Full list of publications by Markus Koskela

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Journal articles

• Xi Chen and Markus Koskela. Skeleton-Based Action Recognition with Extreme Learning Machines. Accepted to Neurocomputing. 2014.
• Antti Ajanki, Mark Billinghurst, Hannes Gamper, Toni Järvenpää, Melih Kandemir, Samuel Kaski, Markus Koskela, Mikko Kurimo, Jorma Laaksonen, Kai Puolamäki, Teemu Ruokolainen, and Timo Tossavainen. An Augmented Reality Interface to Contextual Information. Virtual Reality, 15(2-3): 161-173. 2011. [DOI]
• Markus Koskela, Alan F. Smeaton, and Jorma Laaksonen. Measuring Concept Similarities in Multimedia Ontologies: Analysis and Evaluations. IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, 9(5): 912-922. August 2007. [abstract] [DOI]
• Jorma Laaksonen, Markus Koskela, and Erkki Oja. Class Distributions on SOM Surfaces for Feature Extraction and Object Retrieval. Neural Networks 17(8-9): 1121-1133. October-November 2004. [abstract] [DOI]
• Jorma Laaksonen, Markus Koskela, and Erkki Oja. PicSOM--Self-Organizing Image Retrieval With MPEG-7 Content Descriptors. IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks, 13(4): 841-853, July 2002. Available online here.
• Jorma Laaksonen, Markus Koskela, Sami Laakso, and Erkki Oja. Self-Organizing Maps as a Relevance Feedback Technique in Content-Based Image Retrieval. Pattern Analysis & Applications, 4(2+3): 140-152, June 2001. Available online here.
• Jorma Laaksonen, Markus Koskela, Sami Laakso, and Erkki Oja. PicSOM - content-based image retrieval with self-organizing maps. Pattern Recognition Letters, 21(13-14): 1199-1207, December 2000. Available online here.

Conferences, workshops, etc.

2014

• Markus Koskela and Jorma Laaksonen. Convolutional Network Features for Scene Recognition. Accepted to the 22nd International Conference on Multimedia (ACM MM 2014). Orlando, Florida. November 2014. [pdf] [DOI] [full results]
• Xi Chen and Markus Koskela. Using Appearance-Based Hand Features For Dynamic RGB-D Gesture Recognition. Accepted to the 22nd International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR 2014). Stockholm, Sweden. August 2014. [pdf]

2013

• Antti Ajanki, Markus Koskela, Jorma Laaksonen and Samuel Kaski. Adaptive Timeline Interface to Personal History Data. In Proceedings of 15th ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI 2013). Sydney, Australia. December 2013. [DOI]
• Xi Chen and Markus Koskela. Online RGB-D Gesture Recognition with Extreme Learning Machines. In Proceedings of 15th ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI 2013) (ChaLearn Workshop on Multi-modal Gesture Recognition, MMGR 2013) Sydney, Australia. December 2013. [DOI]
• Satoru Ishikawa, Markus Koskela, Mats Sjöberg, Jorma Laaksonen, Erkki Oja, Ehsan Amid, Kalle Palomäki, Annamaria Mesaros, and Mikko Kurimo. PicSOM Experiments in TRECVID 2013. Online Proceedings of the TRECVID 2013 Workshop. Gaithersburg, MD, USA. November 2013.
• He Zhang, Zhirong Yang, Mehmet Gönen, Markus Koskela, Jorma Laaksonen, Timo Honkela, and Erkki Oja. Affective Abstract Image Classification and Retrieval Using Multiple Kernel Learning. In Proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Neural Information Processing (ICONIP 2013), Daegu, South Korea, November 2013. [DOI]
• Xi Chen and Markus Koskela. Motion Sequence Classification With Extreme Learning Machine. Accepted to The International Conference on Extreme Learning Machines (ELM 2013). Beijing, China. October 2013.
• Xi Chen and Markus Koskela. Sequence Alignment for RGB-D and Motion Capture Skeletons. Proceedings of the International Conference on Image Analysis and Recognition (ICIAR 2013). Povoa de Varzim, Portugal. June 2013.
• Xi Chen and Markus Koskela. Classification of RGB-D and Motion Capture Sequences Using Extreme Learning Machine. In Proceedings of Scandinavian Conference on Image Analysis (SCIA 2013). Espoo, Finland. June 2013. [DOI]
• Mats Sjöberg, Markus Koskela, Satoru Ishikawa, and Jorma Laaksonen. Large-Scale Visual Concept Detection with Explicit Kernel Maps and Power Mean SVM. Proceedings of ACM International Conference on Multimedia Retrieval (ICMR 2013). Dallas, Texas. April 2013. [DOI]

