Recent Activities and Professional Services of
Professor W.C. Siu
Sample of some activities (Recent 19
years: 1992-2011)
1. Higher
Degree Supervision
2. Editorial
Experiences
3. Externally
Sponsored Academic Research Projects
4. Recent Consultancy (Externally funded)
5. Recent Keynote Presentations, Distinctions and
Awards
6. Other Presentations (besides Keynote Presentation as
shown above)
7. Samples
of other external activities
8. Recent
Patent Applications and Contributions to Standards
Professor W.C. Siu January
2012
Summary of Recent Professional Activities
1. Higher Degree
Supervision:
Chief Supervisor of
Research Degree Supervision:
Number
of MPhil/PhD successfully supervised:
PhD degree :
11 MPhil Degree: 11
Current number MPhil/PhD students: 5
2. Editorial Experiences
Current
Editorial Works:
Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on Image Processing,
2010-03, IEEE, USA.
Editor/Member of
Editorial Board, Journal of VLSI
Signal Processing Systems for Signal, Image and Video Technology,
Since January 1996, Kluwer Academic Publisher, USA.
Member of Editorial Board, Journal of Image and Graphics, China, since
1999.
Member of Editorial
Board, Journal of Electronics, since
1999, China.
Honorary Editorial Board
Member, Journal of Data Acquisition
& Processing, since 1998, China.
Former Editorial
Works:
Guest Editor, Vol.45, No.8, IEEE Transactions on Circuits and
Systems, Part II: Analogue & Signal Processing, May 1998, USA.
Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems, Part II:
Analogue & Signal Processing, 1995-1997, IEEE, USA.
Corresponding Member of
Editorial Board, IEE Review Editorial
Advisory Board, since 1996-2001 UK.
Member of Editorial Board, EURASIP Journal on Applied Signal Processing, Switzerland,
(2001-03).
Member of Editorial
Board, Pattern Recognition, USA
(2003).
3. Externally Sponsored Academic Research Projects
Prof. W.C. Siu, GRF grant (UGC
Competitive Bid), PolyU 527808, 2008-2010, HK$327,247
2. Design of Non-octave Contourlet packet with application to image retrieval
and compression
Dr. N.F. Law and Prof. W.C. Siu , GRF grant (UGC Competitive Bid),
PolyU521508, 2008-2010, HK$352,101)
Prof. W.C. Siu, UGC
Competitive Bid, PolyU 5267/07E,
2007-2009, HK$375,320
2. An
Efficient SP/SI-frame Coding Scheme for Supporting Interactive Browsing
Operations in H.264 Video
Dr. Y.L. Chan and Prof. W.C. Siu (UGC Competitive Bid,
PolyU5120/07E, 2007-2009, HK$390,720)
Prof. W.C. Siu, Prof Constantinides A.G. (Imperial College of Science,
Technology and Medicine) and Dr Chau Lap-Pui (Nanyang Technological
University), (UGC Competitive Bid, PolyU 5268/06E, 2006-2009,
HK$534,000)
Dr. Y.L. Chan and Prof. W.C. Siu (UGC Competitive Bid,
PolyU 5125/06E, 2006-2008, HK$356,000)
2005
(completed):
1. Video
Streaming with Efficient and Seamless Bitstream Switching
Dr. Y.L. Chan and Prof. W.C. Siu (UGC Competitive Bid, 2005-2007,
HK$359,244)
2004
(completed):
1. Efficient Techniques
for Indexing Human Faces in Large Database
Dr. Kenneth Lam, L.S. Shen and Prof. W.C. Siu (UGC Competitive Bid,
2004-2006, HK$337,631)
2. Video Proxy
with Error-Resilient Support for Video Transmission over Wireless Network
Dr. Y.L. Chan and Prof. W.C. Siu (UGC Competitive Bid,
2004-2006, HK$337,631)
3. Unified
Feature Analysis in Uncompressed & Various Transformed Domains with App. to
Image Retrieval.
