Areas of Research Concentration

Research Areas

• Algorithms and Theory

• Augmentative Technology for the Handicapped

• Computer Networks and Distributed Systems

• Computer Science Education

• Computer Security and Information Assurance

• Computer Vision and Information Visualization

• Databases

• High-Performance and Grid Computing, Cyberinfrastructure, and Computational Science

• Knowledge Representation, Computational Linguistics, and Cognitive Science

• Medical Applications and Bioinformatics

• Multimedia Databases and Information Retrieval

• Pattern Recognition, Machine Learning, and Data Mining

• Programming Languages and Software Systems

• VLSI and Computer Architecture

Research Centers, Labs, and Groups Home Pages

• Center for Unified Biometrics and Sensors

• Center of Excellence for Document Analysis and Recognition

• Center of Excellence in Information Systems Assurance Research and Education

• Bioinformatics Research Group

• Database and Multimedia Research Group

• Distributed Systems Research Group

• Knowledge Media Lab

• Laboratory for Advanced Network Design, Evaluation, and Research

• Language Research Group

• Logical Foundations of Databases Research Group

• Multimedia Information Retrieval

• MultiStore Research Group

• Security, Dependability, and Test Design Automation (SPIDER)

• SNePS Research Group

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Multimedia Databases and Information Retrieval

The rapid expansion of the Web and the emergence of digital libraries have generated tremendous interest in multimedia information processing. Research in infrastructure for supporting large-scale, distributed multimedia libraries includes multimedia databases, efficient indexing, transmission, and networking issues. The incorporation of multimedia database systems will improve the quantity and quality of information manipulated by computer users in medicine, computer aided design, and information retrieval. The area of intelligent multimedia content analysis and retrieval techniques is an emerging discipline. Techniques for representing and extracting semantic information from media such as speech, images, and video are required.

Faculty

• Aidong Zhang (Professor)
• Rohini Srihari (Associate Professor)

Laboratories and Research Groups

• Multimedia and Database Research Group
  Director: Aidong Zhang
  Research in this area involves representation, indexing, transmission, retrieval and presentation of multimedia in a distributed environment, content-based retrieval, data mining, and bioinformatics.
  



• MultiStore Research Group
  Director: Aidong Zhang
  MultiStore is a storage infrastructure project to construct, manage, and store multidimensional data sets. The project will carry out geographic imaging research, bioinformatic research, pharmacogenomic research, and basic research on large scale data sets and information visualization. Collaborators include David Mark, Director of the NCGIA, Nobel laureate Herbert Hauptman, and Norma Nowak, Director of the DNA Microarray Facility at the Roswell Park Cancer Institute.
  


• Multimedia Information Retrieval Research Group
  Director: Rohini Srihari

Projects

• NetMedia
  Consistent and robust retrieval, transmission and presentation of multimedia data in distributed multimedia database systems


• NetView
  Content-based image retrieval system
  


• Data Mining and Bioinformatics
  While available information retrieval techniques rely on human coding of semantic content, Zhang’s intelligent content analysis analyzes images automatically. The picture analyzed depicts Bell Hall, home to the main office of the Department of Computer Science and Engineering on UB's North Campus.
  

	Did You Know

CSE faculty averages some $4.5 million annually in grants for research in areas that range from high-performance computing to data mining.

CSE faculty are major participants in the new $200 million Buffalo Center of Excellence in Bioinformatics.

CSE's MultiStore Research Group is funded by a $1 million NSF grant for the development of high-performance online data-storage systems.

A CSE-affiliated research center developed the systems that postal agencies around the world use for automatically sorting hand-addressed mail.

CSE faculty work with researchers in chemistry, the life sciences, the pharmaceutical sciences, media study, geography, and many other disciplines.

The CSE-affiliated Center for Computational Research is one of the leading academic supercomputing centers in the U.S.

The CSE faculty includes NSF CAREER award holders and ACM, IEEE, and AAAI fellows.

A geometric algorithm developed by CSE professor Jinhui Xu configures a set of radiation beams to destroy brain tumors in a form of computer-aided surgery.

CSE professor Aidong Zhang is developing intelligent content-analysis programs to automatically analyze images, replacing human coding of semantic content.

CSE professor Russ Miller is one of the authors of a program that can determine the structure of molecules as large as 2,000 atoms from X-ray diffraction patterns.

Pursuing work on document verification and identification, CSE researchers use machine-learning algorithms to study handwriting variability.