Keynote Speaker
Prof. Kai-Kuang Ma
Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Professor Kai-Kuang Ma has been with the School of Electrical and Electronic
Engineering since 1995; he is currently a full professor in the Division of
Information Engineering. Dr. Ma received his B.E. degree (electronic
engineering) from Chung Yuan Christian University, Chung-Li, Taiwan, Republic of
China, M.S. degree (electrical engineering) from Duke University, Durham, NC,
U.S.A., and the Ph.D. degree (electrical engineering) from North Carolina State
University, Raleigh, NC, U.S.A.
From 1992 to 1995, he was with Institute of Microelectronics (IME) as a Member
of Technical Staff, working on digital video coding and the MPEG standards. From
1984 to 1992, he was working in IBM Corporation at Kingston, NY, and then
Research Triangle Park, NC, U.S.A., engaging on various DSP and VLSI advanced
product development. His research interests are in the areas of digital signal,
image and video processing. Prof. Ma has produced more than one hundred
publications in well-known international journals, conferences, and MPEG
standardization meetings. He holds one USA patent on fast motion estimation
algorithm.
He was serving as Singapore MPEG Chairman and Head of Delegation (1997-2001),
and his research works on fast motion estimation have been adopted by MPEG-4
standard. He is elected as a Distinguished Lecturer in the IEEE Circuits and
Systems Society for a two-year term (2008-2009). He has been serving as
Technical Program Chairman or Committee Members in numerous international
conferences in his area, including the most well-known flagship conferences,
such as ICIP, ICASSP, ISCAS, and so on. Dr. Ma is currently serving as
(Associate) Editor or Editorial Board Member of six international journals,
including IEEE Transactions on Image Processing (2007~), IEEE Transactions on
Communications (1997~), IEEE Transactions on Multimedia (2002~), etc. He is a
Senior Member of the IEEE and member of Eta Kappa Nu.
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Invited Speaker
Prof. Nobuhiko Mukai
Tokyo City University, Japan
Nobuhiko Mukai is a professor of Graduate School of Integrative Science and Engineering, Tokyo City University. He received his B.E., M.E., and Ph.D degrees from Osaka University in 1983, 1985, and 2001 respectively. He started to work at Mitsubishi Electric Corporation and changed to work as an associate professor at Musashi Institute of Technology in 2002. He is currently a professor of Tokyo City University from 2007. His research interests are computer graphics and image processing. He is a member of ACM, SAS, VRSJ, IEICE, ITE, IPSJ, IIEEJ, and JSUM.
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