2012

• Mats Sjöberg, Satoru Ishikawa, Markus Koskela, Jorma Laaksonen, and Erkki Oja. PicSOM Experiments in TRECVID 2012. Online Proceedings of the TRECVID 2012 Workshop. Gaithersburg, MD, USA. December 2012. [pdf]
• Mats Sjöberg, Markus Koskela, Satoru Ishikawa, and Jorma Laaksonen. Real-time large-scale visual concept detection with linear classifiers. Proceedings of 21st International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR 2012). Tsukuba, Japan. November 2012. [link]

2011

• Mats Sjöberg, Satoru Ishikawa, Markus Koskela, Jorma Laaksonen, and Erkki Oja. PicSOM Experiments in TRECVID 2011. Online Proceedings of the TRECVID 2011 Workshop. Gaithersburg, MD, USA. December 2011.
• Matti Karppa, Tommi Jantunen, Markus Koskela, Jorma Laaksonen, and Ville Viitaniemi. Method for visualisation and analysis of hand and head movements in sign language video. In Proceedings of the 2nd Gesture and Speech in Interaction conference (GESPIN 2011). Bielefeld, Germany. September 2011.
• Xi Chen and Markus Koskela. Mobile Visual Search from Dynamic Image Databases. In Proceedings of Scandinavian Conference on Image Analysis (SCIA 2011). Ystad, Sweden. May 2011. [DOI]
• Sanna Malinen, Siina Pamilo, Pia Tikka, Yevhen Hlushcuk, Markus Koskela, Jorma Laaksonen and Riitta Hari. FMRI correlates of essential movie-content extraction by an automatic algorithm and an expert viewer. Abstracts of the Opportunities and Challenges in Social Neuroscience conference. Utrecht, Germany. 2011.

2010

• Mats Sjöberg, Markus Koskela, Milen Chechev, and Jorma Laaksonen. PicSOM Experiments in TRECVID 2010. Online Proceedings of the TRECVID 2010 Workshop. Gaithersburg, MD, USA. November 2010. [pdf]
• Mats Sjöberg, Markus Koskela, Ville Viitaniemi, and Jorma Laaksonen. Indoor location recognition using fusion of SVM-based visual classifiers. In Proceedings of 2010 IEEE International Workshop on Machine Learning for Signal Processing, Kittilä (MLSP 2010), Finland, August-September 2010. [pdf]
• Antti Ajanki, Mark Billinghurst, Hannes Gamper, Toni Järvenpää, Melih Kandemir, Samuel Kaski, Markus Koskela, Mikko Kurimo, Jorma Laaksonen, Kai Puolamäki, Teemu Ruokolainen and Timo Tossavainen. Contextual Information Access with Augmented Reality. In Proceedings of IEEE International Workshop on Machine Learning for Signal Processing, Kittilä (MLSP 2010), Finland, August-September 2010. [DOI]
• Mats Sjöberg, Markus Koskela, Ville Viitaniemi, and Jorma Laaksonen. PicSOM experiments in ImageCLEF RobotVision. In Contests Proceedings of 20th International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR 2010), Istanbul, Turkey, August 2010. [pdf]
• Xi Chen, Markus Koskela, and Jouko Hyväkkä. Image Based Information Access for Mobile Phones. In Proceedings of 8th International Workshop on Content-Based Multimedia Indexing (CBMI 2010). Grenoble, France. June 2010. [pdf]
• Ville Viitaniemi, Mats Sjöberg, Markus Koskela, and Jorma Laaksonen. Automatic video search using semantic concepts. In Proceedings of 8th European Conference on Interactive TV and Video (EuroITV 2010). Tampere, Finland. June 2010. [pdf]
• Antti Ajanki, Mark Billinghurst, Melih Kandemir, Samuel Kaski, Markus Koskela, Mikko Kurimo, Jorma Laaksonen, Kai Puolamäki, and Timo Tossavainen. Ubiquitous Contextual Information Access with Proactive Retrieval and Augmentation. In Proceedings of 4th International Workshop on Ubiquitous Virtual Reality 2010 (IWUVR 2010) at Pervasive 2010. Helsinki, Finland. May 2010. [pdf]
• Tommi Jantunen, Markus Koskela, Jorma Laaksonen, and Päivi Rainò. Towards automated visualization and analysis of signed language prosody: Method and linguistic issues. In Proceedings of 5th International Conference on Speech Prosody, Chicago, Illinois, May 2010. [pdf]

