Recruiting
- Postdoc position available
- Requirements:
- EE/CS PhD.
- Analytic background and software prototyping skills are required.
- Experiences with image/video content analysis, video event detection, machine learning, computer vision, or multimedia retrieval are preferred.
- Duration:
- Job functions:
- Advanced researches for large-scale multimedia retrieval and detection
- Publishing for top conferences and journals.
- Salary:
- Full-time Research Assistant
(RA) position available
- Requirements:
- Analytic background and software implementation skills (C, C++) are required.
- Experiences in video content analysis, computer vision, machine learning, or multimedia retrieval are preferred.
- Duration:
- Job functions:
- Research and implementation for (real-time) large-scale image retrieval system (more than three million photos)
- Coordinating with users in fashion design industry
- Salary:
- more competitive than that in NSC standard.
- Please submit CV, transcripts, and other supplemental materials to Prof. Winston Hsu for further scheduling for interviews.
- 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.
News!!
Congratulations for cloud-based photo management system
winning the 2nd Prize (with 180,000 NTD cash award)
in Chunghwa Telecom Innovation Awards (2011
電信創新應用大賽雲端應用校園組亞軍)
- We won the prestigious award, First
Prize in ACM Multimedia Grand Challenge 2011 for
the project -- "Photo Search by Face Positions and Facial
Attributes on Touch Devices"
- Congratulations to Prof. Hsu for receiving 2011
(NSC) Ta-You Wu Memorial Award (國科會100年度吳大猷先生紀念獎),
the most prestigious Taiwan government award for young
researchers
- Congratulations to the group for having one FULL
paper, three SHORT papers, three Grand Challenge posters, and
one workshop paper, accepted for ACM Multimedia 2011
- Congratulations to Wen-yu and Yen-ta for having
two short papers accepted for SIGIR 2011 and Wen-yu for
receiving "Google Travel Grants for SIGIR 2011"
- Congratulations to Chen, Yan-Ying for receiving
"WWW 2011 Google Fellowship for Women"
- Congratulations to Kuo, Yin-Hsi for our first
work accepted for CVPR 2011 -- "Unsupervised Auxiliary Visual
Words Discovery for Large-Scale Image Object Retrieval"
- Congratulations to Yu-Ming Hsu and Yen-Liang Lin
for winning the Best Paper Award in The 17th
International Conference on Multimedia Modeling (MMM) 2011 for
the paper "Snap2Read: Automatic Magazine Capturing and
Analysis for Adaptive Mobile Reading."
- Congratulations to students for winning the FIRST Prize (with 300,000 NTD cash award) for their Flora Project, sponsored by Chunghwa Telecom, Taiwan; the theme "Mobile + Flower Retrieval + Social Network." See the demo.
- Congratulations to Kuo, Yin-Hsi for winning CIEE Thesis Award (中國電機工程學會99年青年論文獎)
- Great to be in the Organizing Committee (Technical Program Co-Chair) for ACM Multimedia 2012, Nara, Japan. (October 27, 2010)
- Joining Editorial Board, IEEE Multimedia Magazine (September 23, 2010)
- Invited as the Keynote Speaker for The 17th International Conference on MultiMedia Modeling (MMM 2011).
- Tutorial - "Analyzing Large-Scale Multimedia Collections Using MapReduce," with Rong Yan accepted for ICASSP 2011.
- Invited as the Keynote Speaker for GSS TechEd 2010 (August 28 2010).
- Lecturing a short course "Cloud Computing and its Applications," in National Center for High-performance Computing (NCHC) for (August 2010)
- 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 (01/13/2010).
- 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 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 coverages 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)
- 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)
- 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)
- 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)
- 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 – from Signal to Intelligence," by Winston Hsu, Tao Mei, and Rong Yan is accepted. (12/31/2008)
- Tutorial - "Recent Developments in Content-based and Concept-based Image/Video Retrieval," by Winston Hsu and Rong Yan was accepted for ICASSP 2009. (09/18/2008)
- For ACM Multimedia 2008, till now we have 1 full paper, 1 tutorial, and two short papers accepted. (07/08/2008)
- I'll work as Publicity Chair for IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo 2009 (ICME 2009), Cancun, Mexico. (06/20/2008)
- Tutorial - "Recent Developments in Content-based and Concept-based Image/Video Retrieval," by Winston Hsu and Rong Yan was accepted for ACM Multimedia 2008. (06/13/2008)
- Tutorial - "Content-based and Semantic-based Image/Video Retrieval," by Winston Hsu and Rong Yan was accepted for ACM SIGIR 2008. (04/06/2008)
- Congratulations to Kuan-Ting Chen and Carson Liao. Their video advertising paper was accepted for ACM SIGIR 2008, the prestigious and top conference in IR community. Chen is also awarded ACM SIGIR travel grant. (04/02/2008)
- Congratulations to Kuan-Ting Chen and Carson Liao. Their novel work, video advertising, had been named the Taiwan TOP 5 in Microsoft Imagine Cup. A final round will be held in May for the Taiwan Champion, who will be eligible to visit France for the World Champion. (03/31/2008)
- Congratulations to Eric Yang for his work in visual search was accepted for ICME 2008. (03/28/2008)
