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Brief Technical
Profile:
Dr Yui-Lam Chan
received the BEng with a First Class Honours degree and the Ph.D
degree from the Hong Kong Polytechnic
University in 1993 and 1997, respectively. During his studies, he was the
recipients of more than 10 famous prizes, scholarships and fellowships for
his outstanding academic achievement, such as being the Champion in Varsity
Competition in Electronic Design, the Sir Edward Youde
Memorial Fellowship, and the Croucher Foundation
Scholarships. Dr Chan joined the Hong Kong Polytechnic University
in 1997, and is now an Associate Professor in the Department of Electronic and Information
Engineering. He has achieved
an impressive record of having 5 successive UGC Competitive bids starting
from 2003. He received both of the Faculty Merit Award in Teaching (Team) and the Faculty of Engineering Research
Grant Achievement Award in 2005. Dr Chan is also actively involved in professional activities. In
particular, he serves as a reviewer and Session Chairman for many
international journals/conferences. He
was the Registration Chair of the 2004 International Symposium on Intelligent
Multimedia, Video and Speech Processing (ISIMP’ 2004) held in Hong Kong
between October 20 and 22, 2004.
Besides, he was the Secretary of the 2010 IEEE International
Conference on Image Processing (ICIP’2010).
He has published over 70 research papers in various international
journals and conferences. Many of which appears in the world’s top-level
international journals, such as IEEE Transactions on Image Processing and
IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology. One of his papers “New Adaptive Pixel Decimation for Block Motion
Vector Estimation” has been ranked as the most cited paper in IEEE
Transactions on Circuits and System for Video Technology since 1990. His research and technical
interests include multimedia technologies, signal processing, image and video
compression, video streaming, video transcoding,
video conferencing, digital TV/HDTV,
3DTV, multi-view video coding, future video coding standards, error-resilient
coding, and digital VCR.
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