西电新闻网讯（通讯员余舰）9月16日，应综合业务网理论及关键技术国家重点实验室邀请，阿里巴巴图像搜索组主任研究员华先胜博士来西电进行学术访问和交流。 9月16日下午，华先胜在学校北校区新科技楼1012会议室做了题为“From Big Multimedia Data to Real-World Visual Search”的学术报告。报告会由综合业务网理论及关键技术国家重点实验室主任、校长助理高新波教授主持。

校长助理高新波主持报告会

阿里巴巴图像搜索组主任研究员华先胜博士作学术报告

学术报告会现场

华先胜首先用一段精彩的视频开启了他的此次报告，随后简要介绍了他所从事的多媒体检索领域的研究现状及发展前景，着重展示了他所带领的研究团队在多媒体检索和计算机视觉等方面的研究进展与成果，以及这些研究成果在淘宝网上的实际应用。随后，华先胜对阿里巴巴近期举办的竞赛“Alibaba Image Search Challenge”做了简要的介绍，竞赛的数据来自淘宝网的实际大数据，具有很大的挑战性。他说，参与这项竞赛活动将能锻炼学生面向需求解决问题的能力，希望广大感兴趣的学生积极参加。

学校100多名师生参加了本次报告会。

新闻链接：报告人简介

Dr Xian-Sheng Hua became a Researcher and Senior Director of Alibaba Group in April of 2015, leading the multimedia technology team in the Search Division. Before that, he was a senior researcher of Microsoft Research Redmond since 2013, worked on Web-scale image and video understanding and search, as well as related applications. He was a Principal Research and Development Lead in Multimedia Search for the Microsoft search engine, Bing, since 2011, where he led a team that designed and delivered leading-edge media understanding, indexing and searching features. He joined Microsoft Research Asia in 2001 as a researcher. Since then, his research interests have been in the areas of multimedia search, advertising, understanding, and mining, as well as pattern recognition and machine learning. He has authored or co-authored more than 250 research papers in these areas and has filed more than 90 patents. Dr Hua received his BS in 1996 and PhD in applied mathematics in 2001 from Peking University, Beijing. He served or is now serving as an associate editor of IEEE Transactions on Multimedia and an associate editor of ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology. He was vice program chair; workshop organizer; senior TPC member and area chair; and demonstration, tutorial, and special session chairs and PC member of many more international conferences. He served as a program co-chair for IEEE ICME 2013, ACM Multimedia 2012, and IEEE ICME 2012, as well as on the Technical Directions Board of IEEE Signal Processing Society. He was honored as one of the recipients of the prestigious 2008 MIT Technology Review TR35 Young Innovator Award for his outstanding contributions to video search. He won the Best Paper and Best Demonstration Awards at ACM Multimedia 2007, the Best Poster Award at IEEE International Workshop on Multimedia Signal Processing 2008, the Best Student Paper Award at ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management 2009, the Best Paper Award at International Conference on MultiMedia Modeling 2010, the best demonstration award at ICME 2014 and best paper award of IEEE Trans. On CSVT in 2014. He was named one of Global Entrepreneur's "Business Elites of People under 40 to Watch" in 2009.