Emerging Leaders in Multimedia

Emerging Leaders in Multimedia
Third Annual Watson Workshop
IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, Hawthorne, NY, USA






Come and interact with the top Ph.D. students in Multimedia!

Technical Areas of Interest

  • Multimedia Content Analysis and Object Recognition
  • Multimedia Indexing and Retrieval
  • Multi-user Multimedia communication
  • Transformation and Synthesis of Multimedia
  • Models for Aesthetics

    Students Presentations
    Lance Putnam, University of California Santa Barbara
    Generalizing Time and Frequency Intervals: Towards a More Unified Model of Sound Processing

    Yinpeng Chen, Arizona State University
    Media Adaptation Framework in Biofeedback System for Stroke Patient Rehabilitation

    Effrosyni X. Kokiopoulou, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
    Semantic media coding and transformation invariance analysis

    Hsien Po Shiang, University of California Los Angeles
    Multi-user multimedia communications

    Wei-Hao Lin, Carnegie Mellon University
    Automatic Identifying Ideological Perspectives of News Events in Television News

    Ritendra Datta, Penn State University
    Tagging over Time: Real-world Image Annotation by Lightweight Meta-learning

    Lyndon Kennedy, Columbia University
    Mining, indexing and querying multimedia databases

    Aswin Sankaranarayanan, University of Maryland College Park
    Statistical Estimation under Projective Transformations: Theory and Applications in Computer Vision


      For more details contact Deepak Turaga <turaga@us.ibm.com>
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      Agenda

      October 11

        9:00-9:05 Chitra Dorai - Welcome and Introduction

        9:05-10:00 Breakfast and Mingle

        10:00-10:30 Mark Wegman IBM Research Overview

        10:30-11:00 Lance Putnam
        11:00-11:30 Yinpeng Chen
        11:30-12:00 Effrosyni Kokipoulou
        12:00-12:30 Hsien Po (Peter) Shiang

        12:30-1:15 Working Lunch

        1:15-2:15 Group Discussion (Multi-Million Dollar Question: Monetizing Multimedia Research - Youtube, Flikr....?)

        2:15-2:30 Break

        2:30-3:00 Wei-Hao Lin
        3:00-3:30 Lyndon Kennedy
        3:30-4:00 Ritendra Datta
        4:00-4:30 Aswin Sankaranarayanan

        4:30-5:30 ISL Presentations


      October 12
        "Pop Research Session"
        Formal Close and Farewell (Chitra)
        Mentoring and technical discussions with individual IBM Researchers