• My research interests include computer graphics, computer vision and multimedia systems.

EMPLOYMENT AND RESEARCH EXPERIENCE

• National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan
  Associate Professor (Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering), August 2008-present
  Assistant Professor (Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering), August 2004-July 2008
  

• University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA
  Research Assistant (Graphics and Imaging Laboratory), June 1999-June 2004
  

• National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan
  Full-Time Teaching Assistant and System Administrator (Workstation Laboratory), August 1997-July 1998
  

• National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan
  Research Assistant (Communication and Multimedia Laboratory), June 1993-June 1995
  

EDUCATION

• Ph.D., Computer Science and Engineering, University of Washington, June 2004.
  Dissertation: New Models and Methods for Matting and Compositing
  Advisors: Brian Curless, David Salesin, Richard Szeliski.
  
  
• M.S., Computer Science and Engineering, University of Washington, June 2000.
  Qualifying project: A More Accurate Approach for Environment Matting
  Advisors: Brian Curless, David Salesin, Richard Szeliski.
  
  
• M.S., Computer Science and Information Engineering, National Taiwan University, June 1995.
  Thesis: Clustering and Visibility Preprocessing of Hierarchical Radiosity for Object-Based Environment
  Advisor: Ming Ouhyoung.
  
  
• B.S., Computer Science and Information Engineering, National Taiwan University, June 1993.

PUBLICATIONS

• Chia-Kai Liang, Yu-Ting Hsieh, Tien-Jung Chuang, Yin Wang, Ming-Fang Weng, Yung-Yu Chuang. Learning Landmarks by Exploiting Social Media. In Lecture Notes in Computer Science 5916 (Proceedings of the 16th International Multimedia Modeling Conference), to appear, Chongqing, January 2010.

• Ken-Yi Lee, Yung-Yu Chuang, Bing-Yu Chen, Ming Ouhyoung. Video Stabilization using Robust Feature Trajectories. In Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV 2009), page 1397-1404, Kyoto, Septempber 2009.

• Pei-Ying Lu, Tz-Huan Huang, Meng-Sung Wu, Yi-Ting Cheng, Yung-Yu Chuang. High Dynamic Range Image Reconstruction from Hand-held Cameras. In Proceedings of IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR 2009), page 509-516, Miami, June 2009. (oral presentation)

• Tz-Huan Huang, Kai-Yin Cheng, Yung-Yu Chuang. A Collaborative Benchmark for Region of Interest Detection Algorithms. In Proceedings of IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR 2009), page 296-303, Miami, June 2009.

• Wen-Huang Cheng, Yung-Yu Chuang, Yin-Tzu Lin, Chi-Chang Hsieh, Shao-Yen Fang, Bing-Yu Chen, Ja-Ling Wu. Semantic Analysis for Automatic Event Recognition and Segmentation of Wedding Ceremony Videos. In IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, special issue on Event Analysis in Videos, volume 18, issue 11, page 1639-1650, November 2008.

• Ming-Fang Weng, Yung-Yu Chuang. Multi-Cue Fusion For Semantic Video Indexing. In Proceedings of ACM International Conference on Multimedia (ACM MM 2008), page 71-80, Vancouver, October 2008.

• Chi-Chang Hsieh, Wen-Huang Cheng, Chia-Hu Chang, Yung-Yu Chuang, Ja-Ling Wu. Photo Navigator. In Proceedings of ACM International Conference on Multimedia (ACM MM 2008), page 419-428, Vancouver, October 2008.

• Ken-Hao Liu, Ming-Fang Weng, Chi-Yao Tseng, Yung-Yu Chuang, Ming-Syan Chen. Association and Temporal Rule Mining for Post-Filtering of Semantic Concept Detection in Video. In IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, special issue on Multimedia Data Mining, volume 10, issue 2, page 240-251, February 2008.

• Chin-Han Chen, Ming-Fang Weng, Shyh-Kang Jeng, Yung-Yu Chuang. Emotion-based Music Visualization using Photos. In Lecture Notes in Computer Science 4903 (Proceedings of the 14th International Multimedia Modeling Conference), page 358-368, Kyoto, January 2008.

