M.G. Constantin, L.D. Ştefan, B. Ionescu, N.Q.K. Duong, C.-H. Demarty, M. Sjöberg :
Visual Interestingness Prediction: A Benchmark Framework and Literature Review
International Journal of Computer Vision, DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/s11263-021-01443-1, February 2021.
(draft pdf)(link to Springer) Impact Factor: 19.5
M.G. Constantin, L.D. Stefan, B. Ionescu, C.-H. Demarty, M. Sjöberg, M. Schedl, G. Gravier :
Affect in Multimedia: Benchmarking Violent Scenes Detection.
IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing, DOI http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/TAFFC.2020.2986969, April 2020.
(draft pdf)(link to IEEE) Impact Factor: 11.2
M.G. Constantin, M. Redi, G. Zen, B. Ionescu :
Computational Understanding of Visual Interestingness Beyond Semantics: Literature Survey and Analysis of Covariates.
ACM Computing Surveys, 52(2), ISSN 0360-0300, DOI http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/3301299, March 2019.
(draft pdf)(link to ACM) Impact Factor: 16.6
Y. Deldjoo, M.F. Dacrema, M.G. Constantin, H. Eghbal-zadeh, S. Cereda, M. Schedl, B. Ionescu, P. Cremonesi :
Movie genome: alleviating new item cold start in movie recommendation.
User Modeling and User-Adapted Interaction, ISSN 1573-1391, DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/s11257-019-09221-y, February 2019.
(pdf)(link to Springer) Impact Factor: 3.6
Other Journals
L.-D. Stefan, D.C. Stanciu, M. Dogariu, M.G. Constantin, A.C. Jitaru, B. Ionescu:
Deepfake Sentry: Harnessing Ensemble Intelligence for Resilient Detection and Generalisation
University Politehnica of Bucharest Scientific Bulletin Series C, Vol 85, Iss 4, ISSN 2286-3540, 2023.
(link to journal) Impact Factor: 0.3.
M.G. Constantin, L.-D. Stefan, B. Ionescu:
Inducer Selection Principles for DeepFusion Systems
University Politehnica of Bucharest Scientific Bulletin Series C, Vol 85, Iss 4, ISSN 2286-3540, 2023.
(draft pdf) Impact Factor: 0.3.
R.S. Kiziltepe, L. Sweeney, M.G. Constantin, F. Doctor, A.G.S. de Herrera, C.H. Demarty, G. Healy,
B. Ionescu, A.F. Smeaton :
An annotated video dataset for computing video memorability.
Data in Brief, Vol 39, 107671, ISSN 2352-3409, DOI https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dib.2021.107671, December 2021.
(draft pdf)(link to Science Direct) Impact Factor: 1.2.
Editorials
M.G. Constantin, M.T. Vega, K. Fliegel:
Overview of Benchmarking Platforms and Software for Multimedia Applications. ACM SIGMM Records, October, 2023.
(link to SIGMM Records)
K. Fliegel, M.G. Constantin, M.T. Vega:
Overview of Open Dataset Sessions and Benchmarking Competitions in 2022. ACM SIGMM Records, January, 2023.
(link to SIGMM Records - part 1)
N. Reimat, P.-E. Martin:
Two Interviews with renown Datasets Researchers., eds: M.T. Vega, M.G. Constantin, K. Fliegel, ACM SIGMM Records,
June, 2022.
(link to SIGMM Records)
M.G. Constantin, K. Fliegel, M.T. Vega:
Overview of Open Dataset Sessions and Benchmarking Competitions in 2021. ACM SIGMM Records, December, 2021.
(link to SIGMM Records)
M.G. Constantin, K. Fliegel, M.T. Vega:
Dataset Column: Overview, Scope and Call for Contributions. ACM SIGMM Records, September, 2021.
(link to SIGMM Records)
M.G. Constantin, S. Hicks, M. Larson, N.-T. Nguyen :
MediaEval Multimedia Evaluation Benchmark: Tenth Anniversary and Counting. ACM SIGMM Records, June, 2020.
(link to SIGMM Records)
M. Larson, S. Hicks, M.G. Constantin, B. Bischke, A. Porter, P. Zhao, M. Lux, L.C. Quiros, J. Calandre, G. Jones:
Working Notes Proceedings of the MediaEval 2019 Workshop, Sophia Antipolis, France, 27-30 October 2019. CEUR-WS.
(link to ceur-ws)
Book chapters
B. Ionescu, H. Müller, R. Péteri, J. Rückert, A.B. Abacha, A.G.S de Herrera,
C.M. Friedrich, L. Bloch, R. Brüngel, A. Idrissi-Yaghir, H. Schäfer, S. Kozlovski, Y.D. Cid, V. Kovalev,
L.D. Ştefan, M.G. Constantin, M. Dogariu, A. Popescu, J. Deshayes-Chossart, H. Schindler, J. Chamberlain, A. Campello, A. Clark :
Overview of the ImageCLEF 2022: Multimedia retrieval in medical, social media and nature applications.
