About me

I'm a graduate student at RMIT working with Seyed M. M. Tahaghoghi and Justin Zobel. I completed a B.App.Sci (Hons. Class 1) at RMIT.
My research interests include:

• Near-duplicate Image Retrieval
• Content-based Image/Video Retrieval
• Indexing for Image/Video Databases

Research

In environments such as personal computers and the web, it is common for images to be distributed, copied, or reused. Such reuse often involves varying the image by scaling, change of colour space, alteration of bitrate, or cropping; thus copies of images may be co-derivative or near-duplicate rather than copied. For reasons such as copyright protection, it is attractive to be able to detect such image variants. My research focuses on developing solutions to efficient co-derivative image detection within a large scale collection. For duplicate-detections for image web search, we've developed SICO (SImilar Image COllator) which is available here.

Refereed Publications:

• Jun Jie Foo, Justin Zobel, Ranjan Sinha. Clustering Near-duplicate Images in Large Collections, In Proceedings of the 9th ACM SIGMM International Workshop on Multimedia Information Retrieval (MIR 2007), J. Z. Wang, N. Boujemaa, A. D. Bimbo, J. Li (Eds.), pp. 21-30, Augsburg, Germany, 28-29 September 2007.   [pdf]


• Jun Jie Foo, Ranjan Sinha, Justin Zobel. SICO: A System For Detection of Near-duplicate Images During Search, In Proceedings of the 2007 IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME 2007), Beijing, China, 2-5 July 2007.   [pdf]


• Jun Jie Foo, Justin Zobel, Ranjan Sinha, Seyed M. M. Tahaghoghi, Detection of Near-duplicate Images For Web Search, In Proceedings of the 6th ACM International Conference on Image and Video Retrieval (CIVR 2007), pp. 557-564, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 9-11 July 2007.   [pdf]


• Jun Jie Foo, Ranjan Sinha, Using Redundant Bit-Vectors for Near-Duplicate Image Detection, In Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Database Systems For Advanced Applications (DASFAA 2007), R. Kotagiri, P. R. Krishna, M. Mohania, E. Nantajeewarawat (Eds.), pp. 472-484, Bangkok, Thailand, 9-12 April 2007.   [pdf]


• Jun Jie Foo, Ranjan Sinha, Pruning SIFT for Scalable Near-Duplicate Image Matching, In Proceedings of the 18th Australasian Database Conference (ADC 2007), G. Dobbie (Ed.), pp. 63-71, Ballarat, Australia, 29 January - 2 February 2007.   [pdf]


• Jun Jie Foo, Ranjan Sinha, Justin Zobel, Discovery of Image Versions in Large Collections, In Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on MultiMedia Modelling (MMM 2007), T.-J. Cham, J. Cai, C. Dorai, D. Rajan, T.-S. Chua, L.-T. Chia (Eds.), pp. 433--442, Singapore, 9-12 January 2007.   [pdf]


• Jun Jie Foo, Seyed M. M. Tahaghoghi, Justin Zobel, Features for Identification of Image Versions, IJDL (submitted)

Unpublished works:

• Jun Jie Foo, Ranjan Sinha, Using Redundant Bit-Vectors for Near-Duplicate Image Matching, RMIT Technical Report #TR-06-3, 2006


• Jun Jie Foo, Using Text Information Retrieval Techniques for Content-based Image Retrieval, Honours Thesis, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology., 2004

∗The papers listed here are either in submission or published in a conference proceedings.