Dhiraj Joshi, Ph.D.,

Principal Scientist

Intelligent Systems Research,

Eastman Kodak Research Labs,

Rochester, NY, USA

Email: dhiraj (dot) joshi (at) kodak.com

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Education

· Ph.D. Computer Science and Engineering (2007)

The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, USA.

Dissertation: Image Analysis and Retrieval by Spatial Models and Information Integration.

· Integrated M.Sc. Mathematics and Scientific Computing (2002)

Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, India.

Biography

Dhiraj Joshi is a Principal Scientist in the Intelligent Systems Group at the Eastman Kodak Research Labs, Rochester, NY. At Kodak, his primary focus is associating image content, tags, and location meta-data with image semantics. He is also interested in building intelligent systems which use semantics across multiple modalities of media for enriching user experience. He completed his Ph.D. in Computer Science and Engineering from Penn. State University in 2007. Before joining Kodak, he has been a research intern at the I.B.M. T.J. Watson Research Labs, and the IDIAP Research Institute (Switzerland). In 2006, he was selected as an Emerging Leader in Multimedia Research to present at the Watson Emerging Leaders in Multimedia Workshop. He co-organized a special session on Image Aesthetics, Moods, and Emotions at the IEEE International Conference on Image Processing, 2008. He has also participated in Kodak Visiting Scientist Program to promote science and mathematics education in Rochester area schools. He is a member of IEEE and ACM and currently serves as a Rochester Chapter Chair of IEEE Signal Processing Society.

Refereed Journal Papers and Book Chapters

• Dhiraj Joshi, Jiebo Luo, Jie Yu, Phoury Lei, Andrew Gallagher, “Using Geotags to Derive Rich Tag-clouds for Image Annotation”, book-chapter, Social Media Modeling and Computing. Steven Hoi, Jiebo Luo, Susanne Boll, Dong Xu, Rong Jin, and Irwin King, editors, Springer-Verlag, 2011.
• Dhiraj Joshi, Ritendra Datta, Elena Fedorovskaya, Quang-Tuan Luong, James Z. Wang, Jia Li, and Jiebo Luo, “Aesthetics and Emotions in Images: A Computational Perspective”, IEEE Signal Processing Magazine – Featured Article, vol. 28, no. 5, pp. 94-115, 2011.
• Xin Jin, Jiebo Luo, Jie Yu, Gang Wang, Dhiraj Joshi, and Jiawei Han, “Reinforced Similarity Integration in Image-Rich Information Networks”, IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, 2011 (to appear).
• Jiebo Luo, Dhiraj Joshi, Jie Yu, and Andrew Gallagher, “Geotagging in Multimedia and Computer Vision - A Survey”, Multimedia Tools and Applications - Springer, Special Issue: Survey Papers in Multimedia by World Experts, 51:187–211, 2011.
• Dhiraj Joshi, Andrew Gallagher, Jie Yu, and Jiebo Luo, “Inferring Photographic Location using Geotagged Web Images”, Multimedia Tools and Applications - Springer, July 2010.
• Ritendra Datta, Dhiraj Joshi, Jia Li, and James Z. Wang, “Image Retrieval: Ideas, Influences, and Trends of the New Age”, ACM Computing Surveys, vol. 40, no. 2, article 5, pp. 1-60, 2008.
• Dhiraj Joshi, James Z. Wang, and Jia Li, “The Story Picturing Engine – A System for Automatic Text Illustration”, ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing, Communications and Applications (TOMCCAP), vol. 2, no. 1, pp. 68-89, 2006.
• Dhiraj Joshi, Jia Li, and James Z. Wang, “A Computationally Efficient Approach to the Estimation of Two- and Three-dimensional Hidden Markov Models, IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, vol. 15, no. 7, pp. 1871-1886, 2006.
• Kalyanmoy Deb, Ashish Anand, and Dhiraj Joshi, “A Computationally Efficient Evolutionary Algorithm for Real-Parameter Optimization”, Evolutionary Computation Journal (MIT Press), vol. 10, no. 4, pp. 371-395, 2002.

