Jenq-Neng Hwang

Dr. Jenq-Neng Hwang received the BS and MS degrees, both in electrical engineering from the National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan, in 1981 and 1983 separately. He then received his Ph.D. degree from the University of Southern California. In the summer of 1989, Dr. Hwang joined the Department of Electrical Engineering of the University of Washington in Seattle, where he has been promoted to Full Professor since 1999. He is currently the Associate Chair for Research in the EE Department. He has written more than 280 journal, conference papers and book chapters in the areas of multimedia signal processing, and multimedia system integration and networking, including a recent textbook on “Multimedia Networking: from Theory to Practice,” published by Cambridge University Press. Dr. Hwang has close working relationship with the industry on multimedia signal processing and multimedia networking.

Dr. Hwang received the 1995 IEEE Signal Processing Society's Best Journal Paper Award. He is a founding member of Multimedia Signal Processing Technical Committee of IEEE Signal Processing Society and was the Society's representative to IEEE Neural Network Council from 1996 to 2000. He is currently a member of Multimedia Technical Committee (MMTC) of IEEE Communication Society and also a member of Multimedia Systems and Applications Technical Committee (MSATC) of IEEE Circuits and Systems Society. He served as an associate editor for IEEE T-SP, T-NN and T-CSVT, and is now an Associate Editor for IEEE T-IP and IEEE Signal Processing Magazine, as well as an Editor for JISE, ETRI and IJDMB. He was the Program Co-Chair of ICASSP 1998 and ISCAS 2009. Dr. Hwang is a fellow of IEEE since 2001.

Honors

IEEE SP Society Best (Journal) Paper Award, 1995.
IEEE Fellow, 2001
Annual Faculty Service Award, UWEE, 2006

Visiting Distinguished Professor of Denmark Technical University, Lyngby, August-September 1996.
Visiting Chair Professor of Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, Dec. 2003
Visiting Chair Professor of National Chung Cheng University, Chia-Yi, Taiwan, Sept.-Dec., 2005
Visiting Chair Professor of National Sun Yat-Sen University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, Dec. 2006
Visiting Chair Professor of National Cheng-Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan, July-Sept., 2007
International Chair Professor of National Taipei University of Technology, Taipei, Taiwan, 2012--

Research Interests

Image/video signal processing, multimedia networking and QoS, and statistical pattern recognition. 

Research Projects

See the Information Processing Lab for research details.

Selected Publications

Yu-Hen Hu, Jenq-Neng Hwang, Handbook of Neural Network Signal Processing , CRC Press, 2002

Jenq-Neng Hwang, Multimedia Networking: from Theory to Practice , Cambridge University Press, 2009

J.N. Hwang, S.R. Lay, and A. Lippman, "Nonparametric Multivariate Density Estimation: A Comparative Study," IEEE Transactions of Signal Processing, Vol.42, No.10, October 1994 

Y. H. Tseng, J. N. Hwang, and Florence Sheehan, "Three-Dimensional Object Representation and Invariant Recognition Using Continuous Distance Transform Neural Networks," IEEE Trans. on Neural Networks, special issue on Pattern Recognition, 8(1):141-147, January 1997. 

Daniel T. Davis and Jenq-Neng Hwang, "Solving Inverse Problems by Bayesian Iterative Inversion of a Forward Model with Ground Truth Incorporation," IEEE Trans. on Signal Processing, special issue for Neural Networks for Signal Processing, 45(11):2749-2757, Nov. 1997. 

J.N. Hwang, S.Y. Kung, M. Mahesan, and J. C. Principe, "The Past, Present, and Future of Neural Networks for Signal Processing," IEEE Signal Processing Magazine, Vol. 14, No. 6, pp. 28-48, Nov. 1997. 

San-Yuan Kung and Jenq-Neng Hwang, "Neural Networks for Intelligent Multimedia Processing," Proceedings of the IEEE, Vol. 86, No. 6, pp. 1244-1272, June 1998. 

