[Cmul_merc] Talk on Sept 8: From Pixels to Information - Recent Advances in Visual Search

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*From Pixels to Information - Recent Advances in Visual Search*

/*Bernd Girod, Stanford University*/

September 8 (Thursday), 2016, 11pm, Room EA5, North Tower

With intelligent processing, cameras have great potential to link the 
real world and the virtual world. We review advances and opportunities 
for algorithms and applications that retrieve information from large 
databases using images as queries. For rate-constrained applications, 
remarkable improvements have been achieved over the course the MPEG-CDVS 
(Compact Descriptors for Visual Search) standardization. Beyond CDVS lie 
applications that query video databases with images, while others 
continually match video frames against image databases. Exploiting the 
temporal coherence of video for either case can yield large additional 
gains. We will look at implementations for example applications ranging 
from text recognition to augmented reality to understand the challenges 
of building databases for rapid search and scalability, as well as the 
tradeoffs between processing on a mobile device and in the cloud.


Bernd Girod is the Robert L. and Audrey S. Hancock Professor of 
Electrical Engineering at Stanford University, California. He received 
the Engineering Doctorate degree from University of Hannover, Germany, 
and the M.S. degree from the Georgia Institute of Technology. Until 
1999, he was a Professor with the Electrical Engineering Department, 
University of Erlangen– Nuremberg. He has authored over 600 conference 
and journal papers and six books, receiving the EURASIP Signal 
Processing Best Paper Award in 2002, the IEEE Multimedia Communication 
Best Paper Award in 2007, the EURASIP Image Communication Best Paper 
Award in 2008, the EURASIP Signal Processing Most Cited Paper Award in 
2008, the EURASIP Technical Achievement Award in 2004, and the Technical 
Achievement Award of the IEEE Signal Processing Society in 2011. His 
research interests are in the area of image, video, and multimedia 
systems. As an entrepreneur, he was involved in numerous startup 
ventures, among them Polycom, Vivo Software, 8x8, and Real Networks. He 
is a Fellow of the IEEE, a EURASIP Fellow, a member of the the National 
Academy of Engineering, and a member of the German National Academy of 
Sciences (Leopoldina).

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