Research on Multimedia search, adaptation, and attention-based browsing at MSR Asia

Wei-Ying Ma

Microsoft Research Asia

Date: Friday, November 14, 2003
Place: ECE Conference Room
_____ Building 406, Rm. 201
Time: 3:30 pm — 4:30 pm (Refreshments served at 3:00 pm)

Abstract:
In this talk, I will give a brief introduction to Microsoft Research Asia (MSRA) on its history and current research fields. MSRA was established in November 1998, and it has grown into a lab with 170 researchers and about 250 students and just celebrated its 5th anniversary this November. I will introduce the various research projects and the visiting student program at MSR Asia. I will discuss briefly three projects in my group: 1) mining the web structure for improving multimedia information retrieval. This includes a new way of clustering and ranking images on the web to facilitate search. 2) Enabling multimedia adaptation services in content delivery networks; and 3) automatic browsing of large pictures on mobile devices.

Biography:
Dr. Wei-Ying Ma received the B.S. degree in electrical engineering from the national Tsing Hua University in Taiwan in 1990, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical and computer engineering from the University of California at Santa Barbara in 1994 and 1997, respectively. He joined Microsoft Research Asia in April 2001 as the Research Manager of the Media Management Group. Prior to joining Microsoft, he was with Hewlett-Packard Laboratories at Palo Alto, California, where he was a researcher in the Internet Mobile and Systems Lab. From 1994 to 1997 he was engaged in the Alexandria Digital Library (ADL) project in University of California at Santa Barbara while completing his Ph.D. Dr. Ma serves as an Associate Editor for the Journal of Multimedia Tools and Applications published by Kluwer Academic Publishers. He has served on the organizing and program committees of many international conferences and has published four book chapters. His research interests include image and video analysis, content based image and video search and retrieval, intelligent information systems, adaptive content delivery, content distribution and services networks, and media delivery and caching.

Host: Prof. B.S. Manjunath, ECE