University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA

• Ph. D., Electrical Engineering, December 2006

University of California-Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA

• M.S., Electrical Engineering, June 2002

National Cheng Chi University, Taipei, Taiwan

• B. S., Mathematical Sciences, June 1999

University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA (May 2006 – Aug. 2006)

• Teaching Assistant for the Course “Introduction to Digital Image Processing”

University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA (Aug. 2002 – present)

• Research Assistant

1. Conducted research on the post-processing of compressed image and video

2. Conducting a cooperative research project with the KDDI Research Labs., Tokyo, Japan (February 2006 – January 2007) on “Low Complexity Super Resolution Techniques for Compressed Image/Video ”

   • Developed a method for image content analysis and classification in the compressed domain

   • Developing a low complexity technique for super resolution image/video reconstruction

3. Conducted a cooperative research project with the KDDI Research Labs., Tokyo, Japan (Nov. 2003 – Oct. 2004) on “ Compressed-domain Image/Video Mosaicking Techniques

   • Developed a color matching technique for compressed images/video

   • Developed low complexity algorithms for image/video registration in the compressed domain

National Cheng Chi University, Taipei, Taiwan (Sep. 1997 – Jun. 1999)

• Reviewer for IEEE Transactions on Image Processing

• Reviewer for JVCI, Journal of Communication and Image Representation

• Reviewer for EURASIP, Journal on Applied Signal Processing

• Reviewer for IEEE MMSP, Workshop on Multimedia Signal Processing

• Reviewer for ISCAS, International Symposium on Circuit and Systems

• Reviewer for VCIP, Visual Communications and Image Processing

• Reviewer for IEEE MWSCAS, International Midwest Symposium on Circuits and Systems

1. Ming-Sui Lee, Meiyin Shen, C. –C. Jay Kuo, “Pixel- and compressed-domain color matching techniques for video mosaic application,” Conference on Image and Video Communications and Processing in IS&T/SPIE 18th International Symposium on Electronic Imaging, San Jose, CA, January 17-22, 2004..

2. Ming-Sui Lee, Meiyin Shen, C. –C. Jay Kuo, “Color matching techniques for video mosaic applications,” IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME), Taipei, Taiwan, June 27-30, 2004.

3. Ming-Sui Lee, Meiyin Shen, C. –C. Jay Kuo, “DCT-domain image registration techniques for compressed video,” Multimedia Systems and Applications VII, Part of SPIE’s International Symposium on Optics East/Information Technology and Communications (ITCOM), Philadelphia, PA, October 25-28, 2004.

4. Ming-Sui Lee, Meiyin Shen, C. –C. Jay Kuo, “Compressed domain registration techniques for MPEG video,” Conference on Image and Video Communications and Processing in IS&T/SPIE 17th International Symposium on Electronic Imaging, San Jose, CA, January 16-20, 2005.

5. Ming-Sui Lee, Meiyin Shen, C. –C. Jay Kuo, “A fast compressed-domain image registration technique for video mosaic,” IEEE International Symposium on Circuit and Systems (ISCAS), Kobe, Japan, May 23-26, 2005.

6. Ming-Sui Lee, Meiyin Shen, C. –C. Jay Kuo, “A DCT-domain video alignment techniques for MPEG sequences,” IEEE International Workshop on Multimedia Signal Processing (MMSP), Shanghai, China, October 30-November 2, 2005.

7. Yi-Chen Tsai, Ming-Sui Lee, Meiyin Shen and C.-C. Jay Kuo, “A reduced color approach to high quality cartoon coding,” SPIE Optics & Photonics, San Diego, CA, July 31-Augest 2, 2005.

8. Yi-Chen Tsai, Ming-Sui Lee, Meiyin Shen and C.-C. Jay Kuo, “A quad-tree decomposition approach to cartoon image compression,” IEEE International Workshop on Multimedia Signal Processing (MMSP), Victoria, Canada, October 3-6, 2006.

9. Ming-Sui Lee, Meiyin Shen, Akio Yoneyama and C. - C. Jay Kuo, “Techniques for flexible image/video resolution conversion with heterogeneous terminals,” IEEE Communications Magazine, Special Issue on Advances in Visual Content Analysis and Adaptation for Multimedia Communications, January, 2007.

10. Ming-Sui Lee, Meiyin Shen, and C.-C. Jay Kuo, “Fast DCT-domain color compensation and matching techniques,” in preparation, to be submitted to IEEE Trans. on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology in December 2006.