proceedings of the IEEE, Special Issue on Advances in Multimedia Information Retrieval, April 2008
• Guest Editor, IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, Special Issue on Integration of Content and Context for Multimedia Management, February 2009
• Guest Editor, Journal of Visual Communication and Image Representation, Special Issue on Emerging Techniques for Multimedia Content Sharing, Search and Understanding, February 2009

Conference organization (selected)

• ACM Int. Conference on Multimedia (Program Chair 2007, General Chair 2009)
• ACM Int. Conference on Image and Video Retrieval (Program Chair 2008)
• ACM Int. Conference on Multimedia Retrieval (Program Chair 2011)
• Int. World-Wide Web conference (Track Chair 2008)
• Int. Multimedia Modeling Conference (Area Chair 2007)
• IEEE Int. Conference on Multimedia and Expo (Area Chair 2007)
• IEEE Int. Conference on Image Processing (Track Chair 2010)

Projects

• Project leader, Dutch BSIK MultimediaN project "Video at your Fingertips" (2004-2009), Budget: 2.4 MEuro
• Co-initiator and a member of the coordinating board of the EU FP7 Network of Excellence PetaMedia (2007-2011), Budget: 4 MEuro

A more elaborate CV of Dr. Hanjalic can be found HERE.