The Digital Video and Multimedia (DVMM) Lab at Columbia University is dedicated to research of computer vision, machine learning, and multimodal content understanding. Our primary goal is to develop intelligent techniques and systems that can extract rich information and knowledge from data of rich modalities and their combinations, such as images, video, language, and audio.

Our work on content-based visual search in the early 90's set the foundation of this vibrant area. Over the years, we have developed innovative machine learning techniques and systems for image/video retrieval and recognition, event detection, hashing-based scalable search, and multimodal knowledge graph extraction. Our research results have been used in real-world applications, such as commercial video search engines, online human trafficking crime prevention, and brain machine interface products. Our impacts can be seen in peer-reviewed publications, best paper awards, 30+ issued patents, and technology transfer.

Please visit the publication page to learn more about our recent work.



DVMM news (All news)
10/2020 DVMM alum John R. Smith awarded ACM SIGMM Technical Achievement Award 2020 (more)
09/2020 Columbia Engineering launched Center of AI Technology in collaboration with Amazon. Prof. Chang serves as Inaugural Director (more)
07/2020 DVMM team and collaborators won the Best Demo Paper Award at ACL 2020 (more)
06/2019 Prof. Chang gave keynote talks on multimodal knowledge graph and GAN Fake Image Detection at CVPR workshops (more)
06/2019 DVMM co-authored paper winning Best Paper Award at CVPR EARTHVISION (more)
07/2018 Prof. Chang elected to Academia Sinica (more)
06/2018 DVMM's research on pattern discovery received the Best Poster Award at ICMR 2018 (more)
01/2018 DVMM Postdoc Hanwang Zhang joined Nanyang Technological University as Assistant Professor (more)
01/2018 DVMM Alum Dr. Wei Liu listed among "AI's 10 To Watch" (more)
12/2017 Prof. Chang named ACM Fellow (more)
10/2016 Prof. Chang listed as the Most Influential Scholar in the field of Multimedia 2016 (more)
07/2016 DVMM Start-up VidRovr Wins Major Prize in Publicis90 Global Competition (more)
06/2016 DVMM Research on Compact Hashing Received T-MM Best Paper Award Honorable Mention (more)
01/2016 Prof. Chang received Honorary Doctorate from the University of Amsterdam (more)

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