Mike Christel's Publications

Journal, Conference, and Workshop Papers

ACM DL Author-ize servicePhysics pathway: a digital library filled with synthetic interviews
Michael G. Christel, Scott M. Stevens, Dean Zollman
JCDL '11 Proceeding of the 11th annual international ACM/IEEE joint conference on Digital libraries, 2011

ACM DL Author-ize serviceEnhanced exploration of oral history archives through processed video and synchronized text transcripts
Michael G. Christel, Scott M. Stevens, Bryan S. Maher, Julieanna Richardson
MM '10 Proceedings of the international conference on Multimedia, 

Christel, M., Stevens, S., Li, H., Zollman, D., and Adrian, B. High School Physics Pathway: Teachers Helping Teachers through Synthetic Interviews. Proc. IEEE International Conf. on Multimedia and Expo (New York, NY, June-July 2009), pp. 954-957. DOI: 10.1109/ICME.2009.5202654

ACM DL Author-ize serviceExploring the utility of fast-forward surrogates for bbc rushes
Michael G. Christel, Alexander G. Hauptmann, Wei-Hao Lin, Ming-Yu Chen, Jun Yang, Bryan Maher, Robert V. Baron
TVS '08 Proceedings of the 2nd ACM TRECVid Video Summarization Workshop, 2008

ACM DL Author-ize serviceSupporting video library exploratory search: when storyboards are not enough
Michael G. Christel
CIVR '08 Proceedings of the 2008 international conference on Content-based image and video retrieval, 2008
(0.3 MB PowerPoint slide set shown at conference)

ACM DL Author-ize serviceEvaluating audio skimming and frame rate acceleration for summarizing BBC rushes
Michael G. Christel, Wei-Hao Lin, Bryan Maher
CIVR '08 Proceedings of the 2008 international conference on Content-based image and video retrieval, 2008
(0.7 MB PowerPoint slide set shown at conference)

ACM DL Author-ize serviceEvaluating the contributions of video representation for a life oral history collection
Michael G. Christel, Michael H. Frisch
JCDL '08 Proceedings of the 8th ACM/IEEE-CS joint conference on Digital libraries, 2008
(1.7 MB PowerPoint slide set shown at conference)

Hauptmann, A., Christel, M., and Yan, R. (DOI link to journal article) Video Retrieval based on Semantic Concepts. Proceedings of the IEEE 96(4): 602-622 (April 2008). DOI: 10.1109/JPROC.2008.916355

ACM DL Author-ize serviceEstablishing the utility of non-text search for news video retrieval with real world users
Michael G. Christel
MULTIMEDIA '07 Proceedings of the 15th international conference on Multimedia, 2007

ACM DL Author-ize serviceClever clustering vs. simple speed-up for summarizing rushes
Alexander G. Hauptmann, Michael G. Christel, Wei-Hao Lin, Bryan Maher, Jun Yang, Robert V. Baron, Guang Xiang
TVS '07 Proceedings of the international workshop on TRECVID video summarization, 2007

Christel, M., and Hauptmann, A. Exploring Concept Selection Strategies for Interactive Video Search. Proc. First IEEE International Conference on Semantic Computing (ICSC'07) (Irvine CA, Sept. 2007), pp. 344-354. DOI: 10.1109/ICOSC.2007.4338368

Hauptmann, A., Chen, M.-Y. Christel, M., Lin, W-H., and Yang, J. A Hybrid Approach to Improving Semantic Extraction of News Video. Proc. First IEEE International Conference on Semantic Computing (ICSC'07) (Irvine CA, Sept. 2007), pp. 79-86. DOI: 10.1109/ICOSC.2007.4338335

Hauptmann, A., Yan, R., Lin, W-H., Christel, M., and Wactlar, H. (DOI link to journal article) Can High-Level Concepts Fill the Semantic Gap in Video Retrieval? IEEE Trans. Multimedia 9(5): 958-966 (Aug. 2007). DOI: 10.1109/TMM.2007.900150

ACM DL Author-ize serviceMerging storyboard strategies and automatic retrieval for improving interactive video search
Michael G. Christel, Rong Yan
CIVR '07 Proceedings of the 6th ACM international conference on Image and video retrieval, 2007

Christel, M. Examining User Interactions with Video Retrieval Systems. Proc. of SPIE Vol. 6506 Multimedia Content Access: Algorithms and Systems (San Jose, CA, Feb. 2007). DOI: 10.1117/12.713383

ACM DL Author-ize serviceAutomatic collection, analysis, access, and archiving of individual and group psycho-social behavior
Scott Stevens, Ashok Bharucha, Michael Christel, Alexander Hauptmann, Howard Wactlar, Datong Chen
CARPE '06 Proceedings of the 3rd ACM workshop on Continuous archival and retrival of personal experences, 2006

Christel, M., and Conescu, R. Mining Novice User Activity with TRECVID Interactive Retrieval Tasks. LNCS 4071, Proc. International Conference on Image and Video Retrieval (CIVR) (Tempe, AZ, July 2006), pp. 21-30.

