2007年大阳城国际娱乐官网信息技术研究院系列学术报告6

Title: Research and Development of Multimedia Database Management Systems

Speaker: Dr. Shu-Ching Chen

(Associate Professor, School of Computing and Information Sciences Florida International University)

Time: July 4, 2007, 15:30PM

Place: 3-125 Room, FIT Building

Organizer: Research Institute of Information Technology (RIIT)

Tsinghua University

Dr. Shu-Ching Chen received the Master’s degrees in computer science, electrical engineering, and civil engineering in 1992, 1995, and 1996, respectively, and the Ph.D. degree in 1998, all from Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN. In August 1999, he was an Assistant Professor in the School of Computing and Information Sciences (SCIS), Florida International University (FIU), Miami, and since August 2004, has been an Associate Professor. His main research interests include distributed multimedia database management systems and multimedia data mining. He has authored and coauthored more than 170 research papers in journals, refereed conference/symposium/workshop proceedings, and book chapters. He is one of the co-authors of a book entitled “Semantic Models for Multimedia Database Searching and Browsing” by Kluwer Academic Publishers (now Springer) on September 2000. Dr. Chen received the best paper award from 2006 IEEE International Symposium on Multimedia. He was awarded the IEEE Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Society’s Outstanding Contribution Award in 2005 and was co-recipient of the IEEE Most Active SMC Technical Committee Award in 2006. He was also awarded the Excellence in Graduate Mentorship Award from FIU in 2006, the University Outstanding Faculty Research Award from FIU in 2004, the Outstanding Faculty Service Award from SCIS in 2004, and the Outstanding Faculty Research Award from SCIS in 2002. He has been a General Chair or Program Chair for more than 20 conferences, symposiums, and workshops.

Multimedia database management system (MDBMS) has emerged as an important research area for multimedia data management. In this talk, I will introduce the major components in developing a coherent framework for MDBMS, ranging from multimedia data processing to indexing, query, retrieval, and presentation. Specifically, a set of core techniques, such as multimedia data analysis, content-based image/video retrieval, and multimedia data mining, will be discussed in details and demonstrated using a prototype MDBMS. In addition, I will present the idea of applying these techniques to practical application domains such as hurricane. At the end of talk, I will introduce the opportunities of the graduate studies at the School of Computing and Information Sciences (SCIS) at the Florida International University (FIU), a public research university.