Autobiography

Wen-Huang Cheng was born in Taipei, Taiwan (R.O.C.), on January 17, 1980. He received the B.S. and M.S. degrees in computer science and information engineering from National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan (R.O.C.), in 2002 and 2004, respectively, where he received the Ph.D. degree from the Graduate Institute of Networking and Multimedia in 2008.


From 2009 to 2010, he was a principal researcher at the MagicLabs, HTC Corporation, Taoyuan, Taiwan (R.O.C.). Since 2010, he is an assistant research fellow at the Research Center for Information Technology Innovation (CITI), Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan (R.O.C.), where he currently leads the Multimedia Computing Laboratory (MCLab). His research interest includes multimedia content analysis, mobile multimedia computing, computer vision, and data compression.

Education

  • 2004-2008, Ph.D., Graduate Institute of Networking and Multimedia, National Taiwan University (with highest honors)
  • 2002-2004, M.S., Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering, National Taiwan University
  • 1998-2002, B.S., Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering, National Taiwan University

Honors & Awards

  • Outstanding Ph.D. Dissertation Award, the Chinese Image Processing & Pattern Recognition Society (中華民國影像處理與圖形識別學會博士最佳論文獎), 2010.
  • Outstanding Ph.D. Dissertation Award, the Institute of Information & Computing Machinery (中華民國資訊學會碩博士最佳論文獎 佳作), 2008.
  • Member of the Phi Tau Phi Scholastic Honor Society (斐陶斐榮譽學會會員), 2008.
  • Scholarship of the Taiwan Information Technology Developing Educational Foundation (財團法人臺灣資訊科技發展教育基金會績學獎金), Taiwan Information Technology Developing Educational Foundation, 2007.
  • CyberLink Technical Elite Fellowship (訊連科技菁英獎學金), CyberLink Corp., 2006.
  • Excellent Work Award (宏碁龍騰微笑競賽 佳作), work title: "Expand your vision: glasses-based multimedia information communication platform (拓展你的視野: 眼鏡式多媒體資訊溝通平台)", the 1st Acer Long-term Smile Contest, Taiwan, 2006.
  • Excellent Work Award (宏碁龍騰微笑競賽 佳作), work title: "Life Linker - smart digital photo frame (Life Linker - 智慧型數位相框)", the 1st Acer Long-term Smile Contest, Taiwan, 2006.
  • CVGIP2005, Best Paper Award (CVGIP佳作論文獎), the 18th IPPR Conference on Computer Vision, Graphics and Image Processing, Taipei, Taiwan, 2005.
  • WCEsp2004, IEEE Best Student Paper Award, Consumer Electronics Society - Taipei Chapter and Signal Processing Society - Taipei Chapter, 2004.
  • Inventec OKWAP Educational Scholarship (英華達OKWAP教育獎學金), Inventec Appliances Corp., 2004.

Experience

  • Working Experience
    • Adjunct Assistant Research Fellow, IIS, Academia Sinica, 2011.03-present.
    • Assistant Research Fellow, CITI, Academia Sinica, 2010.07-present.
    • Pr. Researcher, MagicLabs, HTC Corp., 2009.12-2010.07.
    • Postdoctoral Research Fellow, CITI, Academia Sinica, 2009.08-2009.12.
    • Research Intern, IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center, 2007.06-2007.09.
  • Academic Activity
    • Summer Visiting Scholar, University of Tokyo, 2007.09.
    • Guest Editor - Advances in Multimedia: 2011 Special Issue on Multimedia Semantics Analysis via Crowdsourcing Geo-Context.
    • Invited Journal Reviewer - IEEE Signal Processing Letters, IEEE Multimedia, IEEE Trans. Multimedia, IEEE Trans. Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, IEEE Trans. Image Processing, Elsevier Image and Vision Computing, Multimedia Systems, IEICE Trans. Information and Systems, IETE Technical Review, Journal of Information Science and Engineering, Journal of Computer Science and Technology.
    • Conference TPC Member - ACM ICMR'12, ACM ICIMCS'11, ACM RecSys'11, ACM RecSys'10.
    • Conference PC Member - IEEE CVPR'12, IEEE VCIP'12, IEEE ICT'12, IEEE VCIP'11, IEEE PacificVis'10, MMM'10, IEEE ISCAS'05.
    • Invited Talk - CSIE, Fu Jen Catholic University, 2011; CSIE, National Chi Nan University, 2011; CSIE, National Taiwan University of Science and Technology, 2011; CSIE, National Taiwan Normal University, 2010; CSIE, National Cheng Kung University, 2010; CSIE, National Chung Cheng University, 2009

