• 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.

JOURNAL PAPERS

• 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, volume18, issue 11, page 1639-1650, November 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.

• 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. (oral acceptance rate: 35/206=17%)

• Yung-Yu Chuang, Dan B Goldman, Ke Colin Zheng, Brian Curless, David H. Salesin and 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. (acceptance rate: 98/461=21%)

• 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] (acceptance rate: 47/303=16%)

• 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. (acceptance rate: 81/424=19%)

• 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. (acceptance rate: 67/358=19%) (Google citation: 118)

• 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.

CONFERENCE PAPERS

• 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), to appear, Miami, June 2009. (oral paper, acceptance rate: 61/1464=4.1%)

• 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), to appear, Miami, June 2009. (acceptance rate: 322/1464=22.1%, 26.2% overall)

• 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. (acceptance rate: 23/109=21% in content track, 56/280=20% overall)

• 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. (acceptance rate: 16/84=19% in application track, 56/280=20% overall)

• 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. (acceptance rate: 48/133=36%)

• Ming-Fang Weng, Chun-Kang Chen, Yi-Hsuan Yang, Rong-En Fan, Yu-Ting Hsieh, Yung-Yu Chuang, Winston H. Hsu, Chih-Jen Lin. The NTU Toolkit and Framework for High-Level Feature Detection at TRECVID 2007. In Proceedings of NIST TREC Video Retrieval Evaluation Workshop 2007, Gaithersburg, November 2007.

• 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. (acceptance rate: 10/45=22%)

• 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, Augsburg, September 2007.

• 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. (acceptance rate: 37/126=29%)

• 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. (acceptance rate: 26/95=27%)

• 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. (acceptance rate: 273/920=29%) (Google citation: 225)

• 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. (acceptance rate: 59/304=19%) (Google citation: 91)

CONFERENCE SHORT PAPERS

• Tien-Lin Wu, Hsuan-Kai Wang, Chien-Chang Ho, Yuan-Pin Lin, Ting-Ting Hu, Ming-Fang Weng, Li-Wei Chan, Chang-Hua Yang, Yi-Hsuan Yang, Yi-Ping Hung, Yung-Yu Chuang, Hsin-Hsi Chen, Homer H. Chen, Jyh-Horng Chen, Shyh-Kang Jeng. Interactive Content Presentation Based on Expressed Emotion and Physiological Feedback. ACM Multimedia 2008 Technical Demonstration, page 1009-1010, Vancouver, October 2008.

• Fu-Chung Huang, Bing-Yu Chen, Yung-Yu Chuang, and Shuen-Huei Guan. Animating Lips-Sync Speech Faces with Compact Key-Shapes. SIGGRAPH 2008 Technical Sketch (Poster), Los Angeles, August 2008.

• Chueh-Min Cheng, Meng-Fang Chung, Ming-Yang Yu, Ming Ouhyoung, Hao-Hua Chu, Yung-Yu Chuang. ChroMirror: A Real-Time Interactive Mirror for Chromatic and Color-Harmonic Dressing. ACM CHI 2008 Work-in-Progress, Florence, April 2008. (acceptance rate: 157/414=38%)

• Yu-Jen Chen, Zong-Nan Shen, Ying-Chieh Chen, Chun-Fa Chang, Yung-Yu Chuang, Jieh Hsiang. Extensions to Inverse Displacement Mapping: Towards More Accurate Silhouette and Dynamic Displacement. Symposium on Interactive 3D Graphics and Games, Poster, Redwood City, February 2008.

• Chieh-Ju Tu, Shuen-Huei Guan, Yung-Yu Chuang, Jiann-Rong Wu, Bing-Yu Chen, Ming Ouhyoung. Digital Restoration of Moldy Aged Films. SIGGRAPH 2007 Technical Sketch, San Diego, August 2007. (acceptance rate: 19%)

• Shuen-Huei Guan, Dan Maas, Bing-Yu Chen, Yung-Yu Chuang. NPR in Production: Animating the Sung dynasty painting "Children at Play". SIGGRAPH 2007 Research Poster, San Diego, August 2007.

