About me
Research Staff Member and Manager
Research lab: Watson Research Center (Hawthorne)
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 senior researcher of IBM’s award-winning MARVEL project on multimedia analysis and retrieval, with pioneering contributions in the area of content-based and semantic concept-based multimedia retrieval. He is an active participant in the NIST TREC Video Retrieval (TRECVID) evaluation, and leads the IBM video search team, which has achieved excellent performance in TRECVID several years in a row (in 2006, TRECVID involved an estimated 380 researchers from almost 100 separate institutions world-wide). He is also the chief architect and lead developer of the MARVEL-based video fingerprinting and copy detection system, which achieved top performance in the 2007 CIVR Video Copy Detection Showcase.
Dr. Natsev is an author of more than 60 publications and 15 U.S. patents (4 granted, 11 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 MARVEL, an IBM Outstanding Technical Accomplishment Award in 2005 (also for MARVEL), a 2005 ACM Multimedia Plenary Paper Award, and a 2006 ICME Best Poster Award.
Last updated 1 Jul 2008