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Title: A New Machine Learning Framework with Application to Image Annotation

Abstract: Machine learning has been recognized as a powerful technique to help improving performance in various multimedia applications. Generally, each real object is represented by a feature vector (or instance) associated with a class label indicating the semantic meaning of that object. For ambiguous objects which have multiple semantic meanings, such as images in multimedia applications, traditional machine learning frameworks may be less effective. This talk will introduce the MIML (Multi-Instance Multi-Label learning) framework which provides a promising direction for learning with such objects, and its application to a real-world image annotation task.

Bio: Zhi-Hua Zhou is a professor at the Department of Computer Science and Technology, Nanjing University, China. His research interests are mainly in machine learning, data mining, pattern recognition and image retrieval. In these areas he has published over 80 papers in leading international journals or conferences, and holds 11 patents. He is an Associate Editor-in-Chief of "Chinese Science Bulletin", Associate Editor of "IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering" and "ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology", and on the editorial boards of various other journals. He also serves/served as guest editor for various journals including “Machine Learning”, “IEEE Intelligent Systems”, “Pattern Recognition”, " Multimedia Systems", etc. He is the Founding Steering Committee Co-Chair of ACML, and Steering Committee member of PAKDD and PRICAI. He served as Program Committee Chair/Co-Chair of PAKDD'07, PRICAI'08 and ACML'09, Vice Chair or Area Chair or Senior Program Committee member of many conferences such as KDD’10, ECML PKDD’10, ICPR’10, SDM’09, CIKM’09, ICDM’08, etc. He is the Chair of the Machine Learning Society of the China Association of Artificial Intelligence (CAAI), the Vice Chair of the Artificial Intelligence and Pattern Recognition Society of the China Computer Federation (CCF), and the Chair of the IEEE Computer Society Nanjing Chapter.