2009

• Mats Sjöberg, Ville Viitaniemi, Markus Koskela, and Jorma Laaksonen. PicSOM Experiments in TRECVID 2009. Online Proceedings of the TRECVID 2009 Workshop. Gaithersburg, MD, USA. November 2009. [pdf]
• Philip Prentis, Mats Sjöberg, Markus Koskela, and Jorma Laaksonen. Image Theft Detection with Self-Organising Maps. In Proceedings of 19th International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks (ICANN 2009) Limassol, Cyprus. September 2009. [pdf]
• Markus Koskela, Mats Sjöberg, and Jorma Laaksonen. Improving Automatic Video Retrieval with Semantic Concept Detection. In Proceedings of 16th Scandinavian Conference on Image Analysis (SCIA 2009). Oslo, Norway. June 2009. [pdf]

2008

• Markus Koskela, Mats Sjöberg, Ville Viitaniemi, and Jorma Laaksonen. PicSOM Experiments in TRECVID 2008. Online Proceedings of the TRECVID 2008 Workshop. Gaithersburg, MD, USA. November 2008. [pdf]
• Markus Koskela, Jorma Laaksonen, Tommi Jantunen, Ritva Takkinen, Päivi Rainò, Antti Raike. Content-Based Video Analysis and Access for Finnish Sign Language -- A Multidisciplinary Research Project. In Proceedings of 3rd Workshop on the Representation and Processing of Sign Languages at 6th Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC 2008). Marrakech, Morocco, May-June 2008.
• Ville Viitaniemi, Mats Sjöberg, Markus Koskela, and Jorma Laaksonen. Exploiting Temporal and Inter-Concept Co-Occurrence Structure to Detect High-Level Features in Broadcast Videos. In Proceedings of 9th International Workshop on Image Analysis for Multimedia Interactive Services (WIAMIS 2008). Klagenfurt, Austria. May 2008. [pdf]
• Matthieu Molinier, Ville Viitaniemi, Markus Koskela, Jorma Laaksonen, Yrjö Rauste, and Tuomas Häme. Improving Content-Based Target and Change Detection in ALOS PALSAR Images with Efficient Feature Selection. In Proceedings of ESA-EUSC 2008: Image Information Mining. Frascati, Italy. March 2008. [pdf]

2007

• Markus Koskela, Mats Sjöberg, Ville Viitaniemi, Jorma Laaksonen, and Philip Prentis. PicSOM Experiments in TRECVID 2007. Online Proceedings of the TRECVID 2007 Workshop. Gaithersburg, MD, USA. November 2007. [abstract] [pdf]
• Markus Koskela, Mats Sjöberg, Jorma Laaksonen, Ville Viitaniemi, and Hannes Muurinen. Rushes Summarization with Self-Organizing Maps. In Proceedings of TRECVID Workshop on Video Summarization (TVS 2007) at ACM Multimedia 2007. Augsburg, Germany. September 2007. [abstract] [pdf] © Copyright 2007 by ACM, Inc.
• Jorma Laaksonen, Markus Koskela, Mats Sjöberg, Ville Viitaniemi, and Hannes Muurinen. Video Summarization with SOMs. In Proceedings of 6th International Workshop on Self-Organizing Maps (WSOM 2007). Bielefeld, Germany. September 2007. [abstract] [DOI]
• Markus Koskela and Alan F. Smeaton. An Empirical Study of Inter-Concept Similarities in Multimedia Ontologies. In Proceedings of ACM International Conference on Image and Video Retrieval (CIVR 2007). Amsterdam, The Netherlands. July 2007. [abstract] [pdf] © Copyright 2007 by ACM, Inc.

