
Contact
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!!
- Call for Papers (
). Guest Editor for IEEE Multimedia Magazine Special Issue, "Knowledge Discovery over Community-Contributed Multimedia Data: Opportunities and Challenges." (06/10/2009)
- 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)
- 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)
- ICME 2009 special session "Knowledge Discovery over Community-Sharing Media ¡V from Signal to Intelligence," by Winston Hsu, Tao Mei, and Rong Yan is accepted. (12/31/2008)
- ... more