MIR 2005 Panel Session
Panel Session:
Multimedia Information Retrieval: What is it and Why isn't Anyone Using It?
Alejandro (ALEX) Jaimes (FXPAL Japan, Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.) - Sessions chair
Ramesh Sarukki, Yahoo! Inc
Wei-Ying Ma, Microsoft Research Asia
Sbastien Gilles, LTU technologies
Mike Christel, Carnegie Mellon University
Ramesh Sarukki, Yahoo! Inc
Dr. Ramesh Sarukkai currently heads up the video search team at Yahoo. Prior to this, he managed the Small Business Platform (billing/ordering/infrastructure for hosting, domains, and e-commerce sites), and also architected wireless/voice products during his 6+ years at Yahoo. Before that, Dr. Sarukkai worked at IBM, and Kurzweil/L&H on vision, speech and natural language technologies.
Dr. Sarukkai holds a PhD from University of Rochester, NY. He has published/presented in leading journals and conferences in the areas of AI, Information retrieval, speech, media, and internet technologies, in addition to authoring the book "Foundations of Web Technology". Dr. Sarukkai also served on the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) Voice Browser working group, recently chaired a panel in World Wide Web 2005 conference (Japan) on networking effects of the Web, and holds many patents related to speech, wireless, e-commerce, and search, including the first invention of large vocabulary speech recognition system for web browsing. His current interests include media search, social annotation & networking effects on the Web, and emergent web technologies.
Wei-Ying Ma, Microsoft Research Asia
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. From 1994 to 1997 he was engaged in the Alexandria Digital Library (ADL) project in UCSB while completing his Ph.D. He developed a web-based image retrieval system called Netra which has been frequently cited by other researchers. From 1997 to 2001, he was with HP Labs where he worked in the field of multimedia adaptation and distributed media services infrastructure. He joined Microsoft Research Asia in 2001. Since then, he has been leading a research group to conduct research in the areas of information retrieval, web search, data mining, mobile browsing, and multimedia management. He currently serves as an Editor for the ACM/Springer Multimedia Systems Journal and Associate Editor for ACM Transactions on Information System. He is also the general co-chair of International Multimedia Modeling (MMM) Conference 2005 and International Conference on Image and Video Retrieval (CIVR) 2005. He has published 4 book chapters and over 100 international journal and conference papers.
Sbastien Gilles, LTU technologies
Sébastien Gilles is Chief Scientist and co-founder of LTU Technologies, a company specializing in image and video analysis (www.ltutech.com). Sébastien graduated from Oxford University with a Ph.D. in Computer Vision, focused on information theory and image matching. After completing his Ph.D., he joined the Image and Multimedia Indexing Group at INRIA, France. Sébastien graduated from the Ecole Nationale Supérieure de Techniques Avancées in Paris, France, with a major in Artificial Intelligence and Computer Science. He received a master’s degree in Computer Science from the Ecole Polytechnique, France.
Mike Christel, Carnegie Mellon University
Mike Christel enjoys building systems and conducting research at the intersection of human-computer interaction, multimedia processing, information visualization, and digital libraries. He has worked with digital video since 1987, and has worked on interface development and evaluation for Carnegie Mellon's Informedia digital video understanding research group since its beginning in 1994. Christel received his Ph.D. from Georgia Tech in 1991, with his thesis examining digital video interfaces for training software engineers about code inspections.