Professional Membership

  • Member, IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers).
  • Professional Member, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery).
  • Member, IEICE (Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers).
  • Member, IICM (Institute of Information and Computing Machinery).

Wen-Huang Cheng

Recruitment 

1. Postdoc Researcher

Job Description:
The Multimedia Computing Laboratory (MCLab) at CITI, Academia Sinica, is currently seeking candidates able to make research advances in the various areas of muiltimedia technologies.

Required:

  • Ph.D. degree in CS/EE/Math or other related fields.
  • Analytic background and software prototyping skills.

Salary:
NSC standard ($55,000-$59,000 NTD/Month) with Health Insurance & Year-End Bonus.

How to Apply:
Please email me your resume, bio, transcripts, and other supporting materials for further scheduling interviews. Note that only qualified applicants will be notified.

2. Full-time/Part-time Research Assistants

Job Description:
The Multimedia Computing Laboratory (MCLab) at CITI, Academia Sinica, is currently seeking candidates to participate in our on-going research in the various areas of muiltimedia technologies.

Required:

  • M.S. degree/student in CS/EE/Math or other related fields.
  • C/C++ programming at intermediate level or above.
  • Paper survey and reading skills.
  • Willingness to write and publish papers.

Preferred:

  • with a plan or desire to pursue Ph.D. degrees.

Salary:
NSC standard (Full-time: $35,000-$39,000 NTD/Month) with Health Insurance & Year-End Bonus.

How to Apply:
Please email me your resume, bio, transcripts, and other supporting materials for further scheduling interviews. Note that only qualified applicants will be notified.

