IAPR keynote lecture I: Large-scale visual computing: Challenges and opportunities

The widespread deployment of visual sensors such as surveillance cameras leads to the explosion of visual data. The timely processing and understanding of such massive information presents a clear challenge as well as a great opportunity for computer vision. This talk starts with a brief introduction to the concept of large-scale visual computing and outlines the status quo of the field as well as the main research challenges. It focuses on discussing some of the key issues in large-scale visual computing such as large-scale feature representation and large-scale modelling. It also discusses some promising directions for future research.