Hsueh-Ming HANG (杭學鳴)
Department of
Electronics Engineering, 電子工程系
National Yang Ming Chiao-Tung University國立陽明交通大學
1001 Ta-Hsueh Road, Hsinchu, Taiwan, R.O.C. 新竹市大學路1001號 (30010)
Email: hmhang@mail.nctu.edu.tw
Tel: (+886)3-5731861
Fax: (+886)3-5777618
RESEARCH
INTERESTS
Researches on
algorithms and architectures for the following subjects:
1. Deep-learning based image/video compression and processing
2. 360 degree (spherical camera) stereo and object detection/tracking
3. RGB-D video analytics
(using deep learning techniques)
4. Multi-view (free-view
point) video acquisition, synthesis, and 3D sense composition.
5. Multimedia
Communications (Compression, Wireless and Internet Video, Digital TV, etc.)
UNIVERSITY
EDUCATION
• Ph.D (1984) Electrical
Engineering
Rensselaer
Polytechnic Institute (RPI), Troy, New York
Thesis:
Predictive Coding of Images
• MS (1980) Electronics
National
Chiao-Tung University (NCTU), Hsinchu,
Taiwan
Thesis: Digital Flight
Control Systems
• BS (1978) Control
Engineering
National
Chiao-Tung University (NCTU), Hsinchu,
Taiwan
PROFESSIONAL
EXPERIENCES
•
December 1991 - August 1997 - present: Associate
Professor/ Professor, Department of Electronics Engineering, National Chiao-Tung University (name changed to National Yang Ming Chiao-Tung University), Hsinchu,
Taiwan. [Retired in August 2021]
•
April 2019 - present: Dean, Faculty of System Engineering.
• April-May 2017
: Visiting Scholar, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xian, China.
• Feb 2014 - Jan 2017 : Dean, College of Electrical and Computer Engineering.
• Feb. 2010 - Jan 2014:
Associate Dean/Director, Globalization
and Development Office, College of
Electrical and Computer Engineering, National Chiao-Tung
University, Hsinchu, Taiwan.
•
October 2011: Visiting
Professor, Tanimoto
Laboratory, Department of Information Electronics, Nagoya University, Japan.
• August 2006 - July 2009: Chair Professor and Dean, College of Electrical Engineering and Computer
Science, National Taipei University of Technology, Taiwan.
• February 2005 - July 2006: Associate Dean/Director, Globalization and
Development Office, College of
Electrical and Computer Engineering, National
Chiao-Tung University, Hsinchu,
Taiwan.
• September
2004 - November 2004: Visiting Research
Professor, Coordinated Science Lab.,
University of Illinois
at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), USA
• November 1998 - July 2004:
Director,
Center for Telecommunications Research,
National Chiao-Tung University, Hsinchu,
Taiwan, R.O.C.
•
July 1999
- September 1999: Visiting
Researcher,
Windows Media Platform Division,
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, Washington, USA
•
June 1984
- December 1991: Member of Technical Staff, Visual
Communications Research Department, AT&T Bell Laboratories, Holmdel, New
Jersey, USA.
• September 1983 - May
1984: Instructor,
Electrical Engineering Department at RPI.
Taught
senior courses: Communication Systems and Linear Systems.
• September 1981 - May 1983: Teaching Assistant,
Electrical Engineering Department at RPI.
• September 1980 - May 1981: Research Assistant, Electrical
Engineering Department at RPI.
• September 1979 - June 1980: Research Assistant,
Control Engineering Department at NCTU.
PROFESSIONAL
SOCIETY MEMBERSHIPS and HONORS
•Distinguished
Lecturer, IEEE Circuits and Systems Society, 2014-2015.
•International
Collaborative Partner (ICP) of University Tunku Abdul
Rahman (UTAR, Malaysia) Global Research Network,
2013-
•Distinguished Lecturer
of the Asia-Pacific Signal and Information Processing Association (APSIPA),
2012-2013
•Distinguished Professor
(特聘教授), NCTU (2010 - 2013)
•Fellow Grade Member of IET, 2008
•Chair
Professor, NTUT (2006-2009)
•Distinguished
Engineering Professor Award, Chinese Institute of Electrical Engineering中國電機工程師學會 傑出工程教授獎 (2012年)
•Distinguished
Engineering Professor Award, Chinese Institute of Engineers 中國工程師學會 傑出工程教授獎 (2005年)
•IEEE
ISCE Outstanding Service Award (2003)
•Fellow
Grade Member of IEEE, 2002
•IEEE
Third Millennium Medal,
2000
•Senior Grade Member of
IEEE, 1991
•Member of the
Executive Committee, Taiwan Digital TV Committee (1998-2002)
(台灣數位電視委員會執行委員)
•Review Board member of
the National Science Council
•Review Board member of the Bureau of Industrial Development for the Ministry of Economic Affairs in Taiwan
•Member of Sigma Xi
honor society (1984-)
•1992, National Science
Council (Taiwan) Excellent Research Award
•1991, AT&T Bell Labs Individual
Performance Award for "the leadership and supervisory responsibilities in
the coding of HDTV pictures and studies of motion estimation algorithms".
