Dr. Apostol (Paul) Natsev

Dr. Apostol (Paul) Natsev

Research Staff Member and Manager, Multimedia Research Thomas J. Watson Research Center, Hawthorne, NY USA (https://researcher.ibm.com/researcher/view.php?person=us-natsev)

Dr. Apostol (Paul) Natsev is a Research Staff Member and Manager of the Multimedia Research Group at the IBM T. J. Watson Research Center. He received his M.S. (1997) and Ph.D. (2001) degrees in Computer Science from Duke University, and joined IBM Research in 2001. At IBM, he leads research efforts on multimedia analysis and retrieval, with an agenda to advance the science and practice of systems that enable users to manage and search vast repositories of unstructured multimedia content.
Dr. Natsev is a founding member and current team lead for IBM's award-winning IMARS project on multimedia analysis and retrieval, with primary contributions in the area of semantic, content-based, and speech-based multimedia indexing and search, as well as video fingerprinting and copy detection. Dr. Natsev is an avid believer in scientific progress through benchmarking, and has participated actively in a dozen open evaluation/showcasing campaigns, including the annual TRECVID video retrieval evaluation, the CIVR VideOlympics showcase, and the CIVR Video Copy Detection showcase.
Dr. Natsev is an author of more than 70 publications and 18 U.S. patents (granted or pending) in the areas of multimedia analysis, indexing and search, multimedia databases, and query optimization. His research has been recognized with several awards, including the 2004 Wall Street Journal Innovation Award (Multimedia category) for IMARS, an IBM Outstanding Technical Accomplishment Award in 2005, a 2005 ACM Multimedia Plenary Paper Award, a 2006 ICME Best Poster Award, and the 2008 CIVR VideOlympics People's Choice Award (for IMARS). He is a Senior Member of ACM

Corsi: Visual Content-Based and Semantic Concept-Based Multimedia Indexing and Search, PhD short course (8 hours, 1 credit)