Sachin G. Deshpande, and J.-N. Hwang, "A Real-Time Interactive Virtual Classroom Multimedia Distance Learning System," IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, 3(4):432-444 December, 2001. 

Changick Kim and Jenq-Neng Hwang, "Fast and Automatic Video Object Segmentation and Tracking for Content-Based Applications," IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology (CSVT). 12(2):122-129, Feb. 2002. 

KyoungHo Choi and Jenq-Neng Hwang, "Constrained optimization for audio-to-visual conversion ," IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, 52(6):1783-1790, June 2004. 

Qiang Liu, JaeJun Yoo, Byung-Tae Jang, KyoungHo Choi^, and Jenq-Neng Hwang, “A scalable VideoGIS system for GPS-guided vehicles,” Signal Processing: Image Communication, Vol. 20, No. 3, pp. 205-208, March 2005.

K. H. Choi and Jenq-Neng Hwang, “Automatic Creation of a Talking Head from A Video Sequence,” IEEE Trans. on Multimedia, 7(4):628-637, August 2005.

Hsu-Feng Hsiao, Jenq-Neng Hwang, “A Max-Min Fairness Congestion Control for Streaming Layered Video,” IEEE T-CSVT,  16(9): 1074-1085, Sept. 2006.

Jian-Liang Lin, Wen-Liang Hwang, Soo-Chang Pei, and Jenq-Neng Hwang, “A Hybrid Coarse/fine Layered Multicast Scheme Based on Hierarchical Bandwidth Inference Congestion Control,” IEEE Trans. on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, 18(12):, Dec 2008.

Timothy K. Shih and Nick C. Tang, Jenq-Neng Hwang, “ Exemplar-based Video Inpainting without Ghost Shadow Artifacts by Maintaining Temporal Continuity,” IEEE Trans. on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, 19(3):347-360, March 2009.

Huang-Chia Shih, Chung-Lin Huang, and Jenq-Neng Hwang, “ An Interactive Attention Ranking System for Video Search,” IEEE Multimedia Magazine, 16(4):70-81, Oct-Dec, 2009.

Huang-Chia Shih, Jenq-Neng Hwang, and Chung-Lin Huang, “ Content-based Attention Ranking Using Visual and Contextual Attention Model for Baseball Videos ,” IEEE Trans. on Multimedia, 11(2):244-255, Feb. 2009.

Chih-Wei Huang, Michael Loiacono, Justinian Rosca, Jenq-Neng Hwang, “Airtime Fair Distributed Cross Layer Congestion Control for Real-Time Video over WLAN,” IEEE Trans. on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, 19(8):1158-1168, August 2009.

Peng-Jung Wu, Jenq-Neng Hwang, Chung-Nan Lee, Chii-Chang Gau and Hui-Hsiang Kao “Eliminating Packet Loss in Peer-to-Peer Streaming Systems,” IEEE Trans. on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, 19(12):1766-1780, Dec. 2009.

Hsu-Yung Cheng, Jenq-Neng Hwang, “Adaptive Particle Sampling and Adaptive Appearance for Multiple Video Object Tracking,” Signal Processing, EURASIP, Elsevier, 89(9):1844-1849, Sept. 2009.

Victor Gau, Chih-Wei Huang, Jenq-Neng Hwang, “Reliable Multimedia Broadcasting over Dense Wireless Ad Hoc Networks,” invited survey paper for Special Issue on Multimedia Communications, Networking, and Applications, Journal of Communications (JCM), Academic Publisher, 4(9):614-627, Oct. 2009.

Hsu-Yung Cheng, Chih-Chang Yu, Chien-Cheng Tseng, Kuo-Chin Fan, Jenq-Neng Hwang, “Environment Classification and Hierarchical Lane Detection for Structured and Unstructured Roads,” IET Computer Vision, 4(1):37-49, March 2010.

Timothy Shih, Nick Tang, Josephy Tsai, Jenq-Neng Hwang, “Video Motion Interpolation for Special Effect Applications,” accepted by IEEE Trans. on SMC, 2010.