ACM DL Author-ize serviceFacilitating access to large digital oral history archives through informedia technologies
Michael G. Christel, Julieanna Richardson, Howard D. Wactlar
JCDL '06 Proceedings of the 6th ACM/IEEE-CS joint conference on Digital libraries, 2006

ACM DL Author-ize serviceWindowing time in digital libraries
Michael G. Christel
JCDL '06 Proceedings of the 6th ACM/IEEE-CS joint conference on Digital libraries, 2006

Christel, M. Evaluation and User Studies with Respect to Video Summarization and Browsing. Multimedia Content Analysis, Management and Retrieval 2006, Proceedings of IS&T/SPIE Symposium on Electronic Imaging Vol. 6073 (San Jose, CA, January 2006). (7 MB PowerPoint slide set shown at conference)

ACM DL Author-ize servicePutting active learning into multimedia applications: dynamic definition and refinement of concept classifiers
Ming-yu Chen, Michael Christel, Alexander Hauptmann, Howard Wactlar
MULTIMEDIA '05 Proceedings of the 13th annual ACM international conference on Multimedia, 2005

Christel, M., and Hauptmann, A. The Use and Utility of High-Level Semantic Features. LNCS 3568, Proc. International Conference on Image and Video Retrieval (CIVR) (Singapore, July 2005), pp. 134-144.

ACM DL Author-ize serviceAddressing the challenge of visual information access from digital image and video libraries
Michael G. Christel, Ronald M. Conescu
JCDL '05 Proceedings of the 5th ACM/IEEE-CS joint conference on Digital libraries, 2005

ACM DL Author-ize serviceFinding the right shots: assessing usability and performance of a digital video library interface
Michael Christel, Neema Moraveji
MULTIMEDIA '04 Proceedings of the 12th annual ACM international conference on Multimedia, 2004

ACM DL Author-ize serviceSuccessful approaches in the TREC video retrieval evaluations
Alexander G. Hauptmann, Michael G. Christel
MULTIMEDIA '04 Proceedings of the 12th annual ACM international conference on Multimedia, 2004

ACM DL Author-ize serviceEvaluating content-based filters for image and video retrieval
Michael G. Christel, Neema Moraveji, Chang Huang
SIGIR '04 Proceedings of the 27th annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval, 2004

Christel, M., Huang, C., Moraveji, N., and Papernick, N. Exploiting Multiple Modalities for Interactive Video Retrieval. Proc. IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP) (Montreal, Canada, May 2004), Vol. III, pp. 1032-1035.

Derthick, M., Christel, M., Hauptmann, A., and Wactlar, H. Constant Density Displays Using Diversity Sampling. Proceedings of the IEEE Symposium on Information Visualization (InfoVis 2003) (Seattle, WA, October 2003), pp. 137-144.

Christel, M.G., and Huang, C. Enhanced Access to Digital Video through Visually Rich Interfaces. Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME) (Baltimore, MD, July 2003), pp. III-21 - III-24.

ACM DL Author-ize serviceCollages as dynamic summaries for news video
Michael G. Christel, Alexander G. Hauptmann, Howard D. Wactlar, Tobun D. Ng
MULTIMEDIA '02 Proceedings of the tenth ACM international conference on Multimedia, 2002

ACM DL Author-ize serviceSVG for navigating digital news video
Michael G. Christel, Chang Huang
MULTIMEDIA '01 Proceedings of the ninth ACM international conference on Multimedia, 2001

ACM DL Author-ize serviceXSLT for tailored access to a digtal video library
Michael G. Christel, Bryan Maher, Andrew Begun
JCDL '01 Proceedings of the 1st ACM/IEEE-CS joint conference on Digital libraries, 2001

Christel, M.G. and Warmack, A.S. The Effect of Text in Storyboards for Video Navigation. Proc. IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP) (Salt Lake City, UT, May 2001), Vol. III, pp. 1409-1412 (slides).

Christel, M.G., Olligschlaeger, A.M, and Huang, C. Interactive Maps for a Digital Video Library. IEEE MultiMedia 7(1): 60-67 (2000).

