My Publications

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Book

1. D. Gibbon and Z. Liu, Introduction to Video Search Engines, Springer, 2008. (6,310+ downloads)

Book Chapters

1. Z. Liu, E. Zavesky, D. Gibbon, and B. Shahraray, “Joint Audio-Visual Processing for Video Copy Detection,” Academic Press Library in Signal Processing, June 2014.

2. D. Gibbon, A. Basso, L. Begeja, Z. Liu, B. Renger, B. Shahraray, and E. Zavesky, “Large-Scale Analysis for Interactive Media Consumption,” TV Content Analysis, CRC Press, February 22, 2012.

3. D. Gibbon, A. Basso, L. Begeja, Z. Liu, B. Renger, B. Shahraray, E. Zavesky, “TV Content Analysis for Multiscreen Interactive Browsing and Retrieval,” TV Content Analysis, CRC Press, 2011.

4. D. Gibbon, Z. Liu, A. Basso, and B. Shahraray, “Using MPEG Standards for Content Based Indexing of Broadcast Television, Web, and Enterprise Content,” Handbook of MPEG Applications: Standards in Practice, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2010.

5. E. Zavesky, Z. Liu, D. Gibbon, B. Shahraray, “Searching Videos in Visual Semantic Spaces,” Semantic Computing, Wiley, John & Sons, Inc., 2010. 

6. Z. Liu, “Frequency Division Multiplexing,” The Handbook of Computer Networks, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2007. 

7. Z. Liu and Y. Wang, “Audio Indexing and Retrieval,” Handbook of Video Databases Design and Applications, CRC Press, 2003.

8. D. Gibbon, L. Begeja, Z. Liu, B. Renger, and B. Shahraray, “Creating Personalized Video Presentation using Multimodal Processing,” Handbook of Video Databases Design and Applications, CRC Press, 2003.

Journal and Magazine Papers

1. R. Chen, I. Liu, E. Yang, J. Tao, X. Zhang, Q. Ran, Z. Liu, J. Xu and H. Su, "ActiveZero++: Mixed Domain Learning Stereo and Confidence-Based Depth Completion with Zero Annotation," IEEE Trans. Pattern Anal. Mach. Intell. (PAMI), Vol. 45, No. 12, pp. 14098-14113, 2023.

2. D. Gibbon, Z. Liu, A. Basso, and B. Shahraray, “Automated Content Metadata Extraction Services based on MPEG Standards,” The Computer Journal, December 31, 2012.

3. M. Montpetit, P. Cesar, M. Matijasevic, Z. Liu, J. Crowcroft, O. Martinez-Bonastre, “Surveying the Social, Smart and Converged TV Landscape: Where is Television Research Headed?” Sept. 2012, arXiv:1209.2905 [cs.MM].

4. Z. Liu and M. Bacchiani, “TechWare: Mobile Media Search Resources [Best of the Web],” IEEE Signal Processing Magazine, July 2011.

5. M. Merabti, Z. Liu, H. Yu, and D. Kundur, “Advances in Peer-to-peer Content Search,” Journals of Signal Processing Systems, vol. 59, pp. 309-318, 2010.

6. G. Fabbrizio, G. Tur, D. Tur, M. Gilbert, B. Renger, D. Gibbon, Z. Liu, and B. Shahraray, “Bootstrapping Spoken Dialogue Systems by Exploiting Reusable Libraries,” Natural Language Engineering, Vol. 14, pp. 313 - 335, 2007. 

7. Z. Liu and Y. Wang, “Major Cast Detection in Video Using Both Speaker and Face Information,” IEEE Trans. on Multimedia, Vol. 9, No. 1, pp. 89 - 101, Jan. 2007. (31 citations)

8. L. Begeja, H. Drucker, D. Gibbon, P. Haffner, Z. Liu, B. Renger, and B. Shahraray, “Semantic Data Mining of Short Utterances,” IEEE Trans. on Speech and Audio Processing, Vol. 13, No. 5, pp. 672- 680, Sept. 2005. 

