Date Posted: July 2, 1999
Overview
What is SFGraph?
SFGraph has retired.
About the technology author(s)
John R. Smith is a research staff member at the IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, Hawthorne, New York, USA. He received his M. Phil. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from Columbia University in 1994 and 1997, respectively. At Columbia, he developed several image and video search and retrieval systems, including the WebSEEk image and video search engine, the VisualSEEk content-based image retrieval system, and the SaFe integrated spatial and feature image system. More recently, at IBM, he has developed a progressive video retrieval system called VideoZoom, also available here at alphaWorks.
Dr. Smith's research interests include multimedia and multi-dimensional data management, content-based visual query, image and video coding, on-line analytic processing, universal multimedia access, and Web search engines. Currently, he is participating in the MPEG-7 standardization effort in the area of visual content description.
In 1997, he received the Eliahu I Jury award from Columbia University for outstanding achievement as a graduate student in the areas of systems communication or signal processing. Dr. Smith is a member of IEEE.