·        Editorships:

o       The Editor of Interactive Magazines (EIM): Communications Magazine, Network Magazine, and Wireless Magazine, IEEE Communications Society (ComSoc), 2004-2006.

-- The Interactive Magazines Editorial Board is responsible for the multimedia enhancements, as well as the On-line interactive magazines only articles. Members of the Interactive Magazines Editorial Board are appointed by the Editor of the Interactive Magazines (EIM). The EIM is a one of the eleven members at the ComSoc Magazines Board, with other ten Editor-in-Chiefs or Editors of ComSoc Magazines.

o          Associate Editor, IEEE Trans. on Multimedia, 2004 – 2006.

o         Member of Editorial Board, Journal of Visual Communication and Image Representation, 2005 – 2008.

o          Guest Editor, Proceedings of the IEEE, Special Issue on Enabling Security Technologies for Digital Rights Management, June 2004.

o       Guest Editor, EURASIP Journal on Applied Signal Processing, Special Issue on Visual Sensor Network, Sept. 2006.

·        International Project Organization:

o       Chair - Video Collaborative Annotation Forum, supported by NIST, Library of Congress, and 23 other worldwide institutes, Feb 2003 – Nov 2003.

-- I initiated and led this first large-scale video annotation project. I also developed the first distributed collaborative video annotation system being used in this project. One hundred and eleven researchers participated. The goal was to establish semantic ontology and associate semantic ground-truth labels to a large video dataset of 63 GB. The objective was to establish a common large-scale database to foster the research of video understanding and semantic retrieval.

·        International Conference Organization:

o       Technical Program Chair, IEEE Intl. Conf. on Information Technology: Research and Education (ITRE), Newark, August 2003.

o       Program Chair, Wireless and Optical Communications Conference, Hangzhou, October 2006.

o       Steering Committee (Circuit and System Society Appointed Representative), IEEE Intl. Conf. on Multimedia & Expo (ICME) (sponsored by Circuits and Systems Society, Communications Society, Signal and Processing Society and Computer Society), 2005 – 2006.

o       Chair, Watson International Workshop on Multimedia, Yorktown Heights, June 2003.

o       Area Chair, Multimedia Content Analysis, IEEE Intl. Conf. on Multimedia & Expo (ICME), Toronto, July 2006.

o       Area Chair, Multimedia Understanding and Recognition, IEEE Intl. Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS), Kos, Greece, May 2006.

o       Area Chair, Multimedia Understanding and Recognition, IEEE Intl. Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS), Vancouver, May 2004.

o       Registration Chair – IEEE Intl. Workshop on Multimedia Signal Processing (MMSP), Shanghai, Oct 2005.

o       Best Open-Source Software Chair – ACM Multimedia (ACMMM), Singapore, Nov 2005.

o       Student Paper Award Chair – IEEE Intl. Conf. on Image Processing (ICIP), Singapore, Oct 2004.

o       Student Paper Award Advisory Board – IEEE Intl. Conf. on Image Processing (ICIP), Genova, Sep 2005.

o       Publicity Chair – IEEE Intl. Conf. on Multimedia & Expo (ICME), Taipei, July 2004.

o       Publicity Chair – IEEE Pacific-Rim Conference on Multimedia (PCM), Beijing, Dec 2001.

·        Conference Tutorial Lecturer:

o       “Emerging Multimedia Understanding Technologies,” IEEE Intl. Workshop on Multimedia Signal Processing, Shanghai, China, Oct 2005.

o       “Emerging Video Understanding Technologies and Applications,” IEEE Intl. Symposium on Circuits & Systems (ISCAS), Kobe, Japan, May 2005.

o       “Emerging Multimedia Security Technologies for Digital Rights Management,” IEEE Intl. Conf. on Consumer Electronics (ICCE), Las Vegas, Jan. 2005.

o       “Multimedia Security Technologies for Digital Rights Management,” IEEE Global Communication Conference (Globecom), San Francisco, Dec 2003.

o       “Multimedia Security Technologies for Digital Rights Management,” IEEE Intl. Conf. on Multimedia & Expo (ICME), Baltimore, July 2003,

o       “Lossless Data Hiding,” IEEE Intl. Symposium on Circuits & Systems (ISCAS), Bangkok, May 2003,