Dr. N.F. Law
and Prof. W.C. Siu (UGC Competitive Bid, 2004-2006,
HK$337,631)
2003 (completed):
1. On Video
Transcoding for Multimedia Applications
Prof. W.C. Siu and Dr. Y.L. Chan (UGC Competitive Bid,
2003-2005, HK$377,149)
2. Advanced
Digital VCR for Streaming MPEG Video
Dr. Y.L. Chan and Prof. W.C. Siu (UGC Competitive Bid,
2003-2005, HK$324,000)
3. A Study of
Rotation and Scaling Invariant Wavelet Texture Analysis
Dr. N.F. Law and Prof. W.C. Siu (UGC Competitive Bid,
2003-2005, HK$324,000)
4. Facial
Image Analysis for Video Indexing and Retrieval
Dr. K.M. Lam, Dr.
Q. Qiu, Dr. T. Zheng and Prof. W.C. Siu (UGC Competitive Bid,
2003-2005, HK$377,149)
2002 (completed):
1.Fast Wavelet Transform
using Lifting Structure for Image and Video Compression
Prof. W.C. Siu and Dr. N.F. Law (UGC Competitive Bid,
2002-2005, HK$611,404)
2001(completed):
1. Efficient
Techniques for Model-Based Video Coding
Dr. Kenneth Lam and Prof. W.C. Siu (UGC Competitive Bid,
2001-2004, HK$400,000)
2000 (completed):
1. Wavelet
Singularity Detection for Very Low-Bit Rate Image and Video Coding
Dr. Daniel P.K. Lun and Prof. W.C. Siu (UGC Competitive Bid,
2000-2003, HK$457,817)
1999(completed):
1. Human Face
Recognition Based on a Single Front View by Hybrid Techniques
Dr. K.M. Lam and Prof. W.C. Siu (UGC Competitive Bid,
1999-2002, HK$405,000)
2.
Intelligent Interactive Video Conference Facility: A Demonstration Project for
Multimedia Signal Processing, (a collaborative research between University of
Wollongong in Australia, the Hong Kong Polytechnic University and the
University of Siena in Italy
Prof. A.C. Tsoi,
Prof. J. Chichao, Prof. W.C. Siu, Dr. M. Gori, Dr. Kenneth Lam, Dr.
Daniel Lun, Dr. Z. Chi, et. al (International Researcher Exchange Scheme, Australia
Research Council, 99-01, A$40,000)
1998(completed):
1. Novel/Quantitative
Functional Imaging Data Acqusition, Compression, Processing and Management
Techniques
Prof. David D Feng and Prof. W.C. Siu (UGC Competitive Bid,
1998-2001, HK$680,000)
1996(completed):
1. Reliable
and Fast Digital Signal Processing Algorithm and Data Compression for
Irregularly Sampled Biomedical Signal with Applications to the Generation of
Human Brain Function Images
Prof.
W.C. Siu and Prof. David FEng (UGC
Competitive Bid, 1996-2000, HK$1030,000)
1995(completed):
1. A Robust Vision
System for Character Recognition: with Application to Label Identification and
Vehicle License Number Recognition
Dr. J.C.H. Poon and Prof. W.C.
Siu (UGC Competitive Bid, 1995-97, HK$450,000)
1994(completed):
Prof.
W.C. Siu and Prof. A.G.
Constantinides, Imperial College (British Council, 1994-98,
K$73,000)
2. A
Study of Computer Tomography and Wavelet Transform
Dr. D.P.K. Lun and Prof. W.C.
Siu (UGC Competitive Bid, 1994-97, HK$450,000)
1993(completed):
1.
mage Processing and Compression Algorithms
Prof. W.C. Siu
and Dr. Y.L. Chan (Croucher Foundation, 1993-97, HK$280,000)
1992(completed):
1.
Fast Algorithms and ASIC Chips for Digital Signal Processing
Prof. W.C. Siu (UGC Competitive Bid, 1992-97,
HK$930,000)
4. Recent Consultancy (Externally funded)
Non-executive Director, Teleeye Holding Limited, (a Listed Hi-Tech Company
on Video Technology/Video Surveillance in Hong Kong) – See also Section 2.3.
Prof.
W.C. Siu, November 2000 – now.
Samples of Former Consultancy Works:
PDA File Transfer over
Bluetooth and Wireless LAN networks, Prof. W.C. Siu (PI) and Mr. W.L.
Hui, December 2005 – January 2006.
Techniques for Image and
Video Processing and Object Recognition, Prof. W.C. Siu (PI) and Dr. Kenneth
K.M. Lam, November 2002 – October 2003.
Development of a
Centralized Management System, Dr. Kenneth Lam and Prof. W.C. Siu (Co-I),
July 2002 – August 2002.
