Dr HUA Xian-Sheng, a lead reseacher from the Internet Media Group (Microsoft Research Asia) was awarded the 2008 MIT Technology Review Young Innovator prize. This award is given in recognition of Hua’s work in the content-based video analysis.
The amount of video on the Web is growing at an incredible rate. Effectively searching online video, however, remains difficult.
Hua hopes to crack the problem by teaching computers to recognize objects, scenes, events, and other elements of digital images. He uses machine-learning techniques and annotated videos to train computers to automatically categorize new videos. Click here to view a flowchart explaining Hua’s video search system.
Congrats Xian-Sheng!
Related links:
- The entire recipient list of the 2008 Young Innovators Under 35 award (MIT Technology Review)
- Dr Hua Xian-Sheng’s Citation Profile
- 全球视野下的创新人物 (Microsoft Research Asia Sina Blog)
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