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Publications

  1. Yin-Hsi Kuo, Wen-Huang Cheng, Hsuan-Tien Lin, and Winston H. Hsu, "Unsupervised Semantic Feature Discovery for Image Object Retrieval and Tag Refinement," accepted by IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, 2012.
  2. Hong-Han Shuai, De-Nian Yang, Wen-Huang Cheng, and Ming-Syan Chen, "MobiUP: An Upsampling-Based System Architecture for High Quality Video Streaming on Mobile Devices," IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, vol. 13, no. 5, pp. 1077-1091, October 2011. (SCI, EI)
  3. Wen-Huang Cheng, Yung-Yu Chuang, Yin-Tzu Lin, Chi-Chang Hsieh, Shao-Yen Fang, Bing-Yu Chen, and Ja-Ling Wu, "Semantic Analysis for Automatic Event Recognition and Segmentation of Wedding Ceremony Videos," IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, vol. 18, no. 11, pp. 1639-1650, November 2008. (SCI, EI, impact factor=3.022)
  4. Wen-Huang Cheng, Chia-Wei Wang, and Ja-Ling Wu, "Video Adaptation for Small Display Based on Content Recomposition," IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, vol. 17, no. 1, pp. 43-58, January 2007. (SCI, EI, impact factor=3.022)
  5. Chia-Chiang Ho, Ja-Ling Wu, and Wen-Huang Cheng, "A Practical Foveation-based Rate Shaping Mechanism for MPEG Videos," IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, vol. 15, no. 11, pp. 1365-1372, November 2005. (SCI, EI, impact factor=3.022)
  6. Wen-Huang Cheng, Wei-Ta Chu, and Ja-Ling Wu, "A Visual Attention based Region-of-Interest Determination Framework for Video Sequences," IEICE Transactions on Information and Systems Journal, vol. E-88D, no. 7, pp. 1578-1586, July 2005. (SCIE, EI, impact factor=0.242)
  7. Wei-Ta Chu, Wen-Huang Cheng, and Ja-Ling Wu, "Semantic Context Detection Using Audio Event Fusion," accepted by the EURASIP Journal on Applied Signal Processing, 2005. (SCI, EI, impact factor=0.394)
  8. Wei-Ta Chu, Wen-Huang Cheng, Jane Yung-Jen Hsu, and Ja-Ling Wu, "Towards Semantic Indexing and Retrieval Using Hierarchical Audio Models," ACM Multimedia Systems Journal, vol. 10, no. 6, pp. 570-583, 2005. (SCI, EI, impact factor=0.776)
  1. Yu-Hsun Lin, Wen-Huang Cheng, Hsin Miao, Tsung-Hao Ku, and Yung-Huan Hsieh, "Single Image Depth Estimation from Image Descriptors," The 37th IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP 2012), 25-30 March, 2012, Kyoto, Japan. (EI)
  2. Yin-Tzu Lin, Shuen-Huei Guan, Yuan-Chang Yao, Wen-Huang Cheng, and Ja-Ling Wu, "U-Drumwave: An Interactive Performance System for Drumming," The 2012 International MultiMedia Modeling Conference (MMM 2012), 4-6 January, 2012, Klagenfurt, Austria. (EI)
  3. Tsung-Hung Tsai, Wen-Huang Cheng, and Yung-Huan Hsieh, "Dynamic Social Network for Narrative Video Analysis," The 19th ACM International Conference on Multimedia (MM 2011) Grand Challenges, November 28 - December 1, 2011, Arizona, USA. (EI, acceptance rate=35%)
  4. Yin-Hsi Kuo, Wen-Yu Lee, Winston H. Hsu, and Wen-Huang Cheng, "Augmenting Mobile City-View Image Retrieval with Context-Rich User-Contributed Photos," The 19th ACM International Conference on Multimedia (MM 2011) Grand Challenges, November 28 - December 1, 2011, Arizona, USA. (EI, acceptance rate=35%)
  5. Jung-Yu Yeh, Min-Chun Hu, Wen-Huang Cheng, and Ja-Ling Wu, "Interactive Digital Scrapbook Generation for Travel Photos Based on Design Principles of Typography," The 19th ACM International Conference on Multimedia (MM 2011), November 28 - December 1, 2011, Arizona, USA. (EI, acceptance rate=35%)
