Lexing Xie
Senior Lecturer / Fellow of Computer Science
The Australian National University.
I'm also affiliated with National ICT Australia (NICTA).
my firstname dot lastname at anu dot edu dot au
News
  • 2013-03 Deadlines approaching! Please considering submitting a Tutorial to ACM Multimedia 2013 and a Workshop to ACML 2013.
  • 2012-11 ANU Reporter published a story about my 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.
    • Research Overview
    My research focus broadly on innovative use and design of machine learning algorithms and systems, especially on spatial, temporal and multi-relational graph data. Several areas of recent work include:
  • Multimedia understanding and retrieval
  • Social media tracking and modeling
  • Spatial-temporal data analysis on urban events
    • Details can be found from the sample projects below and the list of publications.
    Getting Involved
    I am always looking for curious and motivated strong students to collaborate on various fun projects. Frequently needed information about joining my research group is here.
    Selected Recent Projects
    Event Diffusion Patterns in Social Media (2012)
    Minkyoung Kim, Lexing Xie, Peter Christen
    Intl. Conf. on Weblogs and Social Media (ICWSM), 8 pages, Dublin, Ireland, June 2012
    abstract |pdf
    Visual Memes in Social Media: Tracking Real-world News in YouTube Videos (2011)
    Lexing Xie, Apostol Natsev, Matthew Hill, John Kender, John R Smith
    ACM Multimedia 2011 and ICWSM 2011
    project page |pdf
    ImageHive: Interactive Content-Aware Image Summarization (2012)
    Li Tan, Yangqiu Song, Shixia Liu, Lexing Xie,
    IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications, pp. 46-55, January/February, 2012
    abstract |pdf
    Probabilistic Visual Concept Trees (2010)
    Lexing Xie, Rong Yan, Jelena Tešić, Apostol Natsev, John R Smith
    ACM Multimedia 2010, pp. 867-870
    abstract |pdf