MindFinder – Sketch-based Search, Recognition, and Parsing

【学术报告】 MindFinder – Sketch-based Search, Recognition, and Parsing

【主讲人】 Changhu Wang (王长虎)

Associate Researcher

Microsoft Research Asia

【时 间】2013年03月22日(周五)上午10:00 —11:30 am

【地 点】北京大学计算机所大楼 106报告厅(中关村北大街128号)

Abstract

Retrieving images to match with a hand-drawn sketch query is a highly desired feature, especially with the popularity of devices with touch screens. Although query-by-sketch has been extensively studied since 1990s, it is still very challenging to build a real-time sketch-based image search engine on a large-scale database due to the lack of effective and efficient matching/indexing solutions. The explosive growth of web images and the phenomenal success of search techniques have encouraged us to revisit this problem and target at solving the problem of web-scale sketch-based image retrieval. We have developed a real-time sketch-based image search engine MindFinder by indexing more than 10 million images. In this talk, Dr. Wang will demonstrate related systems, and introduce several related research topics such as sketch-based image search, sketch recognition and parsing.

Biography

Dr. Changhu Wang is an associate researcher at Multimedia Search and Mining Group, Microsoft Research Asia.

Dr. Changhu Wang received his Bachelor degree in 2004 and his Ph.D. degree in 2009, all from the University of Science and Technology of China. He worked as a research engineer at the department of Electrical and Computer Engineering in National University of Singapore in 2008.

Dr. Changhu Wang’s major research interests include sketch-based image search, shape understanding, web image retrieval and annotation, image understanding, travel route mining, etc. He published more than 30 papers in high-quality conferences and journals in these fields. He served over 20 international conferences and journals as a committee member or reviewer.

He was awarded Microsoft Golden Star Award in 2011, which is a highly selective award in the recognition of his important contribution to Microsoft’s success. He received a Best Demo Award in ACM International Conference on Multimedia 2010 in the recognition of MindFinder system. He was awarded Microsoft Fellowship in 2007, which is designed to support talented PhD students throughout the Asia-pacific Region who have the potential to become future research leaders by Microsoft Corporation.

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