  6. Yin-Hsi Kuo, Hsuan-Tien Lin, Wen-Huang Cheng, Yi-Hsuan Yang, and Winston H. Hsu, "Unsupervised Auxiliary Visual Words Discovery for Large-Scale Image Object Retrieval," The 2011 IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR 2011), 20-25 June, 2011, Colorado Springs, CO, USA. (EI, acceptance rate=22.5%)
  7. Chuang-Wen You, Yi-Ling Chen, Wen-Huang Cheng, Ming-Syan Chen, and Shan-An Tsai, "SocialCRC: A Social- and Context-Aware Rendezvous Coordination System," The 28th ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2010), 10-15 April, 2010, Atlanta, GA, USA. (EI, acceptance rate=24%)
  8. Wen-Huang Cheng and David Gotz, "Context-Based Page Unit Recommendation for Web-Based Sensemaking Tasks," The 14th International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI 2009), 8-11 February, 2009, Sanibel Island, FL, USA. (EI, acceptance rate=25%, 34 out of 134 full paper submissions are accepted)
  9. Chi-Chang Hsieh, Wen-Huang Cheng, Chia-Hu Chang, Yung-Yu Chuang, and Ja-Ling Wu, "Photo Navigator," The 16th ACM International Conference on Multimedia (MM 2008), October 27 - November 1, 2008, Vancouver, Canada. (EI, acceptance rate=17%, 15 out of 86 full paper submissions are accepted in Applications Track)
  10. Wen-Huang Cheng and David Gotz, "Context-Based Page Unit Recommendation for Web-Based Sensemaking Tasks," The 17th International World Wide Web Conference (WWW 2008), 21-25 April, 2008, Beijing, China, pp. 1073-1074. (EI)
  11. Wen-Huang Cheng, Yung-Yu Chuang, Bing-Yu Chen, Ja-Ling Wu, Shao-Yen Fang, Yin-Tzu Lin, Chi-Chang Hsieh, Chen-Ming Pan, Wei-Ta Chu, and Min-Chun Tien, "Semantic-Event Based Analysis and Segmentation of Wedding Ceremony Videos," The 9th ACM SIGMM International Workshop on Multimedia Information Retrieval (MIR 2007), 28-29 September, 2007, Augsburg, Germany, pp. 95-104. (acceptance rate=22%)
  12. Chia-Wei Wang, Wen-Huang Cheng, Jun-Cheng Chen, Shu-Sian Yang, and Ja-Ling Wu, "Film Narrative Exploration Through Analyzing Aesthetic Elements," The 2007 International MultiMedia Modeling Conference (MMM 2007), 9-12 January, 2007, Singapore, Singapore. (acceptance rate=30%)
  13. Chia-Wei Wang, Wen-Huang Cheng, and Ja-Ling Wu, "Automatic Chapter Generation for Consumer Videos," The 2007 International Conference on Consumer Electronics (ICCE 2007), 12-14 January, 2007, Las Vegas, USA.
  14. Wen-Huang Cheng, Chun-Wei Hsieh, Sheng-Kai Lin, Chia-Wei Wang, and Ja-Ling Wu, "Robust Algorithm for Exemplar-based Image Inpainting," The International Conference on Computer Graphics, Imaging and Vision (CGIV 2005), 26-29 July, 2005, Beijing, China, pp. 64-69. (EI)
  15. Chia-Ying Li, Wen-Huang Cheng, Yi-Shin Tung, Sung-Wen Wang, and Ja-Ling Wu, "Global-Motion-Compensation Based Super-Resolution Image Reconstruction for Video Decoding Applications," The 5th EURASIP Conference Focused on Speech and Image Processing, Multimedia Communications and Services (EC-SIP-M 2005), 29 June-2 July, 2005, Smolenice, Slovak.
  16. Wen-Huang Cheng, Wei-Ta Chu, Jin-Hau Kuo, and Ja-Ling Wu, "Automatic Video Region-of-Interest Determination Based on User Attention Model," The 2005 IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS 2005), 23-26 May, 2005, Kobe, Japan, pp. 3219-3222. (EI)
  17. Chih-Hao Liang, Wei-Ta Chu, Jin-Hau Kuo, Ja-Ling Wu, and Wen-Huang Cheng, "Baseball Event Detection Using Game-Specific Feature Sets and Rules," The 2005 IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS 2005), 23-26 May, 2005, Kobe, Japan, pp. 3829-3832. (EI)