• Wan-Chun Ma, Chun-Tse Hsiao, Ken-Yi Lee, Yung-Yu Chuang. Real-Time All-Frequency Relighting in Local Frame. SIGGRAPH 2006 Technical Sketch, Boston, July 2006. (acceptance rate: 132/580=23%)

• Fu-Chung Huang, Bing-Yu Chen, Yung-Yu Chuang. Progressive Deforming Meshes based on Deformation Oriented Decimation. SIGGRAPH 2006 Research Poster, Boston, July 2006 (Student Research Competition).

• Yung-Yu Chuang. High-Resolution Video Texture Synthesis. In Proceedings of Third Taiwanese-French Conference on Information Technology (TFIT), page 213-224, Nancy France, March 2006.

DOMESTIC PAPERS

• Tz-Huan Huang, Kai-Yin Cheng, Yung-Yu Chuang. A Collaborative Benchmark for Region of Interest Detection Algorithms. In IPPR, Vol. 15, No. 2, June 2009. (invited paper)

• Pei-Ying Lu, Tz-Huan Huang, Meng-Sung Wu, Yi-Ting Cheng, Yung-Yu Chuang. High Dynamic Range mage Reconstruction from Hand-held Cameras. In Proceedings of CVGIP 2008, Ilan, Taiwan, August 2008. (invited paper)

• Yen-Hung Chen, Chia-Kai Liang, Yung-Yu Chuang. Depth-of-Field Matting. In Proceedings of CVGIP 2008, Ilan, Taiwan, August 2008.

• Hsueh-Tsung Kuo, Chang-Yen Hsieh, Ken-Yi Lee, Shuen-Huei Guan, Yung-Yu Chuang. Lighting by Guides. In Proceedings of CGW 2008, Chiayi, Taiwan, July 2008.

• Wei-Ren Lin, Yung-Yu Chuang. Real-Time Multi-Layer Translucent Material Editing. In Proceedings of CGW 2008, Chiayi, Taiwan, July 2008.

• Jen-Yuan Chiang, Hsueh-Tsung Kuo, Yung-Yu Chuang. Radiance Volume: A Caching Technique for Global Illumination. In Proceedings of CGW 2007, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, October 2007.

• Fu-Chun Huang, Bing-Yu Chen, Yung-Yu Chuang. Lips-Sync 3D Speech Animation using Compact Key-Shapes. In Proceedings of CGW 2007, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, October 2007.

• Yu-Jen Chen, Zong-Nan Shen, Ying-Chieh Chen, Chun-Fa Chang, Yung-Yu Chuang, Jieh Hsiang. Extensions to Inverse Displacement Mapping: Towards More Accurate Silhouette and Intersection. In Proceedings of CGW 2007, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, October 2007.

• Hsin-Chien Huang, Ming-Fang Weng, Chung-Jung Hu, Liang-Yu Chou, Yung-Yu Chuang. Face Detection in Video: Using Skin-color Enhanced Face Detection Algorithm and Meanshift Tracking. In Proceedings of CVGIP 2007, Miaoli, Taiwan, August 2007, IPPR Face Detection Contest 2007 Award Paper.

• Yuan-Chung Shen, Wan-Chun Ma, Yung-Yu Chuang, Bing-Yu Chen, Ming Ouhyoung. Coherent Texture Synthesis for Photograph Relighting and Texture Transfer. In Proceedings of CVGIP 2006, Taoyuan, Taiwan, August 2006, invited paper.

• Nien-Shien Lin, Ting-Hao Huang, Bing-Yu Chen, Yung-Yu Chuang, Ming Ouhyoung. View Dependent Mesh Streaming based on Geometry Image and JPEG 2000 Standard. In Proceedings of CGW 2006, Taipei, Taiwan, July 2006.

• Fu-Chung Huang, Bing-Yu Chen, Yung-Yu Chuang, and Ming Ouhyoung. Animation Model Simplification. In Proceedings of CGW 2005, Taipei, Taiwan, November 2005.

• Tsung-Yi Wu, Wan-Chun Ma, Yung-Yu Chuang, Bing-Yu Chen, Ming Ouhyoung. Image-Based BRDF Acquisition for Non-spherical Objects. In Proceedings of CVGIP 2005, Taipei, Taiwan, August 2005, invited paper.