9. J. Huang, Z. Liu and Y. Wang, “Joint Segmentation and Classification of Video based on HMM,” IEEE Trans. on Multimedia, Vol. 7, Issue 3, pp. 538-550, June 2005. (52 citations)

10. L. Begeja, D. Gibbon, K. Huber, Z. Liu, B. Renger, B. Shahraray, R. Markowitz, and P. Stuntebeck, “eClips: A New Personalized Multimedia Delivery Service,” Journal of the IBTE, Vol. 2, Part 2, April-June, 2001.

11. Y. Wang, Z. Liu, and J. Huang, “Multimedia Content Analysis Using Audio and Visual Information, “ IEEE Signal Processing Magazine (invited paper), pp.12-36, Nov. 2000. (653 citations)

12. Q. Huang, A. Puri, and Z. Liu, “Multimedia Search and Retrieval: New Concepts, System Implementation, and Application,” IEEE Trans. Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, Vol. 10, No. 5, pp. 679 - 692, Aug. 2000. (48 citations)

13. Z. Liu, Y. Wang and T. Chen, “Audio Feature Extraction and Analysis for Scene Segmentation and Classification,” Journal of VLSI Signal Processing Systems for Signal, Image, and Video Technology, Vol. 20, No. 1/2, Oct., 1998. (288 citations)

Conference and Workshop Papers

1. P. Wang, N. Liu, D. Patil, A. Sanan, T. Parag, X. Sun, Z. Liu and M. Omar, "Bag of Tricks for Multi-label Action Recognition with Partial Annotation," Amazon Computer Vision Conference (ACVC) 2023. 

2. I. Liu, E. Yang, J. Tao, R. Chen, X. Zhang, Q. Ran, Z. Liu, H. Su, "ActiveZero: Mixed Domain Learning for Active Stereovision with Zero Annotation," CVPR 2022, New Orleans, LA, June 19-23, 2022.

3. M. Liu and Z. Liu, "Deep Reinforcement Learning Visual-Text Attention for Multimodal Video Classification," MULEA Workshop of  ACM Multimedia 2019, Nice, France, Oct. 21-25, 2019.

4. Z. Liu and Y. Wang, “TV News Story Segmentation Using Deep Neural Network,” ICME 2018 Industry track, San Diego, CA, July 23-27, 2018.

5. S. Minaee and Z. Liu, “Automatic Question-Answering Using a Deep Similarity Neural Network,” IEEE GlobalSIP, Montreal, Canada, Nov. 14-16, 2017.

6. Y. Mu and Z. Liu, “Deep Hashing: A Joint Approach for Image Signature Learning,” AAAI 2017, San Francisco, CA, Feb. 4-9, 2017.

7. X. Yang, Z. Liu, E. Zavesky, D. Gibbon, B. Shahraray, Y. Tian, “AT&T Research at TRECVID 2013: Surveillance Event Detection,” TRECVID Workshop at NIST, Gaithersburg, MD, Nov. 20-22, 2013.

8. L. Begeja, E. Zavesky, Z. Liu, D. Gibbon, R. Gopalan, B. Shahraray, “VidCat: An Image and Video Analysis Service for Personal Media Management,” SPIE, 2013 Feb. 2-7, 2013.

9. D. Gibbon, Z. Liu, E. Zavesky, D. Paul, D. Swayne, R. Jana, and B. Shahraray, “Combining Content Analysis of Television Programs with Audience Measurement,” CCNC 2012, Las Vegas, NV, Jan. 14-17, 2012.

10. Z. Liu, E. Zavesky, N. Zhou, B. Shahraray, “AT&T Research at TRECVID 2011,” TRECVID Workshop at NIST, Gaithersburg, MD, Dec. 5-7, 2011.

