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Ming-Ting Sun


Ming-Ting Sun
Professor
Signal and Image Processing
M418 EE/CSE
Box 352500
University of Washington
Seattle, WA 98195
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sun@ee.washington.edu

University of California, Los Angeles 1985 PhD
University of Texas at Arlington 1981 MS
National Taiwan University 1976 BS

[Biosketch] [Honors] [Research Interests] [Research Projects] [Selected Publications] [Recent Conference Papers] [Books] [Patents]  [Grad Students] [Editorships]

Biosketch

Ming-Ting Sun received his B.S. degree from National Taiwan University in 1976, M.S. degree from University of Texas at Arlington in 1981, and Ph.D. degree from University of California, Los Angeles in 1985, all in electrical engineering.

Dr. Sun joined the faculty of the University of Washington in September 1996. Before that, he was the Director of the Video Signal Processing Group at Bellcore (now Telcordia). He has been a chair Professor at Tsing Hwa University, and a visiting professor at Tokyo University, National Taiwan University, and National Chung-Cheng University.

His research interests include machine learning and video processing. Dr. Sun has been awarded 10 patents and has published more than 180 technical publications, including 13 book chapters in the area of video technology. He was actively involved in the development of H.261, MPEG-1, and MPEG-2 video coding standards. He has also co-edited a book entitled Compressed Video over Networks.

He was the Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Transactions on Multimedia during 2000-2001. He received an IEEE CASS Golden Jubilee Medal in 2000, and he was a co-chair of the SPIE VCIP (Visual Communication and Image Processing) 2000 Conference. He was the Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology (T-CSVT) during 1995-1997 and the Express Letter Editor of T-CSVT during 1993-1994. He was a co-recipient of the T-CSVT Best Paper Award in 1993. From 1988 to 1991 he served as the Chairman of the IEEE CAS Standards Committee and established an IEEE Inverse Discrete Cosine Transform Standard. He received an Award of Excellence from Bellcore in 1987 for the work on Digital Subscriber Line .

He was elected as a Fellow of the IEEE in 1996.

Honors

Research Interests

Information Processing Lab: http://allison.ee.washington.edu/

Research Projects

Selected Publications

J. Xin, C.W. Lin, and M.T. Sun, "Digital Video Transcoding," Proceedings of IEEE, vol.93, no. 1, pp. 84-97, January 2005. (invited paper)

Y. Su, M.T. Sun, and V. Hsu, "Global Motion Estimation From Coarsely Sampled Motion Vector Field And the Applications," IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, vol. 15, no. 2, pp.232-242, Feb. 2005

Y.K. Tu, J.F. Yang, M.T. Sun, and Y.T. Tsai, "Fast Variable-Size Block Motion Estimation for Efficient H.264/AVC Encoding," Signal Processing: Image Commnication, vol. 20, issue 7, pp. 595-623, Aug. 2005.

Y. Su and M.T. Sun, "Fast Multiple Reference Frame Motion Estimation for H.264/AVC," IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, vol.16, no.3, pp.447-452, March 2006.

Z. Zhou, J. Xin, and M.T. Sun, "Fast Motion Estimation and Inter Mode Decision for H.264/MPEG-4 AVC Encoding," Journal of Visual Communication and Image Representation (JVCIR) special issue on Emerging H.264/AVC Video Coding Standard, vol. 17, issue 2, pp. 243-263, April 2006.

S.P. Chan and M.T. Sun, "A Network Condition Classification Scheme for Supporting Video Delivery over Wireless Internet," Journal of Zhejiang University Science A, vol. 7, no. 5, pp. 794-800, May 2006.

Y.K. Tu, J.F. Yang, and M.T. Sun, "Efficient Rate-Distortion Estimation for H.264/AVC Coders," IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, vol. 16, no. 5, pp.600-611, May 2006.

