Multimedia is a new focus of modern computing. This talk reviews video information retrieval and discusses the development of video cataloguing. It will introduce a hot research topic, namely interactive media. It presents research carried out in the University of Newcastle. In particular, we will present our effort for the design and implementation of the hyper-video and interactive media.

About Prof Jesse Jin
Prof. Jesse Jin graduated with a Ph.D. from University of Otago, New Zealand. He is the Chair Professor of IT in the School of Design, Communication and IT, University of Newcastle. Prof. Jin is an international renowned expert on multimedia technology and visual information retrieval and processing. He has published 225 articles and 14 books. He also has one patent and is in the process of filing 3 more patents. He established a spin-off company and the company won the 1999 ATP Vice-Chancellor New Business Creation Award. He is a consultant of many companies such as Motorola, Computer Associates, ScanWorld, Proteome Systems, HyperSoft, etc. He was a visiting professor in MIT, UCLA, HKPU, Tsinghua University, Jilin University and China Academy of Sciences.