Calendar 2006–07

Research Institutes and Centres 351 Multimedia Research Centre Tel.: 2609 8407 Fax. 2603 5024 E-mail: cslui@cse.cuhk.edu.hk Website: http://www.shiae.cuhk.edu.hk/multimedia.htm Multimedia technologies constitute a multi-disciplinary field that extends beyond engineering to the arts, sciences, and humanities. Main contributive areas include engineering, computer science, artificial intelligence, communications, design, ergonomics and human factors, cognitive psychology and philosophy. The impact of multimedia applications is tremendous – it can range from medicine to entertainment, from bridging the societal digital divide to remote space exploration. Current research projects include: • Mobile Wireless Multimedia Communication • Automatic Multi-layer Video Content Classification • Automatic Multimedia Fission, Categorization and Fusion for Personalized Visualization in Multimedia Information Retrieval • Automatic Video Segmentation and Tracking for Real Time Multimedia Services • Information Retrieval from Mixed-Language Spoken Documents • Wireless Mesh Network