Current projects

 

 

 

“CatAR: A Novel Stereoscopic Augmented Reality Cataract

Surgery Training System with Dexterous Instrument Tracking

 Technology, CHI 2018,  Proc. paper No. 465, (full paper), Montreal, Canada, April 2018.

 

 

 

 

A Low-Cost Portable Polycamera for Stereoscopic 360° Imaging”, IEEE Trans. on Circuit and Systems for Video Technology (IEEE TCSVT),  Volume: 29 , Issue: 4 , pp. 915 – 929, April 2019.    

 

 

 

  A Novel Dexterous Instrument Tracking System for

Augmented Reality Cataract Surgery Training System,

Proceedings of ACM Siggraph Asia 2016, VR Showcase,

December, Macau, 2016.

 

 

 

 “SCOPE+: A Stereoscopic Video See-Through Augmented Reality Microscope”,  

ACM UIST 2015, demo item, 1st Place, Best Demo Awards, Charlotte, NC, USA, Nov. 2015

 

 

 

“Personalized Photograph Ranking and Selection System Considering Positive and Negative User Feedback”,

ACM TOMCCAP, pp. 1-20, Vol. 10, Issue 4, Article Number 36, June 2014.

 

 

 

Personalized Photo Ranking and Selection System   ACM

Multimedia 2010

We have proposed a novel personalized ranking system for amateur photos.

 

 

 

Video Stabilization using Robust Feature Trajectories,  ICCV 2009 (oral presentation)

This paper proposes a new approach for video stabilization.

Facial Performance Synthesis using Deformation-Driven Polynomial Displacement Maps (2008)

ACM Transaction on Graphics (Siggraph Asia), 2008

 

 

CMS

Cubical Marching Squares 2005
Research on surface extraction from volume data.

 

 

Domain Connected Graph: The Essential Skeleton of a 3D shape (2006)
A new representation for the skeleton of an arbitrary shape is proposed.

The nodes of the graph are named domain points (significant points inside

the shape) which can represent the local properties of a shape. The domain

points are classified into three categories: joint points, end points and

connection points.

 

 

3D Model Retrieval (2003)

On Visual Similarity Based 3D Model Retrieval

A 3D model retrieval system based on Multi-View LightField and

Multi-resolution Reeb Graph

 

 

 

 

A Tool for Alignment of Molecules
A novel tool is proposed to align two molecules (not just proteins) based on

their 3D structural data, and the user can observe the result of alignment

visually via the tool.

Most existing tools are designed only for alignment of proteins. Here, a new tool

 is developed to address shared structural features between protein structures

 and tRNA structures,

that is, molecular mimicry, although they are two very different types of molecules.

 

 

3D Protein Model Retrieval

3D Protein Model Retrieval  2004
A 3D Protein Model Retrieval System based on Multi-View LightField method.

 

Chinese Painting Rendering
An Interactive Haptic Chinese Painting System

 

 

Virtual Sculptor
A Feature Preserving Haptic Modeling System

 

 

 

Realistic 3D facial animation parameters
Accurate 3D facial motion trajectories are reconstructed from mirror-reflected multiview videos, and the estimated data are also applied to synthetic face for realistic facial animation.

 

 

MPEG4 Synthetic/Natural Hybrid Coding
Our focus is on head/face motion tracking using three feature points, as well as efficient 3D modeling of individuallized face with textures. Currently we are working on "Virtual Talk"

and Model-Based Video Conferencing System.

 

 

Video VR

An authoring system is proposed to construct panoramic images of real-world scenes from video clips automatically. Instead of using special hardware

 such as fish-eye lens

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

VR Talk
Web-enabled speech driven facial animation. In this project, a speech-driven talking head is developed as a plug-in for web browsers (plug-in for Navigator; ActiveX for IE). Since it is a

model-based approach, the bitrate requirement of this lifelike animation is only 14Kbps.

 

 

Photo VR
A prism-like photo-realistic environment map rendering system.

 

 

Image
Talk

Image Talk
synthetic faces can be used in virtual communication such as virtual meeting, virtual video e-mail etc.; the technique can also be a new friendly user interface in various applications

 

 

MPEG-4 Rendering
A rendering module for MPEG-4 system module.

 

 

  Previous projects

 

The SpaceWalker building walkthrough system
As part of our graphics research into virtual worlds, and also stimulated by the construction of a new building for the Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering

at National Taiwan University, our goal is to construct a walkthrough system, the SpaceWalker, that enables a user to explore the computer model of the department building. --Dr. Yuong-Wei Lei

 

 

Hair Rendering
Hair has some features that make it hard to be created by the computer. These features include a large number of hairs and complex physical properties of hair. In this work, we aim to

develop a procedure to reproduce the beauty of hair. --Tzong-Jer Yang

 

 

JAVA VRML applet

JAVA VRML Applet
The VRML group works for the development of a VRML applet which is able to display VRML world in our Multimedia Shared Browser as well as in other commercial browsers. -- VRML group

 

 

TheJavaGL 3D Graphics Library for Java
JavaGL is a 3D graphics library for the JavaTM programming language with an API which is similar to that of OpenGLTM. This 3D graphics library can help ones to develop 3D

graphics applications on the Internet/Intranet, and is developed by pure JavaTM programming language. Now, JavaGL is available for download and some examples can be run online. -

 

 

Medical Image Processing


Tread-mill: a VR device of walk-through system
3D Trackers
3D Sound
Motion Prediction
Gesture Recognition
Motion Chair: a haptical device
Force Feedback Joystick: a haptical device
A Shift-Resisting Public Watermark System for Protecting Image Processing Software
Time Shifting Resistant Digital Audio Watermarking Using Template Matching


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