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Xian-Sheng HUA  Ph.D.

Researcher, Internet Media Group, Microsoft Research Asia
Email: xshua at microsoft.com

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  互联网周刊关于视频搜索的报道 (Chinese). 李洋. March 2007.
搜索视频的“内心”
  CCTV4关于视频搜索的报道 (Chinese). 环球360. June 2006.

Video: http://www.6rooms.com/watch/10074.html

  Microsoft Research Asia in ACM Multimedia Spotlight, by Rob Knies, in research.microsoft.com.

... Xian-Sheng Hua will be presenting one of the featured papers during the Association for Computing Machinery’s Multimedia 2006 conference, but as far as he is concerned, the experience will be all about a different sort of communication ...

  TechFest Live!, by By Rob Knies, in research.microsoft.com. March 2005.

... Talk about cool. Xian-Sheng Hua, a researcher with Microsoft Research Asia’s Internet Media Group, is demonstrating technologies he has developed that promise to revolutionize the field of video search.

Typically, he explains, video search uses surrounding text or captions to identify keywords that can be used for search. But because video is such a visual medium, this text-based approach has limited utility at best.

“We go beyond that,” Hua says, “by using content-based indexing.” ...

Turn Your Photos Into Movies, by Suzanne Ross, in Microsoft Research News & Highlights, January 17 2005. 

" ... 'A single photograph contains extremely rich content,' said Xian-Sheng Hua, the lead researcher on the project. 'We wanted to use this content to build entertaining videos from still photos.'   In the Photo2Video project, the researchers used three key steps to automatically convert photos into video, taking their cues from traditional filmmaking techniques. The steps are story generation, framing scheme, and video composition ... "

A Tour of Microsoft's Research Venture in Downtown Beijing, by Christophe Blanc, in Tom's Guide Daily, 24 June 2004.

" ...Then it automatically generates an edited version, based on the importance curve and possibly on other criteria such as the music you chose as a sound illustration (shot changes are synchronized with the tempo of the music). According to Hua Xiansheng, in terms of time, the whole operation will take one-tenth of the length of the video being processed. The result is sometimes surprising, but generally satisfactory in most cases, ... " (The thumbnail on the left is my picture in the article.)

The World's Hottest Lab, by Gregory T. Huang, in MIT's Technology Review, June 2004.  PDF

"Fast forward: Researcher Xiansheng Hua demos a home entertainment interface that automatically indexes video by subject matter."  (The thumbnail on the left is my picture in the article.)

  Windows Movie Maker 2, The Sequel, in Smart Computing, May 2003.

"And by fun, we're referring to using Windows Movie Maker 2 to create a movie with its storyboard or timeline components. Let's first look at Windows Movie Maker 2's new built-in feature: AutoMovie ... "

  微软的另一块肌肉, in IT经理世界, 2003. (Chinese)
  微软亚洲研究院10大技术突破 - 多媒体信息分析及构建技术, 2003. (Chinese)
  Windows Video Editing Pulls Ahead of the Mac, by Paul Thurrott, in Connected Home EXPRESS, 13 November 2002.

" ... Instead of looking at the manual process, let's look at Windows Movie Maker 2's exciting new AutoMovie feature, which uses Microsoft Research technology to analyze your video clips and create a professionally edited movie that includes the best parts of each scene you selected. It sounds impossible, but AutoMovie does an amazing job, effectively eliminating the time and effort barriers to video editing ... "

  「微軟研究院」 把不可能技術變可能, in Liberty Times Web 2002. (Chinese)

Current Interns in My Team
 Guo-Jun QI PhD candidate of University of Science and Technology of China
 Zhu LU PhD candidate of Shanghai Jiao Tong University
 Zhengjun ZHA PhD candidate of University of Science and Technology of China
 Jingjing LIU  
 Zhiwei GU  
 Bo YNG  
 Yong WANG  
 Jiemin LIU University of Science and Technology of China

Previous Interns of My Team
 Tao MEI PhD candidate of University of Science and Technology of China
Now is working with Internet Media Group in MSR Asia:
http://research.microsoft.com/users/tmei/
 Yunkun LU  
 Chenrui DENG  
 Lin MA  
 Cunxun ZNAG  
 Meng WANG PhD candidate of University of Science and Technology of China
 Xun YUAN PhD candidate of University of Science and Technology of China
 Jinhui TANG PhD candidate of University of Science and Technology of China

 Cai-Zhi ZHU

PhD candidate of University of Science and Technology of China
 Zengzhi WANG MS candidate of Sun Yat-Sen University. Now is working with Baidu.
 Hong-Wen KANG PhD candidate of University of Science and Technology of China
 Yang SONG PhD candidate of University of Science and Technology of China
 Hao-Da HUANG PhD candidate of Chinese Academy of Sciences
 Yu LIU Now is working with MSRA ATC.
 Huajian WANG PhD candidate of Tsinghua University
 Jun WU PhD candidate of Tsinghua University
 Liexian GU PhD candidate of Tsinghua University

 Pei YIN

PhD student of College of Computing/GVU, Georgia Institute of Technology

Last Update: Jan-10-2007