RESEARCH AREAS

RESEARCH INTERESTS

• Multimodal Computing

• Computer Vision

• Trustworthy AI

RESEARCH PROJECTS

RESEARCH GROUPS

NUS Centre for Research in Privacy Technologies (NCRiPT)

• Media

TEACHING INNOVATIONS

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

• ClickSmart: A Context-Aware Viewpoint Recommendation System for Mobile Photography, IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, Y.S. Rawat and M.S. Kankanhalli, Vol. 27, No. 1, pp. 149-158, 2017.
• Hierarchical Clustering Multi-task Learning for Joint Human Action Grouping and Recognition, IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, A.A. Liu, Y.T. Su, W.Z. Nie and M. Kankanhalli, Vol. 39, No. 1 pp. 102-114, 2017.
• Multi-Camera Action Dataset for Cross-Camera Action Recognition Benchmarking, W. Li, Y. Wong, A.A. Liu, Y. Li, Y.T. Su and M. Kankanhalli, IEEE Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision WACV 2017, Mar 2017.
• Cyber-Physical Social Networks, C. von der Weth, A.M. Abdul and M. Kankanhalli, ACM Transactions on Internet Technology, Vol. 17, No. 2, May 2017.
• Content based Authentication of Visual Cryptography, G. Wang, W. Yan and M. Kankanhalli, Multimedia Tools and Applications, Vol. 76, No. 7, Apr 2017.
• As-Similar-as-Possible Saliency Fusion, T.V. Nguyen and M. Kankanhalli, Multimedia Tools and Applications, Vol. 76, No. 8, Apr 2017.
• A Comprehensive Evaluation of Support Vector Machine in Hand Movement Classification Using Surface Electromyography, W. Wei, Y. Wong, Y. Hu, Y. Du and M. Kankanhalli, Nanoscience and Nanotechnology Letters, Vol. 9, No. 5, pp. 741-753, May 2017.
• Hierarchical & Multimodal Video Captioning: Discovering and Transferring Multimodal Knowledge for Vision to Language, A.A. Liu, N. Xu, Y. Wong, J. Li, Y.T. Su and M. Kankanhalli, Computer Vision and Image Understanding, May 2017.
• Benchmarking a Multimodal and Multiview and Interactive Dataset for Human Action Recognition, A.A. Liu, N. Xu, W.Z. Nie, Y.T. Su, Y. Wong and M. Kankanhalli, IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics, Vol. 47, No. 7, July 2017.
• Multimedia Signatures for Vehicle Forensics, A. Mehrish, A.V. Subramanyam and M. Kankanhalli, IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo ICME2017, pp. 685-690, July 2017.
• Exploring User-Specific Information in Music Retrieval, Z. Cheng, J. Shen, L. Nie, T.S. Chua and M. Kankanhalli, International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval SIGIR2017, Aug 2017.
• Optimizing Trade-offs among Stakeholders in Real-time Bidding by Incorporating Multimedia Metrics, X. Chen, B. Chen and M.S. Kankanhalli, International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval SIGIR2017, Aug 2017.
• MM2RTB: Bringing Multimedia Metrics to Real-time Bidding, X. Chen, B. Chen and M.S. Kankanhalli, International Workshop on Data Mining for Online Advertising AdKDD+TargetAd, KDD Workshop, Aug 2017.
• Exploring Music Play Sequence for Music Recommendation, Z. Cheng, J. Shen, L. Nie and M. Kankanhalli,International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence IJCAI2017, Aug 2017.
• Semi-supervised Learning for Surface EMG-based Gesture Recognition, Y. Du, Y. Wong, W. Wei, Y. Hu, M. Kankanhalli and W. Geng, International Joint conference on Artificial Intelligence IJCAI, Aug 2017.
• Online Object Tracking based on CNN with Spatial-temporal Saliency Guided Sampling, P. Zhang, T. Zhuo,
• W. Huang, K. Chen and M. Kankanhalli, Neurocomputing, Vol. 257, pp. 115-127, Sep 2017.
• A Spring-Electric Graph Model for Socialized Group Photography, Y. Rawat, M. Song and M.S. Kankanhalli, IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, Sep 2017.
• Dual-Glance Model for Deciphering Social Relationships, J. Li, Y. Wong, Q. Zhao and M. Kankanhalli, International Conference on Computer Vision ICCV2017, Oct 2017.
• Understanding Fashion Trends from Street Photos via Neighbor-Constrained Embedding Learning, X. Gu, Y. Wong, P. Peng, L. Shou, G. Chen and M. Kankanhalli, ACM International Conference on Multimedia ACMMM2017, Oct 2017.
• Affect Recognition in Ads with Application to Computational Advertising, A. Shukla, S. Gullapuram, H. Katti, K. Yadati, M. Kankanhalli and R. Subramanian, ACM International Conference on Multimedia ACMMM2017, Oct 2017.
• Attention Transfer from Web Images for Video Recognition, J. Li, Y. Wong, Q. Zhao and M. Kankanhalli, ACM International Conference on Multimedia ACMMM2017, Oct 2017.
• The Role of Visual Attention in Sentiment Prediction, S. Fan, M. Jiang, B. Koenig, Z. Shen, M. Kankanhalli, and Q.Zhao, ACM International Conference on Multimedia ACMMM2017, Oct 2017.
• Evaluating Content-Centric vs. User-Centric Ad Affect Recognition, A. Shukla, S. Gullapuram, H. Katti, K. Yadati, M. Kankanhalli and R. Subramanian, ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction ICMI2017, Nov 2017.
• Saliency Flow based Video Segmentation via Motion Guided Contour Refinement, P. Zhang, T. Zhuo, H. Huang and M.S. Kankanhalli, Signal Processing, Vol. 142, pp. 431-440 Jan 2018.

AWARDS & HONOURS

• Fellow, IEEE

• Fellow, Singapore National Academy of Science

MODULES TAUGHT