Professional Activities

Editorships

Associate Editor of IEEE Multimedia (2019-2022)
Associate Editor of the ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing, Communications, and Applications (2014-2018)
Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Multimedia (2004-2010).
Associate Editor of the Pattern Analysis and Applications journal (2007-2012).
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

2024

Co-chair Multimedia Modeling, Amsterdam
Brave New Idea chair. ACM Multimedia 2024

2023

Panel Moderator, Multimodal Large Foundation Models, ACM Multimedia, Ottawa
Panel chair, ACM International Conference on Multimedia Retrieval, Thessaloniki
Area chair, ACM Multimedia, Ottawa

2021

Program chair, ACM International Conference on Multimedia Retrieval, Taiwan, 2021

2020

Program coordinator, ACM Multimedia, 2020

2019

Area chair, ACM Multimedia, Nice, 2019
Brave New Ideas Chair, ACM Multimedia Asia, 2019
Chair committee SIGMM Best thesis award

2018

Workshop chair, ACM Multimedia, Seoul, 2018
Area chair, ACM Multimedia, Seoul, 2018

2016

General chair, ACM Multimedia, Amsterdam, 2016.

2015
Brave New Idea Chair, International Conference on Multimedia Retrieval, Shanghai, China, 2015

2014

Program Chair, Russian Summer School on Information Retrieval , Nizhny Novgorod, Russia, 2014
Demo Chair, International Conference on Multimedia Retrieval, Glasgow, Scotland, 2014

2013

Program Chair, International Conference on Multimedia Retrieval, Dallas, USA, 2013
Program Chair, ACM Multimedia, Barcelona, Spain, 2013
Panel Chair, Pacific-Rim conference on Multimedia 2013

2012

Area chair, ACM Multimedia, Nara Japan
Multimedia Grand Challenge co-chair, ACM Multimedia 2012, Nara Japan.
Track chair: Multimedia Content Analysis, Retrieval and Database, International Conference on Multimedia and Expo, 2012, Melbourne Australia
Panel chair International Conference on Multimedia Retrieval, 2012, Hong Kong