• Yung-Yu Chuang, Ming Ouhyoung. Clustering and Visibility Preprocessing of Hierarchical Radiosity for Object-Based Environment. In Proceedings of Computer Graphics Workshop, page 102-111, Taipei, Taiwan, November, 1995.

• 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.

DISSERTATION AND TECHNICAL REPORTS

• Yung-Yu Chuang. New Models and Methods for Matting and Compositing. Ph.D. Dissertation, June 2004.

• Yung-Yu Chuang, Dan B Goldman, Brian Curless, David H. Salesin, Richard Szeliski. Animating Pictures with Stochastic Motion Textures. UW CSE Technical Report UW-CSE-04-04-02, April 2004.

• 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. UW CSE Technical Report UW-CSE-2000-05-01, May 2000.

PRODUCTION CREDITS

• Hand-Shadow Illusions and 3D DDR Based on Efficient Model Retrieval, with Ming Ouhyoung, Jeng-Sheng Yeh, Jen-Yuan Chiang, Ting-Hao Huan, Li-Fong Lin, Ming-Yang Yu, Jean Y.C. Tsai, Chung-Lin Wen, Ding-Yun Chen, Bing-Yu Chen, SIGGRAPH 2006 Emerging Technology, July 2006.

• Level-of-Detail Representation of Bidirectional Texture Functions for Real-Time Rendering, with Wan-Chun Ma, Sung-Hsiang Chao, Yu-Ting Tseng, Chun-Fa Chang, Bing-Yu Chen, Ming Ouhyoung. Back cover for Proceedings of ACM SIGGRAPH 2005 Symposium on Interactive 3D Graphics and Games, April 2005.

• Shadow Matting and Compositing, with Dan Goldman, Brian Curless, David Salesin, Richard Szeliski. Back cover for Proceedings of SIGGRAPH 2003, July 2003.

• Stripes Reflecting Off a Pie Tin, with Douglas Zongker, Joel Hindorff, Brian Curless, David Salesin, Richard Szeliski. Back cover for Proceedings of SIGGRAPH 2000, July 2000.

HONORS

• Teaching Excellence Award, College of EECS, NTU, 2009
  

• CGW 2008 Best Paper Award, 2008. (5 awarded among 65 accepted papers)
  

• 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, 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 Graphics 2006, Taipei, Taiwan.
• Paper program co-chair for Computer Graphics Workshop 2005, Taipei, Taiwan.
• Program committee member for SIGGRAPH Asia 2009, Yokohama, Japan.
• Program committee member for ICCV 2009, Kyoto, Japan.
• Program committee member for CVPR 2009, Miami, USA.
• 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 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 12th International Conference on Virtual Systems and Multimedia, VSMM 2006, Xian, China.
• 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.
• Program committee member for National Computer Symposium 2005, Tainan, Taiwan.
• Session chair for CGW 2007, CGW 2008, CVGIP 2008.
• Reviewer for ACM SIGGRAPH 2003-2009, ACM SIGGRAPH Asia 2008, 2009, IEEE CVPR 2004, 2009, IEEE ICCV 2009, IEEE Visualization 2005-2006, Eurographics 2006, Pacific Graphics 2005-2009, Eurographics Symposium on Rendering 2006, 2008, ACM Symposium on Interactive 3D Graphics and Games 2009, Computer Graphics International 2006, ACCV 2009, IEEE VR 2009, IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems 2008-2009, Visual Information Processing 2007, 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, 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, Multimdia Tools and Applications, Journal of Visual Communication and Image Representation, Journal of Mathematical Imaging and Vision, EURASIP Journal on Applied 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, Journal of Engineering National Chung Hsing University.
• Committee member of the 2007 thesis award in computer science, Institute of Information and Computing Machinery, 2007.
• ACM SIGGRAPH member, since 1998.
• IEEE Computer Society member, since 1998.
• IPPR member, since 2008.

PATENTS AND TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER

• Skin-Color-Enhanced AdaBoost-Based Face Detection, Technology Transfer, SQ Technology, NTD $500,000, January 2008.

• Imtimate Media Agent: Enabling Affective Content Experience from Media Context, Technology Transfer, Cyberlink, NTD $1,334,000, 2006/2007.

• Experience Fusion: Human-Centric Multimedia Computation with Security and Scalability, Technology Transfer, Quanta Computer, NTD $642,000, 2004/2005.