Jenq-Neng Hwang, “Wireless MediaNets: Application Driven Next Generation Wireless IP Networks,” invited survey paper for ACM Multimedia System Journal, special issue on Wireless Multimedia Transmission Technology and Application, 2010.

Victor Gau, Jenq-Neng Hwang, “ Adaptive Probabilistic Broadcasting over Dense Wireless Ad-Hoc Networks,” accepted by International Journal of Digital Multimedia Broadcasting, special issue on Recent Advances in Wireless Data Broadcasting, 2010.

Shiang-Ming Huang, Jenq-Neng Hwang, Yaw-Chung Chen, “ Reducing Feedback Load of Opportunistic Multicast Scheduling over Wireless Systems,” accepted by IEEE Communications Letters, 2010.

Chih-Wei Huang, Shiang-Ming Huang, Po-Han Wu, Shiang-Jiun Lin, and Jenq-Neng Hwang, “ OLM: Opportunistic Layered Multicasting for Scalable IPTV over Mobile WiMAX,” accepted by IEEE Trans. on Mobile Computing, 2011.

Hsu-Yung Cheng and Jenq-Neng Hwang, “ Integrated Video Object Tracking with Applications in Trajectory-Based Event Detection,” accepted by Journal of Visual Communication and Image Representation, 2011.

Recent Invited Talks

"Multimedia Applications," AIIT Summer Program for University IT Professors, Ministry of Information and Communication of Korea, Seoul, Korea, July 24-28, 2006.  

" Wireless Broadband Communication Systems and Applications," invited keynote speech, 17th VLSI Design/CAD Symposium, Hualien, Taiwan, August 2006.  

"Are We Ready for the Multimedia over Wireless Broadband: A Challenge of Cross-Layer QoS Optimization," invited keynote speech, Multimedia Networking Systems Conference, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, Dec. 2006  

" QoS Challenges of Multimedia over Wireless Broadband," plenary talk for IEEE Mobile WiMax Symposium, Orlando, FL, March 2007.  

" Wireless Multimedia Networking: from Theory to Practice," keynote speech for IASTED Circuits and Systems Conference, Banff, Canada, July 2-4, 2007.  

" Embedded Real-Time DSP Applications," AIIT Summer Program for University IT Professors, Ministry of Information and Communication of Korea, Seoul, Korea, July 30-August 3, 2007.  

" From Intelligent Video Analysis to Video Understanding," keynote speech for the 20th IPPR Conference on Computer Vision, Graphics and Image Processing, Miaoli, Taiwan, Aug.19-21, 2007.  

" From Video Semantic Interpretation toward Human Behavior Understanding," Keynote speech for IEEE/IET International Conference on Audio, Language and Image Processing, Shanghai, China, July 7-9, 2008  

" Cross-Layer QoS Optimization for Video over Heterogeneous Wireless Broadband," Keynote speech for First IEEE International Conference on Ubi-Media Computing, Lanzhou, China, July 15-16, 2008  

" Future Perspective of Intelligent Community Security System," Invited speech for 22nd Modern Engineering & Technology Seminar (METS), Taipei, Taiwan, November 17-19, 2008  

" Human Centric Video Event and Behavior Understanding," Keynote speech for Pacific-Rim Conference on Multimedia, Tainan, Taiwan, Dec. 9-13, 2008  

" Embedded Intelligence for Video Surveillance over Camera Networks," Plenary speech for the 4th International Symposium on Embedded Technology (ISET 2009), Daegu, South Korea, May. 21-22, 2009  

" Embedded Intelligence for Large Scale Distributed Camera Networks," Invited talk for the 2009 VLSI Design/CAS Symposium, Hualien Taiwan, August 4-7, 2009  

" Video QoS over Wireless Broadband -- WLAN, Wireless Ad Hoc and WiMAX Infrastructures," Keynote speech for the 5th Workshop on Wireless, Ad hoc, and Sensor Networks (WASN 2009), NTHU Hsinchu, Taiwan. September 10-11, 2009  