Technical Expert Advice on
Bidding Process for the Supply of Television channels, Prof. W.C. Siu (PI)
and Dr. Kenneth K.M. Lam, August/September 2001.
Development of Electronic
Classrooms for “education 18.com” , Prof. W.C. Siu (PI) and Dr. Kenneth
K.M. Lam, December 1999 – March 2000.
OS Design for PDA , Prof.
W.C. Siu, Dr. S.T. Choy, Dr. K.M. Lam and Dr. Y.H. Chan, Mar.2000-Oct.2000
Source
Decoder for Digital TV Set Top Box, Dr. K.M. Lam, Dr. K.T. Lo and Prof. W.C.
Siu.
On Trial Use of Video and
Graphic Applications for Handheld Device, Dr. Chris Y.H. Chan and Prof. W.C.
Siu (Co-I), March – Apirl 2000 – August 2000.
Web TV Set-top Box Design,
Dr. Kenneth K.M. Lam and Prof. W.C. Siu (Co-I), January 2000 – April
2000.
Web System Design for
“Education System of Hong Kong”, Prof. W.C. Siu (PI) and Dr. Kenneth
K.M. Lam, December 1999 – March 2000.
Digital Camera Module for
GSL’s PDA, Dr. Y.H. Chan and Prof. W.C. Siu, October 1999 – March 2000
An Investigation on Image
Down Sampling Techniques, Prof. W.C. Siu (PI) and Dr. K.M. Lam,
September –November, 1999.
An Investigation on Fast
Algorithms for Convolutions with Simple Input Data, Prof. W.C. Siu (PI),
April-October, 1999.
Internet TV Set-Top Box,
Dr. K.M. Lam and Prof. W. C. Siu (Co-I), May-June 1999
Investigation of CD-ROM
discs for Sony PlayStation, Prof. W.C. Siu (PI), Dr. Martin H.L. Chow
and Dr. K.T. Lo, January-February, 1999.
Failure Analysis of
Electric Decorated Toy Truck. Prof. W.C. Siu (PI) and Dr. Martin Chow,
January 1995
(Clients include: Teleeye Holding Limited, Hong Kong Applied
Science and Technology Research Institute Co. Ltd., Hong Kong
Productivity Centre, Symbolid Technology Ltd., Hong Kong Police Force, Anderson
Multimedia Communications (HK) Ltd., TVB limited, Media Education Services (HK)
Co. Ltd., Kego Technology Ltd.,Maxcom Electronics Ltd., CWHKTCSL, A-Solution
Technology Development Ltd., Group Sense (Int.) Ltd. ,DynaPeak Technolgy &
Consultancy Co. Ltd., T.K. Wong & Associates Ltd., etc.)
5. Recent Keynote Presentations, Distinctions and
Awards
International Journal
papers with Award Quality:
Most Cited Paper – Paper listed as one of the Most Cited Papers since
1990, 2006 IEEE Trans. on CSVT website, http://tcsvt.polito.it/: “Yiu-Lam Chan
and Wan-Chi Siu, 'New
Adaptive Pixel Decimation for Block Motion Vector Estimation', IEEE Transactions
on Circuits & Systems for Video Technology, pp.113-118, Vol.6, No.1,
February, 1996, U.S.A.”
Honorable Mention
Winner of the 30th Annual Pattern Recognition Society Award for the paper ‘Spatically
Eigen-weighted
Hausdorff Distance for Human Face Recognition – K.H. Lin, K.M. Lam and W.C.
Siu’ published in Vol.
36, No. 8, pp. 1827-34, August 2003 of the Pattern Recognition, August 2004, USA.
Highly Accessed Paper – Paper classified as highly
accessed by BMC Bioinformatics starting from September 2008, http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2105/9/210/, “Kin-On Cheng, Ngai-Fong Law, Wan-Chi Siu and Alan Wee-Chung Liew, ‘Identification of Coherent Patterns
in Gene Expression Data using an Efficient Biclustering Algorithm and Parallel
Coordinate Visualization’, 9:210, 2008, BMC Bioinformatics, Oxford University Press, UK.”
