Ionuţ Mironică

Research Scientist at Adobe

Publications

US Patents

1. Ionuţ Mironică: "Removing Compression Artifacts from Digital Images and Videos Utilizing Generative Machine-Learning Models", 2021.
2. Yijun Li, Ionuţ Mironică: "Universal Style Transfer using Multi-Scale Feature Transform and User Controls", 2021.
3. Ionuţ Mironică, Yijun Li: "Restoring Degraded Digital Images through a Deep Learning Framework", 2021.
4. Ionuţ Mironică: "Methods and Systems for Automatically Correcting Image Rotation", 2020.
5. Ionuţ Mironică, Andreea Birhala: "Recommendation Engine for Complex Content-Aware Collage Composing", 2020.
6. Ionuţ Mironică, Oscar Bolanos, Andreea Birhala: "Correcting Dust and Scratch Artifacts in Digital Images", 2020.
7. Ionuţ Mironică: "Systems and methods for generating typhographical images or videos", 2020.

Books

1. Bogdan Ionescu, Ionuţ Mironică: "The Content-Based Indexing Paradigm in the Context of Multimodal Data" (in romanian - "Conceptul de Indexare Automata dupa Continut în Contextul Datelor Multimedia"), Publishing House "Editura Matrix Rom", to appear, 2013, (112 pages). download draft PDF

Journal Papers

1. Ionuţ Mironică, Bogdan Ionescu, Jasper Uijlings, Nicu Sebe, "Fisher Kernel Temporal Variation-based Relevance Feedback for Video Retrieval", Computer Vision and Image Understanding (CVIU), accepted paper 2015 (40 pages, ISI Impact Factor 2.13 - DOI:10.1016/j.cviu.2015.10.005). download draft PDF
2. Bogdan Boteanu, Ionuţ Mironică, Bogdan Ionescu, "Pseudo-Relevance Feedback Diversification of Social Image Retrieval Results", Multimedia Tools and Applications, special issue on "Content Based Multimedia Indexing" (31 pages, ISI Impact Factor 1.3), 2016.
3. Ionuţ Mironică, Ionuţ Duţă, Bogdan Ionescu, Nicu Sebe, "A Modified Vector of Locally Aggregated Descriptors Approach for Fast Video Classification", Multimedia Tools and Applications (MTAP), (31 pages, ISI Impact Factor 1.3 - DOI:10.1007/s11042-015-2819-7). download draft PDF
4. Ionuţ Mironică, Cătălin Mitrea, Bogdan Ionescu, Patrick Lambert, "A Fisher Kernel Approach for Multiple Instance Based Object Retrieval in Video Surveillance", Advances in Electrical and Computer Engineering (AECE), (10 pages, ISI Impact Factor 0.6). download draft PDF
5. Ionuţ Mironică, Bogdan Ionescu, Radu Dogaru, "Cellular Automata Bag of Visual Words for Object Recognition", in Scientific Bulletin of UPB, Series C - Electrical Engineering, 2014 (accepted paper) download draft PDF
6. Ionuţ Mironică, Radu Dogaru, "A novel feature-extraction algorithm for efficient classification of texture images", in Scientific Bulletin of UPB, Series C - Electrical Engineering, 2013 download draft PDF
7. B. Ionescu, K. Seyerlehner, Ionuţ Mironică, C. Vertan, P. Lambert, "An Audio-Visual Approach to Web Video Categorization", Multimedia Tools and Applications, special issue on "Multimedia on the Web", 2012 (ISI Impact Factor 1.3). (download draft PDF - link to Springer article)