In Experimental IR Meets Multilinguality, Multimodality, and Interaction, Proceedings of the 13th International Conference of
the CLEF Association (CLEF 2022), LNCS Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer, Bologna, Italy, 2022.
(draft pdf)
M.G. Constantin, L.D. Ştefan, B. Ionescu :
Exploring Deep Fusion Ensembling for Automatic Visual Interestingness Prediction.
In book Human Perception of Visual Information - Psychological and Computational Perspectives,
Springer International Publishing, Eds. B. Ionescu, W. Bainbridge, N. Murray.
ISBN 978-3-030-81464-9, eBook ISBN 978-3-030-81465-6, DOI 10.1007/978-3-030-81465-6, 2022.
(draft pdf)(ebook)
B. Ionescu, H. Müller, R. Péteri, A.B. Abacha, V. Datla, S.A. Hasan, D. Demner-Fushman, S. Kozlovski,
V. Liauchuk, Y.D. Cid, V. Kovalev, O. Pelka, C.M. Friedrich, A.G. Seco de Herrera, V.-T. Ninh, T.-K. Le, L. Zhou, L. Piras, M. Riegler,
P. Halvorsen, M.-T. Tran, M. Lux, C. Gurrin, D.-T. Dang-Nguyen, J. Chamberlain, A. Clark, A. Campello, D. Fichou, R. Berari, P. Brie,
M. Dogariu, L.D. Ștefan, M.G. Constantin :
Overview of the ImageCLEF 2020: Multimedia Retrieval in Medical, Lifelogging, Nature, and Internet Applications.
In Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 12260, CLEF 2020 Proceedings, September 22-25, Thessaloniki, Greece, 2020.
(pdf)(link to Springer)
B. Ionescu, H. Müller, R. Péteri. D.-T. Dang-Nguyen, L. Zhou, L. Piras, M. Riegler, P. Halvorsen, M.-T. Tran,
M. Lux, C. Gurrin, J. Chamberlain, A. Clark, A. Campello, A.G.S. de Herrera, A.B. Abacha, V. Datla, S.A. Hasan, J. Liu, D. Demner-Fushman,
O. Pelka, C.M. Friedrich, Y.D. Cid, S. Kozlovski, V. Liauchuk, V. Kovalev, R. Berari, P. Brie, D. Fichou, M. Dogariu, L.-D. Ștefan,
M.G. Constantin :
ImageCLEF 2020: Multimedia Retrieval in Lifelogging, Medical, Nature, and Internet Applications.
In Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 12036, pp. 533-541, ISBN: 978-3-030-45441-8, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-45442-5_69,
ECIR 2020 Proceedings, April 14-17, Lisbon, Portugal, 2020
(pdf)(link to Springer)
C.-H. Demarty, M. Sjöberg, M.G. Constantin,, N.Q.K. Duong, B. Ionescu, T.-T. Do, H. Wang :
Predicting Interestingness of Visual Content. In book Visual Content Indexing and Retrieval with Psycho-Visual Models,
Springer Multimedia Systems and Applications, Eds. J. Benois-Pineau, P. Le Callet, 2017.
(pdf)(ebook)
Conference papers
M.G Constantin, M. Dogariu, A.-C. Jitaru, B. Ionescu : Assessing the difficulty
of predicting media memorability. 20th International Conference on Content-based Multimedia Indexing - CBMI 2023, 20-22 September 2023.
Will be published and uploaded in Sept 2023
A.G.S. de Herrera, M.G. Constantin, C.H. Demarty, C.L. Fosco, S. Halder,
G. Healy, B. Ionescu, A. Matran-Fernandez, A.F. Smeaton, M. Sultana : Experiences from the MediaEval
Predicting Media Memorability Task. 2022 Memory in Artificial and Real Intelligence Workshop at
Thirty-sixth Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems - MemARI at NeurIPS 2022, 02 December 2022,
New Orleans, USA, 2022. (pdf)
M.G. Constantin, B. Ionescu : Two-Stage Spatio-Temporal Vision Transformer for the Detection
of Violent Scenes. 2022 14th International Conference on Communications - COMM 2022, 16-18 June 2022,
Bucharest, Romania, 2022. (pdf)
A.G. Herrera, B. Ionescu, H. Müller, R. Péteri, A.B. Abacha, C.M. Friedrich, J. Rückert, L. Bloch,
R. Brüngel, A. Idrissi-Yaghir, H. Schäfer, S. Kozlovski, Y.D. Cid, V. Kovalev, J. Chamberlain, A. Clark, A. Campello, H. Schindler,
J. Deshayes, A. Popescu, L.-D. Ştefan, M.G. Constantin, M. Dogariu : ImageCLEF 2022: Multimedia Retrieval in Medical, Nature,
Fusion, and Internet Applications. European Conference on Information Retrieval - ECIR 2022, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, \
vol 13186. Springer, Cham, 2022. (pdf)
M.G. Constantin, D.Ș. Pârvu, C. Stanciu, D. Ionașcu, B. Ionescu :
Hateful meme detection with multimodal deep neural networks.
