Research Groups

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• Distributed Multimedia Languages and Infrastructures Group: Dick Bulterman heads the Multimedia and Human-Computer Interaction group at CWI. His group does work in multimedia synchronization models, networked multimedia, multimedia streaming, hypermedia authoring and SMIL.
• ORCHID Group: Brian Bailey does research in the area of User interface tools that better support early design tasks, systems and environments that help users maintain information awareness, tools for multimedia authoring and design, interfaces that foster social interaction, and, more generally, human-computer interaction. Details of the his research group's activities are found here.
• Digital Video | Multimedia Group: Shih-Fu Chang leads a group of researchers to do work on Multimedia Content Analysis, Multimedia Information Retrieval, Video Indexing, Wireless Video Transmission, and Media Authentication/Watermarking. He has been advocating a new research paradigm called content-based media engineering, in which the synergy between automatic content analysis and innovative applications in each stage of the multimedia content chain are explored. Such examples include content-based indexing/summarization, content adaptive video transcoding, and content-based authentication. More activities about their research can be found in their lab's web-page.
• Video Modeling and Retrieval: Tat-Seng Chua is interested in automatic indexing, retrieval and extraction of information from text and video. His research activities are detailed here.
• Garage Cinema Research: Marc Davis works in the areas of theory, design, and development of digital media systems for creating and using media metadata to automate media production and reuse. The details about his research available on his group web-page.
• Philips Research: Nevenka Dimitrova leads a group of researchers at Philips Research. Her main research interests are in the areas of multimedia content management, digital television, content synthesis, video content navigation and retrieval, and content understanding.
• IBM Research: Chitra Dorai works in the areas of Multimedia Systems and Digital Video Analysis, Computer Vision and Image Processing and Computational Media Aesthetics.
• Computer Networks and Multimedia Technology Research Group: Wolfgang Effelsberg heads the computer networks and multimedia technology research group at the University of Mannheim. Their group's research efforts are detailed in their web-page.
• Interactive Media Group: Jonathan Foote works in the area of speech recognition, audio analysis and retrieval, multimedia signal processing, and panoramic video. His research activities are a part of the Interactive Media research efforts at the Fuji Xerox Palo Alto Labs.
• Media Presence Research Group: Jim Gemmell works in the areas of personal media management/enhancement, telepresence, and reliable multicast. His work is part of the larger work in Media Presence at Micorsoft Research.
• Multimedia Communications Research Laboratory: Abdulmotaleb El Saddik works in the areas of Collaborative Haptic Audio Visual Environments (E-Touch & Tele-Haptics, Tele-Operations, and Rehabilitation), Multimedia communications (Tele-Surveillance, Tele-Collaborative Environments and Multimedia and P2P Networking Protocols) and Multimedia Knowledge Management & Semantic Web. More details about his research can be found in the lab web-page.
• Distributed Collaborative Environments Research Laboratory: Nicolas Georganas works in the areas of Multimedia Communications, Collaborative Virtual Environments, Web Telecollaboration Applications, Intelligent Internet Sensors and Appliances Tele-Haptics. More details about his research can be found in the lab web-page.
• Multimedia Information Group: Forouzan Golshani research interests are in the areas of Multimedia Information System, Digital Video Processing, Advanced Databases and Intelligent Systems. His lab's activities are detailed here.
• Experiential Systems Group: Ramesh Jain works in the areas of multimedia information systems, image databases, machine vision and intelligent systems. He is currently leading efforts in the area of experiential computing and the various efforts in this new area are being chronicled here.
• Experiential Sampling in Multimedia Analysis: Mohan S Kankanhalli is interested in multimedia information processing as well as multimedia security (image/video watermarking, authentication and digital rights management). His recent research activities can be seen here.
• GroupLens Research Group: Joseph Konstan works in the areas of Human-Computer Interaction, Recommender Systems, User Interface Design, Multimedia Authoring Tools and User Interface Tools and Technology. More details of his work are in his research page.
• The Overlay Network Infrastructure Club (TONIC): Ketan Mayer-Patel does work in the areas of multimedia systems and networking, particularly on the problems associated with high-bandwidth applications that generate many flows of information with complex inter-flow semantic relationships.
• Multimedia Operating Systems and Networking Group: Klara Nahrstedt works in the areas of multimedia systems, integration of guaranteed and best effort services for audio/video/data traffic, middleware support for distributed multimedia applications and multimedia security. The details of her research activities are available here.
• Distributed Multimedia Systems Group: Thomas Plageman works in the areas of Distributed Multimedia Systems, Middleware, Protocols Architectures, Protocols for High-Speed Networks, Quality of Service, Operating System Support for Multimedia Communication and Distributed Media Server.
• Berkeley Multimedia Research Center (BMRC): Larry Rowe works in the areas of streaming media control/automation, internet webcasting and digital video processing. His research activities are detailed in the BMRC web-pages.
