Michael S. Lew (born 19 April 1965[1]) is a scientist in multimedia information search and retrieval at Leiden University, Netherlands.
[2] He has published over a dozen books and 150 scientific articles in the areas of content based image retrieval, computer vision, and deep learning.
[10] He was also a founding member of the international advisory committee for the TRECVID video retrieval evaluation project,[11] chair of the steering committee for the ACM International Conference on Multimedia Retrieval and a member of the ACM SIGMM Executive Committee (the highest board of the SIGMM).
In addition, his work on convolutional fusion networks in deep learning won the best paper award at the 23rd International Conference on Multimedia Modeling.
His work is frequently cited in both scientific and popular news sources.