MILIND NAPHADE
1008 East Kerr Ave, Apt. # 104,
Urbana, IL 61802
Email: milind@ifp.uiuc.edu
Internet: http://www.ifp.uiuc.edu/~milind
(217) 384 1638 (Home)
(217) 244 1089 (Office)
Objective:
To secure a challenging position responsible for research and development in
multimedia signal processing and pattern recognition with special emphasis on
analysis and modeling for efficient utilization of multimedia repositories.
Education
Graduate Student
08/96
Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering,
University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign,
Illinois
Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering (expected) 02/01
Doctoral
Dissertation: Multimedia Analysis and Understanding for Semantic
Indexing and Retrieval
GPA:
3.96/4.0
Master
of Science in Electrical Engineering
10/98
Dissertation: Video Analysis for efficient
Segmentation, Indexing and Retrieval
GPA:
3.97/4.0
Specialization: Multimedia Analysis,
Probabilistic architectures for learning and pattern recognition, Content based
multimedia retrieval and indexing with special emphasis on audio-visual media.
Advisor: Prof.
Thomas S. Huang
Doctoral Committee:
Thomas S. Huang, Narendra Ahuja, Stephen Levinson and Dan Roth
Major Courses:
Probability Theory, Image Processing, Advanced Digital Signal Processing,
Computer Vision, Random Processes, Pattern and Object Recognition, Nonlinear
Optimization, Control Theory, Estimation and Detection Theory, Computational
Models of Spoken Language, Information Theory, Learning in Signal Processing,
Advanced Computer Architecture.
Undergraduate Student
07/91-07/95
Department of Control and Instrumentation,
Government College of Engineering Pune,
University of Pune
Bachelor of Engineering in Instrumentation &
Control
GPA: 4.0/4.0
Ranked FIRST in the PUNE UNIVERSITY
Major courses:
Digital Signal Processing, Instrumentation Systems, Signals & Systems,
Automatic Control Theory, and Computer Architecture
Experience
Graduate Research
Assistant
08/96
Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and
Technology
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,
Urbana IL 61801
Conducting research in high-level analysis of
multimedia and its application to semantic indexing of video for efficient
retrieval using keywords
·
Proposed
a probabilistic architecture for semantic multimedia understanding.
·
Proposed
a probabilistic architecture for modeling context in multimedia
·
Proposed
an algorithm for learning sparse multiple cause models
·
Introduced
a novel framework for supporting high-level search of digital video using
the concept of multijects and multinets
·
Proposed
a method for matching audio-visual clips in a dynamic programming framework
Internships
Summer
Intern
06/98-07/98
Media and Graphics Lab,
Microprocessor Research Labs,
Intel Corporation, Santa Clara 95052
·
Conceived,
designed and implemented a novel algorithm for Video Data Matching
·
Performed
a comprehensive survey of existing video matching schemes
·
Developed
graphic interfaces and tools for handling video queries and support online
retrieval
·
Designed
and implemented a novel approximation scheme for compact representation of
video metadata
Summer
Intern 05/97-07/97
Visual Information Management Group,
Imaging Science Technology Lab,
Kodak Research and Development Labs
Eastman Kodak Company, Rochester NY 14650
·
Developed
an algorithm for automatic shot boundary detection for videos.
·
Developed
an algorithm for on-line automatic shot boundary detection for videos
·
Investigated
the performance of various similarity measures for images in different color
spaces.
Research
Engineer 07/95-07/96
Applications and Data Warehousing Group,
Center for Development of Advanced Computing, C-DAC,
Pune University Campus,
Pune, India.
·
Feasibility
and Implementation Study of Data Warehousing using the distributed memory
parallel supercomputer series PARAM developed by C-DAC.
·
Partial
Development of an Optical Character Recognition System for Deonagree
Script using artificial neural networks.
Research
Assistant
05/95-07/95
Bio-Physic Laboratory,
Department of Physics,
University of Pune
Chief Investigator: Dr. G. R. Kulkarni
·
Developed
an algorithm for classification of human visual evoked-potential to detect
defects in a human eye.
Research
Assistant
07/94-05/95
Applications Development Group,
Center for Development of Advanced Computing, C-DAC,
University of Pune Campus, Pune India
·
Developed
an algorithm, implementing a Parallel Back Propagation Neural Network on the
Transputer based PARAM series of supercomputer. The algorithm gives a near
linear speed-up.
Technical Skills
Languages: C, Matlab, Visual C++, PERL, HTML, COBOL,
Machine Language Programming (808x)
Application Tools: Microsoft Developer Studio, Adobe
Premiere, Avid Media Composer, SGI
Media Suite, Berkeley MPEG_PLAY, Parallel C
Environments: Workstation Networks (UNIX, X,
Sunview, Solaris, Common Desktop
Environment, Macintosh Applications Environment), PC
(Dos, Windows 98, NT)
Honors and
Awards
·
Fellow
of the Computational Sciences and Engineering Department of the College of
Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
·
Ranked
FIRST in the University of Pune in the Bachelor of Engineering Examination
for Instrumentation and Control
·
Winner
of the PARAM AWARD for Bachelor's Thesis on the design and implementation of
the back propagation neural net algorithm for the transputer based PARAM series
of supercomputers. Regarded as "An excellent contribution to the field of
applications of Parallel Super Computers"
·
Maharashtra
State Merit Scholarship for the years 89 through 95.
·
Bhavishyajyoti
Scholarship from the National Institute of Information Technology: This
scholarship finances 100 % the expenses of a 3 year graduate study program
covering COBOL, FOXPRO, FOCUS, C, System Analysis and other IT industry related
courses.
·
Ranked
10th among 2,00,000 candidates n the State Merit List for Higher Secondary
Certificate Examination.
·
Ranked
15th among 5,00,000 candidates in the State Merit List for the Secondary State
Certificate Examination.
·
Reviewer
of several journal and conference papers for IEEE, SPIE, IAPR and other
societies
Recent Publications
1
A Method and System for Video Summarization, Patent filed by Eastman
KODAK Company, 1997
2
A Method for fast and efficient matching of video clips, Patent filed by INTEL
Corporation, 1998
References
Available upon request