Apostol (Paul) Natsev

Dr. Apostol (Paul) Natsev is a Research Staff Member in the Intelligent Information Analysis Dept. at the IBM T. J. Watson Research Center. Dr. Natsev received his M.S. (1997) and Ph.D. (2001) degrees in Computer Science from Duke University, and joined IBM Research in 2001. His research interests are in the areas of multimedia semantic indexing and search, multimedia understanding and machine learning, as well as multimedia databases and query optimization.

Dr. Natsev is a founding member of the IBM Research Multimedia Analysis and Retrieval project , which was awarded the Wall Street Journal Innovation Award (Multimedia category) in 2004, and an IBM Outstanding Technical Accomplishment Award in 2005. He is an active participant in the NIST TREC Video Retrieval (TRECVID) evaluation, and leads the IBM video search team, which has achieved top performance on automatic search in TRECVID 2005-2006.




Last updated 23 Apr 2007