• Experience Fusion: Human-Centric Multimedia Computation with Security and Scalability, Technology Transfer, DigiMax, NTD $642,000, 2004/2005.

GRANTS

• People Counting with Surveillance Videos
  2009/03/01-2010/2/28, SEEnergy, NTD $500,000, PI.

• Scalable Video Coding and Decoding with the Intelligent Post-Processing System for Surveillance Videos
  2009/02/01-2010/07/31, NUUO, NTD $1,500,000, co-PI.

• iContent: Personal Video Touch for Quality Life
  2008/08/01-2009/07/31, NSC97-2622-E-002-010-CC2, co-sponsered by Cyberlink, NTD $9,853,084, co-PI.

• Visual-Guid-Based Automatic Lighting Algorithms for Mass Animation Production
  2008/08/01-2010/07/31, NSC97-2221-E-183-MY2, NTD $1,240,000, PI.

• Content 2.0: User-Centric Internet Multimedia
  2008/08/01-2011/07/31, Excellent Research Projects of NTU, 98R0062-04, co-I.

• A Face Replacement System for Videos
  2008/07/01-2009/06/30, Chi-Hsin Group, NTD $1,000,000, co-PI.

• Clear Image Acquisition for Hybrid Cameras
  2008/01/01-2008/12/31, III, NTD $2,000,000, co-PI.

• GPU-Based Real-Time Rendering of Complex Geometry and Materials
  2007/08/01-2008/07/31, NSC96-2221-E-002-240, NTD $576,000, PI.

• Context Science for a Media-Rich Life (Subproject 5 (3/4)(4/4))
  2004/04/01-2008/03/31, NSC96-2752-E-002-007-PAE.

• Imtimate Media Agent: Enabling Affective Content Experience from Media Context (2/2)
  2007/08/01-2008/07/31, NSC96-2622-E-002-002, co-sponsered by Cyberlink, NTD $10,200,010, co-PI.

• Imtimate Media Agent: Enabling Affective Content Experience from Media Context (1/2)
  2006/08/01-2007/07/31, NSC95-2622-E-002-018, co-sponsered by Cyberlink, NTD, NTD $10,169,750, co-PI.

• Multi-modal Content Analysis and Organiztion
  2006/08/01-2008/07/31, Excellent Research Projects of NTU, 95R0062-AE00-02, NTD $20,000,000, co-I.

• Exploring Coherence for GPU Ray Tracing
  2006/08/01-2007/07/31, NSC95-2221-E-002-252, NTD $627,000, PI.

• A Portable Vector Graphics Library for Embedded Devices
  2006/03/01-2006/12/31, III, NTD $900,000, co-PI.

• Research on Representing Bidirectional Texture Functions
  2005/08/01-2006/07/31, NSC94-2213-E-002-096, NTD $790,000, PI.

• Experience Fusion: Human-Centric Multimedia Computation with Security and Scalability(2/2)
  2005/08/01-2006/07/31, NSC94-2622-E-002-024, co-sponsered by Quanta and Digimax, NTD $9,872,220, co-PI.

• A Lip Synthesis System for English Learning on Mobile Phones
  2005/04/01-2005/12/31, III, NTD $700,000, PI.

• Research on Object Selection and Matting
  2005/01/01-2005/07/31, NSC94-02213-E-002-051, NTD $319,000, PI.

• Experience Fusion: Human-Centric Multimedia Computation with Security and Scalability(1/2)
  2004/08/01-2005/07/31, NSC93-2622-E-002-033, co-sponsered by Quanta and Digimax, NTD $9,805,120, co-PI.

• Synthesis of Video Textures from a Single Picture
  2004/11/01-2004/07/31, National Taiwan University, NTD $200,000, PI.

TALKS

• Lighting, ROI and Concept Detection.
  Microsoft Research Asia, Beijing, February 2009.
  
• Multi-Cue Fusion for Semantic Video Indexing.
  Dept. of CS, National Chengchi University, Taipei, September 2008.
  
• Depth-of-Field Matting. Oral presentation, CVGIP 2008, Ilan, August 2008.
• Digital Matting Technology.
  Electronics and Telecommunication Research Institute, Daejeon, Korea, February 2008
  
• High-level Concept Detection and Rushes Video Summarization in TRECVID 2007.
  Dept. of CSIE, National Taiwan Normal University, Taipei, November 2007.
  
