Prof. Michael S. Lew is a scientist in multimedia information search and retrieval at Leiden University

Leiden University

Leiden University , located in the city of Leiden, is the oldest university in the Netherlands. The university was founded in 1575 by William, Prince of Orange, leader of the Dutch Revolt in the Eighty Years' War. The royal Dutch House of Orange-Nassau and Leiden University still have a close...

, Netherlands

Netherlands

The Netherlands is a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, located mainly in North-West Europe and with several islands in the Caribbean. Mainland Netherlands borders the North Sea to the north and west, Belgium to the south, and Germany to the east, and shares maritime borders...

. He has published over 7 books and 100 scientific articles in the areas of multimedia search

Multimedia search

Multimedia search enables information search using search queries in multiple data types including text and other multimedia formats.Multimedia search can be implemented through multimodal search interfaces, i.e., interfaces that allow to submit search queries not only as textual requests, but also...

, computer vision

Computer vision

Computer vision is a field that includes methods for acquiring, processing, analysing, and understanding images and, in general, high-dimensional data from the real world in order to produce numerical or symbolic information, e.g., in the forms of decisions...

, human computer interaction, and information retrieval

Information retrieval

Information retrieval is the area of study concerned with searching for documents, for information within documents, and for metadata about documents, as well as that of searching structured storage, relational databases, and the World Wide Web...

. Notably, he had the most cited paper in the highest impact multimedia research journal indexed by the Web of Science (ISI Thomson Reuters), was the opening keynote speaker for the 9th International Conference on Visual Information Systems (2007), the co-founder of influential conferences such as the International Conference on Image and Video Retrieval and the IEEE Workshop on Human Computer Interaction. He was also a founding member of the international advisory committee for the TRECVID

TRECVID

The TRECVID evaluation meetings are on-going series of workshops focusing on a list of different information retrieval research areas in content based retrieval of video. It is co-sponsored by the National Institute of Standards and Technology and the Intelligence Advanced Projects Activity of...

 video retrieval evaluation project and chair of the steering committee for the ACM International Conference on Multimedia Retrieval. His work is frequently cited in both scientific and popular news sources.

Published works

Books by Michael Lew include:

• Principles of Visual Information Retrieval, Springer-Verlag, London, 2001.
• Robust Computer Vision, Kluwer, London, 2003.
• Computer Vision in Human Computer Interaction, Springer-Verlag, London, 2006.

Representative Papers by Michael Lew include:

• Learning and Feature Selection in Stereo Matching, Michael Lew, et al., IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence
  IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence
  The IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence is a monthly journal published by the IEEE Computer Society. It presents the most important research results in areas including all traditional areas of computer vision and image understanding, all traditional areas of pattern...
  
  , pp. 869–881, 1994.
• Toward Improved Ranking Metrics, Michael Lew, et al., IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, pp. 1132–1143, 2000.
• Next Generation Web Searches for Visual Content, Michael Lew, IEEE Computer, pp. 46–53, 2000.
• Content-based Multimedia Information Retrieval: State of the Art and Challenges, Michael Lew, et al., ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing, Communications, and Applications
  ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing, Communications, and Applications
  ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing, Communications, and Applications is a quarterly scientific journal that aims to disseminate the latest findings of note in the field of multimedia computing. It is published by the Association for Computing Machinery.The journal is describes as follows on...
  
  , pp. 1–19, 2006.