Ivan Ivanov

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Biography

Ivan Ivanov is a research assistant in the Multimedia Signal Processing Group (MMSPG) at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL), Lausanne, Switzerland.

He received the Dipl. Ing. (M.Sc.) degree in electrical engineering from the University of Belgrade, Serbia, in 2006. During his studies he won numerous awards on national competitions.

In 2006 and 2007, he worked as a hardware design engineer for Texas Instruments, France, where he participated in the development of low-power very large-scale integration multimedia applications for portable devices. He also worked as a radio access network conceptual planning expert in Vip mobile, Serbia, focusing on the implementation of second and third generation radio access technologies. In 2008, he joined MMSPG as a research assistant, where he has conducted research on social media, dealing mainly with image and video processing, and metadata management.

He is a student member of IEEE.

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Mission

Ivan’s research interests include multimedia content analysis, and the tagging and retrieval of multimedia in social networking environments. During his PhD studies, he has been actively engaged in several national and international research projects, and provided significant contributions to social media research community as follows:

    • Designed and developed an efficient web-based tool “Swiss Cheese” for automatic object-based tag propagation with a user trust modeling in large-scale dataset of over 1 million images (the world’s first platform to be JPSearch – Part 4 compliant), and an innovative game “Epitome” for photo album summarization as Facebook application, in the framework of IM2 (Interactive Multimodal Information Management), the Swiss National Center of Competence in Research.

 

    • Designed and developed a tool for crawling Twitter social network. Collected and analyzed a large-scale set of 10 million users, their relationships and associated metadata, in the framework of PetaMedia (Peer-to-peer Tagged Media), the European Network of Excellence.

 

  • Designed and developed an approach for unusual events detection in video surveillance applications, in the framework of Visnet II (Networked Audiovisual Media Technologies), the European Network of Excellence.

Further details about his current research activities can be found here.

 

Main Publications

Journal Articles

2013

Comparative Study of Trust Modeling For Automatic Landmark Tagging

I. Ivanov; P. Vajda; P. Korshunov; T. Ebrahimi 

IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security. 2013. Vol. 8, num. 6, p. 911-923. DOI : 10.1109/TIFS.2013.2242889.

2012

In Tags We Trust: Trust modeling in social tagging of multimedia content

I. Ivanov; P. Vajda; J. S. Lee; T. Ebrahimi 

IEEE Signal Processing Magazine. 2012. Vol. 29, num. 2, p. 98-107. DOI : 10.1109/MSP.2011.942345.

Geotag Propagation in Social Networks Based on User Trust Model

I. Ivanov; P. Vajda; J-S. Lee; L. Goldmann; T. Ebrahimi 

Multimedia Tools and Applications. 2012. Vol. 56, num. 1, p. 155-177. DOI : 10.1007/s11042-010-0570-7.

2011

Epitomize Your Photos

P. Vajda; I. Ivanov; J. S. Lee; T. Ebrahimi 

International Journal of Computer Games Technology. 2011. Vol. 2011, p. 706893. DOI : 10.1155/2011/706893.

2010

Robust Duplicate Detection of 2D and 3D Objects

P. Vajda; I. Ivanov; L. Goldmann; J-S. Lee; T. Ebrahimi 

International Journal of Multimedia Data Engineering and Management. 2010. Vol. 1, num. 3, p. 19-40. DOI : 10.4018/jmdem.2010070102.

Conference Papers

2013

Automatic defect detection in video archives – Application to Montreux Jazz Festival Digital Archives

P. Hanhart; M. Rerabek; I. Ivanov; A. Dufaux; C. Jones et al. 

2013. SPIE Optical Engineering + Applications, San Diego, California, USA, August 25-29, 2013. p. 88560R. DOI : 10.1117/12.2026875.

2012

Spam Fighting in Social Tagging Systems

S. Yazdani; I. Ivanov; M. Analoui; R. Berangi; T. Ebrahimi 

2012. The 4th International Conference on Social Informatics (SocInfo 2012), Lausanne, Switzerland, December 5-7, 2012. p. 448-461. DOI : 10.1007/978-3-642-35386-4_33.

2011

Let Epitome summarize your photo collection!

P. Vajda; I. Ivanov; L. Goldmann; T. Ebrahimi 

2011. IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME 2011), Barcelona, Spain, July 11-15, 2011.

Social game Epitome versus automatic visual analysis

P. Vajda; I. Ivanov; L. Goldmann; T. Ebrahimi 

2011. IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo, Barcelona, Spain, July 11-15, 2011. p. 1-6. DOI : 10.1109/ICME.2011.6011927.

Omnidirectional object duplicate detection

P. Vajda; I. Ivanov; L. Goldmann; T. Ebrahimi 

2011. 14th Digital Signal Processing Workshop, Sedona, Arizona, USA, January 4-7, 2011. p. 332-337. DOI : 10.1109/DSP-SPE.2011.5739235.

2010

Social Game Epitome versus Automatic Visual Analysis

P. Vajda; I. Ivanov; L. Goldmann; T. Ebrahimi 

2010. ACM international conference on Multimedia, Firenze, Italy, October 25-20, 2010.

Epitome – A Social Game for Photo Album Summarization

I. Ivanov; P. Vajda; J-S. Lee; T. Ebrahimi 

2010. ACM SIGMM International Conference on Multimedia (ACM MM 2010), the First ACM International Workshop on Connected Multimedia (ACM CMM 2010), Florence, Italy, October 25-29, 2010. p. 33-38. DOI : 10.1145/1877911.1877921.

Propagation of geotags based on object duplicate detection

P. Vajda; I. Ivanov; J-S. Lee; L. Goldmann; T. Ebrahimi 

2010. Applications of Digital Image Processing XXXIII, San Diego, California, USA, August 1-5, 2010. DOI : 10.1117/12.863484.

3D Object Duplicate Detection for Video Retrieval

P. Vajda; I. Ivanov; L. Goldmann; J-S. Lee; T. Ebrahimi 

2010. 11th International Workshop on Image Analysis for Multimedia Interactive Services, Desenzano del Garda, Italy, April 12-14, 2010.

Object-based Tag Propagation for Semi-automatic Annotation of Images

I. Ivanov; P. Vajda; L. Goldmann; J-S. Lee; T. Ebrahimi 

2010. 11th ACM SIGMM International Conference on Multimedia Information Retrieval (MIR 2010), Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA, March 29-31, 2010. p. 497-506. DOI : 10.1145/1743384.1743471.

2009

Towards Generic Detection of Unusual Events in Video Surveillance

I. Ivanov; F. Dufaux; T. M. Ha; T. Ebrahimi 

2009. 6th IEEE International Conference on Advanced Video and Signal Based Surveillance (AVSS’09), Genoa, Italy, September 2-4, 2009. p. 61-66. DOI : 10.1109/AVSS.2009.63.

Theses

2013

Advanced Social Media Analysis

I. Ivanov / T. Ebrahimi (Dir.)  

Lausanne, EPFL, 2013. 

Book Chapters

2013

Geotag Propagation with User Trust Modeling

I. Ivanov; P. Vajda; J. S. Lee; P. Korshunov; T. Ebrahimi 

Social Media Retrieval; London: Springer-Verlag, 2013. p. 283-304.

Reports

2010

On optimal solutions for mobile image retrieval applications

P. Vajda; I. Ivanov; L. Goldmann; J. S. Lee; T. Ebrahimi 

2010