Ph.D. student, ECE department, 2005-now
Advisor: Manjunath
Research Interests
Multimedia, multimedia information retrieval, computer vision, object detection, object tracking, video summarization, video event detection, data mining, machine learning, multimodal fusion, active learning, signal processing and analysis.
Background
I completed my B.S.E.E.(1998) and M.S.E.E.(2000) at Rutgers University in my home state of New Jersey. As a graduate assistant at Rutgers I worked on speech and microphone arrays in Jim Flanagan's lab. My master's thesis addressed the topic of how to incorporate face detection with speaker location estimates for automatic hands-free videoconferencing.
In 2000, I took a position at Intel in Chandler, Arizona, in a DSP apps and architecture group. My job entailed writing IPP libraries for the jointly developed Analog Devices/Intel Micro Signal Architecture chip. I am still haunted by machine level opcodes in my sleep.
I spent the years 2002 to 2004 in the wild.
In Fall 2005, I reemerged at Santa Barbara, California, where I accepted a NSF fellowship in digital multimedia and began my Ph.D. studies.
In Fall 2007, I worked as an intern at Microsoft Research Asia in Beijing in Wei Ying Ma's Web Search and Mining group.
Publications at UCSB
- J. Kleban, X. Xie, and W. Y. Ma, "Spatial Pyramid Mining for Logo Detection in Natural Scenes." To appear at International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (2008). pdf
- E. D. Gelasca, S. Joshi, J. Kleban, S. Mangiat, B.S. Manjunath, E. Moxley, A. Sarkar, and J. Xu, "The Vision Research Lab of UCSB at TRECVID 2007", in NIST TRECVID-2007 Workshop, Gaithersburg, MD, November 2007. pdf
- J. Kleban, A. Sarkar, E. Moxley, S. Mangiat, S. Joshi, T. Kuo, and B. S. Manjunath, "Feature fusion and redundancy pruning for rush video summarization." In Proceedings of the International Workshop on TRECVID Video Summarization - ACM-MM, Augsburg, Germany, 2007. pdf
- B. Bell, J. Kleban, D. Overholt, L. Putnam, J. Thompson, and J. Kuchera-Morin, "The multimodal music stand." In Proceedings of the 7th international Conference on New interfaces For Musical Expression (NIME), New York, 2007. pdf