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Huawei Technology Inc. USA,  Multimedia Technology Lab (Bridgewater, New Jersey)
 
Senior Staff Researcher: 04/08 - now 
 
Working on Smart Multimedia Manipulation for Adaptive Distribution and Service Enhancement (such as interactive TV, video annotation, media adaptation, i.e. video retargeting & replaying).

Thomson Multimedia Inc., Corporate Research (Indianapolis, Princeton)
 
Senior Member of Techincal Staff : 7/05 - 04/08
 
Work: In project "object highlighting for Mobile", lead the research on object detection, tracking and (mosaic-based) segmentation. In project "3-D Video from Multiple Views", take the lead of depth estimation and view synthesis/interpolation from multiple reference views. In project "tape restoration", work on NTSC decoding, FM demodulation and denoising.
Rapiscan System Inc (subsidiary of OSI Systems Inc., Hawthorne, CA)
 
R&D Algorithm Engineer : 2/03 - 04/05.
 
Work: In the FAA (US) 'Bantam' project, worked for image segmentation-based threat detection and partial volume compensation for scattered spectrum in small angle diffraction. In BAA (UK) "Cerburus" project, worked for volume segmentation and fast volume rendering.
Beckman Inst., UIUC, Urbana, IL
 
Postdoctoral Research Associate: 11/00 - 2/03
 
Work: In the DARPA "HID(Human identification from distance)" project and the NSF "proactive computer" project, did research in face tracking and body tracking.
 
Humboldt Fellow: 9/99 -9/00, Pattern Recognition, Computer Sience.
 
Work: In Humboldt fundation project, did research on hand gesture tracking and motion segmentation.
Tsinghua University, Beijing, China.
 
Research Fellow & Lecturer: 2/97 - 1/99, Computer Science & Technology.
 
Work: taught a undergraduate course "Robot vision" and took the project lead of gesture recognition in a National 863-project "Multi-function: face, speaker and gesture".
 
 
Education
 
Ph. D.                                                                                              Computer Vision
 
Institute of Information Science, Northern Jiao-tong University, 12/1996, Beijing, China.
M.S.E.E.                                                                                   Radar Signal Processing
 
Dept. of Electrical Engineering, Xidian University,    3/93, Xi'an city, China.
B.S.E.E.                 (Special Class of Gifted Students)                  Wireless Technology
 
Dept. of Information & Control Engineering, Xi'an Jiao-tong University, 7/90, Xi'an city,China.
 
 
Computer Skills

 
Languages: Visual C/C++, Matlab, FORTRAN, BASIC, HTML, SQL.

Multimedia API Tools: Directshow, OpenCV, OpenGL.

Working Platform: SGI, Sun Sparc, IBM PC compatible.

Operating System: WindowsNT/Windows, Unix, DOS.
 
 
Professional Activities

Member of IEEE and Member of ACM.
Reviewers for IEEE Transaction on Image Processing, IEEE Trans. on Knowledge & Database Engineering, IEEE Trans. on System, Man & Cybernetics, IEEE Signal Processing Letters, IEEE Transaction on Circuit and System for Video Technology.
Reviewers for IEEE Int Conf. Computer Vision 2001, IEEE Int. Conf. on Multi-modal Interface 2002, IEEE Int. Conf. on Multimedia and Expo 2007-08-09, European Signal Processing Conference 2008, 3DTV-CON 2009 and IEEE Int. Conf. on Image Processing 2008-09.