ACM DL Author-ize serviceComplementary video and audio analysis for broadcast news archives
Howard D. Wactlar, Alexander G. Hauptmann, Michael G. Christel, Ricky A. Houghton, Andreas M. Olligschlaeger
Communications of the ACM, 2000

ACM DL Author-ize serviceVisual digests for news video libraries
Michael G. Christel
MULTIMEDIA '99 Proceedings of the seventh ACM international conference on Multimedia (Part 1), 1999

Christel, M.G., and Olligschlaeger, A.M. Interactive Maps for a Digital Video Library. Proceedings of the IEEE International Conf. on Multimedia Computing and Systems , D. Martin, ed. (Florence, Italy, June 1999), pp. 381-387. (Slide show for conference presentation)

Christel, M.G., Hauptmann, A.G., Warmack, A.S., and Crosby, S.A. Adjustable Filmstrips and Skims as Abstractions for a Digital Video Library. Proceedings of the IEEE Advances in Digital Libraries Conference (Baltimore, MD, May 1999), pp. 98-104.

Wactlar, H.D., Christel, M.G., Gong, Y., and Hauptmann, A.G. Lessons Learned from the Creation and Deployment of a Terabyte Digital Video Library, IEEE Computer 32(2): 66-73 (1999).

Christel, M. and Martin, D. Information Visualization within a Digital Video Library. Journal of Intelligent Information Systems 11(3): 235-257 (1998). (Preliminary version in Adobe PDF) (Figures in paper as color JPEG images)

Christel, M.G., Smith, M.A., Taylor, C.R, and Winkler, D.B. Evolving Video Skims into Useful Multimedia Abstractions. Proceedings of the CHI '98 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, C. Karat, A. Lund, J. Coutaz and J. Karat, eds. (Los Angeles, CA, April 1998), pp. 171 - 178. (Adobe PDF version) (html version)

Christel, M.G., Winkler, D.B., and Taylor, C.R. Multimedia Abstractions for a Digital Video Library. Proceedings of the 2nd ACM International Conference on Digital Libraries, R. Allen and E. Rasmussen, eds. (Philadelphia, PA, July 1997), pp. 21-29.

Christel, M.G., Winkler, D.B., and Taylor, C.R. Improving Access to a Digital Video Library. Human-Computer Interaction INTERACT '97: IFIP TC13 International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, 14th-18th July 1997, Sydney, Australia, S. Howard, J. Hammond and G. Lindgaard, eds. London: Chapman and Hall, 1997, pp. 524-531.

Hauptmann, A.G., Witbrock, M.J., and Christel, M.G. Artificial Intelligence Techniques in the Interface to a Digital Video Library. Extended Abstracts of the CHI '97 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, S. Pemberton, ed. (Atlanta, GA, March 1997), pp. 2-3.

ACM DL Author-ize serviceAutomating the creation of a digital video library
Michael A. Smith, Michael G. Christel
MULTIMEDIA '95 Proceedings of the third ACM international conference on Multimedia, 1995

ACM DL Author-ize serviceInformedia Digital Video Library
M. Christel, T. Kanade, M. Mauldin, R. Reddy, M. Sirbu, S. Stevens, H. Wactlar
Communications of the ACM, 1995

Christel, M. The Role of Visual Fidelity in Computer-Based Instruction. Human-Computer Interaction, 9:183-223 (1994).

ACM DL Author-ize serviceInformedia digital video library
Michael Christel, Scott Stevens, Howard Wactlar
MULTIMEDIA '94 Proceedings of the second ACM international conference on Multimedia, 1994

Wood, D., Christel, M., and Stevens, S. A Multimedia Approach to Requirements Capture and Modeling. Proceedings of the First International Conference on Requirements Engineering. (Colorado Springs, CO, April 1994), pp. 53-56.

Christel, M., Wood, D., and Stevens, S. Applying Multimedia Technology to Requirements Engineering. Proceedings of the Sixth Annual Software Technology Conference. Salt Lake City, UT: Software Technology Support Center, April, 1994 (CD-ROM proceedings).

Little, T.D.C., Christel, M., Gibbs, S., Breiteneder, C., and De Mey, V. Novel Applications of Multimedia. IEEE Multimedia, 1(1):82-83 (1994).

Christel, M., Wood, D., and Stevens, S. AMORE: The Advanced Multimedia Organizer for Requirements Elicitation. Software Engineering Institute Technical Report CMU/SEI-93-TR-12. Pittsburgh, PA: Carnegie Mellon University, June, 1993.

Christel, M. Experiences with an Interactive Video Code Inspection Laboratory. Lecture Notes in Computer Science 640: Software Engineering Education SEI Conference Proceedings, C. Sledge, ed. Berlin: Springer-Verlag, October, 1992, pp. 395-411.

Christel, M. and Kang, K. Issues in Requirements Elicitation. Software Engineering Institute Technical Report CMU/SEI-92-TR-12. Pittsburgh, PA: Carnegie Mellon University, September, 1992.

Christel, M. Virtual Reality on a PC. Instruction Delivery Systems, 6(4):6-9 (1992).

Christel, M. and Stevens, S. Rule Base and Digital Video Technologies Applied to Training Simulations. Software Engineering Institute Technical Review '92. Pittsburgh, PA: Software Engineering Institute, 1992. PDF version.

