Multimodal Data Fusion
Computer Vision and Multimedia Lab, University of Geneva (Switzerland)

Stéphane Marchand-Maillet has founded and is heading the Viper group (http://viper.unige.ch) in the Department of Computer Science at University of Geneva. His research is directed towards multimodal information retrieval with emphasis on Multimodal Content Abstraction, ie attaching semantic information to heterogeneous multimedia documents at cheapest cost. In particular, he is interested in all aspects related to multimodal information fusion, mining and retrieval and smooth acquisition of knowledge by enhancing user or group interaction. He has recently been appointed as Chair of the Technical Committee 12 of the International Association for Pattern Recognition (IAPR-TC12, "Multimedia and Visual Information Systems", http://www.iapr-tc12.org). He was the general co-chair of the ACM International Conference on Image and Video Retrieval (ACM-CIVR 2009, http://www.civr2009.org). He is also the general co-chair of the International Conference of the ACM-SIG on Information Retrieval in 2010 (ACM-SIGIR 2010, http://www.sigir2010.org).

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