Media Computing: New Progress in MSRA

Speaker:          Dr. Hong-Jiang Zhang  
                  Microsoft Research Asia  

Title:            Media Computing: New Progress in MSRA 

Date:             Monday, 29 September 2003 

Time:             4:00pm - 5:00pm 

Venure:           Lecture Theatre F (Leung Yat Seng Lecture Theatre) 
                  (near lift nos. 25/26)   


ABSTRACT: 

In this talk, we will present new research progress in Microsoft 
Research Asia in the area of media computing.  Specifically, we 
will cover our efforts in face detection and annotation, relevance 
feedback in content-based image retrieval as a machine learning 
problem and representation schemes of video content. We will share 
our new thoughts and progress in these areas, together with demos.


BIOGRAPHY: 

Dr. Hong-Jiang Zhang is Assistant Managing Director and Senior Researcher
of Microsoft Research Asia.  Dr. Zhang has been actively engaged in
research and development in the areas of video and image analysis,
processing and retrieval, computer vision and their application.  He is
well known in the multimedia research community for his pioneering work
in video and image content analysis, representation, retrieval and
browsing.  At HP Labs, Dr. Zhang was a research manager, and created
significant scientific results and technology transfers into products, as
well as a large patent portfolio in the areas of multimedia content
retrieval and management technologies; intelligent image processing; and
Internet media.  Before joining HP Labs in 1995, Dr. Zhang was with the
Institute of Systems Science, National University of Singapore, where he
led several projects in video and image content analysis and retrieval,
computer visions and multimedia information systems.  He also worked at
MIT Media Lab in 1994 as a visiting researcher.
 
Dr. Zhang has authored 4 books, over 250 referred papers and book
chapters, and numerous special issues of professional journals in
multimedia processing, content-based retrieval, and Internet media.
"Image and Video Processing in Multimedia Systems", the book he
co-authored and published by Kluwer in 1995, was the first one addressed
content-based image and video retrieval research.  He also filed 40 US
patents. Many of these research works have become classical references in
the respective research areas and formed the technology basis for several
start-ups.  He currently serves on the editorial boards of five
professional journals and a dozen committees of international
conferences.  He is the Technical Committee Co-chair of the ACM
Multimedia Conference, 1999.

Dr. Zhang obtained his Ph.D from the Technical University of Denmark; and
his BS from Zhengzhou University, China, both in Electrical Engineering.