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  2009

• "DUOL: A Double Updating Approach for Online Learning" Peilin Zhao, Steven C.H. Hoi, Rong Jin,
  Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS2009), December 7-10, 2009.
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• "Learning Bregman Distance Functions and Its Application for Semi-Supervised Clustering,"Lei Wu, Rong Jin, Steven C.H. Hoi, Jianke Zhu and Nenghai Yu,
  Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS2009), December 7-10, 2009.
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• "Distance Metric Learning from Uncertain Side Information with Application to Automated Photo Tagging", Lei Wu, Steven C.H. Hoi, Rong Jin, Jianke Zhu, Nenghai Yu,
  ACM International Conference on Multimedia (MM2009), Beijing, PR China, 19-24 Oct 2009 (full long paper, track acceptance rate: 22/138 = 16%)
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• "Streaming 3D Meshes Using Spectral Geometry Images", Ying He, B.S. Chew, Dayong Wang, Steven C.H. Hoi, L.P. Chau, 
  ACM International Conference on Multimedia (MM2009), Beijing, PR China, 19-24 Oct 2009. (full long paper, track acceptance rate: 10/56 = 18%)
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• "SimpleNPKL: Simple Non-Parametric Kernel Learning", Jinfeng Zhuang, Ivor Tsang, Steven C.H. Hoi,
  International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML2009), Montreal, Canada, 14-18 June, 2009. (acceptance rate: ~25%)
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• "Unsupervised Face Alignment by Robust Nonrigid Mapping", Jianke Zhu, Luc Van Gool, and Steven C.H. Hoi,
  IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV2009), Kyoto, Japan, 27 Sep-4 Oct 2009. To appear. (acceptance rate: 23%)
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• "Nonrigid Shape Recovery by Gaussian Process Regression,” Jianke Zhu, Steven C.H. Hoi and Michael R. Lyu,
  IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR2009),  Miami, FL, 20-26 June, 2009 (acceptance rate: 26%)
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• "Web Query Recommendation via Sequential Query Prediction" Q. He, D. Jiang, Z. Liao, Steven .C.H. Hoi, K. Chang, E.P. Lim and H. Li.
  The 25th International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE2009), Shanghai, China, 29 March - 4 April, 2009, pp. 1443-1454
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• "Semi-Supervised SVM Batch Mode Active Learning and Its Applications to Image Retrieval,"Steven C.H. Hoi, Rong Jin, Jianke Zhu, and M.R. Lyu,
  ACM Transactions on Information Systems (TOIS), vol. 27, no. 3, pp. 1-29, 2009. (extended from CVPR2008 paper)
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• "Semi-Supervised Distance Metric Learning for Collaborative Image Retrieval and Clustering," Steven C.H. Hoi, Wei Liu, and Shih-Fu Chang,
  ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing, Communications and Applications (TOMCCAP), 2009. To appear. (extended from CVPR2008 paper)
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• "A Boosting Framework for Visuality-Preserving Distance Metric Learning and Its Application to Medical Image Retrieval",
  L. Yang, R. Jin, L. Mummert, R. Sukthankar, A. Goode, B. Zheng, S.C.H. Hoi, M. Satyanarayanan,
  IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (TPAMI), 2009. To appear.
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• "A Semi-supervised Approach to Near Duplicate Keyframe Detection and Retrieval," Jianke Zhu, Steven C.H. Hoi, Michael R. Lyu and Shuicheng Yan,
  ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing, Communications and Applications (TOMCCAP), (accepted), 2009.
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• "Batch Mode Active Learning with Applications to Text Categorization and Image Retrieval," Steven C.H. Hoi, Rong Jin, Michael R. Lyu,
  IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE), 2009. To appear. (extended from WWW2006 paper)
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    2008

