Winston H. Hsu is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Electrical Engineering at Columbia University, New York, USA, since Spring 2002, under the supervision of Prof. Shih-Fu Chang. Before that, he had worked for years in a prominent multimedia software start-up, CyberLink Corp., where experiencing engineer, project leader, and R&D manager. Besides, he is an alumnus of Communication & Multimedia Lab, National Taiwan University. His researches focus on information-theoretic frameworks towards large-scale video structuring, information exploitation, semantic threading, and retrieval across multiple sources and over time by utilizing the recurrent patterns and hidden multi-modal semantics. His proposed hypotheses are experimented through cross-site projects affiliated with IBM T.J. Watson Research Center and active participation in TRECVID benchmark.

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