Multimedia and New Media Analytics
Program Leader: Associate Professor Jian Zhang
This research stream is led by specialist multimedia and new media analytics experts. Our focus is on the development of fast and effective media information search tools that can retrieve and share data across the Internet. Researchers are using their expertise in multimedia signal processing, computer vision, pattern recognition and data mining to develop innovative theories and algorithms for a new search engine.
Research areas include:
Multimedia
- Combined multimedia and social media search and retrieval on the Internet
- Multimedia understanding and event detection in large scale datasets
Computer Vision
- Object (e.g. human, vehicle, boat) detection based on multiple features and multiple models
- Large scale 3D content processing for object matching and retrieval
- RGB-D sensing, scene reconstruction and Scene Understanding
- Video surveillance for public security and safety
- Human gait recognition through view angle transformation
- Human action detection and retrieval in key frames
Social Media
- Social media content analytics and recommendation
- User behaviour analytics in social media network
- Intrusion prevention and privacy protection in social media network