报告题目: Real-World Large-Scale Visual Recognition and Search

报告专家：阿里巴巴研究员/资深总监 华先胜

报告时间：2015年11月14日 周六 上午9:30- 11:30

报告地点：文科楼模拟法庭B-204

报告内容：Image recognition and search have been studied for decades and became very hot again in recently years mainly due to the rapid development of distributed computing, high-dimensional indexing, deep learning and big data analytical techniques. Many visual search and recognition research prototypes and preliminary products are available to the public. However, have we solved all the big technical and non-technical challenges? Has ImageNet solved the recognition problem? What are the key factors of realizing a real-world visual recognition/search system? Are semantic gaps still there, and do they really matter? What is the right business model for those technologies? Which direction that visual search/recognition is going towards? What are still missing? In this talk, we will discuss all these questions based on a real-world visual search and recognition engine that has a considerable number of users.

华先胜，2015年加入阿里巴巴搜索事业部，任研究员/资深总监，负责大数据多媒体内容分析及搜索算法团队。在此之前先后在微软中国研究院、微软总部Bing搜索引擎以及微软美国研究院任主管研究员、首席研发主管以及资深研究员。北京大学博士毕业，一直从事图像、视频内容分析和搜索方面的研究和开发工作。在国际会议和期刊上发表论文250余篇，拥有50余项授权专利。2008年因视频搜索方面的突出贡献获麻省理工学院《技术评论》 TR35“全球35个35岁以下青年创新者”称号，2012年任多媒体领域顶级国际会议 ACM Multimeida 程序委员会主席，2012和2013年连续两年任IEEE多媒体会议ICME程序委员会主席，还是多个多媒体、AI及搜索领域国际会议的领域主席（包括KDD，SIGIR，IJCAI，MM，ICME等），曾任或现任IEEE Trans. On Multimedia及ACM Trans. On Intelligent Systems and Technology杂志副编，曾获包括ACM Multimedia和IEEE Trans. On CSVT等在内的多项最佳论文奖。