On Sep. 14, 2018, IMSC won the best student paper award in the Fourth IEEE International Conference on Multimedia Big Data (BigMM 2018) that was organized in Xi’an, China. The paper title is “Spatial Coverage Measurement of Geo-Tagged Visual Data: A Database Approach”.
Prof. Cyrus Shahabi, director of IMSC, contributed to the “How Data will Drive LifeCare” panel of 12th Annual Body Computing Conference. A video of his speech can be found on YouTube.
IMSC and their collaborators show it’s usually faster to drive in the morning rush hour than it is at night!
To process all this data, USC’s Integrated Media Systems Center built Transdec, which can process massive amounts of GPS trajectories to analyze a variety of performance metrics. If you’ve driven in Los Angeles, you’ve likely contributed to this analysis!
Thursday, May 10th was a great success for IMSC and Information laboratory (InfoLAB) at USC. At the 2018 Ph.D. Hooding and Awards ceremony, 160 newly Ph.D.s were hooded at the USC Viterbi School of Engineering. Under the direction of professor Cyrus Shahabi, Mohammad Asghari and Ying Lu were hooded, Rose Yu received awards for Best Dissertation and our Ph.D. candidate, Yaguang Li, received awards for Best Research Assistant. Congratulations! Enjoy the sweet fruit of your hard work …
Liver transplantation is a lifesaving procedure for those suffering from end stage cirrhosis, liver failure, or a cancerous lesion of the liver. Unfortunately, there is a shortage of available liver grafts. Only in the US, every year nearly 14,000 patients are listed and waiting for orthotopic liver transplantation (OLT) while 3,000 patients are dying or increasing illness before getting a liver transplant. Professor Anna Farzindar, research associate and Health Informatics advisor of IMSC, brings this challenge to her Data Informatics Professional Practicum…
Natural language processing is one of the most promising avenues for social media data processing. The number of research projects and publications that use social media data is constantly increasing due to continuously growing amounts of social media data and the need to automatically process them. This book is one of the foundation on current NLP tools and methods.
National Center for Women & Information Technology (NCWIT) Award for Aspirations in Computing recipient Bekah Agwunobi plans to use computer science to drive social change.
As one of the founding members, on Nov. 16, IMSC launched the I3 consortium which is an open consortium that will 1) support an IoT test bed, 2) provide a living environment to study IoT business issues (such as usability, privacy, incentives, business models, return-on-investment), and 3) creation of an open source distributable that will enable other cities/organizations to replicate the Los Angeles tested IoT environment. I3 is an innovative IoT data management system developed by USC’s Marshall School of…
Monitoring Babies’ Movement The Integrated Media Systems Center has been working with Beth Smith at the Division of Biokinesiology and Physical Therapy to help examine poor motor development in infants. Smith has collected data from 12 typically developing infants and 24 infants at risk for developmental delay between birth and walking onset. Infants wore a sensor on each leg at home for 8 to 10 hours a day. Unlike current practice, where motor development is assessed by an expert during a limited…
IMSC Retreat 2017 was held on March 23rd, 2017 at USC Gown & Town Ballroom. One hundred participants from academia and industry registered for this year’s retreat.