•1989, AT&T Bell Labs
Individual Performance Award for "the successful demonstration of motion
video coding at 64 kilobits/second using a custom VLSI based codec".
•1987, AT&T Bell Labs Exceptional
Contribution Award for "the outstanding research on applying vector
quantization to the coding of medical images".
PROFESSIONAL
ACTIVITIES
•Member of Board of Governors, The
Asia-Pacific Signal and Information Processing Association, 2013-18.
•IEET 中華工程教育學會 Accreditation Committee認證委員及團主席,
2007-
•中華民國 影像處理與圖形識別學會 常務監事2007-2008; 監事2011-12: 常務監事2013-14
•Vice-chair, Visual-Audio
Compression Special Interest Group (VAC SIG), Semiconductor Industry Promotion
Office, Ministry of Economic Affair, Taiwan, 2003 -.
(副主席 影音壓縮推動聯盟VAC SIG經濟部工業局半導體產業推動辦公室)
•指導委員 台灣數位電視產業聯盟 TDTVA
- Taiwan Digital TV Alliance, 2004.3.17 ---
•IEEE Consumer
Electronics Society Taipei Chapter Chair , 1999 - 2000
•IEEE Signal Processing
Society Taipei Chapter Chair , 1998 - 1999
•Associate editor of IEEE
Trans. on Image Processing, 2008 - 2012.
•Associate editor of IEEE
Trans. on Circuits and Systems for Video
Technology, 1997 - 1999
•Area editor of Journal of
Visual Communication and Image Representation, Academic Press, 1996 - 1998
•Associate editor of IEEE
Trans. on Image Processing, 1992 - 1994.
•Guest editor, Journal
of Information Science and Engineering, Special Issue on Advances on 3D
Multimedia, 2015
•Guest editor, Special Issue on
Advanced Video Technologies and Applications for H.264/AVC and Beyond, EURASIP Journal on Applied Signal Processing,
2006
•Guest editor, Special Issue on
Multimedia Communication Services, Journal of Circuits, Systems and Signal
Processing, Feb. 2001.
•Guest editor, Special Issue on Design and Implementation of Signal
Processing Systems, Journal of
VLSI Signal Processing - Systems for Signal, Image and Video Technology,
Nov. 2001.
•Guest editor, special issue on
Visual Communications and Image Processing, Optical Engineering Journal,
July 1991 and July 1993.
•Guest editor, special issue on
Information Appliance (in Chinese), Electronic Magazine, Jan.2001.
•Guest editor, special issue on
DVD (in Chinese), Electronic Magazine, March.1998.
•Co-editor (with Prof. J.W. Woods)
of Handbook of Visual Communications, San Diego, California: Academic
Press, 1995.
•Guest editor, special issue on
HDTV and ITV (in Chinese), Electronic Magazine, Dec.1995.
•Member, International Steering Committee, 2019 Picture Coding Symposium, Ningbo, China, Nov. 12-15, 2019.
•General Co-chair, IEEE International Conference on Image Processing, Taipei, Taiwan, Sept. 22-25, 2019.
•Co-Chair, Technical Program Committee, Asia-Pacific Signal and Information Processing Association (APSIPA) Annual Summit and Conference, Honolulu, Hawaii, Nov.12-15, 2018.
•Member, International Steering Committee, 2018 Picture Coding Symposium, San Francisco, China, June 24-27, 2018.
•International
Coordinator, IEEE International Conference on Consumer Electronics - Taiwan, 2017 will be held at the National Taipei
University of Technology, Taipei (NTUT), Taiwan from June 2-4, 2017.
