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. After two years of obligatory military services, he enrolled as a research assistant in 1985 at the Signal and Image Processing Institute, Dept. of Electrical Engineering, University of Southern California, where he received his Ph.D. degree in December 1988. He was also a visiting student at Princeton University, New Jersey, from 1987 to 1989.

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 also served as the Associate Chair for Research & Development in the EE Department from 2003 to 2005. He has published more than 200 journal, conference papers and book chapters in the areas of image/video signal processing, computational neural networks, multimedia system integration and networking. Dr. Hwang received the 1995 IEEE Signal Processing Society's Annual Best Paper Award (with Shyh-Rong Lay and Alan Lippman) in the area of Neural Networks for Signal Processing.

Dr. Hwang served as the Secretary of the Neural Systems and Applications Committee of the IEEE Circuits and Systems Society from 1989 to 1991, and was a member of Design and Implementation of Signal Processing Systems Technical Committee in IEEE Signal Processing Society. He is also a founding member of Multimedia Signal Processing Technical Committee of IEEE Signal Processing Society. He served as the Chairman of the Neural Networks Signal Processing Technical Committee in IEEE Signal Processing Society from 1996 to 1998, and was the Society's representative to IEEE Neural Network Council from 1996 to 2000. He served as an associate editor for IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing from 1992 to 1994, an Associate Editors for IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks from 1992 to 2000, and an Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology from 1998 to 2006. He is now an Associate Editor for IEEE Trans. on Image Processing and an Editor for Journal of Information Science and Engineering.  He is also on the editorial board of Journal of VLSI Signal Processing Systems for Signal, Image, and Video Technology. Dr. Hwang was the conference Program Chair of 1994 IEEE Workshop on Neural Networks for Signal Processing held in Ermioni, Greece, September 1994. He was the General Co-Chair of the International Symposium on Artificial Neural Networks held in Hsinchu, Taiwan, R.O.C., December 1995. He also chaired the tutorial committee for IEEE International Conference on Neural Networks (ICNN'96) held in Washington DC, June 1996. He is the Program Co-Chair of International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), Seattle 1998. He also served as the conference chairs for IASTED Signal & Image Processing Conference and IASTED Internet Multimedia Systems and Applications in 2006. He is the Special Session Co-Chair of ISCAS 2008 and Program Co-Chair of International Computer Symposium (ICS) 2008, and International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (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 Chair Professor of National Cheng-Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan, July-Sept., 2007
Visiting Chair Professor of National Sun Yat-Sen University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, Dec. 2006
Visiting Chair Professor of National Chung Cheng University, Chia-Yi, Taiwan, Sept.-Dec., 2005
Visiting Chair Professor of Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, Dec. 2003
Visiting Distinguished Professor of Denmark Technical University, Lyngby, August-September 1996.

Research Interests

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

Research Projects

See the Information Processing Lab for research details.

Teaching and Office Hours, Fall 2008

EE587 (Professional Master Program): Multimedia Compression and Networking.

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, 2008

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, to appear.

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, to appear.

Huang-Chia Shih, Jenq-Neng Hwang, and Chung-Lin Huang, “ Interactive Attention Ranking for Commercial Sports Videos,” IEEE Multimedia Magazine, to appear.

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, to appear.

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," Keynote 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  

Recent Conference Papers

Chih-Wei Huang, Aik Chindapol , James Ritcey, and Jenq-Neng Hwang, “Link Layer Packet Loss Classification for Link Adaptation in WLAN,” 4^th Annual Conference on Information Sciences and Systems, Princeton, Mar. 2006.

Chih-Wei Huang and Jenq-Neng Hwang, “An Embedded Packet Train and Adaptive FEC Scheme for Effective Video Adaptation over Wireless Broadband Networks,” 15^th International Packet Video Workshop, Hangzhou China, April 2006.

Ibrahim Karliga and Jenq-Neng Hwang, “Analyzing Human Body 3-D Motion of Golf Swing from Single-Camera Video Sequences,” IEEE ICASSP 2006, Toulouse France, May 2006.

Chih-Wei Huang, Somsak Sukittanon,  James Ritcey, Aik Chindapol, and Jenq-Neng Hwang, “An Embedded Packet Train and Adaptive FEC Scheme for VoIP over Wired/Wireless IP Networks,” IEEE ICASSP 2006, Toulouse France, May 2006.

Jenq-Neng Hwang, Ibrahim Karliga, Hsu-Yung Cheng, “An Automatic 3-D Human Behavior Analysis System for Video Surveillance Applications,” IEEE ISCAS 2006, Kos Island, Greece, May 2006.

Yi-Chen Chen, Kwang-Cheng Chen, and Jenq-Neng Hwang, “Non-Coherent Detection for SFH/BFSK Interferred by an Uncoordinated FH System,” 4th IEEE Consumer Communications and Networking Conference (CCNC), Las Vegas, Jan. 11-13, 2007.

Chih-Wei Huang, Jenq-Neng Hwang, Chih-Wei Chang, “Congestion and Error Control for Layered Scalable Video Multicast over WiMAX,” IEEE Mobile WiMax Symposium, Orlando, FL, March 2007

Chih-Chang Yu, Jenq-Neng Hwang, Gang-Feng Ho, Chaur-Heh Hsieh, “Automatic Human Body Tracking and Modeling from Monocular Video Sequences,” IEEE International Conf. on ASSP, Honolulu, Hawaii, April, 2007.

Hsu-Yung Cheng, Jenq-Neng Hwang, “Multiple Target Tracking for Crossroad Tracking Utilizing Modified Probabilistic Data Association,” IEEE International Conf. on ASSP, Honolulu, Hawaii, April, 2007.

Ibrahim Karliga, Jenq-Neng Hwang, “Extraction and Integration of Human Body Parts for 3-D Motion Analysis of Golf Swing from Single Camera Video Sequences,” IEEE ISCAS, New Orleans, May 2007.

Timothy K. Shih, Nick C. Tang, Jenq-Neng Hwang, “Ghost Shadow Removal in Multi-layered Video Inpainting,” IEEE ICME, Beijing, July 2007.

Huang-Chia Shih, Jenq-Neng Hwang, Chung-Lin Huang “Video Attention Ranking using Visual and Contextual Attention Model for Content-based Sports Videos Mining ,” IEEE Int'l Workshop on MMSP, Crete, Greece, Oct. 2007.

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.

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.

Current Ph.D. Students

Ibrahim Karliga, "3-D Object Modeling and Motion Trajectory Analysis of Golf Video" 

Victor Gau, "Large Scale P2P Multimedia Streaming Networking "  

Chih-Wei Huang, "QoS for Wireless Multimedia Networking"  

Po-Han Wu, " MAC Layer QoS in WiMAX"

Chun-Te Chu, " Multimedia Signal Processing & Networking "

Shian-Ru Ke, " Multimedia Signal Processing & Networking "

Editorships

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