• "Near-Duplicate Keyframe Retrieval by Nonrigid Image Matching,", Jianke Zhu, Steven C.H. Hoi, Michael R. Lyu and Shuicheng Yan,
  ACM International Conference on Multimedia (MM2008), 2008. (acceptance rate: 16.7%, oral, long paper)
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• "Semi-Supervised Ensemble Ranking," Steven C.H. Hoi and Rong Jin,
  Proceedings of Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI2008), Chicago, 13-17 July, 2008. (acceptance rate: 227/937 = 24%)
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• "Active Kernel Learning," Steven C.H. Hoi and Rong Jin,
  Proceedings of International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML2008), Helsinki, Finland, 5-9 July, 2008. (acceptance rate: 155/583 = 26%)
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• "Semi-Supervised SVM Batch Mode Active Learning for Image Retrieval," Steven C.H. Hoi, Rong Jin, Jianke Zhu, and Michael R. Lyu,
  Proceedings of IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR2008), Alaska, 24-26 June, 2008. (acceptance rate: 32%)
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• "Semi-Supervised Distance Metric Learning for Collaborative Image Retrieval," Steven C.H. Hoi, Wei Liu, and Shih-Fu Chang,
  Proc. IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR2008), Alaska, US, June 24-26, 2008.(acceptance rate: 32%)
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• "An Effective Approach to 3D Deformable Surface Tracking",  Jianke Zhu, Steven C.H. Hoi, Zenglin Xu, M.R. Lyu,
  Proc European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV2008), Marseille, France, October 2008 (acceptance rate: 193/900 = 21%) (full regular paper)
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• "Cascade RSVM in Peer-to-Peer Network," H.H. Ang, V. Gopalkrishnan, Steven C.H. Hoi, and W.K. Ng,
  Proc. ECML/PKDD Conference (ECML/PKDD2008), Antwerp, Belgium, 2008 (acceptance rate: 98/521 = 18.8%)
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• "Representative Entry Selection for Profiling Blogs,"  Jinfeng Zhuang, Steven C.H. Hoi, Aixin Sun, Rong Jin,
  Proceedings of the 17th ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM2008), Napa Valley, California, Oct, 2008.(Poster)
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• "A Multi-Modal and Multi-Level Ranking Scheme for Large-Scale Video Retrieval," Steven C.H. Hoi and Michael R. Lyu,
  IEEE Transactions on Multimedia (TMM), vol. 10, no. 4, pp. 607-619, June 2008.
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• "Face Annotation by Transductive Kernel Fisher Discriminant," Jianke Zhu, Steven C.H. Hoi and Michael R. Lyu,
  IEEE Transactions on Multimedia (TMM), vol. 10, no. 1, pp. 86-96, Jan 2008.
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• "Robust Regularized Kernel Regression", Jianke Zhu, Steven C.H. Hoi and Michael R. Lyu,
  IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics - Part B (TSMC), vol. 38, no.6, December 2008.
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    2007

• "Learning Non-Parametric Kernel Matrices from Pairwise Constraints," Steven C.H. Hoi, Rong Jin and Michael R. Lyu, 
  Proc. the 24th Annual International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML2007), OR, US, 20-24 June, 2007. (acceptance rate: 29%)
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• "An Empirical Study on Large-Scale Content-Based Image Retrieval,"  Y. M. Wong, Steven C.H. Hoi and Michael R. Lyu,
  Proc. IEEE International Conference on Multimedia & Expo (ICME2007), Beijing, China, July 2-5, 2007. .
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• "A Multi-Scale Tikhonov Regularization Scheme for Implicit Surface Modelling,"  Jianke Zhu, Steven C.H. Hoi, and Michael R. Lyu,
  In Proceedings of IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR2007), June, 2007. (acceptance rate: 27%)
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• "A Multi-Modal and Multi-Level Ranking Framework for Content-Based Video Retrieval,"  Steven C.H. Hoi and Michael R Lyu,
  The 32nd IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP2007),
  Special Session on "Web Image/Video Search Technologies", Hawaii, USA, 15-20 April, 2007. (Invited Paper/Talk)
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• "Similarity Beyond Distance Measurement," Feng Kang, Rong Jin, Steven C.H. Hoi,
  Proceedings of Large-Scale Semantic Access to Content (Text, Image, Video and Sound) - 8th Conference  (RIAO2007), Pittsburgh, US, May 30-June 1, 2007.
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• "Cross-Language and Cross-Media Image Retrieval: An Empirical Study at ImageCLEF2007," Steven C.H. Hoi,
  Proceedings of Cross Language Evaluation Forum campaign (CLEF2007), LNCS, 2007
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    2006

