publications

Twitter and microblog research papers (part of my PhD)

• Marc Cheong, V.CS. Lee (2010):
  A microblogging-based approach to terrorism informatics: Exploration and chronicling civilian sentiment and response to terrorism events via Twitter.
  Information Systems Frontiers (Springer). 2010.
• Marc Cheong, V.CS. Lee (2010):
  A Study on Detecting Patterns in Twitter Intra-topic User and Message Clustering.
  ICPR 2010 [Istanbul].
• Marc Cheong, V.CS. Lee (2010):
  'Twitmographics': Learning the emergent properties of the Twitter community.
  From Sociology to Computing in Social Networks: Lecture Notes in Social Networks, Vol. 1 (Springer).
• Marc Cheong, V.CS. Lee (2010):
  Dissecting Twitter: A Review on Current Microblogging Research, and Lessons from Related Fields. From Sociology to Computing in Social Networks: Lecture Notes in Social Networks, Vol. 1 (Springer).
• Marc Cheong, V.CS. Lee:
  "Twittering for Earth": A study on the impact of microblogging activism on
  Earth Hour 2009 in Australia. ACIIDS 2010 [Vietnam]: 114-123.
• Marc Cheong:
  'What are you Tweeting about?': A survey of Trending Topics within
  the Twitter community. Technical report 2009/251.
  Clayton School of Information Technology, Monash University, 12 pp.
• Marc Cheong, V.CS. Lee:
  Integrating web-based intelligence retrieval and decision-making from the
  Twitter Trends knowledge base.
  CIKM-SWSM'09: Social Web Search and Mining [Hong Kong]: 1-8.

Image processing and pattern recognition papers

• Kar-Seng Loke, Marc Cheong:
  Efficient Batik Recognition via Decomposition of Co-occurrence Matrices.
  ICSIPA 2009 [Kuala Lumpur]: 257-261.
• Marc Cheong, Kar-Seng Loke:
  Textile Recognition Using Tchebichef Moments of Co-occurrence Matrices.
  ICIC (1) 2008 [Shanghai]: 1017-1024.
• Marc Cheong, Kar-Seng Loke:
  An approach to texture-based image recognition by deconstructing multispectral co-occurrence matrices using Tchebichef orthogonal polynomials.
  ICPR 2008 [Tampa]: 1-4.
• Marc Cheong (unpub. undergrad project)
  Textrieve: Texture-based image retrieval of traditional native textile motifs, using application of co-occurrence matrices.
  Technical report and documentation of my Java-based implementation of the original Haralick idea towards traditional textiles.

invited talks

• Monash Clayton Faculty of IT, CRIS Postgrad Lunch on 17 February 2010:
  "Wisdom of the Twitterverse: Leveraging the knowledge, latent demography, and user habits within the Twitter ecosystem" —
  Marc's PhD confirmation talk: background & current work on the Twitter 'ecosystem', publications/research contributions to date, and other potentially important areas arising from this line of research.

• Monash Sunway School of IT, invited special seminar on 14 January 2009:
  about my research, debut Twitter research paper and live demonstration of my findings.

• Monash Clayton Faculty of IT, CRIS Postgrad Lunch on 27 October 2009:
  about my workshop paper on Twitter Trends decision-making and intelligence retrieval.

• Monash Clayton Faculty of IT, CRIS Postgrad Lunch on 20 May 2009:
  an overview of my prior work on texture/textile recognition.

• Monash Sunway School of IT, HDR Luncheon seminar on 17 December 2008:
  about my first paper, its methods and conclusions, and experiences presenting it at the ICPR 2008 conference in Tampa, FL.