Professional Activities

Editorships

• Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Multimedia (2004-2010)
• Associate Editor of the Pattern Analysis and Applications journal.
• Guest Editor with Q. Tian, J. Tang, D. Gatica-Perez, Learning semantics from Multimedia Web Resources, IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, 2012.
• Guest Editor with A. Ulges, S. Battiatio, S. Emmanuel, Multimedia in Forensics, Security, and Intelligence, IEEE Multimedia 2012. CFP
• Guest Editor (with Guus Schreiber) special issue: Semantic Image and Video Indexing in Broad Domains, IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, 2007

Conferences

2012

• Multimedia Grand Challenge co-chair, ACM Multimedia 2012, Nara Japan.
• Track chair: Multimedia Content Anslysis, Retrieval and Database, International Conference on Multimedia and Expo, 2012, Melbourne Australia

2011

• Area chair : Multimedia Analysis and Search ACM Multimedia 2011
• Publicity and Social Media Co-Chair ACM Multimedia 2011
• Co-chair ACM Multimedia Workshop: Multimedia in Forensics and Intelligence, 2011
• Co-chair IEEE ICME workshop: Content Protection and Forensics, 2011

2010

• Co-chair and moderator Panel ``Beyond CIVR'', ACM International Conference on Image and Video Retrieval, Xi'an, China 2010
• Co-chair of the InfoVis event Show Me the Data , Amsterdam, 2010
• Co-chair of the Workshop Multimedia in Forensics, Security, and Intelligence , in conjunction with the ACM Multimedia , Firenze, October 29, 2010.
• Short paper chair of the application track of the ACM Multimedia 2010
• Publicity chair IEEE international conference on Multimedia and Expo 2010, Singapore

  2009

• Co-chair of the Workshop Multimedia in Forensics , in conjunction with the ACM Multimedia , Beijing China October 23, 2009.
• Co-chair of the first international workshop on Internet Multimedia Search and Mining 2009
• Co-chair of the third VideOlympics, Santorini, 2009
• Short paper chair of the content track of the ACM Multimedia 2009
• Special session chair of the ICME 2009

2008

• Co-chair of the second Videolympics 2008
• Track chair of the ICME 2008
• Co-chair of Visualizing the network, Amsterdam 2008
• Publicity Chair of the Pacific Rim Conference on Multimedia 2008
• Co-chair of the Mid-winter meeting on Public Safety Eindhoven, The Netherlands 2008

2007

• Co-chair of the ACM CIVR 2007
• Co-chair of the first Videolympics 2007
• Area chair of the Multimedia Modelling Conference 2007

1999-2006

• Co-organizer of the ICME2005
• Co-chair of the DLIA01: Document Layout Interpretation and its Applications workshop 2001 (Seattle)
• Organizer of the  IOP "Imaging Meets Business workshop : Multimedia", 2001
• Organizer of the Multimedia Information Analysis Industrial demonstrator day 2001
  
• Chair of the DLIA99: Document Layout Interpretation and its Applications workshop 1999(Bangalore)
• Co-organizer VISUAL99: Visual Information Systems conference.
  

Invited presentations: international

• M.Worring, Arnold Smeulders: New Trends In Search Engine Technologies, Club INA No 2, Paris, 2010
• M.Worring: Searching in Video: Fighting Child Abuse, Katholieke Hogeschool Leuven, 2010
• M. Worring: The Human in Semantic Video Search, The International Workshop on Advances of Multimedia Computing, Huangshan, 2009
• M. Worring.: Interactive search in large video collections International Conference on Multimedia Computing and Systems Ouarzazate, Morocco 2009
• M. Worring.: Searching and finding in large video collections The 15th International Multimedia Modeling Conference , Sophia-Antipolis, France 2009
• M. Worring et.al., Semantic search and image detector technology, Video Search Summit , San Francisco 2008
• M.Worring et.al. : The MediaMill Semantic Video Search Engine, ICASSP 2007
• M. Worring, J-M. Geusebroek, A.W.M. Smeulders: Benchmarking the sensory and semantic gap, ImageClef workshop on Image and Video Retrieval Evaluation, Budapest 2007
• M. Worring: Browsing Visual Collections, Tsinghua University, Beijing China, 2007
• M. Worring and C.G.M. Snoek: The Mediamill Semantic Video Search Engine, BOEMIE workshop on Ontology Evaluation and Multimedia Information Extraction , Podebrady, Czech Republic, 2006
• M. Worring and C.G.M. Snoek. Towards a multimodal concept ontology for accessing multimedia archives. Dagstuhl 2005
• M. Worring et.al. Multimodal Interactive Search. Dagstuhl 2004
• M.Worring, A.W.M. Smeulders, Bridging the Semantic Gap: How to retrieve what we are really looking for? IEEE Benelux midwinter meeting 2002
• M.Worring, Interactive Multimodal Retrieval, SOFSEM 02 (SOFtware SEMinar), Czech Republic
• M.Worring, Synergies Between Document Analysis Research and Digital Libraries (panel), at ICDAR 01 Seattle, USA

Invited presentations: national

• M. Worring: Multimedia Analytics: Exploration of Large Multimedia Collections, University of Groningen, 2012
• M. worring: Searching Illegal Images, Hogeschool Utrecht, 2011
• D.T. Kien and M. Worring: Semi-interactieve plaats delict reconstructie, Forensische Visualisatie, 2010
• M. Worring et.al.: Video op de Plaats Delict, Forensische Visualisatie. 2009.
• M. Worring et.al.: Volgen van mensen over meerdere camera's, Trefpunt Veiligheid. 2009.
• M. Worring: Kennis Ontwikkeling in Surveillance. Surveilig Netwerkbijeenkomst. 2008.
• M. Worring: de wie, wat, waar, wanneer in cameratoezicht. Symposium Datering in Forensische Context, Amsterdam 2008.
• M. Worring and C. Veenman: Forensic Intelligence, Radboud University, 2008
• M. Worring et.al.: The Professional's Dashboard, Almere Breedband, 2008
• M. Worring and C. Veenman: Forensic Intelligence, Studiedag Forensic Intelligence, Politie Amsterdam, 2007
• M. Worring et.al.: Semantic Video Search Engines, IOP eindcongres, 2007
• M. Worring et.al.: The Surveillance Dashboard, IOP eindcongres, 2007
• M. Worring and C.G.M. Snoek. Multimodal indexing of video, Mediamanagement Congres, Amsterdam, 2004.
• M. Worring and C.G.M. Snoek. Goalgle: a search engine voor voetbalwedstrijden. Dag van het Document, 2004
• M. Worring: Gepersonaliseerde Multimedia Informatie. ICT kenniscongres, Den Haag, 2003
• M. Worring: Van Beeld naar Video: mogelijkheden en uitdagingen. VisionBeurs, 2003
• M. Worring and Jurgen den Hartog. De multimediale bibliotheek: mogelijkheden en onmogelijkheden. Nederlandse Verening van Biobliotheken, Ede 2002.
• M. Worring and A.W.M. Smeulders, Interactive Retrieval of Multimedia Content, ASCI, 2001

Former activities

• Chair of the IAPR TC12 : Multimedia and Visual Information Systems.
• NVPHBV: Member of the board of the Dutch chapter of the IAPR.
• Member of the NWO commitee for the Computer Science Open Competition
• IOP: member of the commitee following the activities of cluster B in the IOP image processing.
• EDDA: a steering group of the council of Amsterdam. It focusses on the preservation of and access to machine readable data. Both technical as well as organizational and legal aspects are of importance here.