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Skills and ideas from many different disciplines are needed to help make digital image libraries more useful for general users. The Multi-mode Image Retrieval project team is a group of faculty and students that is working to develop more effective image retrieval techniques. The group benefits from expertise in the fields of computer vision, information retrieval, human-centered design, education, and other relevant disciplines.

		Team Members
		Primary Investigator
		C. Olivia Frost, University of Michigan
		Faculty Consultants
		William I. Grosky, University of Michigan- Dearborn Sang W. Lee, Sogang Univ., Seoul, Korea
		Programming Consultants
		Zhiping Zheng Daniel Berwick Lichao Wei
		Graduate Student Team Members
		Mei Lu Anna Noakes Dong Yang Adina Lipsitz John Northup Sylvie Khajuria

C. Olivia Frost
Primary Investigator

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C. Olivia Frost is Associate Dean and Professor at the University of Michigan School ofInformation. She has been a faculty member at the University of Michigan since 1977 and has also taught at the Universities of Chicago, Illinois at Chicago, and Oregon. She has a B.A. from Howard University, an M.L.S. from the University of Oregon, and an M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Chicago.

Frost's recent research projects have focused on intellectual access to digital image collections. Frost was PI of the Art Image Browser project, which developed, deployed, and evaluated a digital database of images in art and architecture.

As PI of the Digital Image Library Project at UM, Frost is designing systems which provide general users with multimode retrieval to image collections, and combine content-based retrieval with text-based retrieval strategies.

Frost is also PI of the Cultural Heritage Initiative for Community Outreach (CHICO). The goal of CHICO is to make cultural heritage materials accessible to a broad array of audiences, through the creation of digital multimedia resources with a strong multicultural focus, and personalized services and programs to assist in their use.

William I. Grosky
Primary Investigator

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Dr. William I. Grosky received his B.S. from MIT in 1965, his M.S. from Brown University in 1968, and his Ph.D. from Yale University in 1971. He was an assistant professor of Information and Computer Science at the Georgia Institute of Technology from 1971-1976 and is currently professor in and chair of the Computer Science Department at Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan.He has held positions as assistant professor of Information and Computer Science at the Georgia Institute of Technology from 1971-1976, professor and chair of the

Computer Science Department at Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan, and is currently Professor and Chair, Department of Computer and Information Science University of Michigan- Dearborn. His research interests lie in the fields of databases, multimedia information systems and hypermedia. He serves on many conference program committees in the areas of databases and multimedia, is currently on the editorial boards of the journals Pattern Recognition and the Journal of Database Management and is editor-in-chief of IEEE Multimedia.

Mei Lu
Graduate Assistant

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Mei Lu is a researcher at Intel, She received her doctorate from the Department of Communication Studies, University of Michigan. She earned a MS in Human Computer Interaction from the School of Information, University of Michigan, and a BA and a BE from Tsinghua University, Beijing, China. Her research interests focus

around the impacts of new information technology on individuals and organizations. She also has been involved with various projects of information systems, practicing mainly CGI programming, web page design, graphic design, interface evaluation, user analysis, multimedia production.

Anna Noakes
Graduate Assistant

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Anna Noakes was a doctoral student at the University of Michigan School of Information. Anna has a BA in English Literature (1994) from Concordia University in Montreal, Canada, and an MILS (1996) from the School of Information. Her research work has primarily concerned the organization of digital resources, digital libraries, image retrieval in networked environments, and the dissemination of arts and

cultural materials via the Internet.
Anna's responsibilities within the image retrieval group include: revising the text-based browsing hierarchy, contributing to the design of the search interfaces, participating in the redesign of the project Web site, testing and evaluation of system prototypes, updating the research bibliography and assisting in the preparation of grant proposals.

Zhiping Zheng
Programming Consultant

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Zhiping Zheng is currently a Research Scientist in the Department of Computational Linguistics and Phonetics COLI), Saarland University. He previously worked as an applications programmer at the University of Michigan Hospital, and also for the University of Michigan Digital

Library Project as a systems research programmer and the Linguist Network as a fellow researcher. In China, he was an advanced programmer at the Computing Center, Chinese Academy of Science. He received his MSI from the School of Information, University of Michigan.

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