Honours and recognitions
- June 2021, Siqi Wu received Honourable Mention for his 2021 paper “Cross-Partisan Discussions on YouTube: Conservatives Talk to Liberals but Liberals Don’t Talk to Conservatives” with Paul Resnick of University of Michigan.
- Sept 2019, Siqi Wu, Marian-Andrei Rizoiu and Lexing Xie received Honourable Mention from ACM CSCW for the paper “Estimating Attention Flow in Online Video Networks”.
- August 2018, Siqi Wu became one of four recipients in Australia for the 2018 Google PhD Fellowship.
- January 2018, Lexing Xie received The Chris Wallace Award for Outstanding Research from The Computing Research and Education Association of Australasia (CORE).
- December 2017, Honours students Sam Toyer and Quyu Kong were honoured with ANU University Medal for exceptional academic and research achievement.
- September 2017, Minjeong Shin won the 2017 Woman in Data Science Award by Data to Decisions CRC.
- 2016-2017 Lexing Xie was named IEEE Circuits and Systems Society Distinguished Lecturer.
Media coverage
2020-05 Our CVPR 2020 work on news image captioning is covered by TechXplore.
2019-06 Data to Decision CRC has concluded, we enjoyed working with them in the past three years! The celebration video has footage of our lab and our work. In addition there is a short video featuring Minjeong’s work！
2018-09 Our work on twitter bot influence in the 2016 election debate is covered by The Sydney Morning Herald, Business Insider and the ANU Reporter.
2018-08 ANU College of Engineering and Computer Science featured our Google PhD Fellowship recipient Siqi Wu and his work on Understanding Human Behavior in Online Videos.
2018-06 ANU College of Engineering and Computer Science featured our work on stylistic image captions with When Artificial Intelligence Tells a Story.
2018-02 ANU News covered our work on Action Schema Networks - a deep learning algorithm for quick planning.
2017-10 Lexing won the Chris Wallace Award for Outstanding Research in Australia.
2017-10 Minjeong won the 2017 Woman in Data Science Award. See her on stage at D2D CRC conference.
2017-02 Andrei and Lexing are delighted that Expecting to be HIP is accepted into WWW 2017 in Perth and Online Popularity under Promotion is accepted into ICWSM 2017 in Montreal.
2016-04 ANU College of Engineering and Computer Science featured our work on wikipedia and being an IEEE DL.
2016-03 Andrei was featured at the March 2016 Wikimedia Research Showcase for his WSDM paper on “Evolution of Privacy Loss”. Well done!
2016-03 Microsoft Academic Graph featured our analysis of the citation patterns of the WSDM conference.
2015-09 Measuring and predicting social media popularity, covered by ANU Reporter and NCI News. Photo by Stuart Hay.
2014-12 ANU News “Getting emotional about image search” describes Qianyu Zhang’s Honor thesis research.
2012-11 ANU Reporter published a story about our work on picture tags. Our college posted a news brief about the microblog event magazine at ACM Multimedia 2012.
News archive
2021-07 Lexing gave talks at on the measurement and machine learning for popularity (viral videos, how and why), at KAIST (info), Monash University, and ANU AI+ML seminar series (video).
2021-06 Lexing gave an invited talk at the CVPR FVC workshop on “Captioning Images with Knowledge and Style”, the video is here.
2021-04 Check out our paper at TheWebConf 2021 Radflow: A Recurrent, Aggregated, and Decomposable Model for Networks of Time Series. You can browse and search in the networks of time series for Vevo music videos and Wikipedia traffic at AttentionFlow.ml.
2020-05 Check out our CVPR 2020 paper Transform and Tell: Entity-Aware News Image Captioning. You can now create your own linguistically rich image caption from any New York Times article with our live demo.
2019-08 Upcoming papers: Minjeong will present Influence Flowers at VIS/VAST 2019, and Siqi will present measurements and estimation of Online Video Networks at CSCW 2019.
2019-01 Our work on Comparative Summarisation as Classification is written up by TechXplore.
2018-06 We will present four papers at two conferences this month. At CVPR’18, Alex will discuss SemStyle, a model for unsupervised style transfer in image captions. At ICWSM'18, Andrei will present #DebateNight; Swapnil will introduce RNN-MAS for predicting popularity with tweets and shares; Siqi will share his insights on which YouTube vidoes are more engaging and why.
2018-02 2018 is off to an exciting start! Sam presented Action Schema Networks at AAAI'18, Andrei will present SIR-Hawkes at WWW'18.
2017-12 Congratulations to Sam Toyer and Quyu Kong for being awarded 2017 ANU University Medals for exceptional academic excellence!
2017-11 We are awarded a project by the ARC discovery scheme to “Promote Fairness in Online Attention”.
