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.
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New Building SW elevation
This concept scheme shows the new $75M Engineering building viewed from the southwest. A bridge connects the western face of the building to Ketter Hall. Jarvis Hall is seen on the right. In 2008, UB demolished the trailers that had occupied this site.
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Grants for research
CSE faculty averages some $4.5 million annually in grants for research in areas that range from high-performance computing to data mining.
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Cutting-edge research facilities
CSE faculty are major participants in the new $200 million Buffalo Center of Excellence in Bioinformatics.
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High-performance
CSE's MultiStore Research Group is funded by a $1 million NSF grant for the development of high-performance online data-storage systems.
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Automated mail
A CSE-affiliated research center developed the systems that postal agencies around the world use for automatically sorting hand-addressed mail.
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New Building NE elevation
This concept scheme shows the new $75M Engineering building viewed from the northeast. Ketter and Furnas Halls can be seen on the left, just south of the new building. Ground-breaking is scheduled for 2009.
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Working together
CSE faculty work with researchers in chemistry, the life sciences, the pharmaceutical sciences, media study, geography, and many other disciplines.
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Supercomputing
The CSE-affiliated Center for Computational Research is one of the leading academic supercomputing centers in the U.S.
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Award-winning faculty
The CSE faculty includes NSF CAREER award holders and ACM, IEEE, and AAAI fellows.
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Algorithm therapy
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.
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New Building NW elevation
This concept scheme shows the new $75M Engineering building viewed from the northwest. The edge of Ketter Hall is visible on the right, just east of the new building. Ribbon-cutting is scheduled for 2011.
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Image analysis
CSE professor Aidong Zhang is developing intelligent content-analysis programs to automatically analyze images, replacing human coding of semantic content.
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Structural determination
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.
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Handwriting recognition
Pursuing work on document verification and identification, CSE researchers use machine-learning algorithms to study handwriting variability.
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Crystal clear
CSE Professor Russ Miller, along with Nobel Laureate Herbert Hauptman, developed an algorithm for crystal structure determination which is considered one of the top 10 algorithms of the 20th century by Computing in Science and Engineering Magazine.
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