11. X. Zhang and Z. Liu, “Tutorial: Graphical Probabilistic Modeling and Applications in Multimedia Content Analysis,” ACM Multimedia, Nov. 28-Dec. 1, 2011.

12. Z. Liu, E. Zavesky, N. Sawant, B. Shahraray, “AT&T Research at TRECVID 2010,” TRECVID Workshop at NIST, Gaithersburg, MD, Nov. 15-17, 2010.

13. B. Renger, A. Basso, D. Gibbon, M. Johnston, Z. Liu, B. Shahraray, “iMiracle: Multi-Modal Speech-Enables Mobile Video Search,” SpokenQuery 2010 Workshop on Voice Search, Dallas, TX, March 13, 2010.

14. Z. Liu, D. Gibbon, B. Shahraray, “Web-based Real Time Content Processing and Monitoring Service for Digital TV Broadcast,” IEEE International Symposium on Broadband Multimedia Systems and Broadcasting, Shanghai, China, March 23-26, 2010.

15. Z. Liu, T. Liu, D. Gibbon, B. Shahraray, “Effective and Scalable Video Copy Detection,” MIR 2010, Philadelphia, PA, March 29-31, 2010. (50 citations)

16. A. Basso, D. Gibbon, Z. Liu, B. Renger, B. Shahraray, U. Muller, “A Novel Architecture for Content and Delivery Validation for IPTV Systems,” CCNC 2010, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA, Jan. 9-12, 2010. 

17. Z. Liu, B. Shahraray, T. Liu, “AT&T Research at TRECVID 2009 Content-based Copy Detection,” TRECVID Workshop at NIST, Gaithersburg, MD, Nov.16-17, 2009. (32 citations)

18. Z. Liu, “Serving Personalized Content in IPTV Platforms,” IEEE Multimedia Communications Technical Committee, E-Letter, Vol. 4, No. 5, June 2009.

19. L. Begeja, Z. Liu, “Searching and Browsing Video in Face Space,” ISM International Symposium on Multimedia 2009, San Diego, CA, Dec. 14-16, 2009. 

20. D. Gibbon and Z. Liu, “Large Scale Content Analysis Engine,” The 1st Workshop on Large-scale Multimedia Retrieval and Mining, in conjunction with ACM Multimedia 2009, Beijing, China, Oct. 23, 2009. 

21. Z. Liu, B. Wei, and H. Yu, “IPTV, Towards Seamless Infotainment,” CCNC 2009, Las Vegas, Nevada, Jan. 10-13, 2009. 

22. Z. Liu, E. Zavesky, B. B. Shahraray, D. Gibbon, and A. Basso, “Brief and High-Interest Summary Generation: Evaluating the AT&T labs BBC Summarizations,” ACM Multimedia, Vancouver, BC, Canada, Oct. 27 - Nov. 1, 2008.

23. Z. Liu, D. Gibbon, H. Drucker, and A. Basso, “Content Personalization and Adaptation for Three-Screen Services,” CIVR, Niagara Falls, Canada, July 7-9, 2008.

24. Z. Liu, D. Gibbon, and B. Shahraray, “Uninterrupted Recording and Real Time content-based Indexing Services for IPTV Systems,” CCNC, Las Vegas, NV, Jan. 10 - 12, 2008.

25. Z. Liu, E. Zavesky, D. Gibbon, B. Shahraray, and P. Haffner, “AT&T Research At TRECVID 2007,”, TRECVID Workshop at NIST, Gaithersburg, MD, Nov. 5-6, 2007. (71 citations)

26. E. Zavesky, Z. Liu, D. Gibbon and B. Shahraray, “Searching Visual Semantic Spaces with Concept Filters,” ICIC 2007, Irvine, CA, Sept. 17-19, 2007. 

27. Z. Liu and M. Saraclar, “Speaker Segmentation and Adaptation for Speech Recognition on Multiple-Speaker Audio Conference Data,” ICME 2007, Beijing, China, July 2-5, 2007. 