• Wen-Huang Cheng, Yung-Yu Chuang, Bing-Yu Chen, Ja-Ling Wu, Shao-Yen Fang, Yin-Tzu Lin, Chi-Chang Hsieh, Chen-Ming Pan, Wei-Ta Chu, Min-Chun Tien. Semantic-Event Based Analysis and Segmentation of Wedding Ceremony Videos. In Proceedings of the 9th ACM SIGMM International Workshop on Multimedia Information Retrieval, page 95-104, Augsberg, September 2007.

• Chen-Ming Pan, Yung-Yu Chuang, Winston H. Hsu. NTU TRECVID-2007 Fast Rushes Summarization System. In Proceedings of TRECVID BBC Rushes Summarization Workshop, page 74-78, Augsberg, September 2007.

• Wan-Chun Ma, Chun-Tse Hsiao, Ken-Yi Lee, Yung-Yu Chuang, Bing-Yu Chen. Real-Time Triple Product Relighting Using Spherical Local-Frame Parameterization. In The Visual Computer (Proceedings of Pacific Graphics 2006), volume 22, number 9-11, page 682-692, Taipei, October 2006.

• Fu-Chung Huang, Bing-Yu Chen, Yung-Yu Chuang. Progressive Deforming Meshes based on Deformation Oriented Decimation and Dynamic Connectivity Updating. In Proceedings of ACM/EUROGRAPHICS Symposium on Computer Animation 2006, page 53-62, Vienna, September 2006.

• Yung-Yu Chuang, Dan B Goldman, Ke Colin Zheng, Brian Curless, David H. Salesin, Richard Szeliski. Animating Pictures with Stochastic Motion Textures. In ACM Transactions on Graphics (Proceedings of ACM SIGGRAPH 2005), volume 24, number 3, page 853-860, Los Angeles, July 2005.

• Chien-Chang Ho, Fu-Che Wu, Bing-Yu Chen, Yung-Yu Chuang, Ming Ouhyoung. Cubical Marching Squares: Adaptive Feature Preserving Surface Extraction from Volume Data. In Computer Graphics Forum (Proceedings of EUROGRAPHICS 2005), volume 24, number 3, page 537-545, Dublin, Ireland, August 2005. [Best Student Paper Award]

• Wan-Chun Ma, Sung-Hsiang Chao, Yu-Ting Tseng, Yung-Yu Chuang, Chun-Fa Chang, Bing-Yu Chen, Ming Ouhyoung. Level-of-Detail Representation of Bidirectional Texture Functions for Real-Time Rendering. In Proceedings of ACM SIGGRAPH 2005 Symposium on Interactive 3D Graphics and Games, page 187-194, Washington DC, April 2005.

• Yung-Yu Chuang, Dan B Goldman, Brian Curless, David H. Salesin, Richard Szeliski. Shadow Matting and Compositing. In ACM Transactions on Graphics (Proceedings of ACM SIGGRAPH 2003), volume 22, number 3, page 494-500, San Diego, July 2003.

• Yung-Yu Chuang, Aseem Agarwala, Brian Curless, David H. Salesin, Richard Szeliski. Video Matting of Complex Scenes. In ACM Transactions on Graphics (Proceedings of ACM SIGGRAPH 2002), volume 21, number 3, page 243-248, San Antonio, July 2002.

• Yung-Yu Chuang, Brian Curless, David H. Salesin, Richard Szeliski. A Bayesian Approach to Digital Matting. In Proceedings of IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR 2001), volume II, page 264-271, Kauai, Hawaii, December 2001.

• Yung-Yu Chuang, Douglas Zongker, Joel Hindorff, Brian Curless, David H. Salesin, Richard Szeliski. Extensions to Environment Matting: Towards Higher Accuracy and Real-time Capture. In Proceedings of ACM SIGGRAPH 2000, Computer Graphics Proceedings, Annual Conference Series, page 121-130, New Orleans, July 2000.

