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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
We keep recruiting graduate students (master or PhD) for the exciting projects of both great theoretical interests and strong industrial demands. Students have delivered brilliant results. See our news or publication sections for more details.- Several image/video/audio retrieval projects are also good for undergraduate students. See our research overview (
) and the project presentation ().
Why having research projects in MiRA group? for CSIE undergraduates () and PhD students (). Some quick demos:
- Effective and efficient product query by mobile phone
- Interactive video (Question and Answering)
- Realtime image retrieval over million-scale image collections
- Million-scale image graph construction and clustering by cloud computation (MapReduce over 18 Hadoop servers).
News!!
- Invited as the Keynote Speaker for The 17th International Conference on MultiMedia Modeling (MMM 2011).
- Organizer for MMM 2011 Special Session, "Large Scale Rich Media Data Management," with Prof. Jialie Shen and Prof. Shuicheng Yan.
- Congratulations to our alumnus, Frank Wu, for winning IICM Thesis Award for his master thesis titled, "Exploiting Semantic Concepts for Keyword-based Photo and Video Search."
- Invited for the Technical Program Committee for ACM Multimedia 2010 - Content Track.
- Congratulations to our undergraduate member, Guan-Long Wu, for his successful talk in "Cloud Computing for Advanced Ocean Research and Hadoop Taiwan User Group Meeting 2009," with the topic, "Image Selection for Large-Scale Flickr Photos using MapReduce (Hadoop)." He also received strong positive feedbacks from the audiences.
- 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 leveraging MapReduce (18 Hadoop servers)] (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 oral paper. (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)
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