Mei-Ling Shyu

Mei-Ling Shyu has been an Associate Professor at Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE), University of Miami (UM) since June 2005. Prior to that, she was an Assistant Professor in ECE at UM from 2000. She received her Ph.D. degree from Electrical and Computer Engineering in 1999, and her Master’s degrees from Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, and Restaurant, Hotel, Institutional, and Tourism Management, all from Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, USA. Her research interests include multimedia data mining, management & retrieval, and security. She has authored/co-authored more than 200 technical papers. She is a Fellow of SIRI.

Publications

Multimodal Data Integration and User Interaction for Avatar Simulation in Augmented Reality
Multimodal Data Integration and User Interaction for Avatar Simulation in Augmented Reality
Anchen Sun, Yudong Tao, Mei-Ling Shyu, Angela Blizzard, William Andrew Rothenberg, Dainelys Garcia, Jason F. Jent. © 2022. 19 pages.
Augmented Reality (AR) allows users to interact with the virtual world in the real-world environment. This paper proposes a child avatar simulation framework using multimodal...
Efficient Imbalanced Multimedia Concept Retrieval by Deep Learning on Spark Clusters
Efficient Imbalanced Multimedia Concept Retrieval by Deep Learning on Spark Clusters
Yilin Yan, Min Chen, Saad Sadiq, Mei-Ling Shyu. © 2020. 21 pages.
The classification of imbalanced datasets has recently attracted significant attention due to its implications in several real-world use cases. The classifiers developed on...
Efficient Large-Scale Stance Detection in Tweets
Efficient Large-Scale Stance Detection in Tweets
Yilin Yan, Jonathan Chen, Mei-Ling Shyu. © 2020. 17 pages.
Stance detection is an important research direction which attempts to automatically determine the attitude (positive, negative, or neutral) of the author of text (such as...
Counterfactual Autoencoder for Unsupervised Semantic Learning
Counterfactual Autoencoder for Unsupervised Semantic Learning
Saad Sadiq, Mei-Ling Shyu, Daniel J. Feaster. © 2020. 17 pages.
Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) are best known for being the state-of-the-art in artificial intelligence (AI) applications including natural language processing (NLP), speech...
Efficient Large-Scale Stance Detection in Tweets
Efficient Large-Scale Stance Detection in Tweets
Yilin Yan, Jonathan Chen, Mei-Ling Shyu. © 2018. 16 pages.
Stance detection is an important research direction which attempts to automatically determine the attitude (positive, negative, or neutral) of the author of text (such as...
Counterfactual Autoencoder for Unsupervised Semantic Learning
Counterfactual Autoencoder for Unsupervised Semantic Learning
Saad Sadiq, Mei-Ling Shyu, Daniel J. Feaster. © 2018. 20 pages.
Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) are best known for being the state-of-the-art in artificial intelligence (AI) applications including natural language processing (NLP), speech...
Multimedia Data Engineering Applications and Processing
Multimedia Data Engineering Applications and Processing
Shu-Ching Chen, Mei-Ling Shyu. © 2013. 350 pages.
With a variety of media types, multimedia data engineering has emerged as a new opportunity to create techniques and tools that empower the development of the next generation of...
Multimodal Information Integration and Fusion for Histology Image Classification
Multimodal Information Integration and Fusion for Histology Image Classification
Tao Meng, Mei-Ling Shyu, Lin Lin. © 2013. 16 pages.
Biomedical imaging technology has become an important tool for medical research and clinical practice. A large amount of imaging data is generated and collected every day....
Utilizing Context Information to Enhance Content-Based Image Classification
Utilizing Context Information to Enhance Content-Based Image Classification
Qiusha Zhu, Lin Lin, Mei-Ling Shyu, Dianting Liu. © 2013. 17 pages.
Traditional image classification relies on text information such as tags, which requires a lot of human effort to annotate them. Therefore, recent work focuses more on training...
Methods and Innovations for Multimedia Database Content Management
Methods and Innovations for Multimedia Database Content Management
Shu-Ching Chen, Mei-Ling Shyu. © 2012. 362 pages.
Multimedia and its rich semantics are profligate in today’s digital environment. Databases and content management systems serve as essential tools to ensure that the endless...
Weighted Association Rule Mining for Video Semantic Detection
Weighted Association Rule Mining for Video Semantic Detection
Lin Lin, Mei-Ling Shyu. © 2012. 16 pages.
Semantic knowledge detection of multimedia content has become a very popular research topic in recent years. The association rule mining (ARM) technique has been shown to be an...
Correlation-Based Ranking for Large-Scale Video Concept Retrieval
Correlation-Based Ranking for Large-Scale Video Concept Retrieval
Lin Lin, Mei-Ling Shyu. © 2012. 15 pages.
Motivated by the growing use of multimedia services and the explosion of multimedia collections, efficient retrieval from large-scale multimedia data has become very important in...
Multimodal Information Integration and Fusion for Histology Image Classification
Multimodal Information Integration and Fusion for Histology Image Classification
Tao Meng, Mei-Ling Shyu, Lin Lin. © 2011. 17 pages.
Biomedical imaging technology has become an important tool for medical research and clinical practice. A large amount of imaging data is generated and collected every day....
Utilizing Context Information to Enhance Content-Based Image Classification
Utilizing Context Information to Enhance Content-Based Image Classification
Qiusha Zhu, Lin Lin, Mei-Ling Shyu, Dianting Liu. © 2011. 18 pages.
Traditional image classification relies on text information such as tags, which requires a lot of human effort to annotate them. Therefore, recent work focuses more on training...
International Journal of Multimedia Data Engineering and Management (IJMDEM)
International Journal of Multimedia Data Engineering and Management (IJMDEM)
Chengcui Zhang, Shu-Ching Chen. Est. 2010.
Recent advances in computing, networking, storage, and information technology have enabled the collection and distribution of vast amounts of multimedia data in a variety of...
Correlation-Based Ranking for Large-Scale Video Concept Retrieval
Correlation-Based Ranking for Large-Scale Video Concept Retrieval
Lin Lin, Mei-Ling Shyu. © 2010. 15 pages.
Motivated by the growing use of multimedia services and the explosion of multimedia collections, efficient retrieval from large-scale multimedia data has become very important in...
Model-Based System Development for Asynchronous Distance Learning
Model-Based System Development for Asynchronous Distance Learning
Shu-Ching Chen, Sheng-Tun Li, Mei-Ling Shyu. © 2003. 16 pages.
The innovation and diversification of development in multimedia technology and network infrastructures have brought a significant impact to education, especially for distance...