Let's bother to take pictures - User navigation using large-scale multimedia data on the Internet

24^th October 2014, 15:00 Ashton Lecture Theater
Prof Toshihiko Yamasaki
Department of Information and Communication Engineering
The University of Tokyo

Abstract

Why do we keep taking pictures and uploading them to social networking services? Although there are many computer vision techniques that can extract good photos from the Internet or that can edit your photos to make them much better, we still keep taking photos every day. In my opinion, the important thing is taking your photos by yourself by your own camera. Ordinary users are not interested in retrieving good photos taken by the others or not manipulating your photos. Therefore, we are now working on user navigation to let them take better photos, get more likes on SNSs, and as a result having better personal experience by using a large-scale multimedia data on the Internet.

Short Bio
Toshihiko Yamasaki received the B.S. degree in electronic engineering, the M.S. degree in information and communication engineering, and the Ph.D. degree from The University of Tokyo in 1999, 2001, and 2004, respectively.

From April 2004 to Oct. 2006, he was an Assistant Professor at Department of Frontier Informatics, Graduate School of Frontier Sciences, The University of Tokyo. He is currently an Associate Professor at Department of Information and Communication Engineering, Graduate School of Information Science and Technology, The University of Tokyo. He was a JSPS Fellow for Research Abroad and a visiting scientist at Cornell University (advisor: Prof. Tsuhan Chen) from Feb. 2011 to Feb. 2013.

His current research interests include big data analysis, pattern recognition, 3D video processing, analog VLSI design, and so on. His publication includes three book chapters, more than 50 journal papers, more than 130 international conference papers, more than 340 domestic conference papers. He has received around 30 awards including Geomm 2013 Best Paper Award, ICMLA 2012 Best Special Session Paper Award, IEICE Young Researcher Award, so on. He has been a member of core 5 and core 10 of Mt. Fuji Plan (Microsoft Research Collaboration in Asia-Pacific), Microsoft.

Dr. Yamasaki is a member of IEEE, ACM, IEICE, ITE, IPSJ, and so on.