John R. Kender

Welcome to my home page.
(Like much of life itself, continually under construction)

I am:

• Professor, Department of Computer Science
• Great Teacher, Society of Columbia Graduates
• Distinguished Faculty Teacher, Columbia Engineering School Alumni Association
• former Vice Dean, Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science
• at Columbia University in New York City

Some of my research, supported at various times by: DARPA, IARPA/DTO/ARDA, NSF, ONR; NYState Sci&Tech Foundation; AT&T, D/ADA, DEC, Ford Motor, Intel, Matrix, Microsoft, Philips, Unimation:

• Michele Merler, John R. Kender
    "Selecting the best faces to index presentation videos"
    ACM Multimedia 2011: 1461-1464
• Lexing Xie, Apostol Natsev, John R. Kender, Matthew L. Hill, John R. Smith
    "Visual memes in social media: tracking real-world news in YouTube videos"
    ACM Multimedia 2011: 53-62
• Mitchell J. Morris, John R. Kender
    "VastMM-Tag: a semantic tagging browser for unstructured videos"
    ACM Multimedia 2011: 957-960
• Sheena Xin Liu, John R. Kender, Celina Imielinska, Andrew Laine
    "Employing symmetry features for automatic misalignment correction in neuroimages"
    J Neuroimaging 2011;21:e15-e33.
• John R. Zhang, John R. Kender
    "Identifying salient poses in lecture videos"
    ICIP 2011: 2353-2356
• Lexing Xie, Apostol Natsev, John R. Kender, Matthew L. Hill, John R. Smith
    "Tracking Visual Memes in Rich-Media Social Communities"
    ICWSM 2011
• Sheena Xin Liu, John R. Kender, Celina Imielinska, Andrew Laine
    "Automatic Misalignment Correction in Neuroimages Using Surface Symmetry Priors"
    J Neuroimaging 2011;21:383.
• John R. Kender, Matthew L. Hill, Apostol Natsev, John R. Smith, Lexing Xie
    "Video genetics: a case study from YouTube"
    ACM Multimedia 2010: 1253-1258
• Hassan H. Malik, John R. Kender, Dmitriy Fradkin, Fabian Mörchen
    "Hierarchical document clustering using local patterns"
    Data Min. Knowl. Discov. 21(1): 153-185 (2010)
• Michele Merler, John R. Kender
    "Semantic keyword extraction via adaptive text binarization of unstructured unsourced video"
    ICIP 2009: 261-264
• Mitchell J. Morris, John R. Kender
    "Sort-Merge feature selection and fusion methods for classification of unstructured video"
    ICME 2009: 578-581
• Jesus Caban, Noah Lee, Shahram Ebadollahi, Andrew Laine, John R. Kender
    "Concept Detection in Longitudinal Brain MR Images Using Multi-Modal Cues"
    ISBI 2009: 418-421
• Alexander Haubold, Promiti Dutta, John R. Kender
    "Evaluation of video browser features and user interaction with VAST MM"
    ACM Multimedia 2008: 449-458
• Hassan H. Malik, John R. Kender
    "Classifying High-Dimensional Text and Web Data Using Very Short Patterns"
    ICDM 2008: 923-928
• Alexander Haubold, John R. Kender
    "Accommodating sample size effect on similarity measures in speaker clustering"
    ICME 2008: 1525-1528
• John R. Kender
    "Separability and refinement of hierarchical semantic video labels and their ground truth"
    ICME 2008: 673-676
• Ramon Lluis Felip, Lluis Barceló, Xavier Binefa, John R. Kender
    "Robust Dominant Motion Estimation Using MPEG Information in Sport Sequences"
    IEEE Trans. Circuits Syst. Video Techn. 18(1): 12-22 (2008)
• Alexander Haubold, John R. Kender
    "VAST MM: multimedia browser for presentation video"
    CIVR 2007: 41-48
• Hassan H. Malik, John R. Kender
    "Optimizing Frequency Queries for Data Mining Applications"
    ICDM 2007: 595-600
• Alexander Haubold, John R. Kender
    "Alignment of Speech to Highly Imperfect Text Transcriptions"
    ICME 2007: 224-227
• John R. Kender
    "A Large Scale Concept Ontology for News Stories: Empirical Methods, Analysis, and Improvements"
    ICME 2007: 544-547
• Alexander Haubold, John R. Kender
    "Analysis, User Interface, and their Evaluation for Student Presentation Videos"
    ICME 2007: 863-866
• Yan Liu, John R. Kender
    "Statistical Validation for Automatic Feature Selection Algorithms in Video Applications"
    MLMTA 2007: 170-176
• Dan B. Phung, Giuseppe Valetto, Gail E. Kaiser, Tiecheng Liu, John R. Kender
    "Adaptive Synchronization of Semantically Compressed Instructional Videos for Collaborative Distance Learning"
    IJDET 5(2): 56-73 (2007)
• Tiecheng Liu, John R. Kender
    "Computational approaches to temporal sampling of video sequences"
    TOMCCAP 3(2): (2007)
• Hassan H. Malik, John R. Kender
    "High Quality, Efficient Hierarchical Document Clustering Using Closed Interesting Itemsets"
    ICDM 2006: 991-996
• John R. Kender, Milind R. Naphade
    "Video News Shot Labeling Refinement via Shot Rhythm Models"
    ICME 2006: 37-40
• Hassan H. Malik, John R. Kender
    "Clustering web images using association rules, interestingness measures, and hypergraph partitions"
    ICWE 2006: 48-55
• Lijun Tang, John R. Kender
    "Designing an intelligent user interface for instructional video indexing and browsing"
    IUI 2006: 318-320
• Alexander Haubold, John R. Kender
    "Accommodating Sample Size Effect on Similarity Measures in Speaker Clustering"
     CoRR abs/cs/0612138: (2006)
• Alexander Haubold, John R.
    "Kender: Alignment of Speech to Highly Imperfect Text Transcriptions"
    CoRR abs/cs/0612139: (2006)
• Alexander Haubold, John R. Kender
    "Augmented segmentation and visualization for presentation videos"
    ACM Multimedia 2005: 51-60
  
