• Mobile applications, Windows Mobile, iPhone
• Multimedia content analysis, representation, and applications
• Document analysis and representation
• E-meeting, E-presentation, E-lectures
• Content based image/video indexing and retrieval and MPEG-7
• Object based video representations and MPEG-4
• Image and video compression

Journal Publications

• Berna Erol, Kathrin Berkner, and Siddharth Joshi, " Multimedia Clip Generation from Documents for Browsing on Mobile Devices", IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, Vol. 10, Issue 5, Aug. 2008 pp. 711-723
• B. Erol and F. Kossentini "Shape-based Retrieval of Video Objects", IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, February, 2005.
• B. Erol and F. Kossentini "Retrieval by Local Motion", Eurasip Journal on Applied Signal Processing, 2003.
• B. Erol and F. Kossentini "Automatic Key Video Object Plane Selection Using the Shape Information in the MPEG-4 Compressed Domain", IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, vol. 2, no 2, pp.129-138, June 2000.
• S. Shirani, B. Erol, and F. Kossentini, "A Concealment Method for Shape Information in MPEG-4 Coded Video Sequences", IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, vol. 2, no 3, pp. 185-190, 2000.
• B. Erol, F. Kossentini, and H. Alnuweiri,"Efficient Coding and Mapping Algorithms For Software-only Real-Time Video Coding at Low Bit Rates", IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, vol. 10, no 6, pp. 843-856, September 2000.
• G. Cote, B. Erol, M. Gallant and F. Kossentini, " H.263+: Video Coding at Low Bit Rates", IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, vol. 8, no 7, pp. 849-866, November 1998.

Conference Publications

• Berna Erol, Emilio Antúnez, Jonathan J. Hull,"HOTPAPER: Multimedia Interaction with Paper using Mobile Phones", ACM Multimedia Conference, 2008
• Jonathan J. Hull, Berna Erol, Jamey Graham, Qifa Ke, Hidenobu Kishi, Jorge Moraleda, Daniel G. Van Olst, " Paper-Based Augmented Reality", 17th Int. Conf. on Artificial Reality and Telexistence, pp. 205-209, 2007
• Berna Erol, Jamey Graham, Jonathan J. Hull, and Peter E. Hart, " A Modern Day Video Flip-Book: Creating a Printable Representation from Time-Based Media ", ACM Multimedia Conference, 2007
• Andrew Lookingbill, Emilio R. Antunez, Berna Erol, Jonathan J. Hull, Jorge Moraleda, and Qifa Ke, "Ground-Truted Video Generation from Symbolic Information", IEEE ICME Conference, 2007
• Berna Erol, Kathrin Berkner, and Siddharth Joshi, "Multimedia Thumbnails for Documents", ACM Multimedia Conference, 2006
• Berna Erol, Kathrin Berkner, and Siddharth Joshi, "Multimedia Thumbnails for Documents: Implementation and Demonstration", ACM Multimedia Conference, 2006
• Best paper award - Berna Erol, Kathrin Berkner, Siddharth Joshi, and Jonathan J. Hull, "Computing a Multimedia Representation for Documents Given Time and Display Constraints", IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo, 2006
• Berna Erol and Jonathan J. Hull, "Semantic Classification of Business Images", SPIE Electronic Imaging Conference, 2006
• Berna Erol and Jonathan J. Hull, "Office Blogger", ACM Multimedia Conference, 2005
• Berna Erol and Ying Li, "An Overview of technologies for E-meeting and E-lecture", IEEE ICME Conference, 2005
• Berna Erol, Dar-Shyang Lee, and Jonathan J. Hull, "Smart Handouts: Personalized E-Presentation Documents", IEEE ICME Conference, 2005
• Dar-Shyang Lee, Jonathan J. Hull, Berna Erol, "Meeting Video Retrieval using Dynamic HMM Model Similarity", IEEE ICME Conference, 2005
• Berna Erol, Jonathan J. Hull, Jamey Graham, and Dar-Shyang Lee "Prescient Paper: Multimedia Document Creation with Document Image Matching", IEEE ICPR Conference, 2004
• Dar-Shyang Lee, Jonathan J. Hull, Berna Erol, and Jamey Graham "MinuteAid: Multimedia Note-Taking in an Intelligent Meeting Room", IEEE ICME Conference, 2004
• Berna Erol, Dar-Shyang Lee, and Jonathan J. Hull, "Retrieval of Presentations using Digital Camera Images", IEEE CVPR Conference, 2004.
• Berna Erol, Jonathan J. Hull, and Dar-Shyang Lee "Linking Multimedia Presentations with their Symbolic Source Documents: Algorithm and Applications", ACM Multimedia Conference, 2003
• Jamey Graham, Berna Erol, Jonathan J. Hull and Dar-Shyang Lee "The VideoPaper Multimedia Playback System", ACM Multimedia Conference, 2003
• Berna Erol, and Jonathan J. Hull "Linking Presentation Documents Using Image Analysis", Asilomar Conference, 2003
• Berna Erol, Dar-Shyang Lee, Jonathan J. Hull "Multimodal Summarization of Meeting Recordings", IEEE ICME, 2003
• Jonathan J. Hull, Berna Erol, Jamey Graham, Dar-Shyang Lee, "Visualizing Multimedia Content on Paper Documents: Key Frame Selection for Video Paper", 7th International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition, 2003
• Dar-Shyang Lee, Jonathan Hull, and Berna Erol, "A Bayesian Framework for Gaussian Mixture Background Modeling", IEEE ICIP, 2003.
• Dar-Shyang Lee, Berna Erol, and Jonathan Hull, "Segmenting People in Panoramic Meeting Videos Using Mixture Background and Object Models", IEEE Pacific-Rim Conference on Multimedia, 2002.
• B. Erol and F. Kossentini, "A Robust Distance Measure for the Retrieval of Video Objects", Southwest Symposium on Image Analysis and Interpretation, April 2002.
• Dar-Shyang Lee, Berna Erol, Jamey Graham, Jonathan J. Hull and Norihiko Murata, "Portable Meeting Recorder", ACM Multimedia Conference, 2002.
• B. Erol and F. Kossentini, "Similarity Matching of Arbitrarily Shaped Video by Still Shape Features and Shape Deformations", Proceedings of IEEE ICIP Conference, October 2001.
• B. Erol and F. Kossentini, "Color Content Matching of MPEG-4 Video Objects", Proceedings of IEEE Pacific-Rim Conference on Multimedia, 2001.
• B. Erol and F. Kossentini, "Local Motion Descriptors", Proceedings of IEEE Workshop on Multimedia Signal Processing, 2001.
• B. Erol and F. Kossentini, "Retrieval of video objects using compressed domain shape features", Proceedings of IEEE ICECS Conference, December 2000.
• B. Erol and F. Kossentini, "Partitioning of video objects into temporal segments using local motion information", Proceedings of IEEE ICIP Conference, September 2000.
• B. Erol and F. Kossentini, "Video object summarization in the MPEG-4 compressed domain", Proceedings of IEEE ICASSP Conference, vol 4, pp. 2027-2010, June 2000.
• S. Shirani, B. Erol and F. Kossentini, "Error concealment for MPEG-4 video communication in an error prone environment", Proceedings of IEEE ICASSP Conference, vol 4, pp. 2107-2110, June 2000.
• B. Erol, F. Kossentini, and H. Alnuweiri, "Implementation of a Fast H.263+ Encoder/Decoder", Proceedings of Asilomar Conference, pp. 462-466, California, November 1998.
• B. Erol, M. Gallant, G. Côté and F. Kossentini, "The H.263+ Video Coding Standard: Complexity and Performance" , IEEE Data Compression Conference, Snowbird, Utah, pp. 259-268, March 1998.
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Book Chapters