28. Z. Liu, D. Gibbon, E. Zavesky, B. Shahraray, P. Haffner, “A Fast, Comprehensive Shot Boundary Determination System,” ICME 2007, Beijing, China, July 2-5, 2007. (30 citations)

29. D. Kundar, Z. Liu, M. Merabti, and H. Yu, “Advances in Peer-to-Peer Content Search,” ICME 2007, Beijing, China, July 2-5, 2007. 

30. M. Johnston, P. Ehlen, D. Gibbon, and Z. Liu, “The Multimodal Presentation Dashboard,” Proceedings of the Workshop on Bridging the Gap: Academic and Industrial Research in Dialog Technologies, Rochester, NY, April 2007.

31. D. Gibbon, Z. Liu, H. Drucker, B. Renger, L. Begeja, B. Shahraray, “Video Content Personalization for IPTV Services,” IEEE Broadband Technology Symposium (BTS), March 28, 2007. 

32. D. Gibbon, Z. Liu, H. Drucker, B. Renger, L. Begeja, and B. Shahraray, “Prototype Demonstration: Video Content Personalization for IPTV Services,” Demonstration at CCNC 2007, (Won the best demo award), Las Vegas, NV, Jan. 11 - 13, 2007.

33. Z. Liu, D. Gibbon, E. Zavesky, B. Shahraray, and P. Haffner, “AT&T Research At TRECVID 2006,” TRECVID Workshop at NIST, Gaithersburg, MD, Nov. 13-14, 2006.

34. Z. Liu, H. Yu, D. Kundar, and M. Merabti, “On Peer-To-Peer Multimedia Content Access and Distribution,” ICME 2006, Toronto, Canada, July 9-12, 2006, pp. 557-560. 

35. Y. Chen, D. Gibbon, Z. Liu, B. Shahraray, and B. Wei, “Personal Media Alert System: Personalization and Dissemination of Broadcast Content with A P2P Micropayment Scheme,” ICME 2006, Toronto, Canada, July 9-12, 2006, pp. 1425-1428. 

36. Z. Liu, D. Gibbon, and B. Shahraray, “Multimedia Content Acquisition and Processing in the MIRACLE system,” CCNC 2006, Las Vegas, NV, Jan. 8-10, 2006. (28 citations)

37. D. Gibbon, Z. Liu, and B. Shahraray, “The MIRACLE Video Search Engine,” CCNC 2006, Las Vegas, Nevada, Jan. 8-10, 2006. (26 citations)

38. B. Wei, B. Renger, Y. Chen, R. Jana, H. Huang, L. Begeja, D. Gibbon, Z. Liu, and B. Shahraray, “MediaAlert - A Broadcast Video Monitoring and Alerting System for Mobile Users,” MobiSys 2005, pp. 25-38, Seattle, WA, June 6-8, 2005.

39. Z. Liu, “An Efficient Algorithm for Clustering Short Spoken Utterances,” ICASSP 2005.

40. L. Begeja, H. Drucker, D. Gibbon, P. Haffner, Z. Liu, B. Renger, and B. Shahraray, “Semantic Data Mining of Short Utterances,” ICASSP 2005.

41. D. Gibbon, Z. Liu, B. Shahraray, L. Begeja, B. Renger, “Multimedia Processing for Enhanced Information Delivery on Mobile Devices,” Workshop on Emerging Applications for Wireless and Mobile Access, WWW2004, May 18, 2004.

42. M. Saraclar, L. Begeja, D. Gibbon, Z. Liu, B. Renger, B. Shahraray, “A System for Searching and Browsing Spoken Communications,” HLT/NAACL Workshop on Interdisciplinary Approaches to Speech Indexing and Retrieval, Boston, MA, May 6, 2004. 

