The Trends in multimedia computing

With the rapid development of Web 2.0 and cloud computing concept and applications, there are many unprecedented web-based multimedia applications are emerging today and they pose many new challenges in multimedia research. In this talk, I first summarize the common features of the new wave of multimedia applications which I call Media 2.0. I use 6 D's to describe Media 2.0 principles, namely, Democratized media life cycle; Data-driven media value chain; Decoupled media system; Decomposed media contents; Diminished media boundary between physical and virtual world, and Decentralized media business model. Then I explain what the implications of Media 2.0 to multimedia research are and how we should choose our research topics that could make big impacts. Finally, I use example research projects ranging from media codecs, media systems, media search and media related advertisement from MSRA to demonstrate the ideas I have talked about. I hope these ideas and principles could inspire the audience to come up with new media 2.0 research topics and applications in the future.