Refereed Conference and Workshop Papers

• Dhiraj Joshi, Jiebo Luo, Carman Neustaedter, Vivek Singh, Phoury Lei, Madirakshi Das, “Anonymous Submission”, 38th Graphics Interface Conference, 2012 (in review).
• Charles Parker, Dhiraj Joshi, Phoury Lei, Jiebo Luo, “Characterizing Geographically Sensitive Music via Social Media”, ACM International Workshop on Music Information Retrieval with User-Centered and Multimodal Strategies (MIRUM), in conjunction with ACM Multimedia, 2011.
• Vivek Singh, Jiebo Luo, Dhiraj Joshi, Phoury Lei, Madirakshi Das, Peter Stubler, “Dynamic Media Show Drivable by Semantics”, ACM International Conference on Multimedia (demo session), 2011.
• Vivek Singh, Jiebo Luo, Dhiraj Joshi, Phoury Lei, Madirakshi Das, Peter Stubler, “Reliving On Demand: A Total Viewer Experience”, ACM International Conference on Multimedia, 2011.
• Dhiraj Joshi, Jiebo Luo, Jie Yu, Phoury Lei, Andrew Gallagher, “Rich Location-driven Tag Cloud Suggestions based on Public, Community and Personal Sources”, ACM International Workshop on Connected Media, in conjunction with ACM Multimedia, 2010.
• Dhiraj Joshi, Mark. D. Wood, and Jiebo Luo, “Suggesting Songs for Media Creation using Semantics”, IAPR International Conference on Pattern Recognition, 2010.
• Dhiraj Joshi, Andrew Gallagher, Jie Yu, and Jiebo Luo, “Exploring User Image Tags for Geo-location Inference”, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, 2010.
• Xin Jin, Jiebo Luo, Jie Yu, Gang Wang, Dhiraj Joshi, and Jiawei Han, “iRIN: Image Retrieval in Image-Rich Information Networks”, demo, International Conference on World Wide Web, 2010.
• Andrew Gallagher, Dhiraj Joshi, Jie Yu, and Jiebo Luo, “Geo-location Inference from Image Content and User Tags”, IEEE Workshop on Internet Vision, in conjunction with IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, 2009.
• Jie Yu, Dhiraj Joshi, and Jiebo Luo, “Connecting people in photo-sharing sites by photo content and User Annotation”, IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo, 2009.
• Jiebo Luo, Jie Yu, Dhiraj Joshi, and Wei Hao, “Event Recognition – Viewing the World with a Third Eye”, ACM International Conference on Multimedia, 2008.
• Jiebo Luo, Wei Hao, Dale McIntyre, Dhiraj Joshi, and Jie Yu, “Recognizing Picture Taking Environment from Satellite Images: A Feasibility Study”, IAPR International Conference on Pattern Recognition, 2008.
• Dhiraj Joshi and Jiebo Luo, “Inferring Generic Activities and Events from Image Content and Bags of Geo-tags”, ACM International Conference on Image and Video Retrieval, 2008.
• Ritendra Datta, Dhiraj Joshi, Jia Li, and James Z. Wang, “Tagging over Time: Real-world Image Annotation by Lightweight Meta-learning”, ACM International Conference on Multimedia, 2007.
• Dhiraj Joshi, Milind Naphade, and Apostol Natsev, “A Greedy Performance Driven Algorithm for Decision Fusion Learning”, IEEE International Conference on Image Processing, 2007.
• Dhiraj Joshi, Milind Naphade, and Apostol Natsev, “Semantics Reinforcement and Fusion Learning for Multimedia Streams”, ACM International Conference on Image and Video Retrieval, 2007.
• Ritendra Datta, Dhiraj Joshi, Jia Li, and James Z. Wang, “Studying Aesthetics in Photographic Images Using a Computational Approach”, European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), 2006.
• Murray Campbell, Shahram Ebadollahi, Alexander Haubold, Dhiraj Joshi, Milind Naphade, Apostol Natsev, Joachim Seidl, John R. Smith, Katya Scheinberg, Jelena Tesic and Lexing Xie, “IBM Research TRECVID-2006 Video Retrieval System”, TREC Video Retrieval Workshop, 2006.
• Dhiraj Joshi, Ritendra Datta, Ziming Zhuang, WP Weiss, Marc Friedenberg, Jia Li, and James Z. Wang, “PARAgrab: A Comprehensive Architecture for Web Image Management and Multimodal Querying”, demo, Very Large Databases, 2006.
• Dhiraj Joshi and Daniel Gatica Perez, “Discovering Groups of People in Google News”, ACM International Workshop on Human Centered Multimedia, in conjunction with ACM Multimedia, 2006.
• Dhiraj Joshi, Jia Li, and James Z. Wang, “A Stochastic Approach to 3-D Image modeling”, IEEE/NLM Life Science Systems & Applications Workshop, 2006.
• Dhiraj Joshi, Jia Li, and James Z. Wang, “Parameter Estimation of Multi-dimensional Hidden Markov models – A Scalable Approach”, IEEE International Conference on Image Processing, 2005.
• Jia Li, Dhiraj Joshi, and James Z. Wang, “Stochastic Modeling of Volume Images with a 3-D Hidden Markov model”, IEEE International Conference on Image Processing, 2004.
• Dhiraj Joshi, James Z. Wang, and Jia Li, “The Story Picturing Engine: Finding Elite Images to Illustrate a Story Using Mutual Reinforcement”, ACM International Workshop on Multimedia Information Retrieval, in conjunction with ACM Multimedia, 2004.
• Kalyanmoy Deb, Dhiraj Joshi, and Ashish Anand, “Real Coded Evolutionary Algorithms with Parent Centric Recombination”, IEEE International Congress on Evolutionary Computation, 2002.