•Member, International Steering Committee, 2016 Picture Coding Symposium, Nuremberg, Germany,. Dec. 4-7, 2016
•Co-Chair, Technical
Program Committee, Asia-Pacific Signal and Information Processing Association
(APSIPA) Annual Summit and Conference, 2014, Thailand (12/09-12/12)
•Member,
Program Committee, The 5th IEEE International Workshop on Hot Topics in 3D
(Hot3D)• in conjunction with the IEEE Conference on Multimedia
& Expo 2014 (ICME•14), Chengdu, China, July 2014.
(7/14-7/18)
•Member,
International Steering Committee, 2013 Picture Coding Symposium, San Jose, USA.
Dec. 8-11, 2013
•Member, Advisory
Committee, Asia-Pacific Signal and Information Processing Association (APSIPA)
Annual Summit and Conference, 2013, Kaohsiung, Taiwan
•International
Coordinator, IEEE International Symposium on Consumer Electronics, 2013, Hsinchu, Taiwan. June 3-7, 2013.
•Member,
International Steering Committee, 2012 Picture Coding Symposium, Kraków, Poland. May7-9, 2012.
•Member,
Technical Program Committee, 21st Wireless and Optical Communication
Conference (WOCC), 2012, Kaohsiung, Taiwan.
•Conference general
co-chair (with Profs. J.-F. Yang and M. Tanimoto),
IEEE Conference on Visual Communications and Image Processing, Tainan, Taiwan, Nov. 6-9,
2011.
•International Steering Committee
member, Picture Coding Symposium,
Nagoya, Japan, Dec. 8-10, 2010.
•Technical program co-chair, IEEE
Workshop on Signal Processing Systems, Taipei,
Oct.1999.
•Technical program co-chair
(organizer), IEEE Int'l Symposium on Consumer Electronics, Taipei, Oct. 1998.
•Technical program co-chair, Taiwan-Japan
Joint Workshop on The Latest Development of Telecommunication Research,
Hsinchu, Taiwan, Jan.1998.
•Technical program chair, Workshop
on Chinese Digital TV Standard, Taipei, Taiwan, July 1997.
•Technical program chair, SPIE
Conference on Visual Communications and Image Processing, Taipei,
Taiwan, May 1995.
•Conference general co-chair (with
Dr. Barry Haskell), SPIE Conference on Visual
Communications and Image Processing, Boston, MA, USA, Nov. 1993.
•Conference co-chair (with Drs.
C.-H. Wei, T.-H.S. Chao, and S.C. Pei), 1993 HD-Media Technology and
Applications Workshop, Taipei, Taiwan, ROC., Oct.
1993.
•Conference co-chair (with Drs. Peter van Otterloo, and Sara A. Rajala), Conference on Image Communications and Video
Compression, in Int'l Symposium on Video Commun and
Fiber Optic Services, Berlin, Germany, April 1993.
•Plenary
Speech: "3D
Video: Some Challenging Topics," International
Conference on Intelligent and Advanced System (ICIAS)
2016, August 15-17, 2016 at KLCC, Kuala Lumpur
•Invited
Talk: "Globalization of Engineering Education: Our Experiences," Tokyo
University of Agriculture and Technology, Japan. February 26, 2016.
•Keynote
Speech: "3D
Video: Some Challenging Topics," IEEE
International Circuits and Systems Symposium, Langkawi,
Malaysia, Sept. 3-4, 2015.
•IEEE
CAS DL Talk: "Technology and
Standard for Virtual-view 3D Systems," University
of Science, Malaysia (USM), Penang, Malaysia, Sept. 2, 2015.
•IEEE
CAS DL Talk: "what's Next on Video Technologies," Tunku Abdul Rahman University (UTAR), Kampar, Malaysia, August 28 2015.
•IEEE
CAS DL Talk: "3D Video: Some Challenging Topics," Dept. of Information
and Communication Systems, Tokyo Metropolitan University, Tokyo, Japan, July
17, 2015.
•IEEE
CAS DL Talk: "Technology and
Standard for Virtual-view 3D Systems," EE
Dept, Princeton University, USA, May 5, 2015.
•IEEE CAS DL Talk:
"Technology and Standard for Virtual-view 3D Systems," Shanghai Jiaotong
University (SJTU); Zhejiang University (ZJU), China, August 2014.
•IEEE CAS DL Talk:
"Technology and Standard for Virtual-view 3D Systems," New Jersey Institute of
Technology; Polytechnic School of Engineering, New York University, USA, May
2014
•Keynote
Speech: "30 Years of Video Compression," IEEE Conference on Visual Communications and
Image Processing, Kuching, Malaysia, Nov. 17-20,
2013.