• Ming Ouhyoung, Yung-Yu Chuang, Rung-Huei Liang. Reusable Radiosity Objects. In Computer Graphics Forum (Proceedings of Eurographics 1996), volume 15, number 3, page 347-356, France, August 1996.

• Yung-Yu Chuang, Ming Ouhyoung. 3D Reconstruction on Ultrasound Images of Inner Carotid Arteries with Plaques. In Biomedical Engineering, Application, Basis, Communication, volume 6, number 5, page 694-699, Taiwan, R.O.C, October 1994.

HONORS

• Teaching Excellence Award, College of EECS, NTU, 2009
  
• CGW 2008 Best Paper Award, 2008.
  
• Teaching Excellence Award, College of EECS, NTU, 2008
  
• Teaching Excellence Award, College of EECS, NTU, 2007
  
• 2007 IPPR Contest (Face Detection in Video), 2nd place, IPPR, 2007
  
• Acer Dragon These Award, Ph.D. Thesis of Murphy Ho, co-advised with Prof. Ming Ouhyoung, 2005
  
• Best Student Paper Award, Eurographics 2005
  
• Fu Ssu-Nien Award, National Taiwan University, 2005
  Awarded to communication and multimedia laboratory for its impacts to industry.

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

• Organization co-chair for Pacific Visualization 2010, Taipei, Taiwan.
• Organization co-chair for Pacific Graphics 2006, Taipei, Taiwan.
• Program committee member for SIGGRAPH Asia 2009, Yokohama, Japan.
• Program committee member for SIGGRAPH Asia 2008, Singapore.
• Program committee member for Pacific Graphics 2008, Tokyo, Japan.
• Program committee member for Pacific Graphics 2007, Maui, USA.
• Program committee member for Pacific Graphics 2006, Taipei, Taiwan.
• Program committee member for APSIPA Annual Summit and Conference (Asia-Pacific Signal and Information Processing Association) 2009, Sapporo, Japan.
• Program committee member for International Conference on Art & Technology, 2009 Yi-Lan, Taiwan.
• Program committee member for 12th International Conference on Virtual Systems and Multimedia, VSMM 2006, Xian, China.
• Organizer for MMM 2010 special session, "Cross-X Multimedia Mining in Large Scale," with Chong-Wah Ngo, Chongqing, China.
• Paper program co-chair for Computer Graphics Workshop 2005, Taipei, Taiwan.
• Program committee member for National Computer Symposium 2009, Workshop on Image Processing, Computer Graphics and Multimedia, Taipei, Taiwan.
• Program committee member for National Computer Symposium 2005, Tainan, Taiwan.
• Program committee member for Computer Graphics Workshop 2009, Taipei, Taiwan.
• Program committee member for Computer Graphics Workshop 2008, ChiaYi, Taiwan.
• Program committee member for Computer Graphics Workshop 2007, Kaohsiung, Taiwan.
• Program committee member for Computer Graphics Workshop 2006, Taipei, Taiwan.
• Reviewer for ACM SIGGRAPH, IEEE CVPR, IEEE ICCV, IEEE Visualization, Eurographics, Pacific Graphics, Eurographics Symposium on Rendering, ACM Symposium on Interactive 3D Graphics and Games, Computer Graphics International, ACCV, IEEE VR, IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems, Visual Information Processing, ACM Transactions on Graphics, IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications, IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, Computer Graphics Forum, The Visual Computer, Graphical Models, IEEE Signal Processing Letters, IEEE Transactions on on Information Technology in BioMedicine, Pattern Recognition Letters, Information Processing Letters, Computers & Graphics, Multimedia Tools and Applications, Journal of Visual Communication and Image Representation, Journal of Virtual Reality and Broadcasting, Journal of Mathematical Imaging and Vision, EURASIP Journal on Applied Signal Processing, EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing, International Journal of Systems Science, Journal of Information Science and Engineering, International Journal of Electrical Engineering, Journal of Computer Science and Technology, Journal of the Chinese Institute of Engineers, ETRI Journal, Journal of Engineering National Chung Hsing University.
• ACM SIGGRAPH member, since 1998.
• IEEE Computer Society member, since 1998.
• IPPR member, since 2008.