Publications

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Y. Zhu, X. Deng, and S. Newsam, "Fine-grained land use classification at the city scale using ground-level images," IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, 21(9), pp. 1825-1838, 2019. [pdf]

S. Newsam and D. Leung, "Georeferenced social multimedia as volunteered geographic information," CyberGIS: Fostering a New Wave of Geospatial Discovery and Innovation. Eds: S. Wang and M. Goodchild. Springer. Dordrecht, Netherlands, 2019.

X. Deng, Y. Zhu, and S. Newsam, "What is it like down there? Generating dense ground-level views and image features from overhead imagery using conditional generative adversarial networks," ACM SIGSPATIAL International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems (ACM SIGSPATIAL GIS), 2018. [pdf]

Y. Zhu, Y. Long, Y. Guan, S. Newsam, and L. Shao, "Towards universal representation for unseen action recognition," IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2018. [pdf]

Yi. Zhu and S. Newsam, "Learning optical flow via dilated networks and occlusion reasoning," IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP), 2018. [pdf]

X. Deng, Yi. Zhu, and S. Newsam, "Spatial morphing kernel regression for feature interpolation," IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP), 2018. [pdf]

Y. Zhu, Z. Lan, S. Newsam, and A. Hauptmann, "Hidden two-stream convolutional networks for action recognition," Asian Conference on Computer Vision (ACCV), 2018. [pdf]

Y. Zhu, S. Liu, and S. Newsam, "Large-scale mapping of human activity using geo-tagged videos," ACM SIGSPATIAL International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems (ACM SIGSPATIAL GIS), 2017. [pdf]

X. Deng and S. Newsam, "Quantitative comparison of open-source data for fine-grain mapping of land use," ACM SIGSPATIAL International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems (ACM SIGSPATIAL GIS): Workshop Smart Cities and Urban Analytics (UrbanGIS), 2017. [pdf]

Yi. Zhu and S. Newsam, "DenseNet for optical flow," IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP), 2017. [pdf]

Yi. Zhu, Z. Lan, S. Newsam, and A. Hauptmann, "Guided optical flow learning," IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR): Workshop on Workshop on Brave New Motion Representations (BNMR), 2017. [pdf]

Z. Lan, Yi. Zhu, A. Hauptmann, and S. Newsam, "Deep local video feature for action recognition," IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR): Workshop on Open Domain Action Recognition (ODAR), 2017. [pdf]

Y. Zhu and S. Newsam, "Efficient action detection in untrimmed videos via multi-task learning," IEEE Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV), 2017. [pdf]

Y. Zhu and S. Newsam, "Depth2Action: Exploring embedded depth for large-scale action recognition," European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV): Workshop on Web-Scale Vision and Social Media (VSM), 2016. [pdf]

A. San Jose and E. Hernandez, "City-scale mapping of pets using georeferenced images," ACM SIGSPATIAL International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems (ACM SIGSPATIAL GIS): Student Research Competition (SRC), 2016. (Winner of undergraduate category.) [pdf]

Y. Zhu and S. Newsam, "Spatio-temporal sentiment hotspot detection using geotagged photos," ACM SIGSPATIAL International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems (ACM SIGSPATIAL GIS), 2016. (Best fast forward presentation runner up.) [pdf]

Y. Zhu and S. Newsam, "Land use classification using convolutional neural networks applied to ground-level images," ACM SIGSPATIAL International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems (ACM SIGSPATIAL GIS), 2015 (winner of best poster paper award). [pdf]

Y. Yi and S. Newsam, "Semi-supervised learning of geospatial objects through multi-modal data integration," International Conference on Pattern Recognition, 2014. [pdf]

D. Leung and S. Newsam, "Land cover classification using geo-referenced photos," Multimedia Tools and Applications, Vol. 74, Issue 24, pp. 11741-11761, 2014.[pdf]

D. Leung "Proximate sensing: Geographic knowledge discovery in on-line photo collections," Ph.D. Dissertation, University of California at Merced, 2013.

D. Leung and S. Newsam, "Can off-the-shelf object detectors be used to extract geographic information from geo-referenced social multimedia?" ACM SIGSPATIAL International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems (ACM SIGSPATIAL GIS): Workshop on Location Based Social Networks, 2012. [pdf]

D. Leung and S. Newsam, "Exploring geotagged images for land-use classification," ACM International Conference on Multimedia: Workshop on Geotagging and Its Applications in Multimedia, 2012. [pdf]