National Institute of Informatics
Global Liaison Office
Emmanuel Planas, Acting Director
3. Digital Content and Media Sciences Research Division
Research into methods of analyzing, generating, storing, using and processing text, images and various other content and media from theories to actual systems
- Foundation of content management: Technology and systems for multimedia content security, Service oriented computing, Data management for video corpus analysis ,Optimization for casual queries data base, Data and text mining scalable association for huge corpus access, Informatics association, Data sharing and its metadata management, etc. | Ex: Katsusuna YAMAJI
- Text and Language Media: :Information retrieval and integration of heterogeneous data, Identification/ linkage of text information, Language media and interface, Research on techniques for utilizing web information, synthetic parsing, semantic parsing etc.|Ex: Junichi YAMAGISHI | Akiko AIZAWA
- Pattern media: Video analysis, Retrieval and knowledge discovery based on broadcast video archives, Image retrieval, Video mining, Advanced video search engines, Automatic modeling of 3 D objects, Computer vision, Digital archives for cultural heritage, Earth and environment informatics, Physic based object shape and reflectance modeling, image video coding and streaming, etc.| Ex: Shin’ichi SATOH 1 2 3 | Imari SATO
- Human and Knowledge media: Integration of user’s context in real and virtual world , Understanding multimodal interaction, Multilingual multimedia semantic management ,Multimodal interaction ,Multimodal communication, Interactive information gathering,/retrieval, Personal communication and interaction in semantic Web environment, Life like characters and avatars, Participatory science and collaboration in the 3D Internet, Automatic content creation, Human-agent interaction, etc. | Ex: Frederic ANDRES | Helmut PRENDINGER 1 2