IEEE International Symposium on Signals, Circuits and Systems – ISSCS 2021, July 15-16, Iași, Romania, 2021.
(pdf)
M.G. Constantin, L.D. Stefan, B. Ionescu :
DeepFusion: Deep Ensembles for Domain Independent System Fusion.
International Conference on Multimedia Modeling - MMM 2021, ISBN: 978-3-030-67832-6, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-67832-6_20,
June 22-24, Prague, Czech Republic, 2021. (pdf)
L.-D. Ștefan, Ș. Abdulamit, M. Dogariu, M.G. Constantin, B. Ionescu :
Deep Learning-based Person Search with Visual Attention Embedding.
IEEE International Conference on Communications - COMM 2020, ISBN: 978-1-7281-5611-8, DOI: 10.1109/COMM48946.2020.9141958,
June 18-20, Bucharest, Romania, 2020.
M. Dogariu, L.-D. Ștefan, M.G. Constantin, B. Ionescu :
Human-Object Interaction: Application to Abandoned Luggage Detection in Video Surveillance Scenarios.
IEEE International Conference on Communications - COMM 2020, ISBN: 978-1-7281-5611-8, DOI: 10.1109/COMM48946.2020.9141958,
June 18-20, Bucharest, Romania, 2020.
L.-D. Ștefan, M.G. Constantin, B. Ionescu :
System Fusion with Deep Ensembles.
ACM International Conference on Multimedia Retrieval - ICMR 2020, October 26-29, Dublin, Ireland, 2020.
(pdf)
Y. Deldjoo, M.G. Constantin, H. Eghbal-Zadeh, B. Ionescu, M. Schedl, P. Cremonesi :
Audio-visual Encoding of Multimedia Content for Enhancing Movie Recommendations.
ACM Conference Series on Recommender Systems - RecSys 2018, October 2-7, Vancouver, Canada, 2018.
(pdf)
S.V. Carata, M.G. Constantin, V. Ghenescu, M. Chindea, M.T. Ghenescu :
Innovative Multi PCNN Based Network for Green Area Monitoring - Identification and Description of Nearly Indistinguishable Areas.
In Hyperspectral Satellite Images, IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium - IGARSS 2018, Valencia, Spain, 2018.
(pdf)
Y. Deldjoo, M.G. Constantin, M. Schedl, B. Ionescu, P. Cremonesi :
MMTF-14K: A Multifaceted Movie Trailer Feature Dataset for Recommendation and Retrieval.
ACM Multimedia Systems Conference – MMSys 2018, June 12-15, Amsterdam, Netherlands, 2018.
(pdf)(dataset)
C.A. Mitrea, M.G. Constantin, L.D. Stefan, M. Ghenescu, B. Ionescu :
Little-Big Deep Neural Networks for Embedded Video Surveillance.
IEEE International Conference on Communications – COMM 2018, June 14-16, Bucharest, Romania, 2018.
(pdf)
M.G. Constantin, B. Ionescu :
Content Description for Predicting Image Interestingness.
IEEE International Symposium on Signals, Circuits and Systems – ISSCS 2017, July 13-14, Iași, Romania, 2017.
(pdf)
Working notes
M.G. Constantin, C.-H. Demarty, C. Fosco, A.G.S. de Herrera, S. Halder, G. Healy, B. Ionescu,
A. Matran-Fernandez, R.S. Kiziltepe, A.F. Smeaton, L. Sweeney:
Overview of the MediaEval 2023 predicting video memorability task
In Working Notes Proceedings of the MediaEval 2023 Workshop, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 2024.
(pdf)
M.G. Constantin, B. Ionescu:
AIMultimediaLab at MediaEval 2023: Studying the Generalization of Media Memorability Methods.
In Working Notes Proceedings of the MediaEval 2023 Workshop, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 2024.
(pdf)
L. Sweeney, M.G. Constantin, C.-H. Demarty, C. Fosco, A.G.S. de Herrera, S. Halder,
G. Healy, B. Ionescu, A. Matran-Fernandez, A.F. Smeaton, M. Sultana :
Overview of The MediaEval 2022 Predicting Video Memorability Task.
In Working Notes Proceedings of the MediaEval 2022 Workshop, Bergen, Norway, 2023.
