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Professor
Whoi-Yul Yura Kim
School of Electrical and Computer
Engineering Hanyang University
Prof. W. Yura Kim of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Hanyang
University, Seoul, Korea received his Ph. D. degree in Electrical
Engineering from Purdue University in 1989, and served as a faculty at
the Univ. of Texas at Dallas before joining Hanyang University in 1994.
As the founder of the Image Engineering Lab at the university, one of
the largest research group for computer vision research in Korea, he has
been actively involved in the development of visual descriptors in
MPEG-7, formally named ˇ§Multimedia Content Description Interface,ˇ¨ a
standard for describing the multimedia content data that allows
retrieving multimedia data by means of some degree of interpretation of
the informationˇ¦s meaning. Two descriptors, 'region-based shape
descriptor' and 'shape sequence descriptor' developed by his team, were
adopted as part of the standard. During his activity, Prof. Kim also
served as the head of Korean delegates for MPEG-7. A number of
state-of-the-art multimedia retrieval systems had been developed by his
team: one of the first image/video retrieval system using MPEG-7
descriptors, large scale image/video retrieval system, tracking system
for multiple moving objects, development of PVR for retrieving and
managing multimedia contents, and sport video summarization system for
STB. Most recently, the lab developed the world first cast retrieval
system using face descriptors in broadcasting video for KBS.
Title of talk: Cast based video retrieval system for broadcasting
video
Professor
Chang-Ning Huang
Professor Chang-Ning Huang (B.S.) graduated
from Dept. of Automatic Control, Tsinghua University, China, on 1961.
Now he is a senior consultant of Natural Language Computing (NLC) group,
Microsoft Research Asia (MSRA) since February 2004. He joined MSRA as a
senior researcher and the research manager of the NLC group on April
1999. Before that he was the professor of the Dept. of Computer Science
and Technology, Tsinghua University, and the founder and Director of the
NLP research group in Tsinghua from 1982 to 1999.
Prof. Huang was the co-founder of the Computational Linguistics
Committee of CIP (the Chinese Information Processing Society of China),
and acted as its chair from 1992 to 2001. He has also served as a
steering committee member for SIGDAT. He is the Editor-in-Chief of the
Journal of Chinese Information Processing (in Chinese) since 1998, the
Associate Editor of ACM-TALIP from its beginning. He has served on
editorial board of several international and local journals, and on
program chair/co-chair of various academic conferences. Therefore, in
the last two decades Prof. Huang was deeply involved in almost all
academic activities around NLP in China including international/regional
forums and cooperating projects. He is the pioneer and advocator of the
Corpus Linguistics and Statistical NLP in China, one book and about
fifty papers in this area have been published so far.
Title of talk: Does syntactic-semantic knowledge help in Asian
language processing on the word level? |