International Conference papers
with Award Quality:
1st of the Top 10 Most
Downloaded Open Library Papers,
EURASIP Open Library, European Association for Signal Processing (EURASIP),
November 2009:
http://www.eurasip.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=81:top-10-most-downloaded-open-library-papers&catid=34:news )
Wing-Shan Tam, Chi-Wah Kok and Wan-Chi
Siu, “A Modified Edge Directed Interpolation for Images”, Proceedings,
pp.283-7, 17th European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO 2009), 24-28
August, 2009, Glasgow U.K.
The Best Paper Award:
S.H. Kwok, W.C. Siu and
A.G. Constantinides, 'A Fast Recursive Shortest Spanning Tree for Image
Segmentation', Proceedings, International Conference on Neural Networks and
Signal Processing (ICNNSP'95), pp.1386-1389, December 1995, Nanjing, China.
Top Contributor Award - Institutional Repository Top Contributor Award (on research
publications), PYK Library, The Hong Kong Polytechnic, April 2009.
Keynote Speaker, “Video Monitoring and 3D Videos: New Research and Application
Perspectives”, the 4th International Conference on Intelligent
Information Technology Application (IITA2010) 5-7 November, 2010, Qinhuangdao, China.
Keynote Speaker, “Challenges from HDTV Coding, Video Monitoring to 3D Videos”, 2010
Second International Conference on Intellectual Technology in Industrial
Practices (ITIP2010) 8-9 September, 2010, Changsha, China.
Keynote Speaker, 2010 Second International Conference on MultiMedia and Information
Technology (MMIT 2010), 24-25 April, 2010, Kaifeng, China.
Keynote Speaker, JCAI’2009,
2009 International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 25-26 April,
2009, Haikou, China.
Keynote Speaker, ICNNSP’08,
IEEE International Conference on Neural Networks and Signal Processing, 6-10
June 2008, Nanjing China
Keynote Speaker: The 11th Annual Youth Conference of Chinese Institute of
Electronics (CIEYC2005), Jinan, Shandong University, 24-26 September, 2005
Shandong, China
Plenary Presentation, IEEE International Workshop on
VLSI Design and Video Technology (IWVDVT-2005), 28-31 May, 2005, Suzhou China.
Keynote Speaker, International Symposium on Intelligent Multimedia, Video and Speech
Signal Processing, Hong Kong Polytechnic and IEEE Hong Kong Chapters on Signal
Processing, Circuits and Systems and Communications, 20-22 October, 2004,
Hong Kong.
Keynote Speaker, IEEE International Conference on Neural Networks and Signal Processing,
12-15 December, 2003, Nanjing China.
Keynote Speaker, The 3rd IEEE Pacific
Rim Conference on Multimedia (PCM2002), IEEE and National Tsing-Hua University,
Hsinchu Taiwan, December 2002.
Keynote Speaker, National Forum on Information
Technology and Industry Development, China Electronic Society and Nanjing
Telecommunication University, Nanjing China, December 2002.
Keynote Speaker, National Conference on
Multimedia Technology, China Computing Society and China Image Processing
Society, Shilong China, November 2002.
Keynote Speaker, 1999 International Symposium on Signal Processing (ISSPIS’99),
Guangzhou, China November 1999.
Keynote Speaker, China Fourteen National Conference on Circuits and Systems (NCCAS’98),
Fuzhou China, April 1998.
Guest Professor (Honorary) , Heilongjiang
University, Harbin China, 2007-2010.
Guest Professor (Honorary) , South East University,
Nanjing, China, since 2003.
Visiting Professor (Honorary), Nanjing University of Telecommunications, Nanjing, China, since Dec.
2002.
Advisory Professor (Honorary), Department of Electronic and
Information Engineering, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou, China, 1999-2002.
Plaque for Exceptional Leadership
and Significant Contributions in the Organization of the 2003
International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, IEEE
Signal Processing Society, September 2003, USA (presented in Barcelona, Spain).
Outstanding Award in Research
& Scholarly Activities - 2003, Faculty of Engineering,
Hong Kong Polytechnic University, July 2003.
The Best Teacher Award - 2003, Department of Electronic & Information Engineering, Hong Kong
Polytechnic University, June 2003.
IEEE Third Millennium Medal for Outstanding Achievements and Contributions, Oct. 2000, IEEE, USA.
Excellent CEGR Report - ‘A Study of the Computer Tomography and the Wavelet Transform – final
report (D.P,K. Lun and W.C. Siu)’, classified as excellent quality by RGC,
1998.
Distinguished Presenter Award, University Management Workshop, the Hong Kong Polytechnic University,
Shekou, China, September 1997.
