Jelena Tesic | Јелена Тешић

Jelena Tešić

Pronunciation: Yeh-LE-nah TE-shich

E-mail: jtesic -@- ucsbalum.net

Jelena Tešić is a research scientist @ Mayachitra Inc, Santa Barbara, CA. Her research focuses on scaling multimedia indexing, search and retrieval for lare video repositories. Prior to this, she spent 5 years at Intelligent Information Analysis Group, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, Hawthorne, NY, working on developing systems for multimedia data management and its various applications; addressed selected research topics in the areas of scalable content information modeling, collaborative tagging of multimedia, and mining of content networks; and contributed to the to the top performance of the IBM team in 2004-2008 TRECVID, NIST-sponsored video benchmark.

Dr. Tešić received the Dipl. Ing. degree from the School of Electrical Engineering, University of Belgrade, Serbia, in 1998, and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical and Computer Engineering from University of California, Santa Barbara, in 1999 and 2004, respectively. Her graduate work includes topic in computer vision, image and video indexing, statistical modeling and pattern recognition applied to various medical, aerial, and space multimedia collections.

Selected Publications

Jelena Tešić and Scott Golder, Collaborative Tagging of Multimedia, Special Issue, Guest Editors, IEEE Multimedia Magazine, July-Sep 2008.
Apostol Natsev, Alexander Haubold, Jelena Tešić, Lexing Xie, and Rong Yan, "Semantic Concept-Based Query Expansion and Re-Ranking for Multimedia Retrieval," ACM Multimedia, Augsburg, Germany, September 2007.
Rong Yan, Jelena Tešić, and John R. Smith, "Model-shared subspace boosting for multi-label classification", ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD) , San Jose, CA, August, 2007.
Jelena Tešić and Apostol Natsev and John R. Smith, "Cluster-based Data Modeling for Semantic Video Search, " ACM International Conference on Image and Video Retrieval(ACM CIVR), Amsterdam, Netherlands, July, 2007.
Milind Naphade, John R. Smith, Jelena Tešić, Shih-Fu Chang, Winston Hsu, Lyndon Kennedy, Alexander Hauptmann, and Jon Curtis, "Large-Scale Concept Ontology for Multimedia," , IEEE Multimedia Magazine, Vol. 13, No. 3, July 2006.
Apostol Natsev, Milind R. Naphade, Jelena Tešić, "Learning the Semantics of Multimedia Queries and Concepts from a Small Number of Examples, " in ACM Multimedia, Singapore, November 2005.
Jelena Tešić, "Metadata Practices for Consumer Photos ", in IEEE Multimedia Magazine, Vol. 12, No. 3, July-September 2005.
Jelena Tešić and B. S. Manjunath, "Nearest Neighbor Search for Relevance Feedback," in Proceedings of IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), Madison, Wisconsin, vol II, p. 643-648,
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