Publications in international conferences

1. Andreea Birhala, Ionuţ Mironică, "ReflectNet - A Generative Adversarial Method for Single Image Reflection Suppression", CoRR abs/2105.05216 (2021) download draft PDF
2. Ionuţ Mironică, Andrei Zugravu, "A Fast Deep Learning Network for Automatic Image Auto-Straightening", CoRR abs/2105.05787 (2021) download draft PDF
3. Ionuţ Mironică, "A Generative Adversarial Approach with Residual Learning for Dust and Scratches Artifacts Removal", ACM Multimedia, The 2nd workshop on Structuring and Understanding of Multimedia heritAge Contents, 2020 download draft PDF
4. Negar Rostamzadeh, Jasper Uijlings, Ionuţ Mironică, Mojtaba Khomami Abadi, Bogdan Ionescu, Nicu Sebe, "Cluster Enconding for Modelling Temporal Variation in Video", IEEE International Conference on Image Processing - ICIP, September 27-30, Quebec City, Canada, 2015. download draft PDF.
5. Markus Schedl, Mats Sjobergy, Ionuţ Mironică, Bogdan Ionescu, Vu Lam Quang, Yu-Gang Jiang, Claire-Helene Demarty, "VSD2014: A Dataset for Violent Scenes Detection in Hollywood Movies and Web Videos", International Workshop on Content-Based Multimedia Indexing - CBMI, June 10-12, Prague, Czech Republic, 2015 (6 pages) download draft PDF.
6. Bogdan Boteanu, Ionuţ Mironică, Bogdan Ionescu, "Diversification with Fisher Kernel Pseudo-Feedback", IEEE International Symposium on Signals, Circuits and Systems - ISSCS, July 9-10, Iasi, Romania, 2015 (4 pages) download draft PDF.
7. Bogdan Boteanu, Ionuţ Mironică, Bogdan Ionescu, "Hierarchical Clustering Pseudo-Relevance Feedback for Social Image Search Result Diversification", International Workshop on Content-Based Multimedia Indexing - CBMI, June 10-12, Prague, Czech Republic, 2015 (6 pages) download draft PDF.
8. Cătălin Mitrea, Ionuţ Mironică, Bogdan Ionescu, Radu Dogaru, "Fast Support Vector Classifier for Automated Content-based Search in Video Surveillance", IEEE ISSCS -International Symposium on Signals, Circuits and Systems, July 9-10, Iasi, Romania, 2015 (4 pages) download draft PDF.
9. Ionuţ Mironică, Ionuţ Duţa, Bogdan Ionescu, Nicu Sebe, "Beyond Bag-of-Words: Fast Video Classification with Fisher Kernel Vector of Locally Aggregated Descriptors", IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo - ICME, 29 June - 3 July, Torino, Italy, 2015 download draft PDF.
10. Cătălin Mitrea, Ionuţ Mironică, B. Ionescu, R. Dogaru, "Multiple Instance – based Object Retrieval in Video Surveillance: Dataset and Evaluation", IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Computer Communication and Processing, September 4-6, Cluj-Napoca, Romania, 2014.   download draft PDF.
11. Bogdan Boteanu, Ionuţ Mironică, Bogdan Ionescu, "A Relevance Feedback Perspective to Image Search Result Diversification", IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Computer Communication and Processing, September 4-6, Cluj-Napoca, Romania, 2014.   download draft PDF.
12. Ionuţ Mironică, Jasper Uijlings, Negar Rostamzadeh, Bogdan Ionescu, Nicu Sebe, "Time Matters! Capturing Variation in Time in Video using Fisher Kernels", ACM Multimedia, 21-25 October, Barcelona, Spain, 2013.   download draft PDF & download poster.
13. Negar Rostamzadeh, Gloria Zen, Ionuţ Mironică, Jasper Uijlings, Nicu Sebe, "Daily Living Activities Recognition via Efficient High and Low Level Cues Combination and Fisher Kernel Representation", IEEE International Conference on Image Analysis and Processing, ICIAP, Napoli, Italy, September, 2013.   download draft PDF.
14. Ionuţ Mironică, B. Ionescu, P. Knees, P. Lambert, "An In-Depth Evaluation of Multimodal Video Genre Categorization", IEEE International Workshop on Content-Based Multimedia Indexing, 17-19 June, Veszprém, Hungary, 2013   download draft PDF download presentation.
