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 High Performance Shot Boundary Detection Algorithm using multiple cues" , Proc. I.E.E.E. International Conference on Image Processing, Volume 2, pages 884-887, Oct 1998, Chicago, IL.
  2. "Probabilistic Multimedia Objects Multijects: A novel Approach to Indexing and Retrieval in Multimedia Systems", Proc. I.E.E.E. International Conference on Image Processing, Volume 3, pages 536-540, Oct 1998, Chicago, IL
  3. “A Novel Scheme for fast and efficient video sequence matching using compact signatures”, Proc. SPIE, Storage and Retrieval for Media Databases 2000, Volume 3972, pages 564-572, Jan 2000, San Jose, CA
  4. “Stochastic modeling of soundtrack for efficient segmentation and indexing of video”, Proc. SPIE, Storage and Retrieval for Media Databases 2000, M. Volume 3972, pages 168-176, Jan 2000, San Jose, CA
  5. “MARS (Multimedia Analysis and Retrieval System):  A test-bed for video indexing, browsing, searching, filtering and summarization”, International Workshop on Multimedia Data Storage, Retrieval, Integration and Applications, Hong Kong Polytechnic University EIE Dept., 13-15 January, 2000, (Keynote Speech given by Prof. Thomas Huang)
  6. “A Factor Graph Framework for Semantic Indexing and Retrieval in Video”, Content-Based Access of Image and Video Library 2000 June 12, 2000, held in conjunction with the IEEE Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition 2000.
  7.  “Semantic Video Indexing using a probabilistic framework”, IAPR International Conference on Pattern Recognition, Barcelona, Spain, 3-8 September 2000
  8. “A Probabilistic Framework for Semantic Indexing and Retrieval in Video”, IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo, New York, 31 July-2 August 2000
  9. “Learning Sparse Multiple Cause Models”, IAPR International Conference on Pattern Recognition, Barcelona, Spain, 3-8 September 2000
  10. “Inferring Semantic Concepts for Video Indexing and Retrieval”, IEEE Intl. Conference on Image Processing, Vancouver, Canada, September 2000
  11. “Multimedia Understanding: Challenges in the new millennium”, IEEE Intl. Conference on Image Processing, Vancouver, Canada, September 2000
  12. “Image Classification using labeled and unlabeled images”, to be presented at the SPIE Intl. Symposium on Voice, Video and Data Communications, Program on “Internet Multimedia Management Systems”, Nov 6 2000 Boston
  13. “Probabilistic Semantic Video Indexing”, to be presented at NIPS 2000, Colorado
  14. “Multimodal pattern matching for audio-visual query and retrieval”, to be presented at SPIE, Photonics West, Storage and Retrieval for Media Databases, Jan 2001, San Jose
  15. “Semantic Filtering of Video Content”, to be presented at SPIE, Photonics West, Storage and Retrieval for Media Databases, Jan 2001, San Jose

Patents 

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