Mike Christel's Publications

Journal, Conference, and Workshop Papers

Christel, M., and Frisch, M. Evaluating the Contributions of Video Representation for a Life Oral History Collection. Proc. ACM/IEEE-CS Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (Pittsburgh, PA, June 2008).

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

Christel, M. Establishing the Utility of Non-Text Search for News Video Retrieval with Real World Users. Proc. ACM Multimedia 2007 (Augsburg, Germany, Sept. 2007), pp. 706-717. DOI: 10.1145/1291233.1291395

Hauptmann, A., Christel, M., Lin, W.-H., Maher, B., Yang, J., Baron, R., and Xiang, G. Clever Clustering vs. Simple Speed-Up for Summarizing BBC Rushes. Proc. TRECVID Summarization Workshop (in assoc. with ACM Multimedia 2007) (Augsburg, Germany, Sept. 2007), pp. 20-24. DOI: 10.1145/1290031.1290034

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

Christel, M., and Yan, R. Merging Storyboard Strategies and Automatic Retrieval for Improving Interactive Video Search. Proc. International Conference on Image and Video Retrieval (CIVR) (Amsterdam, The Netherlands, July 2007), pp. 486-493. DOI: 10.1145/1282280.1282351

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

Stevens, S., Bharucha, A., Christel, M., Hauptmann, A., Wactlar, H., Chen, D. Automatic Collection, Analysis, Access and Archiving of Psycho/Social Behavior by Individuals and Groups. Proc. 3rd ACM Workshop on Capture, Archival and Retrieval of Personal Experiences (CARPE'06) (Santa Barbara, CA, October 27, 2006), pp. 27-34.

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.

Christel, M., Richardson, J., and Wactlar, H. Facilitating Access to Large Digital Oral History Archives through Informedia Technologies. Proc. ACM/IEEE-CS Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (Chapel Hill, NC, June 2006), pp. 194-195.

Christel, M. Windowing Time in Digital Libraries. Proc. ACM/IEEE-CS Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (Chapel Hill, NC, June 2006), pp. 190-191.

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)

Chen, M.-Y., Christel, M., Hauptmann, A., and Wactlar, H. Putting Active Learning into Multimedia Applications: Dynamic Definition and Refinement of Concept Classifiers. Proc. ACM Multimedia '05 (Singapore, November 2005), pp. 902-911.

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.

Christel, M., and Conescu, R. Addressing the Challenge of Visual Information Access from Digital Image and Video Libraries. Proc. ACM/IEEE-CS Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (Denver, CO, June 2005), pp. 69-78.

Christel, M., and Moraveji, N. Finding the Right Shots: Assessing Usability and Performance of a Digital Video Library Interface. Proc. ACM Multimedia '04 (New York, NY, October 2004), pp. 732-739.

Hauptmann, A., and Christel, M. Successful Approaches in the TREC Video Retrieval Evaluations. Proc. ACM Multimedia '04 (New York, NY, October 2004), pp. 668-675.

Christel, M., Moraveji, N., and Huang, C. Evaluating Content-Based Filters for Image and Video Retrieval. Proc. ACM SIGIR '04 (Sheffield, South Yorkshire, UK, July 2004), pp. 590-591.

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.

Christel, M.G., Hauptmann, A.G., Wactlar, H.D., and Ng, T.D. Collages as Dynamic Summaries for News Video. Proceedings of the ACM Multimedia Conference (Juan-les-Pins, France, December 1-6, 2002), pp. 561-569.

Christel, M.G., and Huang, C. SVG for Navigating Digital News Video. Proceedings of the ACM Multimedia Conference (Ottawa, Canada, October 2001), pp. 483-485 (slides).

Christel, M., Maher, B., and Begun, A. XSLT for Tailored Access to a Digital Video Library. Proceedings of the First ACM/IEEE-CS Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (Roanoke, VA, June 2001), pp. 290-299. (High-resolution 4MB version of paper.)

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).

Wactlar, H., Hauptmann, A., Christel, M., Houghton, R., and Olligschlaeger, A. Complementary Video and Audio Analysis for Broadcast News Archives. Communications of the ACM, 42(2): 42-47 (2000).

Christel, M.G. Visual Digests for News Video Libraries. Proceedings of the ACM Multimedia '99 Conference (Orlando, FL, November 1999), pp. 303-311.

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

Christel, M.G., Winkler, D.B., & 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 & G. Lindgaard, eds. London: Chapman & Hall, 1997, pp. 524-531.

Hauptmann, A.G., Witbrock, M.J., & 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.

Smith, M.A., & Christel, M.G. Automating the Creation of a Digital Video Library. Proceedings of the ACM Multimedia '95 Conference. (San Francisco, CA, November 1995), pp. 357-358.

Christel, M., Kanade, T., Mauldin, M., Reddy, R., Sirbu, M., Stevens, S., & Wactlar, H. Informedia Digital Video Library. Communications of the ACM, 38(4): 57-58 (1995).

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

Christel, M., Stevens, S., & Wactlar, H. Informedia Digital Video Library. Proceedings of the ACM Multimedia '94 Conference. (San Francisco, CA, October 1994), pp. 480-481.

Wood, D., Christel, M., & 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., & 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., & De Mey, V. Novel Applications of Multimedia. IEEE Multimedia, 1(1):82-83 (1994).

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

Book/Encyclopedia Chapters

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.

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., & 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.

Wactlar, H.D., Christel, M.G., Hauptmann, A.G., and Gong, Y. Informedia Experience-on-Demand: Capturing, Integrating and Communicating Experiences across People, Time and Space. ACM Computing Surveys 31(2es), article no. 9, June 1999.

Christel, M.G., & 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., & Christel, M.G. News-on-Demand: an Application of Informedia Technology. D-Lib Magazine, September, 1995.


For further information, contact Mike Christel. This page last modified April 3, 2008.