Multimedia Electronic Chronicles

Ramesh Jain

Electrical and Computer Engineering, and
College of Computing
Georgia Institute of Technology,
Atlanta, GA 30332-0250
jain@ece.gatech.edu

Date: Friday, January 23, 2004
Place: CS Conference Room
_____ Engineering 1, Rm. 2114
Time: 4:00 pm — 5:00 pm (Refreshments served at 3:30 pm)

Abstract:
Chronicles appear in many forms. Historical accounts of important events in human society, minutes of a meeting, proceedings of a conference, wedding videos, surveillance videos, logs of visitors, and data warehouses of all sales activities by corporation are some of the examples of keeping records of what happened. Until electronic recording became possible, one could only keep record of historical events by writing about it or by taking pictures of it. Emergence of recording techniques provided an opportunity to keep record of an activity using objective methods like audio and video. I believe that we are in the midst of a new emerging field: Multimedia Electronic Chronicles or eChronicles. An eChronicle records events using multiple sensors and provides access to this data at multiple levels of granularity and abstractions, using appropriate access mechanisms in representations and terminology familiar to people in the domain of application. In this presentation we will discuss eChronicles, technical challenges and opportunity in implementing them, and our approach to implement some early example systems.

Biography:
Ramesh Jain is a researcher, entrepreneur, and educator. He is the Rhesa “Ray” S Farmer Distinguished Chair in Embedded Experiential Systems and Georgia Research Alliance Eminent Scholar in School of Electrical and Computer Engineering and College of Computing at Georgia Institute of Technology. Ramesh is a pioneer in multimedia information systems, image databases, machine vision, and intelligent systems. While professor of computer science and engineering at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor and the University of California, San Diego, he founded and directed artificial intelligence and multimedia information systems labs. Jain was also the founding Editor-in-Chief of IEEE MultiMedia magazine and serves on the editorial boards of several magazines in multimedia, information retrieval and image and vision processing. He has co-authored more than 300 research papers in well-respected journals and conference proceedings. He has co-authored and co-edited several books, including Machine Vision, a textbook used at several universities.

He’s founded three companies, managed them in initial stages, and then turned them over to professional management. Most recently, he was the co-founder, CEO, and CTO of PRAJA inc located in San Diego. PRAJA was acquired by Tibco. Prior to PRAJA, he was the founding CEO and Chairman of Virage, a San Mateo-based company developing systems for media management solutions and visual information management. He was also the Founder and Chairman of ImageWare Inc, which provided solutions for surface modeling, reverse engineering, rapid prototyping, and inspection. ImageWare was acquired by SDRC.

His current research interests are in experiential computing and its applications.

Host: B. S. Manjunath, Professor of ECE