Acceptance speech for Outstanding technical achievement award at ACM Multimedia 2010.

1. Life = Experience (Events)
+
Vision
Ramesh Jain
jain@ics.uci.edu
FaceBook, Twitter, Google: jain49

2. Today: A Special Event
One of the most satisfying recognition
On a special day in my life
By my professional family
In one of my favorite location
In the presence of many of my favorite people
For doing things that I love

3. Vision
ExperiencesLife = (Events)

4. My Professional Life
• Research
–Vision
–Multimedia
–Experiential Computing
• Entrepreneurial
• Professional

5. Who is this?
Three of my Professional
kids (out of the nest)
are here:
Mubarak Shah
Francis Quek
Simone Santini
And one current student
is also here:
Vivek SIngh

6. My very
supportive
Family
Photo taken on
Oct 27, 1970
Ma – left us 3
weeks ago.
Swati and
Frank Neil
Suzi and
Adolfo
Jay
Tarah
Osito

7. I am definitely successful, because
• Behind every successful man there is a
woman,
NAGGING and Threatening

8. Mentors
H.-H. Nagel
Scientific Thinking
CK Prahalad
Bold Thinking

9. Friends: Partners in Crime
R. Kasturi
Brian Schunck
Terry Weymouth
IshwarBill Grosky Susanne Boll

10. Friends: Partners in Crime
Mohan
Kankanhalli
Tat Seng Chua
Nicu Sebe
Larry Rowe
JianPing Fan
Noboru Babaguchi

11. Friends: Partners in Crime
Paul Lego
Michael Parekh
Kurt Skifstad Bradley Horowitz
Shashi
Chaudhary
Rajesh Jain

12. Friends: Partners in Crime
Nicolas Georganas
Alberto Del Bimbo Arnold Smeulders
Yong Rui Hong Jiang Zhang
Gerald Friedland

13. Friends: Partners in Crime
Tom Huang Rainer Lienhart
Marcel Worring
Svetha Venkatesh Victoria Vesna
Wendy Hall

14. Vision
• Dynamic Vision
– Difference Pictures
– Tracking
– Event detection
• Object Recognition
– Segmentation approaches
– Feature Indexed Hypothesis
• Three Dimensionality
– Range Images
– Imageware
– Different Stereos

15. Dynamic Computer Vision
Mubarak Shah
Jake Aggarwal
Chuck
Jerian
Susan
Haynes
Ishwar Sethi
H.-H Nagel

16. Computer Vision Students
Paul Besl Gopal Pingali
Ravi Rao
Nancy O’Brien

17. Computer Vision Students
Francis Quek
Chiao Fe Shu
Yi Lu
Thomas
Knoll

18. Most Influential Technology from My
Laboratory
Thomas Knoll

19. Multimedia
• Image Retrieval
– Content Based Approaches
• IBM as well as Virage
– Emergent Approaches
• Faces
• Emergent Semantics
• Video Retrieval
– Edit artifact detection
– Indexing
– Virage
• MPI and Immersive Video
– Multiple Perspective Interactive Video
– Immersive Video
– Praja

20. Multimedia
(Image) Retrieval
Amarnath
Gupta
Arun HampapurSimone Santini
Jeff Bach
Virage
Bo Gong

21. Immersive Telepresence
Arun Katkere Saed Moezzi
Multiple Perspective
Interactive Video
Immersive Video
Praja

22. Experiential Computing
• Multimedia is important because it captures
experiences
• Events
Ansgar Scherp
Utz Westermann

23. Entrepreneurship
Imageware
mChron
Praja

24. Current Team at UCI

25. Where Are we Going?
• Personal
• Closely Linked with Multimedia Community
• Guiding Principle:

26. Copernican Revolution in
Computing
Who is the King:
Content (Data) or User?

27. Content (Data) is the King.

28. Lot of information is there. But,
do we get what we want?
A terrible airplane crash in
Timbuktu. More than 300
casualties.
Andrew Strauss hits
a Century – England
wins.
Jay Stanley wins the
MVP of the game.
Again.
Which will be on BBC and all Newspapers?
Which News is really important?
Jay is my grand-son. Does that change priorities?

29. Gutenberg’s influence is ending.
• Personal Media
• Personalized News
• Personalized Alerts
Right Information
Right Time
Right Place
Finally Technology allows Personalized
Experiences

30. Desirable: You are the King.

31. Current Projects: All about Events and
Experiences
• EMME
• NowLedger
• MoP

32. EMME: Experiential Media Management Environment
• Searching for photos, videos, email, powerpoints
– ACM MM 2010
• Creating Albums:
– Professional
– Family
– Tourism
• Telling stories
– What did I do in Florence?
• Scenario: In December 2010, I have 20,000 pictures taken in 2010. How do I
(semi-automatically) select 25 to send to
– My daughter
– The uncle that I hate
– My personal friends
– My professional friends
– …

33. EMME Architecture

34. NowLedger
• Whats happening Now (and in near future)
around me.
• Anywhere in the world – Now.
• Immersing you in where you would like to be.

35. Concept Architecture

36. Situation Detection and Control
Aggregation
and
Composition
Situation
Detection
Alerts
Queries
Inform
ation

38. Dream: Web for the
Middle of the Pyramid

40. Middle 3 Billion
The World: Technology Perspective
Top 1.5
Billion
Bottom 2 Billion
Middle of the Pyramid
(MOP):
Ready, BUT …
Most attention by
Technologists – so far.
Not Ready

41. Direct the innovation and R&D towards the
needs of the World’s middle class – the Middle
of the Pyramid (MOP).
Expand the Middle to cover the Bottom.
Highest Bang for the Buck: Tech for
the Middle of the Pyramid

42. HEATS Networks
Health Education Agriculture Transportation Social
For addressing all life elements.

43. Situational Control
HEATS = +
Social Networks
Microblogs
MicroEvents
WWW
Situation
Detection/
Control
Awareness/
Education
ExperientialCo
mm.

44. HEATS Connects People for Symbiotic Life Activities.

45. Some Concerns for our ACM MM
Family
• Very conservative
• Live in Virtual World
• ACM MM has a wonderful chance to be a
leader, but …

46. A Dream related to my ACM Family
• We will lead the media revolution – enter new
age after the Gutenberg era.
• We will lead industry, rather than follow.
• We will take the media revolution to the
Middle of the Pyramid.

47. ACM Multimedia: My Professional Family
Can we be the leader? Can we go Beyond
Gutenberg?
Review systems
Publication systems

48. Future of Multimedia:
Personalized Experiences
for Everybody
• Event Based
• Experience Centric
• Centered around YOU
• No Country Left Behind

49. THANKS
• For the supportive environment.
• For for the friendship.
• For providing me so many exciting events.
• For giving me a chance to experience a rich life.
• For letting me dream and listening to my ‘vision’.