J. Zhou, H.R. Shao, and M.T. Sun, "FGS Enhancement Layer Truncation with Reduced Intra-Frame Quality Variation," Journal of Visual Communication and Image Representation, vol. 17, no. 4, pp. 675-946, August 2006.

Y.K. Tu, J.F. Yang, and M.T. Sun, "Rate-Distortion Modeling for Effective H.264/AVC Encoding," IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, vol.17, no. 5, May 2007.

Y.T. Peng, C.Y. Lin, M.T. Sun, and C.A. Landis, "Multimodality Sensor System for Long-Term Sleep Quality Monitoring," IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Circuits and Systems, vol. 1, no. 3, pp.217-227, September 2007.

Complete list of journal publications

Recent Conference Papers

Z. Zhou, S. Sun, S. Lei, and M.T. Sun, "Motion Information and Coding Mode Reuse for MPEG-2 to H.264 Transcoding," ISCAS 2005.

X. Song, C.Y. Lin, and M.T. Sun, "Imperfect Learning for Visual Concept Retrieval," IEEE ISCAS 2005.

X. Song, B. Tseng, C.Y. Lin, and M.T. Sun, "ExpertiseNet: Relational and Evolutionary Expert Modeling," User Modeling: Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on User Modeling (UM2005), Edinburg, July 2005.

Y.K. Tu, J.F. Yang, and M.T. Sun, "Rate-Distortion Estimation for H.264/AVC Coders," July 6-8, ICME 2005.

X. Song, C.Y. Lin, and M.T. Sun, "Learning from Dictionaries: Context-independent Speech-based Video Retrieval," July 6-8, ICME2005.

Y. Su and M.T. Sun, "Encoder Optimization for H.264/AVC Fidelity Range Extensions," July 12-15, VCIP 2005.

Y.L. Lai, Y.Y. Tseng, C.W. Lin, Z. Zhou, and M.T. Sun, "H.264 Encoder Speed-Up via Joint Algorithm/Code-Level Optimization," July 12-15, VCIP 2005.

X. Song, C.Y. Lin, B. Tseng, and M.T. Sun, "Modeling and Predicting Personal Information Dissemination Behavior," KDD 2005.

S.P. Chan, R. Poovendran, and M.T. Sun, "A Key Management Scheme in Distributed Sensor Networks Using Attack Probabilities," Proceedings IEEE GLOBECOM Conference, 2005.

C.Y. Lin, X. Song, M.T. Sun, and B. Tseng, "Automatic Modeling of Social Networks through Content Analysis of Communications," International Sunbelt Social Network Conference, Vancouver, B.C., Canada, April 24 to April 30, 2006.

X. Song, C.Y. Lin, B. Tseng, and M.T. Sun, "Modeling Evolutionary and Relational Behaviors for Community-based Dynamic Recommendation," SDM 2006.

S.P. Chan and M.T. Sun, "Network Condition Detection for Video Transport over Wireless Internet," ISCAS 2006.

Y.T. Peng, C.Y. Lin, M.T. Sun, and M.W. Feng, "Sleep Condition Inferencing using simple multimodality sensors," ISCAS 2006.

Y.K. Tu, J.F. Yang, and M.T. Sun, "Statistical Rate-Distortion Estimation for H.264/AVC Coders," ISCAS 2006.

Y.T. Peng, C.Y. Lin, and M.T. Sun, "A Distributed Multimodality Sensor System for Home-Used Sleep Condition Inference and Monitoring," D2H2 2006.

Ya-Ti Peng, Ching-Yung Lin, and Ming-Ting Sun, "Multimodality Sensors for Sleep Quality Monitoring and Logging," eChronicle 2006.

S.P. Chan and M.T. Sun, "A Network Condition Classification Scheme for Supporting Video Delivery over Wireless Internet," Packet Video 2006.

Y.K. Tu, J.F. Yang, and M.T. Sun, "An Efficient Criterion for Mode Decision in H.264/AVC," ICME 2006.

