Research

The research in Multimedia Analytics is focussed on the integration of Multimedia Analysis, Multimedia Mining, Information Visualization, and Multimedia Interaction into a coherent framework which yields more than its constituent components. The two main application areas are semantic video search engines in particular the search engine Mediamill focussing on broadcast data which has been very successful in TRECVID, the international standard in the field, and Forensic Intelligence where, among other applications, we are developing the Investigator's Dashboard and the Surveillance Dashboard.

Current Phd students

• Gosia Migut: Visual Mining
• Ork de Rooij:  Interactive access to video
• Michael Metternich: Searching in surveillance video
• Dang Trung Kien: Crime Scene Annotation using Handheld Cameras
  
• Xirong Li: Social multimedia analysis and retrieval
  

PhD students that received their degree under my (partial) guidance:

• Giang Nguyen "Interactive Image Search using Similarity-Based Visualization, december 2006" 
• Laura Hollink "Semantic annotation for retrieval of visual resources, november 2006"
• Cees Snoek "The Authoring Metaphor to Machine Understanding of Multimedia, october 2005"
• Andy Bagdanov: "Style Characterization of Machine Printed Text", may 2004.
• Jeroen Vendrig: "Interactive Exploration of Visual Content", October 2002.
• Tat Hieu Nguyen: "Segmentation of Video Into Spatio-Temporal Objects", march 2001.