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Prof. Cyrus Shahabi, Director of the Integrated Media Systems Center (IMSC), made a significant contribution to this year’s International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), one of the premier conferences in the field of machine learning. Prof. Shahabi delivered an oral presentation on his paper titled, “Theoretical Analysis of Learned Database Operations under Distribution Shift through Distr…

IMSC director, Cyrus Shahabi, leads a project titled “Wearables for Health and Disease Knowledge” which creates a database toolkit that allows doctors to securely store and analyze medical data collected from wearable devices. This project recently received a $1.2 million grant from the National Institutes of Health that will span four years. Details can be found at https://viterbischool.usc.edu/…

USC has joined a coalition of 15 leading research universities (University Technology Licensing Program, UTLP) that aims to boost the transfer of universities’ patented technologies and inventions to companies. And, technologies that USC brings to the licensing program include IMSC’s technologies to better predict traffic and help expedite trips by identifying better routes. Details can be found …

A recent paper lead-authored by IMSC researchers, Dr. Luciano Nocera and Dr. Cyrus Shahabi, reported that wearable activity trackers could be a useful tool to evaluate and help treat cancer patients. After analyzing data gathered from a smartphone app and wristband worn by chemotherapy patients, the researchers linked lower activity levels to more unexpected health encounters, such as emergency r…

Amid the COVID-19 pandemic, digital contact-tracing has been highlighted as a critical technology to stop COVID-19 transmission. Contact tracing has been a core disease control measure employed by local and state health department personnel for decades. In a pandemic such as COVID-19, communities must scale up and train a large contact tracer workforce and work collaboratively across public and p…

This Viterbi School of Engineering news article describes a study in which Cyrus Shahabi and Luciano Nocera of USC’s Integrated Media Systems Center, and Brad Peterson, a medical doctor and professor of pediatrics and psychiatry at the Keck School of Medicine of USC, will use wearable sensors to provide new insights into the effects of air pollution on the developing brain and ways to reduce harm.

On Sep. 12, 2019, IMSC won the best student paper award in the Fifth IEEE International Conference on Multimedia Big Data (BigMM 2019) that was organized in Singapore. The paper title is “A Crowd-based Image Learning Framework using Edge Computing for Smart City Applications”.

The Digital Times, a Korean media, released an article about smart cities on May 28, 2019, which summarizes an interview with IMSC Director Prof. Cyrus Shahabi, the CIO of the City of Los Angeles Mr. Ted Ross, and IMSC Visiting Professor Joon Heo (Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea). The interview was made during their visit to a workshop on Smart Cities at the Yonsei University on May 15, 2019. The…

A group of IMSC researchers visited Korea and gave talks on IMSC’s ongoing effort in a smart city. IMSC Director Prof. Cyrus Shahabi, Associate Director Dr. Seon Ho Kim, and Prof. Gabriel Ghinita (visiting professor from the University of Massachusetts at Boston) presented their recent research activities at a couple of workshops: “International Workshop on Smart City – Policy and Technology” at …

On Dec. 10, 2018, IMSC won the bronze prize for participating in the road damage detection and classification challenge. This challenge was held as one of the 2018 IEEE Big Data Cup. IMSC achieved the 3rd place among 59 teams (15 countries). On Dec. 10, 2018, IMSC won the bronze prize for participating in the road damage detection and classification challenge. This challenge was held as one of th…

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”. The post IMSC won the best student paper award in IEEE BigMM 2018 appeared first on Integrated Media Systems Center .

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. The post Prof. Cyrus Shahabi speaks at the 12th Annual Body Computing Conference appeared first on Integrated Media Systems Center .

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! The post Why is L.A. traffic so ba…

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…

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 …

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. The post Introducing the Seco…

National Center for Women & Information Technology (NCWIT) Award for Aspirations in Computing recipient Bekah Agwunobi plans to use computer science to drive social change. The post Former IMSC intern honored with national award appeared first on Integrated Media Systems Center .

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 An…

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 …

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. The post IMSC Retreat 2017 appeared first on Integrated Media Systems Center .