IEEE
Circuits and Systems Society Joint Chapter of the Vancouver/Victoria Sections
IEEE Circuits and Systems Society Distinguished Lecturer Program
Music Emotion Recognition and Computational Imaging
Speaker:
Dr. Homer Chen
IEEE CAS Society Distinguished Lecturer
Distinguished Professor
Department of Electrical Engineering
Graduate Institute of Communication Engineering
Graduate Institute of Networking and Multimedia
National Taiwan University
Dates and Locations
Friday, August 9, 2013, 3:30 pm to 4:30 pm
IRMACS Presentation Studio, ASB 10900 (SFU Map)
Refreshment will be served after the talk.
We would greatly appreciate if you would please register so that we may more accurately estimate the room size and refreshments.
Dr. Chen is a
renowned expert in multimedia signal processing and communications. His
professional career has spanned across academia and industry. Since
August 2003, he has been with the College of Electrical Engineering and
Computer Science, National Taiwan University, where he is Irving T. Ho
Chair Professor. Prior to that, he held various R&D management and
engineering positions with U.S. companies over a period of 17
years, including AT&T Bell Labs, Rockwell Science Center, iVast,
and Digital Island (acquired by Cable & Wireless). He was a U.S.
delegate for ISO and ITU standards committees and contributed to the
development of many new interactive multimedia technologies that are
now part of the MPEG-4 and JPEG-2000 standards. His professional
interests lie in the broad area of multimedia signal processing and
communications.
Dr. Chen is an IEEE Fellow. As a Technical
Program Co-Chair, he helped revamp the IEEE International Conference on
Multimedia and Expo in 2010. He was an Associate Editor of IEEE
Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology from 2004 to
2010, IEEE Transactions on Image Processing from 1992 to 1994, and
Pattern Recognition from 1989 to 1999. He served as a Guest
Editor for IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video
Technology in 1999 and for IEEE Transactions on Multimedia in 2011.
Contact
Please contact Dr. Jie Liang (Email: JieL at sfu dot ca) if
you have any question.