15. Ionuţ Mironică, Bogdan Ionescu, C. Rasche, Patrick Lambert, "A Visual-Based Late-Fusion Framework for Video Genre Classification", IEEE ISSCS -International Symposium on Signals, Circuits and Systems, July 11-12, Iasi, Romania, 2013 (4 pages)   download draft PDF.
16. Radu Vieriu, Ionuţ Mironică, Bogdan Goras, "Background Invariant Static Hand Gesture Recognition based on Hidden Markov Models", IEEE ISSCS -International Symposium on Signals, Circuits and Systems, July 11-12, Iasi, Romania, 2013 (4 pages).   download draft PDF.
17. Ionuţ Mironică, Bogdan Ionescu, Jasper Uijlings, Nicu Sebe, "Fisher Kernel based Relevance Feedback for Multimodal Video Retrieval", ACM International Conference on Multimedia Retrieval - ICMR 2013, Dallas, Texas, USA, April 16 - 19, 2013   download draft PDF. download presentation
18. Bogdan Ionescu, Jasper Schlüter, Ionuţ Mironică, Markus Schedl, "A Naive Mid-level Concept-based Fusion Approach to Violence Detection in Hollywood Movies", ACM International Conference on Multimedia Retrieval - ICMR 2013, Dallas, Texas, USA, April 16 - 19, 2013   download draft PDF.
19. Ionuţ Mironică, Bogdan Ionescu, Constantin Vertan, "The Influence of the Similarity Measure to Relevance Feedback", 20th European Signal Processing Conference - EUSIPCO 2012, August 27-31, Bucharest, Romania, 2012   download draft PDF
20. Bogdan Ionescu, Klaus Seyerlehner, Ionuţ Mironică, Constantin Vertan, Patrick Lambert, "Automatic Web Video Categorization using Audio-Visual Information and Hierarchical Clustering Relevance Feedback", 20th European Signal Processing Conference - EUSIPCO 2012, August 27-31, Bucharest, Romania, 2012 download draft PDF
21. Ionuţ Mironică, Bogdan Ionescu, Constantin Vertan, "Hierarchical Clustering Relevance Feedback for Content-Based Image Retrieval", IEEE/ACM 10th International Workshop on Content-Based Multimedia Indexing, 27-29 June, Annecy, France, 2012   download draft PDF
22. Ionuţ Mironică, Constantin Vertan, Dan Cristian Gheorghe "Automatic Pediatric Otitis Detection by Classification of Global Image Features", International Conference on e-Health and Bioengineering, EHB 2011   IEEE link  ppt presentation
23. Ionuţ Mironică, Constantin Vertan "A Modified Feature Relevance Estimation Approach to Relevance Feedback in Content-Based Image Retrieval Systems", Signal Processing and Applied Mathematics for Electronics and Communications August 26-28, 2011, Cluj-Napoca, Romania  EURASIP link
24. Ionuţ Mironică, Constantin Vertan, Bogdan Ionescu "A Relevance Feedback Approach to Video Genre Retrieval", 7th International Conference on Intelligent Computer Communication and Processing August 25-27, 2011, Cluj-Napoca, Romania   IEEE link  draft  ppt presentation
25. Ionuţ Mironică, Constantin Vertan "An adaptive hierarchical clustering approach for relevance feedback in content-based image retrieval systems", Signals, Circuits and Systems (ISSCS), 2011 10th International Symposium on June 30 2011-July 1 2011, Iasi Romania  IEEE link
26. Ionuţ Mironică, Radu Dogaru "A comparison between various classification methods for image classification stage in CBIR", Signals, Circuits and Systems (ISSCS), 2011 10th International Symposium on June 30 2011-July 1 2011, Iasi Romania  IEEE link
27. Ionuţ Mironică, Constantin Vertan "Relevance feedback approaches for MPEG-7 content-based biomedical image retrieval", Communications (COMM), 2010 8th International Conference on 10-12 June 2010 Bucharest Romania, on pages: 185 - 188   IEEE link  