  18. Wei-Ta Chu, Wen-Huang Cheng, and Ja-Ling Wu, "Generative and Discriminative Modeling toward Semantic Context Detection in Audio Tracks," The 2005 International Multi-Media Modeling Conference (MMM 2005), 12-14 January, Melbourne, Australia, pp. 38-45, 2005. (EI, acceptance rate=28%)
  19. Wen-Huang Cheng, Sheng-Kai Lin, Chia-Wei Wang, Chun-Wei Hsieh, and Ja-Ling Wu, "Effective Exemplar-based Image Inpainting," The 18th IPPR Conference on Computer Vision, Graphics and Image Processing (第18屆電腦視覺、圖學暨影像處理研討會, CVGIP2005), 21-23 August, 2005, Taipei, Taiwan. (Best Paper Award)
  20. Wei-Ta Chu, Wen-Huang Cheng, Sheng-Fang He, Chia-Wei Wang, and Ja-Ling Wu, "A Unified Framework Using Spatial Color Descriptor and Motion-based Post Refinement for Shot Boundary Detection," The 2004 IEEE Pacific-Rim Conference on Multimedia (PCM 2004), 30 November-3 December, Tokyo, Japan, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol. 3333, pp. 558-565, 2004. (EI)
  21. Wei-Ta Chu, Wen-Huang Cheng, Ja-Ling Wu, and Jane Yung-Jen Hsu, "A Study of Semantic Context Detection by Using SVM and GMM Approaches," The 2004 IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME 2004), 27-30 June, Taipei, Taiwan, vol. 3, pp. 1591-1594, 2004. (EI)
  22. Wen-Huang Cheng, Wei-Ta Chu, and Ja-Ling Wu, "A Visual Focus Detection Framework for Video Sequences," The 2004 Workshop on Consumer Electronics and Signal Processing (2004年民生電子暨訊號處理研討會, WCEsp2004), 17-18 November, 2004, Hsinchu, Taiwan. (Best Student Paper Award)
  23. Wen-Huang Cheng, Wei-Ta Chu, and Ja-Ling Wu, "Semantic Context Detection Based on Hierarchical Audio Models," The 5th ACM SIGMM International Workshop on Multimedia Information Retrieval (MIR 2003), 7 November, 2003, Berkeley, CA, USA, pp. 109-115. (EI, acceptance rate=16.3%)
  24. Chia-Chiang Ho, Wen-Huang Cheng, Ting-Jian Pan, and Ja-Ling Wu, "A User-Attention Based Focus Detection Framework and Its Applications," The Fourth IEEE Pacific-Rim Conference on Multimedia (PCM 2003), 15-18 December, 2003, Singapore, pp. 1341-1345.
  25. Yi-Shin Tung, Jin-Hau Kuo, Ja-Ling Wu, Wen-Huang Cheng, and Ting-Jian Pan, "Encoding Strategies for Realizing MPEG-4 Universal Scalable Video Coding," Visual Communications and Image Processing 2003 (VCIP 2003), SPIE, 8-11 July, 2003, Lugano, Switzerland.
  1. Wen-Huang Cheng and David Gotz, "Context-Based Document Unit Recommendation for Sensemaking Tasks," US Patent, Application Number YOR920080235US1, 2008.
  1. Yi-Shin Tung, Wei-Ta Chu, Wen-Huang Cheng, Ting-Jian Pan, Hsien-Shuo Chen, and Ja-Ling Wu, "FGS Anchor Sequences for Call for Evidence on Scalable Video Coding Advances and Related Tools," ISO/IEC JTC1/SC29/WG11 MPEG2002/M9821, July 2003.
  2. Yi-Shin Tung, Ting-Jian Pan, Wen-Huang Cheng, and Ja-Ling Wu, "Reports on Performance Evaluation of Current QMC and Proposed Changes to Enable Switching MC Modes in the VOP Level," ISO/IEC JTC1/SC29/WG11 MPEG2002/M9494, March 2003.
  3. Yi-Shin Tung, Ja-Ling Wu, Ting-Jian Pan, Wen-Huang Cheng, and Po-Kang Hsiao, "MS Reference Software Update (ERSSP included)," ISO/IEC JTC1/SC29/WG11 MPEG2002/M9493, March 2003.
  1. "New Focus on Visual Media," Taiwan Television: Discover New Taiwan, 24 August, 2008.
  2. "So Touching! Smart Cameras: Enabling Technology for Automatic Photo Selection," China Times, 2 May, 2008.
  3. "Bad Photos Out, Good Photos In: Easy Shooting Technologies" United Daily News, 2 May, 2008.