The Best Paper Award, Proceedings, International Conference on Neural Networks and Signal
Processing (ICNNSP'95), pp.1386-1389, Nanjing, China (Paper Title: 'A Fast
Recursive Shortest Spanning Tree for Image Segmentation, with Dr. S.H. Kwok and
A.G. Constantinides, December 1995.
The Highest (Highly) Rated CERG
proposal – ‘Fast Algorithms and ASIC Chips for Digital Signal
Processing – W.C. Siu’, listed as the first proposal out of the three highly
rated proposal of the year in RGC 1992 annual report.
Norman I Price Scholarship Award, Visiting Scholar, Department of Electrical Engineering, The University of
Sydney, Australia, April-May 1992.
6. Other Presentations (besides
Keynote Presentation as shown above)
Speaker, The 2011 Pacific-Rim Conference on Multimedia,
(PCM2011), 20-22 December 2011, Sydney,
Australia. (Topic: Replacing Conventional Motion Estimation with Affine Motion
Prediction for High-Quality Video Coding.)
Forum Speaker, 2011
APSIPA Annual Summit and Conference (APSIPA-ASC’2011),
18-22 October 2011, Xian China. (‘Industrial Panel’ and ‘Edication Forum’.)
Invited Speaker, Summit, infoComm asia, 17-19
November , 2010, Hong Kong Convention & Exhibition Centre, Hong Kong (Topic
presented, “Challenges in
3D Video Coding and its Applications”).
Speaker, 14th
IEEE International Symposium on Consumer Electronics (ISCE’2010), 07-10 June
2010, Braunschweig , Germany. (Topic: ‘Further Directional Search on Integer-pixel Variable
Block Size Motion Estimation for H.264/AVC’).
Speaker, IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS’2010), 30
May – 2 June, 2010, Paris, France. (Topic: ‘Improved Hybrid Coding Scheme for Intra 4x4 Residual Block Produced by
H.264/AVC’)
Invited Speaker, Electronics
Fairs of 2010 seminar, 14 April, 2010, Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition
Centre, Wan-Chai, Hong Kong . (Topic: “New Trend and Challenges in 3D Video Coding ”.)
Invited Speaker, Northeastern University, 29 March, 2010,
Shenyang, China. (Topic: “New
Challenges on Video Coding, Super-Resolution Videos and 3-D HDTV”.)
Speaker, The 91st MPEG
Meeting, Information Processing Society of Japan/Information Technology
Standards Commission of Japan (IPSJ/ITSCJ), 18-22 January, 2010, Kyoto Japan.
(Topic: M17180 - Advanced Direct Mode for Bi-directionally Predictive Block
Coding.)
Invited Speaker, Huawei Annual
Meeting on Multimedia Expert Forum, 27-28 November, 2009, Huawei
Headquarters, Shenzhen, China.
(i) Huawei Tech Forum: Topic
presented, “Highlight of Some Key Video Technologies for Next Generation
Multimedia Applications”.
(ii) Expert Group Presentation:
Topic presented, “Topic presented, “New Challenges from Video Coding to Super-Resolutino
Videos and 3D HDTV”.
Invited Speaker, ASTRI Tech
Forum on “Emerging Technologies and Trends in Video Processing”, 26 November 2009, Hong Kong .
(Topic presented: New Challenges from Video Coding to Super-Resolution Videos.)
Speaker, IEEE International Conference on Image (ICIP’2009), 7-11 November, 2009, Cairo Egypt.
(Topic presented: New Motion Compensation Model via Frequency Classification
for Fast Video Super-Resolution.)
Speaker, IEEE International Symposium Conference on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS’09), 24-7 May 2009, Taipei, T aiwan.
(Topic presented: Efficient Inter Mode Decision for H.263 to H.264 Video
Transcoding Using Support Vector Machines.)
Speaker, 2009 APSIPA Annual Summit and Conference (APSIPA-ASC’2009), October 4-7, 2009, Sapporo Convention Center, Sapporo, Japan. (Topic Presented: Transform Kernel Selection Strategy for the H.264.)
Speaker, IEEE
International Symposium Conference on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS’09), 24-7 May
2009, Taipei, Taiwan. (Topic Presented: Efficient Inter Mode Decision for H.263
to H.264 Video Transcoding Using Support Vector Machines.)