" Automated Tracking and Event Understanding of Human Video Objects for Large Scale Distributed Camera Networks," Invited Talk for Advanced Image Processing Workshop, NOAA, Seattle, Sept. 7-9, 2010  

" Wireless MediaNets: Application Driven Next Generation Wireless IP Networks," 3.5-Hour Tutorial Talk for IEEE Globecom, Miami, Florida, Dec. 6-10, 2010  

" Large Scale Real-Time Video Surveillance over Wireless Broadband Networks," opening keynote speech for International Computer Symposium, Tainan, Taiwan, Dec. 16-18, 2010  

" Automated Understanding of Video Object Events in a Distributed Smart Camera Network," keynote speech for IEEE International Conference on Advanced Technologies for Communication, Danang Vietnam, Aug. 2-4, 2011.  

" Real-Time Mobile Video Surveillance over Wireless Broadband Networks," Plenary speech for the 7th International Conference on Wireless Communication, Networking and Computing, Wuhan, China, Sept. 23-25, 2011.  

" Distributed and Centralized Information Management of Wireless Camera Networks," keynote speech for the 7th ACM Workshop on Wireless Multimedia Networking and Computing, Oct 31 - Nov 4th, 2011 Miami Beach, FL, USA  

Recent Conference Papers

Hsu-Yung Cheng, Chih-Chang Yu, Chien-Cheng Tseng, Kuo-Chin Fan, Jenq-Neng Hwang, Bor-Shenn Jeng “Hierarchical Lane Detection for Different Types of Roads,” IEEE Int'l Conf. on ASSP, Las Vegas, April 2008.

Victor Gau, Peng-Jung Wu, Chung-Nan Lee, Jenq-Neng Hwang “A Scheme for Peer-to-Peer Live Streaming with Multi-Source Multicast and Forward Error Correction,” IEEE Int'l Conf. on ASSP, Las Vegas, April 2008.

Jing-Xin Wang, Yi-Chen Chen, Alvin W.Y. Su, Jenq-Neng Hwang “Effective Congestion and Error Control for Scalable Video Coding Extension of the H.264/AVC,” IEEE Int'l Conf. on Circuits and Systems, Seattle, May 2008.

Victor Gau, Yi-Hsien Wang, Jenq-Neng Hwang“A Hierarchical Push-Pull Scheme for Peer-to-Peer Live Streaming,” IEEE Int'l Conf. on Circuits and Systems, Seattle, May 2008.

Peng-Jung Wu, Chung-Nan Lee, Victor Gau, Jenq-Neng Hwang “Overcoming Burst Packet Loss in Peer-to-Peer Live Streaming Systems,” IEEE Int'l Conf. on Circuits and Systems, Seattle, May 2008.

Chih-Wei Huang, Michael Loiacono, Justinian Rosca, Jenq-Neng Hwang, “Distributed Cross Layer Congestion Control for Real-Time Video over WLAN,” IEEE Int'l Conf. on Communications, Beijing, China, May 2008.

Chih-Chang Yu, Hsu-Yung Cheng, Jenq-Neng Hwang, Kuo-Chin Fan “Human Body Modeling with Partial Self Occlusion from Monocular Camera,” IEEE Int'l Workshop on Machine Learning for Signal Processing, Cancun, Mexico, Oct. 2008.

Yi-Hsien Wang, Victor Gau, Trevor Bosaw, Jenq-Neng Hwang, Alan Lippman, Dan Lieberman, and I-Chen Wu “Generalization Performance Analysis of Flow-based Peer-to-Peer Traffic Identification,” IEEE Int'l Workshop on Machine Learning for Signal Processing, Cancun, Mexico, Oct. 2008.

Hsu-Yung Cheng, Jenq-Neng Hwang, “Resolving Occlusion and Segmentation Errors in Multiple Video Object Tracking,” SPIE Conference on Computational Imaging, San Jose, CA, Jan. 2009.