Stevens, S. and Christel, M. Embedding Knowledge in Continuous Time Media. Proceedings of the 1991 Continuous Time Media Workshop. Pittsburgh, PA: Information Technology Center, Carnegie Mellon University, June, 1991.

Christel, M. A Digital Video Interactive Course on Code Inspections. Proceedings of the Eighth Annual Conference on Technology and Innovations in Training and Education. Colorado Springs, CO: American Defense Preparedness Association, March, 1990, pp. 303-313.

Stevens, S., Christel, M., and Chiswell, J. Advanced Learning Technologies. Proceedings of the Third Annual Ada Software Engineering Education and Training Symposium. Denver, CO: Ada Information Clearinghouse, June, 1988.

Book/Encyclopedia Chapters

Christel, M.G. Automated Metadata in Multimedia Information Systems: Creation, Refinement, Use in Surrogates, and Evaluation. San Rafael, CA: Morgan and Claypool Publishers, 2009. DOI: 10.2200/S00167ED1V01Y200812ICR002

Christel, M.G. Amplifying Video Information-Seeking Success through Rich, Exploratory Interfaces. New Directions in Intelligent Interactive Multimedia, G.A. Tsihrintzis, M. Virvou, R.J. Howlett and L.C. Jain, Eds. Berlin: Springer-Verlag, 2008, pp. 21-30.

Hauptmann, A., Yan, R., Lin, W.-H., Christel, M., and Wactlar, H. Filling the Semantic Gap in Video Retrieval: An Exploration. Semantic Multimedia and Ontologies, Y. Kompatsiaris and P. Hobson, Eds. Berlin: Springer, 2008, pp. 253-278. DOI: 10.1007/978-1-84800-076-6_10

Christel, M.G. Accessing News Libraries through Dynamic Information Extraction, Summarization, and Visualization. Visual Interfaces to Digital Libraries LNCS 2539, K. Börner and C. Chen, Eds. Berlin: Springer-Verlag, 2002, pp. 98-115. LNCS 2539, © Springer-Verlag, and others in the LNCS series are available through the publisher.

Christel, M.G. Visual Fidelity: Designing Multimedia Interfaces for Active Learning. Encyclopedia of Microcomputers, Volume 20, Allen Kent and James G. Williams, Exec. Eds. New York: Marcel Dekker, Inc., 1997, pp. 1-13.

Christel, M., Stevens, S., Kanade, T., Mauldin, M., Reddy, R., and Wactlar, H. Techniques for the Creation and Exploration of Digital Video Libraries. Chapter 8 of Multimedia Tools and Applications, B. Furht, ed. Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1996.

Electronic Publications

Christel, M., Naphade, M.R., Natsev, A., and Tesic, J. Assessing the Filtering and Browsing Utility of Automatic Semantic Concepts for Multimedia Retrieval. Int'l Workshop on Semantic Learning Applications in Multimedia (SLAM) Workshop, in assoc. with CVPR 2006 (New York, NY, June 2006). See also the SLAM 2006 web page.

ACM DL Author-ize serviceInformedia Experience-on-Demand: capturing, integrating and communicating experiences across people, time and space
Howard D. Wactlar, Michael G. Christel, Alexander G. Hauptmann, Yihong Gong
ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR), 1999

Christel, M.G., and Pendyala, K. Informedia Goes to School: Early Findings from the Digital Video Library Project. D-Lib Magazine, September, 1996.

Christel, M.G. Addressing the Contents of Video in a Digital Library. Electronic Proceedings of the ACM Workshop on Effective Abstractions in Multimedia: Layout, Presentation, and Interaction, November, 1995.

Hauptmann, A.G., Witbrock, M.J., and Christel, M.G. News-on-Demand: an Application of Informedia Technology. D-Lib Magazine, September, 1995.

Recent Conference Demonstrations and Posters

Christel, M., Maher, B., and Richardson, J. An Interactive Flash Website for Oral Histories. Proc. ACM/IEEE-CS Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (Ottawa, Canada, June 2011)

ACM DL Author-ize serviceAccessing the densho and historymakers oral history collections via informedia technologies
Michael G. Christel, Robert V. Baron, Geoff Froh, Dan Benson, Julieanna Richardson
JCDL '09 Proceedings of the 9th ACM/IEEE-CS joint conference on Digital libraries, 2009

ACM DL Author-ize serviceAnalysis of transaction logs for insights into use of life oral histories
Michael G. Christel, Bryan S. Maher, Huan Li
JCDL '09 Proceedings of the 9th ACM/IEEE-CS joint conference on Digital libraries, 2009

For further information, contact Mike Christel. This page last modified Oct. 20, 2011 to fold in ACM Author-Izer means of referring to ACM publications.