Michele Covell

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I received my B.S. from the University of Michigan and my M.S. and Ph.D. from M.I.T. in signal processing. I joined SRI International, in the area of active acoustic-noise control, and then Interval Research Corporation, where my research covered a wide range of topics in audio, image, and video processing. In 2000, I joined YesVideo and worked on faster-than-real-time video analysis. I moved to the Mobile Streaming Media group in HP Labs, as a key contributor in streaming-video services in 3G telephony networks. This work is listed as one of the top-40 accomplishments from HP Labs' 40-year history. I moved to Google, in the research group, in 2005, where I have focused on large-scale audio and video fingerprinting, identification, and retrieval. In addition to the publications described below, I have 22 granted US patents and 37 published US-patent applications, along with associated PCT filings.

Publications

• Mass Personalization: Social and Interactive Applications using Sound-Track Identification, Michael Fink, Michele Covell, Shumeet Baluja, Journal of Multimedia Tools and Applications, vol. 36 (2008), pp. 115-132.

• Permutation Grouping: Intelligent Hash Function Design for Audio & Image Retrieval, Shumeet Baluja, Michele Covell, Sergey Ioffe, International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP-2008).

• Audio Fingerprinting: Combining Computer Vision & Data Stream Processing, Shumeet Baluja, Michele Covell, Proceedings of the 2007 International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing.

• Known-Audio Detection Using Waveprint: Spectrogram Fingerprinting By Wavelet Hashing, Michele Covell, Shumeet Baluja, Proceedings of the 2007 International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing.

• Learning Forgiving Hash Functions: Algorithms and Large Scale Tests, Shumeet Baluja, Michele Covell, IJCAI-07: International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2007.

• Advertisement Detection and Replacement using Acoustic and Visual Repetition, Michele Covell, Shumeet Baluja, Michael Fink, Proceedings of the 2006 International Workshop on Multimedia Signal Processing.

• Content Fingerprinting Using Wavelets, Shumeet Baluja, Michele Covell, Proceedings of the Conference of Visual Media Production, 2006.

• Social- and Interactive-Television Applications Based on Real-Time Ambient-Audio Identification, Michael Fink, Michele Covell, Shumeet Baluja, European Interactive TV Conference (Euro-ITV), 2006.

• Time-Scale Modification for 3G-Telephony Video, Michele Covell, Sumit Roy, Bo Shen, Proceedings of the 2006 International Workshop on Multimedia Signal Processing.

Prior Publications

• Reliable Performance Data Collection for Streaming Media Services, Beomjoo Seo, Michele Covell, Mirjana Spasojevic, Sumit Roy, Roger Zimmermann, Leonidas I. Kontothanassis, Nina Bhatti, Proceedings of the Eight International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems: Databases and Information Systems Integration, 2006, pp. 124-129.

• Dynamic Black-Box Performance Model Estimation for Self-Tuning Regulators, Magnus Karlsson, Michele Covell, Proceedings of the International Conference on Autonomic Computing, 2005, pp. 172-182.

• Predictive modeling of streaming servers, Michele Covell, Sumit Roy, Beomjoo Seo, SIGMETRICS Performance Evaluation Review, vol. 33 (2005), pp. 33-35.

• A System Architecture for Managing Mobile Streaming Media Service, Sumit Roy, Michele Covell, John Ankcorn, Susie Wee, Takeshi Yoshimura, Proceedings of IEEE Mobile Distributed Computing Workshop, 2003, pp. 408-413.

• An Architecture for Componentized, Network-Based Media Services, Michael Harville, Michele Covell, Susie Wee, Proceeding of the IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo, 2003.

• Analysis-by-synthesis dissolve detection, Michele Covell, Subutai Ahmad, Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Image Processing, 2002, pp. 425-428.

• Correspondence with Cumulative Similiarity Transforms, Trevor Darrell, Michele Covell, IEEE Trans. Pattern Anal. Mach. Intell., vol. 23 (2001), pp. 222-227.

• FastMPEG: Time-scale modification of Bit-Compressed Audio Information, Michele Covell, Malcolm Slaney, Art Rothstein, Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, 2001.

• Articulated-Pose Estimation Using Brightness and Depth-Constancy Constraints, Michele Covell, Ali Rahimi, Michael Harville, Trevor Darrell, Proceedings of IEEE Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, 2000, pp. 2438-2445.

• FaceSync: A Linear Operator for Measuring Synchronization of Video Facial Images and Audio Tracks, Malcolm Slaney, Michele Covell, NIPS, 2000, pp. 814-820.

• Dynamic Occluding Contours: A New External-Energy Term for Snakes, Michele Covell, Trevor Darrell, Proceedings of IEEE Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, 1999, pp. 2232-2238.

• Mach1: Nonuniform Time-Scale Modification of Speech, Michele Covell, Margaret Withgott, Malcolm Slaney, Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, 1998.

• Modification of Audible and Visual Speech, Michele Covell, Malcolm Slaney, Christoph Bregler, Margaret Withgott, Signal Processing for Multimedia, 1998.

• Video Rewrite: Photorealistic Synthetic Lip Sync, Christoph Bregler, Michele Covell, Malcolm Slaney, Proceedings of INA Imagina, 1998.

• Video Rewrite: Driving Visual Speech with Audio, Christoph Bregler, Michele Covell, Malcolm Slaney, Proceedings of SIGGRAPH, 1997, pp. 353-360.

• Video Rewrite: Visual Speech Synthesis from Video, Chris Bregler, Michele Covell, Malcolm Slaney, Proceedings of the ESCA Workshop on Audio-Visual Speech Processing, 1997.

• Autocorrespondence: Feature-based Match Estimation for Image Metamorphosis, Michele Covell, IEEE Workshop on Image and Multi-dimensional Signal Processing, 1996.

• Automatic Audio Morphing, Malcolm Slaney, Michele Covell, Charles Lassiter, Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, 1996.

• Eigen-points, Michele Covell, Chris Bregler, Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Image Processing, 1996.

• Eigen-points: Control-point Location using Principle Component Analyses, Michele Covell, Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition, 1996, pp. 122-127.

• Spanning the Gap between Motion Estimation and Morphing, Michele Covell, Margaret Withgott, Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (1994).

• Computer-Aided Algorithm Design and Rearrangement, Michele Covell, Cory Myers, Alan Oppenheim, Symbolic and Knowledge-Based Signal Processing, 1992.

• A New, Efficient Structure for the Short-Time Fourier Transform, with an Application in Code-Division Sonar Imaging, Michele Covell, John Richardson, Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, 1991.

• An Algorithm Design Environment for Signal Processing, Michele Covell, Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, 1990.

• Automated analysis of multiple performance characteristics in magnetic resonance imaging systems, Michele Covell, David Hearshen, Paul Carson, Thomas Chenevert, Paul Shreve, Alex Aisen, Fred Bookstein, Brian Murphy, William Martel, Medical Physics, vol. 13 (1986), pp. 815-823.

• Low data-rate video conferencing, Michele Covell, Jae Lim, Proceedings of SPIE, 1986.