Chih-Wei Huang, Po-Han Wu, Shiang-Jiun Lin and Jenq-Neng Hwang, “Layered Video Resource Allocation in Mobile WiMAX Using Opportunistic Multicasting,” IEEE Wireless Communications & Networking Conference, Budapest, Hungary, April 2009.

Liangjia Zhu, Jenq-Neng Hwang, Chih-Chang Chen, Ming-Hui Lin, Chen-Lan Yen, “Real-Time 3D Pose Reconstruction of Human Body from Monocular Video Sequences,” IEEE Int’l Symposium on Circuits and Systems, Taipei, Taiwan, May 2009.

Liangjia Zhu, Jenq-Neng Hwang, Hsu-Yung Cheng, “Tracking of Multiple Objects Across Multiple Cameras with Overlapping and Non-Overlapping Views,” IEEE Int’l Symposium on Circuits and Systems, Taipei, Taiwan, May 2009.

Peng-Jung Wu, Jenq-Neng Hwang, Chung-Nan Lee, Yu-Chih Teng, “Receiver Driven Overlap FEC for Scalable Video Coding Extension of the H.264/AVC,” IEEE Int’l Symposium on Circuits and Systems, Taipei, Taiwan, May 2009.

Shiang-Ming Huang, Chih-Wei Huang, Po-Han Wu, Jenq-Neng Hwang, Victor Gau, and Yaw-Chung Chen, “Resource Efficient Opportunistic Multicast Scheduling for IPTV Services over WiMAX Networks,” IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC2010)-Spring, Taipei, Taiwan, May 2010.

Po-Han Wu, Yu-Hen Hu, Jenq-Neng Hwang, “Optimal Layered Video IPTV Multicast Streaming over IEEE 802.16e WiMAX Systems,” IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC2010)-Spring, Taipei, Taiwan, May 2010.

Victor Gau, Jenq-Neng Hwang, “A framework for Multi-Object Tracking over Distributed Wireless Camera Networks,” SPIE Conference on Visual Communications and Image Processing 2010 (VCIP2010), Huang-Shan, An Hui, China, July 11-14, 2010.

Chi-Kun Lin, Yu-Chen Hong, Chia-Tong Tang, Jenq-Neng Hwang, Jar-Ferr Yang, “Free Viewpoint Video Generation based on Coding Information of H.264/MVC,” SPIE Conference on Visual Communications and Image Processing 2010 (VCIP2010), Huang-Shan, An Hui, China, July 11-14, 2010.

Shian-Ru Ke, LiangJia Zhu, Jenq-Neng Hwang, Hung-I Pai, Kung-Ming Lan, “Real-Time 3D Human Pose Estimation from Monocular View with Applications to Event Detection and Video Gaming,” IEEE Int’l Conference on Advanced Video and Signal-Based Surveillance (AVSS), Boston MA, August 29 – September 1, 2010.

Chun-Te Chu, Jenq-Neng Hwang, Hung-I Pai, Kung-Ming Lan “ Robust Video Object Tracking based on Multiple Kernels with Projected Gradients,” The IEEE Int'l Conf. on ASSP (ICASSP 2011), Prague, Czech Republic, May 22-27, 2011.

Po-Han Wu, Jenq-Neng Hwang, “ Cross-Layer Channel-Quality-Fair Scheduling for Video Uplink of Camera Networks over WiMAX,” The IEEE Int'l Conf. on Communication (ICC 2011), Kyoto Japan, June 5-9, 2011.

Shian-Ru Ke, Jenq-Neng Hwang, Kung-Ming Lan and Sheng-Zheng Wang “ View-Invariant 3D Human Body Pose Reconstruction using a Monocular Video Camera ,” ACM/IEEE Int'l Conf. on Distributed Smart Cameras (ICDSC 2011), Ghent Belgium, August 22-25, 2011.

