Natalia Vassilieva

Researcher
St. Petersburg

Biography

Natalia is a researcher in the Information Analytics Lab (HP Labs Russia).

At the same time she is a part-time chair assistant at the St. Petersburg State University, mathematics and mechanics department.

Prior to that she worked as a software developer for several IT companies.

She graduated with honor from Saint Petersburg State University (SPSU), Mathematics and Mechanics Department, Chair of Software Engineering in 2002; held an intern position in the Multimedia Information Modeling and Retrieval group at the research laboratory CLIPS-IMAG (Grenoble, France) in 2002-2003; obtained PhD in Computer Science from SPSU in 2010.

 

Research interests

Multimedia mining, content-based image retrieval, image and document processing, text detection in images, open information extraction.

Awards

Natalia is a recipient of the “Young Researcher” award from Russian Fund of Fundamental Research in 2002, a scholarship from French government in 2002, the “Internet-Mathematics” award from Yandex company in 2007.

Publications

  • Natalia Vassilieva, Yulia Gladisheva. Text Detection in Chart Images. In Proc. of the 10th  International Conference <Pattern Recognition and Image Analysis: New Infromation Technologies> PRIA-10-2010, Vol. 2. Saint-Petersburg, Russia, 2010, pp. 365-368.
  • Natalia Vassilieva. Content-based Image Retrieval Methods. In Programming and Computer Software, 2009, Vol. 35, No. 3, pp. 158-180, Pleiades Publishing, Ltd., 2009. (Original Russian Text N.S. Vassilieva, 2009, published in Programmirovanie, 2009, Vol. 35, No. 3.) 
  • Natalia Vassilieva. Bin width selection for color histograms in image retrieval. In Vestnik St. Petersburg University: Informatics, Vol. 10, No. 2, 2009, pp. 155-164.
  • Ilya Markov, Natalia Vassilieva. Query Classification in Content-Based Image Retrieval. Databases and Information Systems V - Selected Papers from the Eighth International Baltic Conference, DB&IS 2008, Edited by Hele-Mai Haav, Ahto Kalja, 2009, pp. 281-288.
  • Ilya Markov, Natalia Vassilieva. Image retrieval. Color and texture combining based on query-image. In Proc. of the International Conference on Image and Signal Processing (ICISP 2008), July 1-3, 2008, Cherbourg-Octeville, France, pp. 430-438.
  • Ilya Markov, Natalia Vassilieva. Building Up Low-Level Centroids for Groups of Perceptually Similar Images. In Proc. of the Eighth International Baltic Conference on Databases and Information Systems (Baltic DB&IS 2008), June 2-5, Tallinn, Estonia, pp. 341-348.
  • Natalia Vassilieva, Alexander Dolnik, Ilya Markov. Image retrieval. Combining multiple search methods' results. In "Internet-mathematics" Collection (2007), 46-55.
  • Ilya Markov, Natalia Vassilieva and Alexander Yaremchuk. Image retrieval. Optimal weights for color and texture fusion based on query object. In Proc. of the Ninth National Russian Research Conference RCDL'2007, Pereyaslavl-Zalessky, Russia, October 15 - 18, 2007.
  • Natalia Vassilieva, Boris Novikov. Establishing a correspondence between low-level features and semantics of fixed images. In Proc. of the Seventh National Russian Research Conference RCDL'2005, Yaroslavl, Russia, October 04 - 06, 2005.
  • Natalia Vassilieva, Boris Novikov. A Similarity Retrieval Algorithm for Natural Images. In Proc. of the Baltic DB&IS'2004, Riga, Latvia, June 2004.
  • Julia Houdyakova, Alexander Ivanov, Natalia Vassilieva. Information System 'Student'. The mechanism of access rights administration. In Proc. of the 10th science methodical conference Telematica'2003. St.Petersburg, Russia. April, 2003.
  • Natalia Vassilieva, The mechanism of access rights administration in information systems. 7th St.Petersburg assembly of young scientists and experts, pp. 17-18. St.Petersburg, 2002.
  • Natalia Vassilieva, Timur Khairov. Student. Orders in study process management system. In Proc. of the conference ITO'2002. Moscow, Russia. November, 2002.
  • Natalia Vassilieva. Automation of document circulation of orders. In the Proc. of the 9th science methodical conference Telematica'2002. St.Petersburg, Russia. June, 2002.
  • Professional activities

    • Organizing Committee Chair at RuSSIR/EDBT'2011
    • PC memeber at GraphiCon'2011
    • PC member at CLEF'2010
    • PC member at RuSSIR'2009, RuSSIR'2010, RuSSIR/EDBT'2011 
    • PC member at SYRCoDIS'2008, SYRCoDIS'2009, SYRCoDIS'2011 
    • PC member at ROMIP since 2009
    • Reviewer at RCDL'2007