• Internet Real-Time Lab (IRT): Henning Schulzrinne works in the areas of Internet real-time and multimedia services and protocols. The details of his research can be found in the IRT web-pages.
• IBM T. J. Watson Research Center: John Smith works in the areas of image and video retrieval.
• Multimedia Communications Lab (KOM): Ralf Steinmetz research efforts are devoted towards obtaining seamless multimedia communications. The details of his research are available at this web-page.
• Distributed Multimedia Computing Laboratory (DMCL): Harrick Vin works in the area of distributed multimedia computing. His lab's research activities can be found here.
• Multimedia Information Systems Group:Wolfgang Klas works in the areas of multimedia information systems and Internet-based applications.
• Computational Media Aesthetic Lab (CMA): Svetha Venkatesh works in the areas of multimedia annotation and retrieval, computational media aesthetics (movie and film understanding systems) as well as video and image indexing and querying. Details of her research are available through the descriptions of projects.
• Media Computing: Hong-Jiang Zhang is working in the areas of video and image analysis and processing, content-based image/video/audio retrieval, media compression and streaming, computer vision and their applications in consumer and enterprise markets. His research efforts at Microsoft Research are detailed in the media computing and media management activities.
• Experiential Documents Group: Prof. Hari Sundaram leads the experiential documents group at ASU. We are interested in developing algorithms and systems for the creation and communication of multimodal experiences. We are particularly interested in user-centric, context aware systems in application areas such as digital libraries, personalized multimedia and electronic learning environments. Our research draws on theories from diverse fields - computational narrative models, film theory, music, visual arts as well as traditional areas such as pattern recognition and machine learning.
• Multimedia systems group (LTS4): Prof. Pascal Frossard at EPFL leads group of researchers working mainly on media streaming systems, visual information compression and coding, and multimedia communications.
• LIACS Media Lab(LML): Michael Lew leads research in the areas of human-computer interaction and multimedia information retrieval. The current emphasis in these areas is toward human-centered computing and semantic understanding of multimodal information.
• Delft's research cluster on Multimedia Information Retrieval: Alan Hanjalic leads a group of researchers at the Department of Mediamatics, Delft University of Technology, working in a general area of multimedia content analysis, indexing and retrieval, with focus on generic principles of multimedia content analysis and extraction, on affective multimedia content representation and modeling, and on personalizing multimedia content delivery.
• Multimedia Information Processing Group, Institut Eurecom, France: Bernard Merialdo heads the MIP group at the Institut Eurecom. His research themes are Multimedia Indexing and Information Filtering. More details on his current projects can be found on the group web site.
• Queen Mary, University of London: Andrea Cavallaro works on multimedia signal processing, perceptual semantics and interactive media computing. In particular, he is interested in audiovisual content analysis and performance evaluation with application in advanced surveillance, semantic coding and multi-sensor systems. Details of his research group's activities are found here.
• Multimedia Communications Lab, Boston University:Tom Little.
• The Informedia Digital Video Understanding Research Group: at Carnegie Mellon University applies automated indexing and retrieval technologies based on speech, image, and natural language processing to the domains of education, health care, situation awareness, and the coordination and understanding of human activity. Mike Christel leads interface development and evaluation with research interests in information visualization and effective human-centered information retrieval. Alex Hauptmann heads research in machine learning, speech and language technologies.
• Distributed Multimedia Systems Research group at the Department of Information Technology of the Klagenfurt University, Austria is headed by Laszlo Boeszoermenyi. Current main research topics are: Distributed Multimedia Systems, Adaptability in Distributed Multimedia Systems, Adaptive Video Distribution via Proxy Groups, Semantic and Network-Level Affinity serving for Video Distribution, Scene based Adaptation, Adaptation based on Advanced Video Coding, 4D User Interfaces, Programming Languages and Compilers for Multimedia Applications. See more at publications.
• The Interactive Multimedia Group headed by Nuno Correia develops research work on multimedia information processing, interaction and presentation. Recent projects include augmented and mixed reality, mobile storytelling, image and video processing, rich media spaces, personalization and collaborative video annotation.
• Viper Group Stephane Marchand-Maillet leads the Viper group on Multimedia Information Retrieval in University of Geneva. The group is working on image and video retrieval, emphasizing machine learning and information fusion into its modeling. The group is strongly advocating a mining approach as a way to getting closer to semantic-level management.
• Semantic Media Interfaces Group led by Lynda Hardman at the CWI, Netherlands.
• User Experience Group Prof. Stefan M. Grünvogel at the Institute for Media and Imaging Technology, Cologne University of Applied Sciences leads a group of researchers working in the enhancement and analysis of User Experience, mathematical modeling and the development of design strategies.
• Multimedia Lab at Ghent University, Belgium: Rik Van de Walle heads a group of researchers in the field of video coding, processing and analysis, multimedia adaptation, metadata technology and gaming technology. A strong emphasis lies on standardization in the domain of multimedia applications and systems. More details can be found on the group's home page.