Working notes papers

1. Ionuţ Mironică, Bogdan Ionescu, Mats Sjöberg, Markus Schedl, Marcin Skowron, "RFA at MediaEval 2015 Affective Impact of Movies Task: A Multimodal Approach", MediaEval Benchmarking Initiative for Multimedia Evaluation workshop MediaEval Benchmarking Initiative for Multimedia Evaluation Workshop, CEUR-WS.org, ISSN: 1613-0073, (2 pages, download article PDF).
   
2. Bogdan Boteanu, Ionuţ Mironică, Bogdan Ionescu, "LAPI @ 2015 Retrieving Diverse Social Images Task: A Pseudo-Relevance Feedback Diversification Perspective", MediaEval Benchmarking Initiative for Multimedia Evaluation workshop MediaEval Benchmarking Initiative for Multimedia Evaluation Workshop, CEUR-WS.org, ISSN: 1613-0073, (2 pages, download article PDF).
   
3. B. Boteanu, Ionuţ Mironică, A.-L. Radu, B. Ionescu, "LAPI @ 2014 Retrieving Diverse Social Images Task: A Relevance Feedback Diversification Perspective", MediaEval Benchmarking Initiative for Multimedia Evaluation workshop MediaEval Benchmarking Initiative for Multimedia Evaluation workshop, CEUR-WS.org, ISSN: 1613-0073, (2 pages, download article PDF).
   

Awards

• B. Ionescu, Ionuţ Mironică, K. Seyerlehner, P. Knees, J. Schlüter, M. Schedl, H. Cucu, A. Buzo, P. Lambert, "ARF @ MediaEval 2012: Multimodal Video Classification", MediaEval Benchmarking Initiative for Multimedia Evaluation workshop, Pisa, Italy, 4-5 October, 2012 (2 pages, download article PDF).
  Best system (non-organizer connected), best run ranked 2nd out of 29 runs;
• J. Schlüter, B. Ionescu, Ionuţ Mironică, M. Schedl, "ARF @ MediaEval 2012: An Uninformed Approach to Violence Detection in Hollywood Movies", MediaEval Benchmarking Initiative for Multimedia Evaluation workshop Pisa, Italy, 4-5 October, 2012 (2 pages, download article PDF).
  Best system, best run ranked 1st out of 35 runs.
• M. Sjöberg, Ionuţ Mironică, M. Schedl, B. Ionescu, "FAR @ MediaEval 2014 Violent Scenes Detection: A Concept-based Fusion Approach", MediaEval Benchmarking Initiative for Multimedia Evaluation workshop MediaEval Benchmarking Initiative for Multimedia Evaluation Workshop, CEUR-WS.org, ISSN: 1613-0073, (2 pages, download article PDF).
  3rd out of 35 runs.

Talks

• Boosting the first mile user experience with Machine Learning, Bucharest School of AI, 2020.
• "Generative Adversarial Networks for Advanced Image Editing", EEML 2019.
• Machine Learning Fundamentals, ML trainings in Endava Iasi, Cluj and Adobe Romania.

Service

• Journal of Multimedia;
• Journal of Multimedia Tools And Applications;
• IEEE/ACM Transactions of Networking;
• Journal of Image and Vision Computing;
• Journal on Image and Video Processing;
• Journal of Signal, Image and Video Processing;
• International Journal of Multimedia Information Retrieval;
• Journal of Multimedia;
• European Signal Processing Conference - EUSIPCO 2013 and 2014;
• European Workshop on Visual Information Processing - EUVIP 2014;
• International Conference on Knowledge and Systems Engineering (KSE) 2015;
• Scientific Bulletin UPB;

• International Workshop on Content-Based Multimedia Indexing (CBMI) 2016;
• ACM International Conference on Multimedia Retrieval (ICMR) 2017.

Teaching