Dr Zhiyong Wang
Senior Lecturer
School of Information Technologies
Associate Director of Multimedia Lab and Member of BMIT Research Group
J12 - The School of Information Technologies
The University of Sydney
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Biomedical & Multimedia Information Technology Research Group School of Information Technologies |
Biographical details
Research interests
Most of us take the ability to see and hear for granted, but these are very challenging things to enable a computer to do. The dual focuses of Dr Zhiyong Wang's research are to enable computers to 'understand' multimedia data in the way humans can, and to help people better use multimedia data. In this way he is working to improve applications in fields as diverse as multimedia information retrieval, computer graphics and animation, surveillance, medical diagnostics, health care, environmental monitoring and astronomy.
"Multimedia computing is a fascinating field with a broad range of applications. We capture the very moments of our daily life in photos and videos, doctors use CT images to make diagnoses, and astronomers use images of the sky to study the universe. Without multimedia computing techniques, all this would be impossible.
"Creatively, such technology allows us to create content such as computer animations, special effects and 3D movies much more easily and creatively than by traditional approaches.
"One of the aims of my research is to enable computers to 'understand' multimedia data. This will mean, for example, that they will be able to ascertain how people are behaving physically (from action recognition) and emotionally (from facial expression recognition). This will allow better video surveillance, disease identification, multimedia-enabled training and monitoring, and computer graphics and animation.
"I've been with the University of Sydney since 2003. Being here has provided me a great platform to pursue my research interests, and allowed me to closely link my research with the teaching curriculum. It has been my greatest pleasure to work with the intellectually inspiring students."
Teaching and supervision
Selected grants
2006
- Semantic Image Access with Intelligent User Interaction; Feng D, Wang Z, Takatsuka M, Li S, Warren J, Li S; Australian Research Council (ARC)/Linkage.
- Multimedia Computing, Production, Management and Distribution for HDTV and its Applications; Feng D, Cai W, Wang Z, Everitt D, Eades P, Hoang D; Australian Research Council (ARC)/LIEF.
Selected publications
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PhD and master's project opportunities
- Automatic Image Content Annotation
- Web Image Annotation
- Data Management for Automated Identification and Classification of Plant Images
- Novel Image Retouching Techniques
- Automatic Video Content Annotation
- Intelligent Access to Digital TV Content
- Semantic Multimedia Information Retrieval
- Multimedia Streaming with Peer-to-Peer Techniques