2006

• Emilie Garnaud, Alan F. Smeaton, and Markus Koskela. Evaluation of a Video Annotation Tool Based on the LSCOM Ontology. In Poster and Demo Proceedings of 1st International Conference on Semantic and Digital Media Technologies (SAMT 2006). Athens, Greece. December 2006. [abstract] [pdf]
• Markus Koskela, Peter Wilkins, Tomasz Adamek, Alan F. Smeaton, and Noel E. O'Connor. TRECVid 2006 Experiments at Dublin City University. Online Proceedings of the TRECVID 2006 Workshop. Gaithersburg, MD, USA. November 2006.[abstract] [pdf]
• Mats Sjöberg, Hannes Muurinen, Jorma Laaksonen, and Markus Koskela. PicSOM Experiments in TRECVID 2006. Online Proceedings of the TRECVID 2006 Workshop. Gaithersburg, MD, USA. November 2006. [abstract] [pdf]
• Markus Koskela and Alan F. Smeaton. Clustering-Based Analysis of Semantic Concept Models for Video Shots. In Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Multimedia & Expo (ICME 2006). Toronto, Ontario, Canada. July 2006. [abstract] [pdf]
• Markus Koskela and Jorma Laaksonen. Semantic Concept Detection from News Videos with Self-Organizing Maps. In Proceedings of 3rd IFIP Conference on Artificial Intelligence Applications and Innovations (AIAI 2006). Athens, Greece. June 2006. [abstract] [pdf]
• Mark Everingham, Andrew Zisserman, Christopher K. I. Williams et al. (34 authors). The 2005 PASCAL Visual Object Classes Challenge. In Selected Proceedings of the First PASCAL Challenges Workshop, LNAI, Springer-Verlag. 2006. [abstract] [pdf]

2005

• Markus Koskela, Jorma Laaksonen, Mats Sjöberg, and Hannes Muurinen. PicSOM Experiments in TRECVID 2005. Online Proceedings of the TRECVID 2005 Workshop. Gaithersburg, MD, USA. November 2005. [abstract] [pdf]
• Markus Koskela and Jorma Laaksonen. Semantic Annotation of Image Groups with Self-Organizing Maps. In Proceedings of 4th International Conference on Image and Video Retrieval (CIVR 2005). Singapore. July 2005. Springer-Verlag LNCS series, volume 3568, pp. 518-527. [abstract] [pdf]
• Jorma Laaksonen, Ville Viitaniemi, and Markus Koskela. Application of Self-Organizing Maps and Automatic Image Segmentation to 101 Object Categories Database. In Proceedings of 4th International Workshop on Content-Based Multimedia Indexing (CBMI 2005). Riga, Latvia. June 2005.
• Jorma Laaksonen, Ville Viitaniemi, and Markus Koskela. Emergence of Semantic Concepts in Visual Databases. In Proceedings of International and Interdisciplinary Conference on Adaptive Knowledge Representation and Reasoning (AKRR'05). Espoo, Finland. June 2005.

2004

• Markus Koskela, Jorma Laaksonen, and Erkki Oja. Entropy-based measures for clustering and SOM topology preservation applied to content-based image indexing and retrieval. In Proceedings of 17th International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR 2004). Cambridge, UK. August 2004. [pdf]
• Markus Koskela, Jorma Laaksonen, and Erkki Oja. Use of Image Subset Features in Image Retrieval with Self-Organizing Maps. In Proceedings of 3rd International Conference on Image and Video Retrieval (CIVR 2004). Dublin, Ireland. July 2004. Springer-Verlag LNCS series, volume 3115, pp. 508-516. [pdf]
• Timo Ojala, Markus Koskela, Esa Matinmikko, Mika Rautiainen, Jorma Laaksonen, and Erkki Oja. Task-based user evaluation of content-based image database browsing systems. In Proceedings of 3rd International Conference on Image and Video Retrieval (CIVR 2004). Dublin, Ireland. July 2004. Springer-Verlag LNCS series, volume 3115, pp. 234-242.

2003

• Jorma Laaksonen, Markus Koskela, and Erkki Oja. Probability interpretation of distributions on SOM surfaces. In Proceedings of Workshop on Self-Organizing Maps (WSOM'03). Hibikino, Kitakyushu, Japan. September 2003. [ps] [pdf]
• Mika Rummukainen, Jorma Laaksonen, and Markus Koskela. An efficiency comparison of two content-based image retrieval systems, GIFT and PicSOM. In Proceedings of International Conference on Image and Video Retrieval (CIVR 2003). Urbana, IL, USA. July 2003.
• Markus Koskela, Jorma Laaksonen, and Erkki Oja. Inter-Query Relevance Learning in PicSOM for Content-Based Image Retrieval. In Supplementary Proceedings of 13th International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks / 10th International Conference on Neural Information Processing (ICANN/ICONIP 2003). Istanbul, Turkey. June 2003.
• Markus Koskela and Jorma Laaksonen. Using Long-Term Learning to Improve Efficiency of Content-Based Image Retrieval. In Proceedings of Third International Workshop on Pattern Recognition in Information Systems (PRIS 2003). Angers, France. April 2003. Available online here.

