Abstract

This talk will present an idea of knowledge-based approach to model and retrieve image/video data by content, which is at the beginning of design and development. We define the retrieval based on three layer of indexing and representation: first layer is on semantic layer, which usually is domain specific meta data build on top of generic meta data. This layer is focusing on Query Interface design, either by QBE or QBF with model based. The second one is based on pre-processed image/video features and intermediary representation which transform image/video into a non-dimensional text representation. This area is subject to further research, due to a good representation and indexing mechanism can improve the accuracy and performance of image/video query. The third layer is based on the image/video information carried from standard format of the raw material or image/video itself. Example of applications such as applying the video query for basketball coaching at the rest period to change game plan and strategy; image/video query for ecology study, such as find all satellite images associated with KeeLung River; surveillance applications of alerting particular kind of objects passing through a certain locations, etc. The talk is intend to invite advanced research interest in this subject as well as ideas for potential useful applications.

Speaker Biography

Dr. Huang joined IBM Watson Research Center in 1982 as a key member of QBE/OBE Database team and later holds several management positions within IBM Research and Global Services. During his Asia assignment from 1989, He was GM of Multimedia Business Unit of IBM Asia Pacific and CEO of an IBM JV company, SingaLab. From 1995, He was a Director at IBM Global Services leading the effort of Asset Reuse and Knowledge Management to help transform IBM into a global service business. Since 1998, he was the IBM Vice President to lead the worldwide e-Business implementation and Web application laboratory for IBM’s Corporate transformation. He had won the Gold medal of Giga Information Award on BPR & Knowledge Management in 1998, and IBM Corporate Excellence Event Award in 1999. In 2002, he is the Honor Chair Professor at the College of Management of National Sun-Yat-Sen Unviersity, Taiwan and the Chief Advisor to the Taiwan’s e-Government projects since 2003. His recent research interests include outsourcing, grid computing, bioinformatics, and multimedia content management.