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Speaker: Prof. Jhing-Fa Wang,
         Dean, College of Engineering
         Director, Electrical and Information Technology Center

         Prof. Yau-Hwang Kuo
         Director, Center for Research E-life Digital Technology (CREDIT)
         Deputy Director, Electrical and Information Technology Center

         Prof. Jar-Ferr Yang
         Director, Media Communication Research (MediaCore) Center
         Deputy Director, Electrical and Information Technology Center
         National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan

Topic:  "Digital Life and Multimedia Processing"

Date:   Thursday, 13 February 2003

Time:   11:00am - 12 noon

Venue:  Room 4480
        (Phase II, via lift nos. 25/26)
        HKUST


ABSTRACT:

Different layers of digital life associated with different levels of
multimedia processing technologies will be first introduced. From physical
perception, network communication, media processing, to knowledge
intelligent layers, in this talk, we will bring the millstones of research
activities and related future products to achieve comfort, convenience,
connection, and completion (4C) services.

Computer, communication, consumer electronics, and contents, namely 4C
technology, require standardizations to achieve the 4C services. The
designs of information appliances in MPEG-4 and multimedia services with
content-based MPEG-7 will be addressed and discussed. To match up with the
Si-Soft National Project in Taiwan, the goals of the on-going MPEG-4 SoC
NSC project in the National Cheng Kung University (NCKU) will be briefly
introduced. From low rate HVXC speech, AAC audio, to H.26L advanced video
coders in various applications in home media gateway will be forecasted.
At the same time, applications of MPEG-7 information retrieval to advance
the industrial capabilities of multimedia 4C services in NCKU will be
briefly introduced.




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Biography:

Prof. Jhing-Fa Wang is now a professor in National Cheng Kung University,
Tainan, Taiwan. He received his Master and Bachelor degrees in the
department of Electrical Engineering from National Cheng Kung University
in 1979 and 1973, respectively and Ph.D. degree in the Department of
Computer Science and Electrical Engineering from Stevens Institute of
Technology, U.S.A. in 1983. He is now a board Chairman of Journal of The
Chinese Institute of Electrical Engineering. He is now also on the Board
of Governors of IEEE Taipei Section. He got outstanding awards from
Institute of Information Industry in 1991 and National Science Council in
1990, 1995, and 1997, respectively. His current research areas include
VLSI/CAD, speech recognition, speech coding, optical character
recognition, and natural language processing. He has developed a Mandarin
speech recognition system called Venus-Dictate known as a pioneering
system in Taiwan. He has published about 77 journal papers and 185
conference papers since 1983. He was elected as an IEEE Fellow in 1999 for
contributions to software-hardware co-development of large-vocabulary
Mandarin speech processing and recognition systems.


Prof. Yau-Hwang Kuo, was born in Tainan, Taiwan, on August 20, 1959. He
received the BS degree from the Taiwan Normal University, Taiwan, in 1981,
and the MS degree and Ph. D. degree in CS&EE from the National Cheng Kung
University, Taiwan, in 1984 and 1988, respectively. Prof. Kuo was the
president of Taiwaness AI Association in 1999-2000 and managing director
of Chinese Fuzzy System Association in 1996-2000. He was the director of
the Research Center for Computer System Technology of NSC at the National
Cheng Kung University in 1997-2000. Currently, he is the coordinator of
Computer Engineering Program of National Science Council (NSC), the
director of Center for Research of E-life Digital Technology (CREDIT), the
deputy director of the Electrical and Information Technology Center, an
editor of International Journal of Fuzzy Systems, and a professor at the
Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering, National Cheng
Kung University, which he joined in 1988. His teaching and research
primarily are in the areas of computational intelligence, knowledge
engineering, broadband and wireless communication, embedded system design,
media processor design, and HCI/OCI.


Prof. Jar-Ferr Yang, was born in Keelung, Taiwan, on September 15, 1954.
He received, the BS degree from the Chung-Yuan Christian University,
Taiwan, in 1977, and the MS degree from the National Taiwan University,
Taiwan, in 1979, and the Ph. D degree from the University of Minnesota,
Minneapolis, U.S.A., in 1988 all in electrical engineering. Prof. Yang was
an instructor in the Chinese Naval Engineering School in 1979-1980 and he
worked in the Data Transmission and Network Design Research Group,
Telecommunication Laboratories during 1981-1984. He was the chairman of
the Center for Computer and Communication Research of the National Cheng
Kung University in 1997-2000. Currently, he is the deputy director of the
Electrical and Information Technology Center, the director of the
Multimedia Communication Research (MediaCore) Center, and a professor at
the Department of Electrical Engineering, National Cheng Kung University,
which he joined in 1988. His teaching and research primarily are in the
areas of signal processing, video and audio compression, and neural
networks.



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