HP today announced it is collaborating with Tsinghua University in Beijing, China, to develop multimedia technologies, including automated photo sorting, facial expression recognition and video and music analysis.
The collaboration brings together two of the world's leading research institutions in multimedia management. HP Labs helped create the company's three basic print technologies - inkjet, LaserJet and liquid electrophotography - and contributed to its entry into digital photography. HP is the acknowledged market leader in home and office printing.
Tsinghua University has leading intellectual property in multimedia research, including analysis, process, search and management. The joint lab research would rely mainly on image recognition - instead of traditional text identification - for visual applications. The music research would be based on sound.
"With the explosion of both amateur and professional multimedia, we need increasingly sophisticated tools to identify, sort and process the millions of images and sounds that have been collected," said Patrick Scaglia, chief technology officer, Imaging and Printing Group, HP. "We have to rely on multimedia tools to analyze multimedia data, so we're delighted to partner with Tsinghua University, which has world-class skills in this area."
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