X. Song, C.Y. Lin, B. Tseng, and M.T. Sun, "Personalized Recommendation Driven by Information Flow," SIGIR 2006.

J. Lou, A. Jagmohan, Dake He, Ligang Lu, and M.T. Sun, "Statistical Analysis Based H.264 High Profile Deblocking Speedup," ISCAS 2007.

J. Lou, A. Jagmohan, D. He, L. Lu, and M.T. Sun, "High Speed H.264 High Profile Deblocking Using Statistical Analysis," ICME 2007.

H.T. Wu, C.T. Yao, T.C. Wu, and M.T. Sun, "A Non-Invasive Arterial Stiffness Assessment Instrument for Homecare," IEEE ICCE2008.

K.Y. Liao, J.F. Yang, and M.T. Sun, "Adaptive Rate Estimation for H.264/AVC Intra Mode Decision," IEEE ICASSP 2008.

J. Lou, S. Liu, A. Vetro and M.T. Sun, "Complexity and Memory Efficient H.264 GOP Structure Supporting VCR Functionalities," IEEE ISCAS 2008.

W. Lin, M.T. Sun, R. Poovendran, and Z. Zhang, "Human Activity Recognition for Video Surveillance," IEEE ISCAS 2008.

Y.T. Peng, C.Y. Lin, and M.T. Sun, "Audio Event Classification Using Binary Hiearchical Classifiers with Feature Selection for Healthcare Applications," IEEE ISCAS 2008.

W. Lin, D. Baylon, K. Panusopone, and M.T. Sun, "Fast Sub-pixel Motion Estimation and Mode Decision for H.264," IEEE ISCAS 2008.

Complete list of conference papers

Books

"Compressed Video over Networks," M.T. Sun and A. Reibman, Signal Processing Series, Marcel Dekker, 2000.

Complete list of books

Recent Patents

C.W. Lin, M.T. Sun, H.H. Hsu, "Methods and Systems for Video Streaming with VCR Functionality," U.S. Patent #6,738,980, May 18, 2004.

J. Youn, M.T. Sun, C.W. Lin, and W.H. Wang, "Transcoding Apparatus and Method," U.S. Patent #6,650,707, November 18, 2003.

J. Youn, M.T. Sun, and C.W. Lin, "Method and Apparatus for Motion Estimation for High Performance Transcoding," U.S. Patent #6,466,623, October 2002. 

Complete list of patents

Current Graduate Students

Recent Graduated Ph.D. Students

Editorships

Associate Editor, Journal of VLSI Signal Processing Systems for Signal, Image, and Video Technology, Kluwer Academic Publisher, 1996-2008.

Guest Editor, IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology Special Issue on Video Surveillance, 2007-2008.

Member, Editorial Board, Journal of Advances in Multimedia, 2006.

Guest Editor, EURASIP Journal on Applied Signal Processing, Special Issue on Advanced Technologies and Applications for H.264/AVC and Beyond, 2006.

Guest Editor, EURASIP Journal on Applied Signal Processing Special Issue on Advanced Technologies and Applications for H.264/AVC and Beyond, 2005.

Guest Editor, Proceedings of the IEEE Special Issue on Recent Advances on Video Coding and Delivery, 2005.

Guest Editor, EURASIP Journal on Applied Signal Processing Special Issue on Multimedia over IP and Wireless Networks, 2004:2.

Senior Editor, EURASIP Journal of Applied Signal Processing, 2001-2002.

Former Editor-in-Chief, IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, Jan 2000-December 2001.

Guest Editor, IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology Special Issue on Representation and Coding of Images and Video II, February 1999.

Guest Editor, IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology Special Issue on Representation and Coding of Images and Video I, November 1998.

Guest Editor, IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology Special Issue on Segmentation, Description, and Retrieval of Video Content, September 1998.

Former Editor-in-Chief, IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, July 1995-June 1997.

Guest Editor, IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology Special Issue on VLSI Circuits and Systems for Video Applications, June 1992.

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