Michael Lew

{{Short description|Dutch scientist (born 1965)}}

{{for|the Chinese-American playwright|Michael Lew (playwright)}}

Michael S. Lew (born 19 April 1965[http://authorities.loc.gov/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?AuthRecID=5165975&v1=1&HC=1&SEQ=20081103163841&PID=6o8BNRSr_fXrUiCYo-OFJ3agFb Lew, Michael S.] at the Library of Congress Authorities site.) is a scientist in multimedia information search and retrieval at Leiden University, Netherlands.Advances in Visual Information Systems, {{ISBN|978-3-540-76413-7}}, Springer-Verlag, London, 2007 He has published over a dozen books and 150 scientific articles in the areas of content based image retrieval, computer vision, and deep learning.Who's Who in Science and Engineering 2006-2007, 9th Edition, {{ISBN|978-0-8379-5766-1}}, Marquis Who's Who, 2006[https://archive.today/20120713162234/http://scholar.google.nl/scholar?q=MS+Lew&num=20&hl=en&lr=&safe=off&scoring=r&as_ylo=2003 Google Scholar: Recent Articles by Michael Lew] Notably, he had the most cited paper in the ACM Transactions on Multimedia,ACM SIGMM Record, vol. 1, no. 3, Sept. 2009. one of the top 10 most cited articles in the history (out of more than 14,000 articles) of the ACM SIGMM, ACM SIGMM Digest, Sept. 2017. and the most cited article from the ACM International Conference on Multimedia Information Retrieval in 2008 and also in 2010.ACM SIGMM Record, vol. 6, no. 1, March 2014. He was the opening keynote speaker for the 9th International Conference on Visual Information Systems,Visual Information Retrieval – Future Directions and Grand Challenges, in Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Visual Information Systems, Beijing, China, {{ISBN|978-3-540-76413-7}}, Springer-Verlag, London, 2007. the Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Multimedia Information Retrieval (Springer), the co-founder of influential conferences such as the International Conference on Image and Video Retrieval (which became the ACM International Conference on Multimedia Retrieval),Image and Video Retrieval, {{ISBN|3-540-43899-8}}, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 2002 and the IEEE Workshop on Human Computer Interaction.Computer Vision in Human Computer Interaction, {{ISBN|978-3-540-29620-1}}, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 2005. He was also a founding member of the international advisory committee for the TRECVID video retrieval evaluation project,TRECVID 2003 Video Evaluation Overview, in Proceedings of TRECVID 2003, National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), Gaithersburg, Maryland, 2003. chair of the steering committee for the ACM International Conference on Multimedia Retrieval and a member of the ACM SIGMM Executive Committee (the highest board of the SIGMM). In addition, his work on convolutional fusion networks in deep learning won the best paper award at the 23rd International Conference on Multimedia Modeling. His work is frequently cited in both scientific and popular news sources.