Author presentation

Frank Hopfgartner is post doctoral research fellow and member of the AI Group at the International Computer Science Institute (ICSI). He is of German descent and is currently residing at Berkeley University.



His main research interest is on adaptive information retrieval, concept based retrieval and the automated evaluation of interactive information retrieval systems. Frank (co-) authored over 40 scientific publications in the field of multimedia retrieval and adaptive recommender systems. Further, he was involved in various other activities.


I'm going to discuss his chapter of the book "Computation for Humanity—Information Technology to Advance Society " called "Multimedia Retrieval and Adaptive Systems". More on the subject in next posts, stay tuned.


More about Frank and his topic of interests:
http://www.icsi.berkeley.edu/~fh/


Here's a paper talking about the subject in details:
http://doras.dcu.ie/16264/


This page lists Frank's publications throughout his science career:

http://www.informatik.uni-trier.de/~ley/db/indices/a-tree/h/Hopfgartner:Frank.html



And if you want to buy one of Frank's book, here's link to the online bookstore that offers it:
http://www.bookcity.pl/A5325900/Understanding_Video_Retrieval/Frank_Hopfgartner