Here are a few things I've done that might be of interest. 

• Audio and Video

  I built one of the first systems using speech recognition to retrieve video content. This work earned the Best Paper awards at SIGIR and ACM Multimedia. Here's a video demonstration of the system (8 minutes MPG, 80 MB). Years before most people were thinking about it, I built a system to retrieve news video from a keyword search of the subtitles.

• Music Retrieval

  I've been inventing ways to search and retrieve musical audio for possibly longer than anyone else. I built the first content-based search engine specifically for music. I wrote a widely-cited review paper about audio information retrieval. I've invented ways of retrieving music by rhythmic similarity as well as long-term structure, and one of my better inventions automatically segments popular music using matrix factorization.

• Fundamental Algorithms

  I invented an information-theoretic model for high-dimensional data distributions, allowing audio and video data to be classified and ranked by similarity for retrieval. I've released the code on SourceForge as TreeQ.

  I developed a fundamental approach to analysing audio, video and text based on similarity matrices. I've used this for many interesting applications. Many others now use this approach.

  I came up with the beat spectrum, a new approach to characterizing rhythm in musical audio.

• Panoramic Video Maps

  For those interested in GIS and mapping, Don Kimber and I linked GPS data with recorded panoramic video for a photorealistic virtual travel system called FlyAbout. This grew out of a multiple-camera panoramic video system I developed.

• Novel Interfaces

  I've come up with some interesting ways of interacting with video and audio. A few examples:
  • A video browser showing keyword relevance on a timeline.
  • Video Manga is an automatically generated printable summary of video keyframes.
  • "Reach-Through-The-Screen" makes video an active interface for remote control.
  • iLight lets remote users draw on real-world objects through an active video image.
  • Pan-and-Scan turns an image collection into a video animation synchronized to music.
  • The AMV system automatically generates short music videos with synchronized music soundtracks.

• Goofy Stuff

  For fun, I make things. I'm unafraid of doing stupid tricks with higher mathematics. Finally, DON'T FEAR THE ROBOTS. For somewhat less professional  stuff, I have delusions of talent.

Oh yeah, I have a bunch of patents and papers (a few of the more interesting ones are here), a vanity web page, and if you care about my degrees and awards, you can find them in my bio.

Credit and thanks to co-authors and collaborators too numerous to list.