Prof. Shih-Fu Chang
	Columbia University
	Title: Mining Spatio-Temporal Patterns and Knowledge Structures in Multimedia Collection
	Speaker Bio Prof. Shih-Fu Chang leads Columbia University's Digital Video/Multimedia Lab (www.ee.columbia.edu/dvmm) and ADVENT industry-university consortium, conducting research in multimedia indexing, pervasive media, and media authentication. Systems developed by his group include VisualSEEk, VideoQ, WebSEEk for image/video searching, WebClip for networked video editing, and Sari for online image authentication watermarking. He has applied research to various domains, such as a medical video library, currently funded by NSF’s DLI-2 initiative, a Digital News project, and a live sports video filtering application. His group has played an active, leading role in developing the multimedia description schemes in MPEG-7. Prof. Chang served as a general co-chair of ACM 8th Multimedia Conference 2000, a Distinguished Lecturer of the IEEE Circuits and Systems Society, 2001-2002, and will co-chair IEEE Multimedia Conference 2004. He has received a Navy ONR Young Investigator Award, IBM Faculty Development Award, NSF CAREER Award, three Best Paper Awards from the IEEE, ACM, and SPIE, and has supervised several students receiving best student paper awards, in the areas of multimedia indexing and manipulation.