Multimedia Search: Past and Current Approaches

Speaker:	Dr. HongJiang ZHANG
		CTO, Microsoft China R&D Group
                Managing Director, Microsoft ATC

Title:		"Multimedia Search: Past and Current Approaches"

Date:		Wednesday, 14 Nov 2007

Time:		2:30pm - 3:30pm

Venue:		Room 2303 (via lift nos. 17/18)
		HKUST


Abstract:

After 15 years of extensive research efforts, multimedia retrieval has
final come to its prime time when everything becomes accessible on the
web.  However, web search both provides a new paradigm and poses challenge
to multimedia retrieval research.  It calls for a rethinking of the
traditional content-based approaches, especially in how to make use of the
massive but noisy meta data associated with web pages and links.  In this
talk, we will first review some familiar approaches in content-based
multimedia retrieval and examine their limits.  We will then present a few
new efforts in web multimedia search to illustrate some new thoughts in
this space.


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Biography

Dr. HongJiang ZHANG is the CTO of Microsoft China R&D Group, overseeing
Microsoft's overall China and regional R&D strategy and technology
development. He is also the Managing Director of Advanced Technology
Center (ATC), Microsoft Research, a R&D center of near 500 engineers
working on advanced technologies and products in the areas of web service,
mobile communications, gaming, servers, education, and Windows. Dr. Zhang
was the Assistant Managing Director of Microsoft Research Asia, in charge
of research and technology transfer in areas of Natural Language
Computing, Media Computing, Data Mining and Web Search, and Distributed
Systems.   His leadership was critical in establishing Microsoft Research
Asia into a world class basic research center in computer science. Prior
to joining Microsoft, Dr. Zhang was with Hewlett-Packard Labs at Palo
Alto, CA, where he was a research manager, working on multimedia content
retrieval and management technologies, and intelligent image and video
processing.

Dr. Zhang is a Fellow of IEEE and well-known for his leadership in media
computing and his  pioneering work in video and image content analysis,
representation, search and browsing. He has authored four books, close to
400 scientific papers and holds over 35 US patents.  Many of his research
works have become classic references in their respective research areas
and have formed the technology basis for several startup companies.  He
currently serves as the Editor in Chief of IEEE Transaction on Multimedia
and on the editorial board of Proceedings of IEEE. He is an adjunct
professor with HKUST.