·        Conference Special Session Organizer:

o       “Content Understanding and Transcoding Techniques for Media Adaptation,” IEEE Intl. Conf. on Multimedia & Expo (ICME), Taipei, June 2004;

o       “The Role of Machine Learning in Extracting Semantics from Multimedia Content,” IEEE Intl. Conf. on Image Processing (ICIP), Barcelona, September 2003;

o       “Emerging Multimedia Security Technologies for Digital Rights Management,” IEEE Intl. Conf. on Multimedia & Expo (ICME), Taipei, June 2004;

o       “Media Security Issues in Streaming and Mobile Applications,” IEEE Intl. Conf. on Image Processing (ICIP), Singapore, October 2004;

o       “Multimedia Security and Watermarking Applications,” IEEE Intl. Conf. on Information Technology: Coding and Computing (ITCC), Las Vegas, April 2001.

·        Academic Interactions:

o       Visiting Associate Professor – Dept. of Computer Science, National Taiwan University, December 2005.

o       International Advisory Board  – Dept. of Electrical Engineering, National Cheng-Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan, 2004 –2006.

o       Course/ Short Lecture,

§        (Course 3pt) “Topics in Signal Processing: Multimedia Security Systems,” Dept. of Electrical Engineering, Columbia University, Spring 2005.

§        (Lecture 15 hrs) “Distributed Signal Processing,” Dept. of Computer Science, National Taiwan University, December 2005.

§        (Lecture 8 hrs) “Multimedia Understanding and Multimedia Security,” Dept. of Computer Science, National Tsinghua University, Nov. 2003.

§        (Lecture 3 hrs) “Statistical Methods for Video Indexing and Analysis”, Dept. of Electrical Engineering, Columbia University, Oct. 2003.

§        (Lecture 6 hrs) “Multimedia Security in Visual Information Systems”, Dept. of Electrical Engineering, Columbia University, Nov. 2001 & Nov. 2002.

o       IBM Research Student Fellowship Committee – IBM Research, 2004.

o       IBM Research External Multimedia Seminar Co-Organizer – IBM Research, 2004 - 2005.

·        Memberships,  Technical Committee Memberships, and Reviewers:

o       IEEE Senior Member (’04 - , Member ’96-’97, ’01-‘03, Student Member ’98-‘00)

o       ACM Member (’01 -, Student Member ’98 – ‘00 )

o       IEEE Communication Society Multimedia Technical Committee (’02-),

o       IEEE Circuits and Systems Society Visual Signal Processing Technical Committee (’03-),

o       IEEE Circuits and Systems Society Multimedia System and Application Technical Committee (’03-),

o       IEEE Signal Processing Society Multimedia Signal Processing Technical Committee (’06-'09),

o       IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Data Engineering (’04-),

o       IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Pattern Recognition and Machine Intelligence (’04-),

o       ACM SIG Multimedia (’01-),

o       ACM SIG Knowledge Discovery and Data mining (’05-),

o       Member of American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) (’05 - )

o       Member of International Network for Social Network Analysis (INSNA) (’05 - )

o       Technical Program Committee Member: More than 20 international conferences, including ACM Multimedia Conference, SPIE VCIP, IEEE ISCAS, IEEE Globecomm, IEEE ICC, IEEE ICME, IEEE ICIP, IEEE ITCC, IEEE ITRE, IEEE PCM, IEEE NIME, IEEE FPIV, IEEE ISM.... (not a complete list)

o       Journal/Magazine/Book Reviewer: More than 20 international journals, magazines, and books, including IEEE Trans. on Multimedia, IEEE Trans. on Image Processing, IEEE Trans. on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, IEEE Trans. on Signal Processing, IEEE Trans. on Signal Processing Letters, IEEE Multimedia Magazine, IEEE Signal Processing Magazine, IEEE Communications Magazine, ACM Multimedia System Journal, SPIE Journal  of Visual Communication and Image Representation.... (not a complete list)

o       Invited Talks: More than 20 invited seminar talks, including Columbia University, Univ. of Washington, Univ. of Michigan,  New Jersey Institute of Technology, Stevens Institute of Technology, NEC Research, Panasonic Research, Honda Research, Sony Research,  Microsoft Research, National University of Singapore, Institute of Information Research, Sinica Academics, Taiwan University, Tsinghua University, Tamkang University, Chiao-Tung University, Cheng-Kung University.... (not a complete list)

Last Updated: 10/21/2005