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Shih-Fu Chang is a professor of electrical engineering at Columbia University. His research focuses on multimedia signal processing and communication, video indexing, wireless/mobile video, and multimedia authentication watermarking. He is currently leading Columbia's ADVENT industrial consortium and the Digital Video/Multimedia Group. He contributes to digital video research in several cross-disciplinary projects at Columbia, including Columbia's Patient Care Digital Library (sponsored by the cross-agency DLI phase 2 program), Multimedia Education Project supported by AT&T Foundation, and Columbia's Digital News System Project supported by NSF. Professor Chang has been awarded a Young Investigator Award from Office of Naval Research in 1998, a Faculty Development Award from IBM in 1995, and a CAREER Award from the National Science Foundation in 1995. He has served as an associated editor for several journals and has been a general cochair for ACM 8th Multimedia Conference 2000. He and his students have been awarded three best paper awards from IEEE, ACM, and SPIE. He currently serves as a distinigushed lecturer in the multimedia track of IEEE Circuits and Systems Society, and an advisor for several media companies. His group has worked closely with industrial partners for the development of MPEG-7, the emerging multimedia content description standard.

• Ph.D., Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, University of California at Berkeley (August 1993)
• M.S., Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, University of California at Berkeley (May 1991)
• B.S., Electrical Engineering, National Taiwan University (June 1985)

• Multimedia signal processing and communication
• Video indexing
• Wireless/mobile video
• Multimedia authentication watermarking

• Leader, Columbia ADVENT University-Industry Consortium (2000– )
• Thrust Area Leader (Search, Retrieval, and Filtering), New Media Technology Center, Columbia University (1998)
• Associate Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering, Columbia University (1997– )
• Assistant Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering, Columbia University (1993–97)
• Summer research, Bell Communications Research, Morris Town, N.J. (June–August 1990)
• Full-Time Assistant Instructor, National Taiwan University (August 1987–July 1988)
• Advisory Board/Consultant, Eastman Kodak (1998), PictureTel (1998), iBeam (2000– ), Sekani (2000), SOSi (2000-date), Institute of Information Industry (2001)

S.-F. Chang, T. Sikora, and A. Puri, "Overview of the MPEG-7 Standard," IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, special issue on MPEG-7, June 2001.

C.-Y. Lin and S.-F. Chang, "A Robust Image Authentification Method Distinguishing JPEG Compression from Malicious Manipulation," IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, Vol. 11, No. 2, pp.153-168, Feb. 2001.

G. Reyes, A. Reibman, S.-F. Chang, J. Chuang, "Error Resilient Transcoding for Video over Wireless Channels," IEEE Journal of Selected Areas of Communication, pp.1063-1074, Vol. 18, No. 6, June 2000.

D. Zhong and S.-F. Chang, "An Integrated System for Content-Based Video Object Segmentation and Retrieval," IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, Vol. 9, No. 8, pp.1259-1268, Dec. 1999.

H. J. Meng, D. Zhong, and S.-F. Chang, "Searching and Editing MPEG Compressed Video in A Distributed On-Line Environment," ACM/Springer International Journal of Multimedia Systems, 1999.

S.-F. Chang, D. Zhong, and R. Kumar, .Real-Time Content-Based Adaptive Streaming of Sports Video,. IEEE Workshop on Content-Based Access to Video/Image Library, Hawaii, Dec. 2001. also Columbia University ADVENT Technical Report #121, July 2001.

S.-F. Chang, W. Chen, H.J. Meng, H. Sundaram, and D. Zhong, "A Fully Automatic Content-Based Video Search Engine Supporting Multi-Object Spatio-Temporal Queries," IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, Special Issue n Image and Video Processing for Interactive Multimedia, Vol. 8, No. 5, p. 602-615, Sep. 1998. (demo: http://www.ctr.columbia.edu/VideoQ)

S.-F. Chang, J. R. Smith, M. Beigi, and A. Benitez, "Visual Information Retrieval from Large Distributed On-Line Repositories," Communications of ACM, Special Issue on Visual Information Management, Vol. 40 No. 12, pp. 63-71, Dec. 1997.

J. R. Smith and S.-F. Chang, "Searching for Images and Videos on the World-Wide Web," IEEE Multimedia Magazine, Summer, Vol. 4, No. 3, pp. 12-20, 1997. (demo: http://www.ee.columbia.edu/webseek)

S.-F. Chang, T. Huang, A. Puri, and B. Shahraray, "Content-Based Video Search and MPEG-7," book chapter in Multimedia Systems, Standards, and Networks, edited by T. Chen and A. Puri, Marcel Dekker, New York, 2000. (ISBN 0-7923-9949-8).