Seminar Series: Technology Trends 2004
Silvia Pfeiffer
Silvia Pfeiffer leads the Continuous Media Web research team at
the CSIRO ICT Centre in North Ryde, Sydney. She
has published world leading research on multimedia content analysis
and new multimedia applications for nearly 10 years and has been
involved in the development of international multimedia standards.
At CSIRO her focus is on the extension of the World Wide Web's
search and surf capabilities to time-continuous data such as audio
and video.
Dr. Pfeiffer received her Masters Degree in Computer Science and
Business Management from the University of Mannheim, Germany, in
1993. After a brief interval at Andersen Consulting (now Accenture)
in Frankfurt, she returned to the University of Mannheim to complete
a Ph.D. in Computer Science on audio content analysis of digital
video in March 1999. During that time, she worked within the MoCA
(Movie Content Analysis) project exploring novel extraction methods
for audio-visual content and novel applications using these. Since
May 1999 she works as a research scientist in digital media at the
CSIRO in Sydney, Australia. There, she worked on several projects
involving automated content analysis in the compressed domain,
focusing on segmentation applications. In January 2001 she had the
idea of the Continuous Media Web and has developed the details of
the specifications and the software with the research group that she
is heading.
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