Speaker, IEEE 2009 International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal
Processing (ICASSP’2009),
20-4 April 2009, Taipei, Taiwan.
Speaker, International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP’2008), 12-15 October, 2008, San Diego USA.
Speaker (Invited Session), IEEE
International Conference on Neural Networks and Signal Processing (ICNNSP’08), 6-10 June
2008, Nanjing China
Speaker, IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICASSP’2008), 30
March – 4 April, 2008, Las Vegas,
LA, USA.
Invited Speaker, ‘New
Challenges on Video Coding’, Research Institute of Innovative Products and
Technologies (RIIPT), Hong Kong Polytechnic University, December 2007, Hong Kong.
Invited Speaker, ‘Challenges on
Video Coding and Transcoding’, Beijing University of Technology, Beijing, 28
July 2007, Beijing China.
Speaker ,15th
International Conference on Digital Signal Processing (DSP’2007), July 2007,
Cardiff, UK.
Invited Speaker, ‘New
Challenges on Video Coding: New Directions on Motion Estimation’, Shantong University, 1 June
2007, Jienan, Shantong, China.
Speaker,
4th International
Conference on Information Technology and Applications, ICITA’2007,
15-18 January 2007, Harbin China.
6.2
Other Open Speech, Invited Speaker and Speaker of International Events between
1980-2007:
Speaker or Invited Speaker of
over 60 International Conferences/Workshops in Hong Kong, Japan, Taiwan,
Singapore, USA, Canada, UK, Spain, Italy, Australia, China, etc.
7. Samples of other external
activities:
Vice President, Chairman of
Conference Board and and Core Member of the Board of Governors, IEEE Signal
Processing Society (2012-2014).
Member, ASTRI Technology Review
Panel, Hong Kong Applied Science and Technology Research Institute, 2006-2012
Chairmanship of IEEE Society
Sponsored Flagship International Conferences
General Chair, IEEE
International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP’2010), IEEE Hong Kong Centre, HK
Convention and Exhibition Centre, September 2010, Hong Kong.
General Chair, IEEE 2003
International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP'03), IEEE Hong
Kong Centre, HK Convention and Exhibition Centre, April 2003, Hong Kong.
Technical Program Chair, Technical
Program Committee, 1997 International Symposium on Circuits and
Systems (ISCAS'97), IEEE , H.K. Centre, HK Convention and Exhibition
Centre, June 1997, Hong Kong.
Chairmanship of
International Conferences
Co-General Chair, MMSP’08, IEEE
International Workshop on Multimedia Signal Processing, October 2008,
Shangri-la Hotel, The Marina, Cairns Australia.
General Co-Chair, ICNNSP’08,
2008
IEEE International Conference on Neural Networks and Signal Processing, 6-10
June 2008, Nanjing China.
General Co-Chair, International
Symposium on Intelligent Signal Processing and Communication Systems (ISPACS’2005), the Chinese
University of Hong Kong, 14-17 December, 2005, Hong Kong.
General
Co-Chair, International IEEE
International Workshop on VLSI Design and Video Technology (IWVDVT-2005),
28-31 May, 2005, Suzhou China.
Honorary General Chair,
International Symposium on Intelligent Multimedia, Video and Speech Signal
Processing, (ISIMP’2004) Hong Kong
Polytechnic and IEEE Hong Kong Chapters on Signal Processing, Circuits and
Systems and Communications, 20-22 October, 2004, Hong Kong.
General
Co-Chair, IEEE International
Conference on Neural Networks and Signal Processing, (ICNNSP’2003),
12-15 December, 2003, Nanjing China.
General
Chair, International Symposium on
Intelligent Multimedia, Video and Speech Signal Processing, (ISIMP’2001),
Kowloon Shangril-La Hotel, Hong Kong, 2-4 May, 2001.
General
Chair, 2000 International Workshop on
Multimedia Data Storage, Retrival, Integration and Applications, Centre for
Multimedia Signal Processing, HKPolyU, January 2000, Hong Kong.
General
Co-Chair, 1999 International
Symposium on Signal Processing and Intelligent System (ISSPIS99),
November 1999, Guangzhou, China.
Co-Chair, Technical
Program Committee, Workshop on Image Processing and Coding, September, 1998 The
Chinese University of Hong Kong , Hong Kong.