Chun-Te Chu, Jenq-Neng Hwang, Shen-Zheng Wang and Yi-Yuan Chen “ Human Tracking by Adaptive Kalman Filtering and Multiple Kernels Tracking with Projected Gradients,” ACM/IEEE Int'l Conf. on Distributed Smart Cameras (ICDSC 2011), Ghent Belgium, August 22-25, 2011.

Chun-Te Chu, Jenq-Neng Hwang, Kung-Ming Lan and Shen-Zheng Wang “ Tracking Across Multiple Cameras with Overlapping Views Based on Brightness and Tangent Transfer Functions ,” ACM/IEEE Int'l Conf. on Distributed Smart Cameras (ICDSC 2011), Ghent Belgium, August 22-25, 2011.

Meng-Che Chuang, Jenq-Neng Hwang, Kresimir Williams, Richard Towler “ Automatic Fish Segmentation via Double Local Thresholding for Trawl-Based Underwater Camera Systems,” The IEEE Int'l Conf. on Image Processing (ICIP 2011), Brussel Belgium, Sept 11-14, 2011.

Victor Gau, Jenq-Neng Hwang, Kung-Ming Lan, Hung-I Pai, Yi-Yuan Chen “ Latency Minimized Probabilistic CSMA/CA ,” The 7th ACM* Workshop on Wireless Multimedia Networking and Computing, October 31 – November 4, 2011, Miami, FLorida, USA.

Ssu-Kai Li, Jen-Shun Yangy, Ching-Te Chiu, Po-Ting Yeh and Jenq-Neng Hwang “ Handover Delay Reduction and Buffer-Based Data Recovery Scheme for Inter Multicast Broadcast Service Zone ,” The IEEE Global Communication Conference (Globecom 2011), Houston Texas,USA, Dec. 5-9, 2011.

Hoang Le Uyen Thuc, Shian-Ru Ke, Jenq-Neng Hwang,Jang-Hee Yoo, Kyoung-Ho Choi “ Human Action Recognition based on 3D Body Modeling from Monocular Videos,” 2012 Frontier of Computer Vision Workshop, Kawasaki, Japan, Feb. 2-4, 2012.

Hoang Le Uyen Thuc, Pham Van Tuan, and Jenq-Neng Hwang “ An Effective 3D Geometric Relational Feature Descriptor for Human Action Recognition ,” 2012 IEEE RIVF International Conference on Computing & Communication Technologies, Research, Innovation, and Vision for the Future (RIVF), Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, Feb.27 - March 1, 2012.

Chun-Te Chu, Jenq-Neng Hwang, Yi-Yuan Chen, Shen-Zheng Wang “ Camera Link MOdel Estimation in A Distributed Camera Network based on the Deterministic Annealing and Barrier Method ,” IEEE Int'l Conf. on ASSP, Kyoto Japan, March 25-30, 2012.

Po-Han Wu, Jenq-Neng Hwang, Jae-Young Pyun, Kung-Ming Lan, and Jian-Ren Chen “ QoE-Aware Resource Allocation for Integrated Mobile Surveillance System Over 4G Networks,” IEEE Int'l Symposium on Circuits and Systems, Seoul Korea, May 20-23, 2012.

Shian-Ru Ke, Jenq-Neng Hwang, Maryam Fazel, Shen-Zheng Wang, Hung-I Pai “ Constrained Multiple Kernel Tracking for Human Limbs,” IEEE Int'l Symposium on Circuits and Systems, Seoul Korea, May 20-23, 2012.

Active Grants

See Information Processing Lab

Graduated Ph.D. Students

Shyh-Rong Lay: "Projection Pursuit Learning for Regression, Classification and Density Estimation - A Neural Network Perspective," March 1994.  

Yenhao Tseng: "A Neural Network Technique for Invariant Recognition and Motion Estimation of Three-Dimensional Objects Using Range Data," March 1995.  

Seokyoung Moon: "Robust Speech Recognition via Inversion of Hidden Markov Models," March 1995.  

Daniel T. Davis: "Solving Inverse Problems Using Bayesian Modeling to Incorporate Information Sources," June 1995.  