• Lluis Barceló, Xavier Binefa, John R. Kender
    "Robust Methods and Representations for Soccer Player Tracking and Collision Resolution"
    CIVR 2005: 237-246
  
• John R. Kender, Milind R. Naphade
    "Visual Concepts for News Story Tracking: Analyzing and Exploiting the NIST TRECVID Video Annotation Experiment"
    CVPR (1) 2005: 1174-1181
  
• Lijun Tang, John R. Kender
    "Educational Video Understanding: Mapping Handwritten Text to Textbook Chapters"
    ICDAR 2005: 919-923
  
• Lijun Tang, John R. Kender
    "A unified text extraction method for instructional videos"
    ICIP (3) 2005: 1216-1219
• Lalitha Agnihotri, John R. Kender, Nevenka Dimitrova, John Zimmerman
    "User Study for Generating Personalized Summary Profiles"
    ICME 2005: 1094-1097
• John R. Kender, Milind R. Naphade
    "Ontology Design for Video Semantic Threads"
    ICME 2005: 1302-1305
• Lijun Tang, John R. Kender
    "Semantic Indexing for Instructional Video Via Combination of Handwriting Recognition and Information Retrieval"
    ICME 2005: 920-923
• Lalitha Agnihotri, John R. Kender, Nevenka Dimitrova, John Zimmerman
    "Framework for personalized multimedia summarization"
    Multimedia Information Retrieval 2005: 81-88
• Alexander Haubold, John R. Kender
    "Augmented Segmentation and Visualization for Presentation Videos"
    CoRR abs/cs/0501044: (2005)

Information about the NSF IIS-Sponsored Project on Unstructured Videos

Current PhD students:

• John Zhang
• Chun-Yu (Claire) Tsai

• Michelle Merler, 2012
• Mitchell Morris, 2011
• Alex Haubold, 2008
• Hassan Malik, 2007
• Ramon Lluis Felip, 2007
• Lijun Tang, 2006
• Yan Liu, 2005
• Lalitha Agnihotri, 2005
• Juan-Maria Sanchez-Secades, 2003
• Tiecheng Liu, 2003
• Aya Aner, 2002
• Samuel Fenster, 1999
• Frederik Kjeldsen, 1996
• David Yang, 1996
• Alicia Abella, 1995
• Il-Pyung Park, 1993
• Thomas Ellman, 1989
• Mark Moerdler, 1989
• Michalis Hatzitheodorou, 1989
• Dong Jae Choi, 1988
• Terrance Boult, 1986
• David Lee, 1985
• Hussein Ibrahim, 1984
• Steven Shafer, 1983

• Fall (all years):
  COMS W1007x: Object-Oriented Programming and Design in Java
• Spring (odd years):
  COMS W4735y: Visual Interfaces to Computers
• Spring (even years):
  COMS E6735y: Visual Databases
• Fall, Spring, and Summer (all years):
  COMS W3998/W4901/E6901: Directed Research
• On demand:
  A lecture on Teaching