讲座题目: Understanding Visual Content: from surveillance videos to multimedia documents
讲座时间: 2005年10月24日下午2:00
讲座地点: 曹光彪东楼502
讲座人: Li-Qun Xu, BT Research, BT Group PLC, United Kingdom
讲座内容简介:
In recent years BT (www.btplc.com) has been striving to transform itself from a dominant voice telephony-based telecommunications business into one of the world leading IP network and managed IT solutions providers, relying increasingly upon the growth of business and market share in the application of ‘new-wave’ technologies including broadband, mobility, ICT, among others. The rapid growth in broadband connections and distributed multimedia content has called for more appealing and bandwidth adaptive applications. In this context BT’s research interest in video content analysis and understanding has been driven by both meeting (and stimulating) the business needs of our corporate customers as well as providing a Centre of excellence for BT’s strategic vision in evaluating and offing foresights into innovative products and services on the horizon. In this talk I’ll first give a brief overview of BT’s research activities and organisations in a corporate environment, then discuss two recent projects in the domain of intelligent video surveillance and multimedia digital libraries. For each project, discussions on the objective of research, technical approaches investigated, and output result demos will be given.
Biography:
Li-Qun Xu is Principal Researcher with BT Research & Venturing, part of the BT Group Chief Technology Office. He holds BSc (1982), MSc (1985) and PhD (1988) degrees all in Electronic and Information Engineering. After working in Universities for a number of years as Member of Research Staff and lately within the Faculty, he joined BT Research (formerly BT Laboratories) in 1996. His recent research interests and projects include broadly multimedia content analysis and indexing, robust object segmentation and tracking for intelligent visual surveillance, people behaviour and event analysis, motion analysis and segmentation, 3-D vision techniques and image-based rendering for collaborative working environment, among others. He has published prolifically in these and allied technical areas and holds over a dozen patents and pending applications. He currently manages one of BT’s strategic research projects and a number of BT’s collaborative activities with EU partners and Universities. He is a member of the Executive Team of IEE Visual Information Engineering Professional Network and an independent expert evaluator for EU Commission Services conducting research proposals evaluation and projects review in the area of “Networked audio-visual system and home platform” as well as “Semantic-based knowledge and content systems.” He has been frequently consulted internally by BT’s technology innovation and business divisions as domain expert in visual information processing technologies and related innovative services and products. He serves regularly as Programme Committee member of a number of international conferences and workshops.
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讲座时间: 2005年10月24日下午2:00
讲座地点: 曹光彪东楼502
讲座人: Li-Qun Xu, BT Research, BT Group PLC, United Kingdom
讲座内容简介:
In recent years BT (www.btplc.com) has been striving to transform itself from a dominant voice telephony-based telecommunications business into one of the world leading IP network and managed IT solutions providers, relying increasingly upon the growth of business and market share in the application of ‘new-wave’ technologies including broadband, mobility, ICT, among others. The rapid growth in broadband connections and distributed multimedia content has called for more appealing and bandwidth adaptive applications. In this context BT’s research interest in video content analysis and understanding has been driven by both meeting (and stimulating) the business needs of our corporate customers as well as providing a Centre of excellence for BT’s strategic vision in evaluating and offing foresights into innovative products and services on the horizon. In this talk I’ll first give a brief overview of BT’s research activities and organisations in a corporate environment, then discuss two recent projects in the domain of intelligent video surveillance and multimedia digital libraries. For each project, discussions on the objective of research, technical approaches investigated, and output result demos will be given.
Biography:
Li-Qun Xu is Principal Researcher with BT Research & Venturing, part of the BT Group Chief Technology Office. He holds BSc (1982), MSc (1985) and PhD (1988) degrees all in Electronic and Information Engineering. After working in Universities for a number of years as Member of Research Staff and lately within the Faculty, he joined BT Research (formerly BT Laboratories) in 1996. His recent research interests and projects include broadly multimedia content analysis and indexing, robust object segmentation and tracking for intelligent visual surveillance, people behaviour and event analysis, motion analysis and segmentation, 3-D vision techniques and image-based rendering for collaborative working environment, among others. He has published prolifically in these and allied technical areas and holds over a dozen patents and pending applications. He currently manages one of BT’s strategic research projects and a number of BT’s collaborative activities with EU partners and Universities. He is a member of the Executive Team of IEE Visual Information Engineering Professional Network and an independent expert evaluator for EU Commission Services conducting research proposals evaluation and projects review in the area of “Networked audio-visual system and home platform” as well as “Semantic-based knowledge and content systems.” He has been frequently consulted internally by BT’s technology innovation and business divisions as domain expert in visual information processing technologies and related innovative services and products. He serves regularly as Programme Committee member of a number of international conferences and workshops.
各位研究生，该讲座列入读书报告范围，欢迎大家选择参加。