2002

• Markus Koskela, Jorma Laaksonen, and Erkki Oja. Using MPEG-7 Descriptors in Image Retrieval with Self-Organizing Maps. In Proceedings of 16th International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR 2002). Quebec, Canada. August 2002.
• Markus Koskela, Jorma Laaksonen, and Erkki Oja. Implementing Relevance Feedback as Convolutions of Local Neighborhoods on Self-Organizing Maps. In Proceedings of International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks (ICANN 2002). Madrid, Spain. August 2002. Available online here.
• Markus Koskela, Jorma Laaksonen, and Erkki Oja. MPEG-7 Descriptors in Content-Based Image Retrieval with PicSOM System. In Proceedings of 5th International Conference on Visual Information System. HsinChu, Taiwan. March 2002.

2001

• Markus Koskela, Jorma Laaksonen, and Erkki Oja. Self-Organizing Image Retrieval with MPEG-7 Descriptors. In Proceedings of Infotech Oulu International Workshop on Information Retrieval (IR 2001). Oulu, Finland. September 2001.
• Markus Koskela, Jorma Laaksonen, and Erkki Oja. Comparison of Techniques for Content-Based Image Retrieval. In Proceedings of 12th Scandinavian Conference on Image Analysis (SCIA 2001). Bergen, Norway. June 2001. Available online here.
• Sami Laakso, Jorma Laaksonen, Markus Koskela, and Erkki Oja. Self-Organizing Maps of Web Link Information. In Advances in Self-Organising Maps. Springer, 2001.
• Markus Koskela, Jorma Laaksonen, and Erkki Oja. PicSOM Content-Based Image Retrieval System - Comparison of Techniques. In Proceedings of Workshop on Image Analysis for Multimedia Interactive Services (WIAMIS 2001). Tampere, Finland. May 2001.

2000

• Markus Koskela, Jorma Laaksonen, Sami Laakso, and Erkki Oja. Evaluating the Performance of Content-Based Image Retrieval Systems. In Proceedings of Visual Information Systems (VISUAL 2000). Lyon, France. November 2000.
• Jorma Laaksonen, Erkki Oja, Markus Koskela, and Sami Brandt. Analyzing Low-level Visual Features Using Content-Based Image Retrieval. In Proceedings of International Conference on Neural Information Processing (ICONIP 2000). Taejon, Korea. November 2000.
• Markus Koskela, Jorma Laaksonen, Sami Laakso, and Erkki Oja. Content-Based Image Indexing and Retrieval: The PicSOM System. In Proceedings of 9th Finnish Artificial Intelligence Conference (STeP 2000). Espoo, Finland. August 2000.
• Markus Koskela, Jorma Laaksonen, Sami Laakso, and Erkki Oja. The PicSOM Retrieval System: Description and Evaluations. In Proceedings of Challenge of Image Retrieval (CIR 2000). Brighton, UK. May 2000.

1999

• Jorma Laaksonen, Markus Koskela, and Erkki Oja. Application of Tree Structured Self-Organizing Maps in Content-Based Image Retrieval. In Proceedings of International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks (ICANN'99). Edinburgh, UK. September 1999.
• Jorma Laaksonen, Markus Koskela, and Erkki Oja. PicSOM: Self-Organizing Maps for Content-Based Image Retrieval. In Proceedings of International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN'99). Washington, DC. July 1999.
• Erkki Oja, Jorma Laaksonen, Markus Koskela, and Sami Brandt. Self-Organizing Maps for Content-Based Image Database Retrieval. In Kohonen Maps. July 1999.
• Jorma Laaksonen, Markus Koskela, and Erkki Oja. Content-Based Image Retrieval using Self-Organizing Maps. In Proceedings of Third International Conference on Visual Information Systems (VISUAL'99). Amsterdam, The Netherlands. June 1999.
• Jorma Laaksonen, Markus Koskela, and Erkki Oja. PicSOM - A Framework for Content-Based Image Database Retrieval using Self-Organizing Maps. In Proceedings of 11th Scandinavian Conference on Image Analysis (SCIA'99). Kangerlussuaq, Greenland. June 1999.

Theses

• Markus Koskela. Interactive Image Retrieval using Self-Organizing Maps. Doctoral thesis, Helsinki University of Technology, Dissertations in Computer and Information Science, Report D1, Espoo, Finland. November 2003. Available online here.
• Markus Koskela. Content-Based Image Retrieval with Self-Organizing Maps. Master's Thesis. August 1999. [ps] [pdf]

Books

• Joni-Kristian Kämäräinen and Markus Koskela (Editors). Proceedings of Scandinavian Conference on Image Analysis (SCIA 2013). Volume 7944 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS). Springer-Verlag, 2013.