Greg. I. Chiou: "Active Contour Models for Distinct Contour Tracking and Lipreading," September 1995.  

Shih-Shien You: "The Growing and Pruning of Neural Network Learning: An Optimization Perspective," (joint advising with Prof. Wen-Wei Lin of National Tsinghua University, Taiwan) March 1996.  

Chein-Jen Wang: "Joint Model- and Feature-Space Adaptation Techniques for Continuous Robust Speech Recognition," March 1997. 

Tzong-Der Wu: "Dynamic Bit-Rate Conversion and Re-Allocation in Multipoint Video Transcoding," May 1999. 

Eugene Lin: "Fuzzy Reasoning of Three Dimensional Snake Tracking of Medical Images," November 1999.  

Sachin Deshpande: "Systems for Interactive Multimedia Distance Learning," November 1999.  

Rosas-Romero Roberto, "Morphing and Motion Tracking of 3-D Objects," December 1999.  

Wu-hsiang Jonas Chen, "Error Resilient and Concealment Video Coding," December 2000.  

ChangIck Kim, "Framework for Video Object Segmentation and Abstraction," December 2000. 

Dongxiang Xu, "Markov Random Field based Contour Segmentation for MR Image Sequences," April 2001. 

Tony Nguyen, "Human Perception Based Dynamic Frame Selection in Time Lapsed Video," March 2002.  

Sanpachai Huvanandana, "Biometric Signal Classification: An Enhanced Fingerprint Identification System,'' April 2002.  

Kyoung-Ho Choi , "Framework for 3-D Audio to Visual Conversion in MPEG-4," June 2002.  

Serchen Chang , "A Novel Rate Predictor and its Rate Control for Video Coding," (joint advising with Prof. Jar-Ferr Yang of National Cheng-Kung University, Taiwan) May 2003.  

Qiang Liu, "Available Bandwidth Estimation and Rate-Based Congestion Control in Multimedia Communication," May 2004  

Ying Luo, "Statistical Semantic Analysis of Spatio-Temporal Image Sequences," Oct. 2004.  

Hsu-Feng Hsiao, "Multimedia Streaming Congestion Control over Hetergeneous Networks: From Distributed Computation to End-to-End Perspective,"  June 2005.

Hsu-Yung Cheng, "Multi-Object Tracking via Particle Sampling and Enhanced Probabilistic Data Association for Event Detection in Intelligent Video Systems,"  June 2008.

Chih-Wei Gary Huang, " Cross-Layer Resource Management for Multimedia over Wireless Networks "   June 2009.

Victor Gau, "Throughput Maximization and Latency Minimization in Dense Wireless Ad Hoc Networks "   June 2010.

Ibrahim Karliga, "A Framework for Human Body Video Object Segmentation and Body Parts Tracking "   March 2011.

Current Ph.D. Students

Po-Han Wu, " Cross Layer QoS in Wireless Broadband"

Chun-Te Chu, " Video Object Tracking in Large Scale Camera Networks "

Shian-Ru Ke, " 3D Human Object Modeling and Behavior Understanding "

Meng-Che Chuang, " Video Analyses for Underwater Animal Species "

Xiang Chen, " Wireless Multimedia "

Pei-An Lee, " Wireless Multimedia "

Editorships

Associate Editor, - IEEE Trans. on Image Processing, 2008 - present. 

Editor, - ETRI Journal, 2009 - present. 

Associate Editor, - IEEE Trans. on Circuits and Systems for Video Technologies, 1998- 2006. 

Editor, -- Journal of Information Science and Engineering, 2005 - present.

Editorial Board Member, -- IEEE Signal Processing Magazine, 2009 -- present. 

Editorial Board Member, -- International Journal of Digital Multimedia Broadcasting, 2007 -- present. 

Editorial Board Member, -- Journal of VLSI Signal Processing Systems for Signal, Image, and Video Technology, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1995 - present. 

Guest Editor, - IEEE Trans. on Multimedia, Special Issue on "Multimedia over IP," 2001