•Keynote
Speech: "Technology and Standard for
Virtual-view 3D Systems," 2012 IEEE International Symposium on Intelligent
Signal Processing and Communication Systems (ISPACS). Nov 4-7, 2012. New Taipei City, Taiwan. Plenary speaker
•Invited
Talk: "Multimedia
Industry and R&D in Taiwan," Nagoya University, Japan (日本名古屋大學).
March 9, 2012.
•Invited
Talk:
"what's Next on Video Coding Techniques and
Standards?" The Third 4G International Forum. July10-11, 2012. Taipei, Taiwan. Plenary speaker
•Invited
Talk:
"What's
Next on Video Coding Techniques and Standards," The 21th Annual Wireless and Optical Communications Conference
(WOCC 2012) April 19-20, 2012. Kaohsiung, Taiwan.
•Keynote
Speech: "What's Next on Video Coding Techniques
and Standards," National Symposium on
Systems Science and Engineering 系統科學與工程研討會, June 17, 2011. Plenary
speaker.
•Invited
Talk:
"what's
Next on Video Coding Techniques and Standards", The 19th Annual Wireless and Optical Communications Conference
(WOCC 2010) May 14-15, 2010. Shanghai, China.
•Keynote
Speech:
"40 Years of Video Compression," 2008全國電信研討會
(2008 National Symposium On Telecommunications, NST 2008), 虎尾科技大學, 6 Dec., 2008. Plenary speaker
•Invited
Talk:
"Algorithm and DSP implementation of H.264/AVC" (H-C Lin, Y-J Wang, K-T Cheng,
S.-Y. Yeh,
W.-N. Chen, C.-Y.Tsai, T.-S.
Chang, and H.-M. Hang), Asia and South Pacific Design Automation
Conference 2006, Yokohama, Japan, Jan 24-27, 2006.
•Invited Talk: "Advances of MPEG
Scalable Video Coding Standard", International Workshop on Intelligent
Information Hiding and Multimedia Signal Processing, Melbourne, Australia, 14 -
16, Sept 2005.
•Keynote Speech: "From Pels to Bits: Trend of Video Coding", 2005 Conf. on
Computer Vision, Graphics, and Image Processing, Taipei, Taiwan, Aug. 2005.
Plenary speaker
•Invited
talk,
"Next Generation MPEG Video and System,"
in 2003 Workshop on Consumer Electronics, Tainan, Taiwan, Nov. 27, 2003. Plenary speaker
•Invited
talk,
"MPEG video coding for shared networks, "in Computer & Communications
Technologies Conf. and Exhibition 2002, Taipei,
Taiwan, Oct.2002. Plenary speaker
•Invited
talk,
"From pels to bits: video
compression and communication," in International Workshop on Advanced Image
Technology (IWAIT)'99 , Hsinchu, Taiwan,
Jan.1999. Plenary speaker
•Invited
talk,
"Motion Estimation for Video Coding Standards," Standards and Common Interfaces for
Video Information Systems (Critical Review), in SPIE photonics East '95
Symposium, Philadelphia, PA, USA, Oct. 1995.
•Member of IEEE Signal Processing Society Nominations & Appointments Committee, 2021-2022
•Member of IEEE Circuits and System Society Education Award Committee, March 2009
•Member of IEEE Signal Processing Society Image, Video and Multidimensional Signal Processing (IVMSP) Technical Committee, 2017-2019
•Member of IEEE Circuits and
System Society Education Award Committee, March 2009
•Member of IEEE Circuits and
System Society Technical Committee on Visual Signal Processing and
Communications, 1991-2018
•Technical Review Board Guest
Expert/Member, Telecommunication Labs. (Taiwan), 1993, 1995-98.
•Technical Advisory Committee
Guest Expert, Industrial Technical Research Inst. (Taiwan),
1992.
•Technical committee member for
many international conferences such as IEEE Int'l Conf. on Image Processing,
1994-1996, 1998; IEEE Int'l Conf. on Consumer Electronics, 1993, 1994;
and SPIE Visual Communications and Image Processing, 1991, 1994-.
•Reviewer for IEEE Trans. on
Communications, IEEE Trans. on Image Processing, IEEE Trans. on Circuits and
Systems on Video Technologies, Optical Engineering, Signal Processing, Image
Communications, and others.