2017-10 Lexing won the Chris Wallace Award for Outstanding Research.
2017-09 Minjeong won the 2017 Woman in Data Science Award by Data to Decisions CRC. See her on stage at D2D CRC conference.
2017-07 Conferences and talks: Andrei at ICWSM in May; Lexing gave a distinguished lecture at NTU Singapore; Lexing at AFOSR Trust and Influence Program Review. Some of us will be at ICML in Sydney and IJCAI in Melbourne, come say hi!
2017-02 Andrei and Lexing are delighted that Expecting to be HIP is accepted into WWW 2017 in Perth and Online Popularity under Promotion is accepted into ICWSM 2017 in Montreal.
2016-12 Photos for group outings are posted, at National Cherry Festival and Wombeyan Caves.
2016-06 Lexing and Andrei presented at the AOFSR Trust and Influence Program annual review in Washington DC.
2016-04 Group activity: We climbed Mt Kosciuszko - the top of Australia!
2016-05 Lexing and Dongwoo visited the machine learning group of Monash University in Melbourne, and each gave a talk.
2016-03 Lexing is elected as an IEEE CAS Distinguished Lecturer 2016-2017.
2016-03 Andrei is featured at the March 2016 Wikimedia Research Showcase for his WSDM paper on “Evolution of Privacy Loss”. Well done!
2016-02 Alex presented SentiCap at AAAI'16, Feb. 12–17, 2016
2016-02 Our post on citation patterns was featured at the MSR Research News for WSDM'16.
2016-02 The 2016 edition of “The Art of Computing” just started!
2015-09 Our work on measuring and predicting social media popularity is covered by both ANU Reporter and NCI News.
2015-05 Honglin Yu is presenting “The lifecycle of a YouTube video: Phases, content and popularity” at ICWSM'15 this week. We are releasing the data+code for analyzing the longitudinal history of these 171K videos. Also see our slides, poster.
2015-02 Data from our WACV'15 paper “Choosing Basic-Level Concept Names using Visual and Language Context” (pdf) is released by Alex. You’re welcome to look at the basic-level names for thousands of categories.
2015-01 New course! Website for “The Art of Computing” is up, look forward to a fun semester of computational thinking (and tinkering : )
2014-11 Slides for ACM Multimedia tutorial “Learning Knowledge Bases for Text and Multimedia” are posted here; and those for “Social Multimedia Computing” are here.
2014-11 New paper “Choosing Basic-Level Concept Names using Visual and Language Context” (pdf) will appear at IEEE WACV 2015. We’re proud to have a system that learns basic-level categories for thousands of categories and hundreds of thousands of images from web images. Congrats to Alex for his first paper!
2014-10 Suvash (@suvsh) is presenting our recent work on cold-start recommendation at RecSys'14.
2014-03 Two papers accepted: “Diffrential topic models” to IEEE T-PAMI, and “Bilateral Correspondence Model for Words-and-Pictures Association in Multimedia-rich Microblogs” to ACM ToMM. These two papers designs and applies topic models for text and image data on the social web.
2014-03 An opinion piece with Ayman Shamma and Cees Snoek - “Content is Dead … Long Live Content: The New Age of Multimedia-Hard Problems” is recently <a href=http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/login.jsp?tp=&arnumber=6756788>published by IEEE Multimedia. We explore the possibility of describing multimedia problems with human-computation primitives, this work originated from a panel discussion at ACM Mulitmedia 2012.
2013-10 “Picture Tags and World Knowledge”, our paper on learning tag relations from 5M Flickr images, is just presented at ACM Multimedia. Paper, slides, demo, and some data are here on the project page.
2013-10 Slides available for my invited talk “Events and Meme Popularity in Social Media” at the event workshop at ACM MM in Barcelona.
2013-09 “Social Affinity Filtering”, our paper on a new approach for social recommendation, will appear in the inaugural edition of of ACM COSN, here is the paper preprint
2013-08 I taught the Social Media Section of COMP4650 Document Analysis. An expanded set of lecture materials, and excercise questions are available here.
2013-07 Rob Ackland, Jamsheed Shorish, Paul Thomas and I taught a fun class on Computational Social Science, at Beihang University, thanks to ACSRF
2013-07 ACML 2013 will have 3 tutorials and 2 half-day workshops. Look forward to!
2013-05 Recent papers: Visual Memes at IEEE Trans. on Multimedia (arxiv) and LDA for Tweets at SIGIR (pdf).
2012-11 ANU Reporter published a story about our work on picture tags here. My college posted a news brief about the microblog event magazine here.
2012-11 We won the “multimodal award” for ACM Multimedia Grand Challenge Solutions. Congratulations Peng, Zhiyu and Hao from Tsinghua.
2012-10 An AOARD project just started, look forward to an exciting exploration into social media.