(pdf)
M.G. Constantin, B. Ionescu :
AIMultimediaLab at MediaEval 2022: Predicting Media Memorability Using Video Vision Transformers
and Augmented Memorable Moments. In Working Notes Proceedings of the MediaEval 2022 Workshop, Bergen, Norway, 2023.
(pdf)
M.G. Constantin, L.D. Ștefan, M. Dogariu, B. Ionescu :
AIMultimediaLab at ImageCLEFfusion 2022: DeepFusion Methods for Ensembling in Diverse Scenarios.
In Proceedings of the Working Notes of CLEF 2022 - Conference and Labs of the Evaluation Forum, Bologna, Italy, September 5-8, 2022.
(pdf)
L.D. Ștefan, M.G. Constantin, M. Dogariu, B. Ionescu :
Overview of ImageCLEFfusion 2022 Task - Ensembling Methods for Media Interestingness Prediction and Result Diversification.
In Proceedings of the Working Notes of CLEF 2022 - Conference and Labs of the Evaluation Forum, Bologna, Italy, September 5-8, 2022.
(pdf)
M.G. Constantin, B. Ionescu :
Using Vision Transformers and Memorable Moments for thePrediction of Video Memorability.
In Working Notes Proceedings of the MediaEval 2021 Workshop, Online Conference, 2021.
(pdf)
R.S. Kiziltepe, M.G. Constantin, C.H. Demarty, G. Healy, C. Fosco, A.G.S. de Herrera, S. Halder, B. Ionescu,
A. Matran-Fernandez, A.F. Smeaton, L. Sweeney :
Overview of The MediaEval 2021 Predicting MediaMemorability Task.
In Working Notes Proceedings of the MediaEval 2021 Workshop, Online Conference, 2021.
(pdf)
R. Berari, A. Tăuteanu, D. Fichou, P. Brie, M. Dogariu, L. Daniel Ştefan, M.G. Constantin, B. Ionescu :
Overview of the 2021 ImageCLEFdrawnUI Task: Detection and Recognition of Hand Drawn and Digital Website UIs
In Proceedings of the Working Notes of CLEF 2021, Bucharest, Romania, September 21-24, 2021.
(pdf)
A.G.S. De Herrera, R.S. Kiziltepe, J. Chamberlain, M.G. Constantin, C.-H. Demarty, F. Doctor,
B. Ionescu, A.F. Smeaton :
Overview of MediaEval 2020 Predicting Media Memorability Task: What Makes a Video Memorable?
In Working Notes Proceedings of the MediaEval 2020 Workshop, Online Conference, 2020.
(pdf)
M.G. Constantin, C. Kang, G. Dinu, F. Dufaux, G. Valenzise, B. Ionescu :
Using Aesthetics and Action Recognition-based Networks for the Prediction of Media Memorability.
In Working Notes Proceedings of the MediaEval 2019 Workshop, Sophia Antipolis, France, October 27-29, 2019.
(pdf)
M.G. Constantin, B. Ionescu, C.-H. Demarty, N.Q.K. Duong, X. Alameda-Pineda, M. Sjöberg :
The Predicting Media Memorability Task at MediaEval 2019.
In Working Notes Proceedings of the MediaEval 2019 Workshop, Sophia Antipolis, France, October 27-29, 2019.
(pdf)
Y. Deldjoo, M.G. Constantin, A. Dritsas, B. Ionescu, M. Schedl :
The MediaEval 2018 Movie Recommendation Task: Recommending Movies Using Content.
In Working Notes Proceedings of the MediaEval 2018 Workshop, Sophia Antipolis, France, October 29-31, 2018.
(pdf)
M.G. Constantin, B. Boteanu, B. Ionescu :
LAPI at MediaEval 2017 - Predicting Media Interestingness.
In Working Notes Proceedings of the MediaEval 2017 Workshop, Dublin, Ireland, September 13-15, 2017.
(pdf)
B. Boteanu, M.G. Constantin, B. Ionescu :
LAPI @ 2017 Retrieving Diverse Social Images Task: A Pseudo-Relevance Feedback Diversification Perspective.
In Working Notes Proceedings of the MediaEval 2017 Workshop, Dublin, Ireland, September 13-15, 2017.
(pdf)
M.G. Constantin, B. Boteanu, B. Ionescu :
LAPI at MediaEval 2016 Predicting Media Interestingness Task.
In Working Notes Proceedings of the MediaEval 2016 Workshop, Hilversum, The Netherlands, October 20-21, 2016.
(pdf)
B. Boteanu, M.G. Constantin, B. Ionescu :
LAPI @ 2016 Retrieving Diverse Social Images Task: A Pseudo-Relevance Feedback Diversification Perspective.
In Working Notes Proceedings of the MediaEval 2016 Workshop, Hilversum, The Netherlands, October 20-21, 2016.
(pdf)