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. Hypergraphs for Multimedia Retrieval and Insight. Workshop Deep Learning for Information Retrieval, Ottawa 2023
M. Worring: Multimedia Analytics: From Data to Insight, Summer School: SFI Center for Research Training in Machine Learning. Dublin, 2021
M. Worring. Beyond relevance feedback for searching and exploring large multimedia collections, ICMR 2020
M. Worring. Interactive Exploration using Hypergraphs, 13th International Conference on Similarity Search and Applications, SISAP 2020.
M. Worring. Artificial Intelligence for Police Investigations, EUROPRIS online workshop ICT in prisons, 2020
M. Worring. Artificial Intelligence can move Multimedia Retrieval to Multimedia Analytics, Panel AI comes to Multimedia Retrieval at ACM International Conference on Multimedia Retrieval, Ottawa, 2019
M. Worring, D. Arya, S. Rudinac: (Hyper) graph convolutional networks for analyzing social multimedia data. Data Science UA Conference, Kiev 2019
M. Worring: Mutimedia Analytics: Getting insight in Multimedia Data using Interaction International Conference on Emerging Trends in Expert Applications and Security Jaipur, India, 2018.
M. Worring: Visualization of Data in Data Science, Data Science Seminar , Institute for Research in Fundamental Sciences, Tehran, Iran, 2017
M. Worring et.al.: Multimedia Analytics: From Data to Insight, Multimedia Modeling, Reykjavik, 2017
M. Worring: International perspectives on the components of the data science skill set, EDISON Champions workshop, Southampton, 2016
M. Worring: Analyzing large multimedia in an urban context, doctoral program in Computer Engineering, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain, 2016
M. Worring: Multimedia Analytics: Synergy between human and machine by visualization Similarity, K-NN, Dimensionsionality, Multimedia Databases Rennes, France, 2014
M. Worring: Multimedia Analysis and Multimedia Visualization Russian Summer School on Information Retrieval , Nizhny Novgorod, Russia, 2014
M. Worring: The Amsterdam Data Science Research Center, Open Science Data Cloud PIRE workshop, Amsterdam, 2014
M. Worring: Multimedia Analytics for Insight in Large Image Collections, Tsinghua University, China, 2014
M. Worring: Multimedia Analytics for Insight in Large Image Collections, Renmin University, China, 2014
M. Worring: Multimedia Analytics for Insight in Large Image Collections, City University Hong Kong, China, 2014
M. Worring: Easy categorization of large image collections by automatic analysis and information visualization, International UDC seminar, the Hague, 2013
M. Worring: Multimedia Analytics: Towards a Research Agenda. The Future of Multimedia Analysis and Mining, Shonan Village, Japan, 2012
M. Worring: Multimedia Analytics: Exploration of Large Multimedia Collections, 10th Workshop on Content-Based Multimedia Indexing, Annecy, France, 2012 (keynote)
M. Worring, O. de Rooij: Active Buckets for High Recall Video Retrieval, 2nd GNY Area Multimedia and Vision Meeting, Columbia University New York, 2012.
M.Worring, A.W.M. 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 (keynote)
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. AI en de UvA diensten. 2023
M. Worring, K. van der Klauw. Van Auditing naar AIditing. Vaktechnische dagen IT-Audit 2023
M. Worring. In 10 jaar naar AI4Intelligence. E-discovery symposium, The Hague Security Delta 2023
M. Worring Innovatieve interdisciplinaire AI programma's. Inspiring Generation, UvA
M. Worring. AI de analist van de toekomst?. A&O BI&K Vakdag Politie. 2023
M. Worring, Deepfakes: van data naar bewijs, Rijksbrede werkconferentie synthetische media & deepfakes , 2023
M. worring, AI4Fintech in Amsterdam, Meet the Expert session, De Nederlandse Bank, 2022
M. Worring, T van Sonsbeek, I. Najdenkoska: Multimodal Analysis of Chest X-Rays, Koninklijk Instituut Van Ingenieurs, Den Haag, 2022
M. Worring: Multimedia Analytics: from Data to Actionable Knowledge, ABN-AMRO, 2020
M. Worring: AI: The good, the bad, and the wonderful. 72nd Dies Natalis SIB-Groningen, 2019
M. Worring: Aan de slag met artificial intelligence, ledendag Nederlandse Orde van Adiministratie- en Belastingdeskundigen (NOAB), Papendal 2019
M. Worring: Explaining the 'black box'. Decisions in AI, SPUI25, Amsterdam 2019
M. Worring: [START] Fit for the Future, IV Dagen politie. Papendal 2019
M. Worring: Deep Learning for Multimedia, Symposium on Information Theory and Signal Processing in the Benelux, Enschede, 2018
M. Worring: Data Science in the Picture, Centre for Data Science and Systems Complexity, University of Groningen, 2016
M. Worring: Open Social Multimedia. Panel at Platform Linked Data Nederland, Eindhoven 2016
M. Worring: Getting Insight in Large Collections of Paintings. Past, Present and Future of Digital Humanities and Social Sciences in the Netherlands, KNAW 2016
M. Worring: How to get insight in large multimedia collections? Cultural Sociology Group Seminar, UvA, 2016
M. Worring: Image Retrieval Beyond the Ranked List. Search Engines Amsterdam, UvA, 2016
M. Worring: Multimedia-analyse van beeldmateriaal data als bewijs gebruikt wordt. Seminar Predictive Policing, Politie Academie, Apeldoorn, 2015
M. Worring: Multimedia Analytics, Platform voor Informatie Beveiliging, Hooglanderveen, 2014
M. Worring: Picture Analytics, Wiskunde Seminar VU Amsterdam, 2014
M. Worring: Visualization: from Data to Insight Measuring Amsterdam Hogeschool van Amsterdam, 2014
M. Worring: Forensic Multimedia Analytics, VTD-IT Audit, Egmond aan Zee, 2013
M. Worring: Forensic Multimedia Analytics: e-discovery symposium , Hogeschool van Amsterdam, 2013
M. Worring: Forensic Multimedia Analytics: Amsterdam Center of Forensic Science, 2013
M. Worring, F. Olislagers: Visual Analytics voor het vinden van patronen in vluchtleidings gegevens, Aviation Security Seminar, Hogeschool van Amsterdam, 2012
M. Worring: Visual Analytics for Security and Forensics, Hogeschool Utrecht, 2012
M. Worring: Multimedia Analytics: Exploration of Large Multimedia Collections, University of Groningen, 2012
M. Worring: Visueel zoeken, launch IColumbo, Utrecht 2012
M. Worring: Visueel zoeken, Masterclass Internet Technologie, KLPD, 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

Outreach and media

Collaboration with NFI on among other topics deep fakes 29 May 2021, The development of deepfakes is unstoppable Marcel Worring, NL Het Parool
27 May 2021 - EN Science Business
22 May 2021 - NL Nu.nl
22 May 2021 - NL Het Parool
22 May 2021 - NL AT5
22 May 2021 - NL Security.nl
24 May 2021 - NL Beveiligingsnieuws.nl
24 May 2021 - NL NOS Journaal (between 09:00-11:06 min.)
IAmsterdam
AG Connect
KNMG

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.