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Hari Sundaram is currently a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Electrical Engineering at Columbia University. He received his MS degree in EE from SUNY Stony Brook 1995 and a B.Tech in EE from Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi in 1993. He is interested in issues relating to signal representation and its attendant applications to multimedia information retrieval, signal processing and computer vision. Other interests include topological processing, approximate algorithms, processing with dynamic computational constraints. His Ph.D. work under Prof. Shih-Fu Chang focuses on video summarization.

sundaram@ctr.columbia.edu

 

Prof. Shih-Fu Chang is currently an Associate Professor at Department of Electrical Engineering and New Media Technology Center in Columbia University. He received a Ph.D. degree in EECS from U.C. Berkeley in 1993. His research interests include image/video signal processing, visual information systems, content-based visual access, image authentication/copyright protection, and intelligent network transport techniques for audio-video data. He is also particularly interested in integration issues of image/video analysis, manipulation, search, storage and transmission.

He is also one of  the principal investigators of the ADVENT Industrial Forum (All Digital Video Encoding Networking and Transmission) Project at Columbia University. The ADVENT project aims at strong collaboration with industry in developing technologies for new media applications.

sfchang@ctr.columbia.edu