IMScience, previously VIPLAB, is a research lab hosted at and certified by PUC Minas (Belo Horizonte Campus, Brazil), and it has started its operation in 2004. The main project areas are: digital image, video and audio processing; multimedia indexing and retrieval; multimedia content analysis. Many projects have been conducted with cooperation of other institutions and/or labs, such as NPDI/DCC/UFMG, IC/UNICAMP, TEXMEX/IRISA and ESIEE/FRANCE. And, besides the projects developed with the participation of several graduate and undergraduate students, IMScience has also been involved in bilateral programs for international cooperation such as FAPEMIG-INRIA, CAPES-BRAFITEC and CAPES-COFECUB.
News
| A partnership between IMScience and ESCO have started in Dec 2020 in order to apply image analysis to identify ground engaging tool. |
| IMScience leads the Observatório COVID at PUC Minas. Other researches groups also participate of this initiative: LEASDLE, Graduate Program in Geography and Graduate Program in Dentistry. |
| IMScience was officially considered, in 2020, as an Associated Team of LinkMedia Team (IRISA/France). |
| Acceptance of CAPES/COFECUB project involving Brazil-France being coordinated by Prof. Silvio - December, 2018 |
| First defensis in English in our Graduate Program in Informatics - 20th November, 2017 |
| Special Session at IJCNN 2018 co-organized by members of our team |
| Talk of Prof. Silvio at IME/USP - 26th October, 2017 |
| Participation of Prof. Silvio as invited speaker at Workshop FAPEMIG/PUC Peru - 05-06th October, 2017 |
Focus
Multimedia information processing (= audio, images, videos, …)
| Very large unstructured database (or semi-structured) |
| Different modals for describing the information (= multimodality) |
| Different ways for describing the information (= multifeature) |
Approaches in different levels
| Low - Selection and combining of descriptors/ Data indexing and retrieval |
| Medium - Data mining / Identification of components: objs, people, places,… |
| High - Knowledge discovery: violency, trend topics, … |
| postal address |
Computer Science Department, Rua Walter Ianni, 255 - São Gabriel - BH/MG/Brazil - CEP: 31980110 |
| office address |
Office L306 |
| facsimile |
\(+55 (31) 3439 5204\) |
| telephone |
\(+55 (31) 3439 5204\) |
| e-mail |
sjamil at pucminas dot br |
| www |
http://imscience.icei.pucminas.br/ |
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