43. L. Begeja, D. Gibbon, Z. Liu, B. Renger, B. Shahraray, “Interactive Machine Learning Techniques for Improving SLU Models,” HLT/NAACL Workshop on Spoken Language Understanding for Conversational Systems, Boston, MA, May 6, 2004.

44. A. E. Rosenberg, A. Gorin, Z. Liu, and S. Parthasarathy, “Unsupervised Speaker Segmentation of Telephone Conversations,” ICSLP 2002. (21 citations)

45. Z. Liu and Y. Wang, “Major Cast Detection in Video Using Both Audio and Visual Information,” ICASSP-2001, Salt Lake City, Utah, May 7-11, 2001. (24 citations)

46. Z. Liu and Y. Wang, “Face Detection and Tracking in Video Using Dynamic Programming,” ICIP-2000 , Vancouver, Canada, Sept. 10 - 13, 2000. (69 citations)

47. Z. Liu, Q. Huang, “Content-based Indexing and Retrieval-by-Example in Audio,” ICME-2000, New York, NY, July 30 - Aug. 2, 2000. (59 citations)

48. J. Huang, Z. Liu, and Y. Wang, “Joint Video Scene Segmentation and Classification Based on Hidden Markov Model,” ICME-2000, New York, NY, July 30 - Aug. 2, 2000. (37 citations)

49. Z. Liu, Q. Huang, “A New Distance Measure for Probability Distribution Function of Mixture Type,” ICASSP-2000, Istanbul, Turkey, June 5-9, 2000. (22 citations)

50. Z. Liu, Q. Huang, “Adaptive Anchor Detection Using On-Line Trained Audio/Visual Model,” Proc. of SPIE, San Jose, CA, Jan., 2000. (22 citations)

51. J. Huang, Z. Liu, Y. Wang, Y. Chen, and E. K. Wong, “Integration of Multimodal Features for Video Classification Based on HMM,” IEEE Signal Processing Society 1999 Workshop on Multimedia Signal Processing, Copenhagen, Denmark, Sept. 1999. (136 citations)

52. Z. Liu, Q. Huang, “Detecting News Reporting Using Audio/Visual Information,” ICIP-1999, Kobe Japan, Oct. 24-28, 1999. (45 citations)

53. Q. Huang, Z. Liu, A. Rosenberg, D. Gibbon, and B. Shahraray, “Automated Generation of News Content Hierarchy by Integrating Audio, Video, and Text Information,” ICASSP, 1999. (110 citations)

54. Q. Huang, Z. Liu, and A. Rosenberg, “Automated Semantic Structure Recognition and Representation Generation for Broadcast News,” Proc. of SPIE, Jan. 1999. (59 citations)

55. Z. Liu, J. Huang, and Y. Wang, “Classification of TV Programs Based on Audio Information using Hidden Markov Model,” IEEE Signal Processing Society 1998 Workshop on Multimedia Signal Processing, pp. 27 - 32, Dec. 7 - 9, 1998. (134 citations)

56. Z. Liu and Q. Huang, “Classification of Audio Events in Broadcast News,” IEEE Signal Processing Society 1998 Workshop on Multimedia Processing, pp. 364 - 369, Dec. 7 - 9, 1998. (34 citations)

57. J. Huang, Z. Liu, and Y. Wang, “Integration of Audio and Visual Information for Content-based Video Segmentation,” Chicago, USA, ICIP, 1998. (105 citations)

58. Z. Liu, J. Huang, Y. Wang and T. Chen, “Audio Feature Extraction & Analysis for Scene Classification,” IEEE Signal Processing Society 1997 Workshop on Multimedia Signal Processing, pp. 343-348, Princeton, New Jersey, June 23 - 25, 1997. (136 citations)

59. Y. Wang, J. Huang, Z. Liu and T. Chen, “Multimedia Content Classification using motion and audio information,” 1997 IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems, Vol. 2, pp. 1488-1491, Hong Kong, June 9-12, 1997. (29 citations)