Microsoft Research Multimedia Search and Mining Group Overview

Multimedia Search and Mining (MSM) Group

The Multimedia Search and Mining (MSM) group at Microsoft Research focuses on a wide range of research and projects related to multimedia. Their core areas of work include understanding, analyzing, searching, and mining multimedia data, with a particular emphasis on image and video content.

Key Research Areas:

• Image Understanding: Developing methods to interpret and extract meaningful information from images.
• Video Analytics: Analyzing video content to understand actions, events, and objects within them.
• Large-Scale Visual Indexing and Search: Creating efficient systems for indexing and searching vast collections of images and videos.
• 3D Reconstruction: Building three-dimensional models from visual data.
• Data Mining: Discovering patterns and insights from multimedia datasets.
• Applications: Applying multimedia research to various real-world problems and scenarios.

Research Focus Areas:

The group's research spans across several key domains within artificial intelligence and computer science:

• Intelligence:

  • Artificial Intelligence (AI)
  • Audio & Acoustics
  • Computer Vision
  • Graphics & Multimedia
  • Human-Computer Interaction
  • Human Language Technologies
  • Information Retrieval & Search

• Systems:

  • Data Platform & Analytics
  • Hardware & Devices
  • Programming Languages & Software Engineering
  • Quantum Computing
  • Security, Privacy & Cryptography
  • Systems & Networking

• Theory:

  • Algorithms
  • Mathematics

• Other Sciences:

  • Ecology & Environment
  • Economics
  • Medical, Health & Genomics
  • Social Sciences
  • Technology for Emerging Markets

People:

The MSM group comprises several researchers, including:

• Qi Dai: Principal Researcher
• Jianlong Fu: Senior Research Manager
• Bei Liu: Senior Researcher
• Kai Qiu: Researcher

Publications and Resources:

The group actively publishes their research findings and makes resources available:

• Collaboration Papers: Access to research papers detailing their work.
• Microsoft Research Blog: Updates and insights from the MSM group.

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