	B. Erol, F. Kossentini, Anthony Joch, Gary Sullivan, and Lowell Winger, "MPEG--4 Visual and H.264/AVC: Standards for Modern Digital Video", a chapter in the The Essential Guide to Video Processing, Academic Press, 2009.
	B. Erol, A. Dumitras, F. Kossentini, Anthony Joch, and Gary Sullivan, "MPEG-4, H.264/AVC and MPEG-7: New Standards for the Digital Video Industry", a chapter in the Handbook of Image and Video Processing Second Edition, Academic Press, 2005.
	B. Erol, A. Dumitras, and F. Kossentini "Emerging MPEG Standards: MPEG-4 and MPEG-7", a chapter in the Handbook of Image and Video Processing, Academic Press, 2000.

Patents

• 15+ issued patents and 40+ patent applications pending in the areas of multimedia processing, mobile applications, and social networks.

• Associate editor of IEEE Signal Processing Magazine Reader's Choice column (2007-2010)
• Organizing committee member and Industrial Exhibit Chair, ACM Multimedia 2010
• Program Committee member of the International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces 2010
• Associate editor of Journal of Multimedia (2009-2010)
• Technical Program Committee member for the Workshop on Content-based Multimedia Indexing (CBMI 2010)
• Panelist on "Mobile Apps" panel at Harvey Spencer Document Capture Conference 2009
• Organizing committee member and Chair of Applications Short Paper Program, ACM Multimedia 2009
• Organized two panels on "Mobile Media Search" in ACM Multimedia 2009 and IEEE ICASPP 2009
• Member of SPIE EI 2008 Organizing committee - Short-course co-chair
• Technical Committee Member of ACM Multimedia 2007
• Program Committee Member IEEE Workshop on Multimedia Technologies for E-Learning 2007
• Program Committee Member of ACM EMME Workshop 2007
• Session chair - ACM Multimedia 2007
• Reviewer for NSERC/CRSNG - Strategic Project Proposals
• Member of SPIE EI 2007 Organizing committee - Short-course co-chair
• Member of IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo 2006 Technical Committee
• Program committee member of International Conference on Interactive Mobile and Computer aided Learning 2006
• Program committee member of IEEE Workshop on Multimedia Technologies for E-Learning 2006
• Program committee member of IEEE ISSPIT 2006
• Session Chair - SPIE Electronic Imaging Conference 2006
• Co-organizer of a special session on E-meeting and E-learning - ICME 2005
• Member of ACM Multimedia 2004 Short Paper Program Committee
• Member of ACM Multimedia 2003 Poster/Short paper Committee
• Session Chair - SPIE Electronic Imaging Conference 2003
• Session Chair - IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo 2003