• "Learning the Unified Kernel Machines for Classification,"  Steven C.H. Hoi, Michael R Lyu and Edward Y Chang,
  In 20th ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD2006), pp.187-196, Philadelphia, USA, August 20 - 23, 2006. (acceptance rate: 11%)
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• "Batch Mode Active Learning and Its application to Medical Image Classification"  Steven C.H. Hoi, Rong Jin, Jianke Zhu and Michael R. Lyu,
  In 23rd International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML2006), Pittsburgh, PA, US, June 25-29, 2006. (acceptance rate: 20%)
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• "Large-Scale Text Categorization by Batch Mode Active Learning," Steven C.H. Hoi, Rong Jin and Michael R. Lyu,
  In Proceedings of the 15th International World Wide Web conference (WWW2006), Edinburgh, England, UK, 2006.(acceptance rate: 11%)
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• "Time-Dependent Semantic Similarity Measure of Queries Using Historical Click-Through Data", Q. Zhao, S.C.H. Hoi, T.Y. Liu, SS Bhowmick, MR. Lyu, WY Ma
  In Proceedings of the 15th International World Wide Web conference (WWW2006), Edinburgh, England, UK, 2006.(acceptance rate: 11%)
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• "Learning Distance Metrics with Contextual Constraints for Image Retrieval" Steven C.H. Hoi, W. Liu, M.R. Lyu and W.Y. Ma,
  In Proceedings IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR2006), New York, June, 2006 (acceptance rate: ~23%)
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• "Real-Time Non-Rigid Shape Recovery via Active Appearance Models for Augmented Reality" Jianke Zhu, Steven C. H. Hoi, and Michael R. Lyu (2006)
  In Proceedings 9th European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV2006), Graz, Austria May 7 - 13, 2006 (acceptance rate: 21%)
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• "Chinese University of Hong Kong at TRECVID 2006: Shot Boundary Detection and Video Search" Steevn C.H. Hoi, Lawson S. Wong and Albert Lyu, (2006)
  In Proceedings of TREC Video Retrieval Evaluation Workshop, 2006
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• "A Unified Log-based Relevance Feedback Scheme for Image Retrieval," (Regular Paper) Steven C. H. Hoi, Michael R. Lyu and Rong Jin 
  In IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE), vol. 18, no. 4, pp. 509-524, 2006
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• "Collaborative Image Retrieval via Regularized Metric Learning" (Regular Paper)  Luo Si, Rong Jin and Steven C. H. Hoi and Michael R. Lyu (2006)
  In ACM Multimedia Systems Journal (MMSJ),
  Special Issue on Machine Learning Approaches to Multimedia Information Retrieval, vol. 12, no. 1, pp.34-44, April, 2006.
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    2005

• "CUHK at ImageCLEF 2005: Cross-Language and Cross-Media Image Retrieval,"  Steven C. H. Hoi, Jianke Zhu and Michael R. Lyu
  In Proceedings of Cross Language Evaluation Forum campaign (CLEF2005),  LNCS 4022, Springer, pp.602-611, 2006
  (Our MAP result ranks TOP 1  in the Bilingual Ad-hoc Image Retrieval campaign.)
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• "Automatic 3D Face Modeling Using 2D Active Appearance Models," Jianke Zhu, Steven C. H. Hoi, Edward Yau and Michael R. Lyu
  In Pacific Graphics (PG2005), Macau, China, 2005
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• "Integrating User Feedback  Log into Relevance Feedback by Coupled SVM for Content-based Image Retrieval," Steven C. H. Hoi, Michael R. Lyu and Rong Jin 
  In the 1st IEEE International EMMA Workshop in conjunction with 21st ICDE Conference, Tokyo, Japan, 2005 (Invited Paper/Talk)
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• "A Unified Learning Paradigm for Large-Scale Personalized Information Management," (Invited paper/talk)  E.Y. Chang, S.C.H. Hoi, X. Wang, WY Ma and MR Lyu
  In the 5th Emerging Information Technology Conference (EIT2005), NTU Taipei, August 2005.
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• "A Semi-Supervised Active Learning Framework for Image Retrieval," Steven C. H. Hoi and Michael R. Lyu 
  In Proceedings IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR2005), San Diego, CA, USA June 20-25, 2005 (acceptance rate: ~22%)
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    2004 and Before

• "A Novel Log-based Relevance Feedback Technique in Content-based Image Retrieval,"  Chu-Hong Hoi and Michael R. Lyu
  In Proceedings of 12th ACM Conference on Multimedia (MM2004), New York, USA, 10-16 October, pp. 24-31, 2004 (acceptance rate: 16%)
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• "Web Image Learning for Searching Semantic Concepts in Image Databases," Chu-Hong Hoi and Michael R. Lyu
  In Proceedings of the 13th International World Wide Web Conference (WWW2004), Alternative Track and Poster, NY, 17-22 May, 2004
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• "Group-based Relevance Feedback with Support Vector Machine Ensembles," Chu-Hong Hoi and Michael R. Lyu  
  In Proceedings of 17th International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR2004), Cambridge, UK, vol. 3, pp. 874-877, 23-26 August, 2004
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• "Biased Support Vector Machine for Relevance Feedback in Image Retrieval," Chu-Hong Hoi, Chi-Hang Chan, Kaizhu Huang, Michael R Lyu and Irwin King
  In Proceedings of International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN2004), Budapest, Hungary, pp. 3189-3194, 25-29 July, 2004
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• "Robust Face Recognition Using Minimax Probability Machine," Chu-Hong Hoi and Michael R. Lyu
  In Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME2004), Taiwan, 27-30 June, 2004
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• "A Novel Scheme for Video Similarity Detection," Chu-Hong Hoi, Wei Wang and Michael R. Lyu
  In Proceedings of International Conference on Image and Video Retrieval (CIVR2003), USA, pp. 373-382, LNCS, vol. 2728, Springer, 2003
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