Co-Chairman, Technical
Program Committee, 1994 IEEE International Workshop on Intelligent Signal
Processing and Communications, October, 1994, Seoul, Korea
General Chairman, IEEE
International Symposium on Speech, Image Processing and Neural Networks,
(ISSIPNN’94) IEEE Hong Kong Signal Processing Society, Hong Kong Convention and
Exhibition Centre, April 1994, Hong Kong.
Co-Chairman, Technical
Program Committee and Speaker, 1990 TENCON conference on Computer and
Communication System, IEEE Hong Kong Section, Hong Kong Convention and
Exhibition Centre, 24-27, September, 1990, Hong Kong.
Sample Session Chair of
International Conferences:
Session
Chairman, on ‘Visual Signal
Modeling’, ‘Digital Image and Video Processing II”, and ’Digital Audio’, IEEE
International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS’2010),
30 May – 2 June, 2010, Paris France.
Forum Co-chair, on 2009 APSIPA ASC, 2009 Asia-Pacific Signal and Information Processing
Association Annual Summit and Conference, October
5 - 7, 2009, Sapporo Convention Center, Sapporo, Japan.
Session Chairman, on ‘Advances
in Still Picture and Video Coding II’, IEEE International Symposium Conference
on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS’09), 24-7 May 2009, Taipei, Taiwan.
Session Chairman, on ‘Coding
Techniques’, 6th International Conference on Information,
Communications and Signal Processing (ICICS2007), 10-13 December 2007,
Singapore
Session Chairman, on ‘Video
Coding’, 14 European Signal Processing conference (EUSIPCO’2006), September
2006, Florence Italy.
Session
Chairman, on ‘Discrete Transform and
Wavelets’, IEEE International Symposium Conference on Circuits and Systems
(ISCAS’05), 23-26 May 2005, Kobe Japan.
Session Chairman, on ‘Contents
Based Information Retrieval and Pattern Discovery’, IEEE International
Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing’, IEEE International
Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP’2005), March
2005, Philadelphia , USA.
Session Chairman, on ‘VQ and
Fractal Coding’, IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP’99),
October, 1999, Kobe Japan.
Session Chairman, on 'Subband
Transforms for Video Coding', IEEE International Symposium on Circuits &
Systems (ISCAS'95), April-May, 1995, Seattle, U.S.A.
Session
Chairman / Speaker, International
Symposium on Signal Processing and Its Applications (ISSPA’90), 27-31 August,
1990, Gold Coast, Australia.
Session Chairman / Speaker,
IEEE Pacific Rim Conference on Communications, Computers and Signal Processing,
Victoria Conference Centre, May 9-10, 1991, Victoria, B.C. Canada.
Member of IEEE Technical
Committees: Member, Multimedia Signal Processing
Committee, Signal Processing Society, IEEE, USA; Member, Visual Signal Processing
Committee, Circuits and Systems Society, IEEE, USA; Member, Digital Signal Processing Technical Committee, Circuits and Systems
Society, IEEE, USA;
Member at large and Secretary, Conference Board, Signal
Processing Society, IEEE USA.
Member of over 30 Advisory
committees/Technical Programme Committees/Orgainzing
Committees (between 1990-2010) of International Conferences in Poland,
Greece, USA, Italy, Tailand, Australia, China, Japan, Singapore, Korea, and
Hong Kong.
8. Recent Patent
Applications and Contributions to Standards:
8.1 Patents filed in the recent
two years (2009-2010):
US
Patent Filed: Method And Apparatus For Coding Mode Selection
US Patent Filed: A Detection
System for Assisting a Driver when Driving a Vehicle
US Patent Filed: Generation of
Synchronized Bidirectional frames and use
Chinese Patent filed: Method and
Apparatus for Video Encoding/Decoding with Variable Block Size Skip Mode and
Binary Tree Based Partition of Macroblock
US Provisional Patent filed:
Method and Apparatus for Motion Prediction in Video Coding
8.2 Contributions to MPEG
Standards (2009-2010)
Title: PSB-frame for MVC
Title: Method and Apparatus for
Video Encoding/Decoding with Variable Block Size Skip Mode and Binary Tree
Based Partition of Macroblock
Title: Advanced Direct Mode for
Bi-directionally Predictive Block Coding
Title: Fast fractional
motion search with adaptive searching point reduction: An efficient motion
vector coding algorithm based on adaptive motion vector prediction
(Details: See Publications.)