• GPU-Based Real-Time Rendering of Complex Geometry and Materials.
  Dept. of IM, National Taiwan University of Science and Technology, Taipei, May 2007.
  
• Association and Temporal Rule Mining for Post-filtering of Semantic Concept Detection in Video.
  The Third Statistics and Machine Learning Workshop 2007, Ilan, March 2007.
• Research 2.0 - Harnessing Collective Intelligence.
  Dept. of IM, National Taiwan University, Taipei, January 2007.
  Technology is rooted from human life forum, Taipei, January 2007.
  
• Coherent Texture Synthesis for Photograph Relighting and Texture Transfer. Oral presentation, CVGIP 2006, Taoyuan, August 2006.
• High-Resolution Video Texture Synthesis.
  CGW 2006, Taipei, July 2006.
  Dept. of CS, National Chung Hsing University, Taichung, May 2006.
  TFIT, Nancy, France, March 2006.
  
• Animating Pictures with Stochastic Motion Textures.
  University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan, July 2005.
  
• Making Reality: Applications of Digital Technology on Visual Effects.
  Dept. of IM, National Taiwan University, Taipei, April 2005.
  Leader Asia Pacific Creativity Center, Taipei, December 2004.
  SIGGRAPH Taipei Workshop, Taipei, December 2004.
  CyberLink Corp., November 2004.
• New Models and Methods for Matting and Compositing.
  Dept. of CSIE, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, May 2005.
  Dept. of CSIE, National Taiwan University, Taipei, October 2004.
• Shadow Matting and Compositing. Oral presentation, SIGGRAPH 2003.
• Video Matting of Complex Scenes. Oral presentation, SIGGRAPH 2002.
• A Bayesian Approach to Digital Matting. Poster, CVPR 2001.
• Extensions to Environment Matting: Towards Higher Accuracy and Real-time Capture. Oral presentation, SIGGRAPH 2000.

COURSES

• Digital Visual Effects.
  Spring 2005 (60 students), Spring 2006 (59 students), Spring 2007 (69 students), Spring 2008 (76 students), Spring 2009 (72 students).
• Digital Image Synthesis.
  Fall 2005 (26 students), Fall 2006 (34 students), Fall 2007 (42 students), Fall 2008 (29 students).
• Computer Organization and Assembly Languages.
  Fall 2005 (133 students), Fall 2006 (94 students), Fall 2007 (96 students), Fall 2008 (94 students).
• Computer Science and Information Technology, Spring 2009 (with other 7 professors, 85 students).
  
• Advanced Multimedia Technology, Professional Master Program.
  Fall 2005 (with other 3 professors, 11 students).
• Fundamental Computation Theory, Professional Master Program.
  Winter 2004 (11 students).

LECTURES

• Computer Organization and Assembly Languages, online course, Semiconductor Institute, recorded one-hour lecture, July 2007.
• Realistic Materials in Computer Graphics, full-day course for SIGGRAPH 2005, gave lecture on environment matting, July 2005.
• Image Processing, Digital Content Institute, Game Programming Class, gave 12-hour lecture, June 2005.

SERVICES

• Judge for 2008 MoE Anti-corruption Game Contest, 2008
• GINM Representative for EECS college panel, 2008/08-present.
• Director of Workstation Laboratory, NTU CSIE, 2008/08-present.
• Committee of Server Management, NTU CSIE, 2008/08-present.
• Admission Committee, NTU CSIE, 2007/08-2008/07.
• Faculty Recruiting Committee, NTU CSIE, 2006/08-2007/07.
• Library Liaison, NTU CSIE, 2005/08-present.
• Academic/Admission Committee, NTU GINM, 2005/07-present.
• PhD Admission Committee, NTU CSIE, 2005-2007, 2009.
• PhD Admission Committee, NTU GINM, 2005-2007, 2009.
• Undergraduate Program Admission Committee, NTU CSIE, 2006.
• Professional Master Program Admission Committee, NTU CSIE, 2005-2009.
• Department Webpage Committee, NTU CSIE, 2004/10-2005/06.
• Department Introduction Video Production Committee, NTU CSIE,2004/10-2005/02.