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Short Bio
I am now an Assistant Professor at Communication & Multimedia Lab (CMLab), CSIE & GINM, National Taiwan University since February 2007 and the founder of MiRA (Multimedia indexing, Retrieval, and Analysis) Research Group. I had my PhD study in Columbia University under the supervision of Prof. Shih-Fu Chang (2002-2006). Before that, I had worked for years in a prominent multimedia software start-up, CyberLink Corp. , where experiencing Engineer, Project Leader, and R&D Manager. I am also a CMLab alumnus cooperating with Prof. Jau Huang. See more details in my CV.
My research interests (see scope) fall in multimedia content analysis and large-scale multimedia retrieval for enabling "Next-Generation Search" and include :
- Searching one billion photos and videos
- Semantic event and concept detection in photos and videos
- Exploiting social media for knowledge acquisition
- Internet monetization (e.g., advertising)
- Multimedia testbed and evaluation (e.g., LSCOM, TRECVID)
- Investigating machine learning and information retrieval theoretical approaches
- Realizing advanced researches towards business deliverables
Recruiting
- Postdoc and Full-time Research Assistant (RA) positions are available; for advanced researches and implementation for large-scale multimedia analysis and retrieval. (more details)
- We keep recruiting graduate students (master or PhD) for the exciting projects of both great theoretical interests and strong industrial demands.
- Several image/video/audio retrieval projects are also good for undergraduate students.
Why having research projects in MiRA group? for CSIE undergraduates (
) and PhD students ().
News!!
- Invited for the "Image Semantics and Applications" forum in ITRI, Nov. 11, 2009.
Invited for speech - "Harnessing Community-Sharing Photos and Videos: Opportunities and Challenges" in 2009 Autumn Workshop on Research and Development Efforts for TELDAP, sponsored under National Project "Research and Development of Digital Archives and e-Learning Technologies Project," Academia Sinica, November 9, 2009.- Media coverage for our mobile image query project on Sept 1, 2009. Some excerpts (in Mandarin) include TV news and newspapers such as Liberty Times (PDF), UDN News (PDF), etc.
- Call for Papers (). Guest Editor for IEEE Multimedia Magazine Special Issue, "Knowledge Discovery over Community-Contributed Multimedia Data: Opportunities and Challenges." (06/10/2009)
- Invited as Organizing Committee for ACM Multimedia 2010. (July 2010)
- Our paper submission, "Canonical Image Selection and Efficient Image Graph Construction for Large-Scale Flickr Photos," for first-time Grand Challenge in ACM Multimedia 2009 is accepted. [first-ever query-time search result clustering] (demo video) (07/06/2009)
- Congratulations to Yin-Hsi Kuo, Kuan-Ting Chen, and Chien-Hsing Chiang for their paper, "Query Expansion for Hash-based Image Object Retrieval'," accepted as full paper for ACM Multimedia 2009 (16% acceptance rate). (07/01/2009)
- Invited as a panelist for ICME 2009 panel "What will multimedia be like on a hand-held device?" with Prof. Chang Wen Chen, Prof. C.-C. Jay Kuo, and Dr. Deepak Turaga. My talk points (). (07/01/2009)
- Congratulations to Kuan-Hung Lin and Kuan-Ting Chen for their paper, "Boosting Object Retrieval By Estimating Pseudo-Objects," accepted for ICIP 2009. (06/30/2009)
- Tutorial - "Content-based and Concept-based Retrieval for Large-Scale Image/Video Collections" by Rong Yan and Winston Hsu was accepted for ACM Multimedia 2009. We will include more exciting researchers for the opportunities and challenges in large-scale photos/videos. (05/12/2009)
- Congratulations to our affiliated PhD student, Yi-Hsuan (Eric) Yang, for his paper accepted for IEEE Trans. on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology (TCSVT). (05/06/2009)
- Congratulations to Kuan-Ting Chen, Yin-Hsi Kuo, and Carson Liao for winning three presentation awards in Communication and Multimedia Workshop 2009.
- Congratulations to Felix Chang for his first paper, "Foreground Segmentation For Static Video Via Multi-Core And Multi-Modal Graph Cut," accepted for ICME 2009 as an oral paper.(03/12/2009)
- Congratulations to our intern student Suming Chen (Berkeley EECS) for being admitted to UCLA CS PhD Program. (01/31/2009)
- Invited for the Technical Program Committee for ACM Multimedia 2009 - Content Track.
- We won the Microsoft Research Award 2009. Among the six recipients in Multimedia Search track, we are the only one from Taiwan. (12/26/2008)
- Congratulations to our affiliated PhD student, Yi-Hsuan (Eric) Yang, receiving the prestigious Microsoft Research Fellowship 2009. (12/25/2008)
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