MULTIMEDIA/MULTIMODAL SIGNAL PROCESSING, ANALYSIS, AND UNDERSTANDING

Prof. Tom. S. Huang

Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Dia 18 de Março 2005 (6ª feira), 11 horas, Anfiteatro EA4

Aula Especial da cadeira de Comunicação de Áudio e Vídeo

Abstract

"Multimodal" refers to the different senses (visual, audio, tactile, etc.) used in human-computer interface.  "Multimedia" refers to the different ways of representing information (text, graphics, audio, images, video, etc.). A signal processing, analysis, or understanding task is called Multimedia/Multimodal, if it involves two or more modalities or media, interacting in non-trivial ways. We shall give an array of examples of multimedia/multimodal signal processing, analysis, and understanding; including:  Audio/visual speech recognition, and audio/visual emotion recognition.  A stable and robust facial movement tracking algorithm will be presented, which is used in both tasks.

Biography

Thomas S. Huang received his B.S. Degree in Electrical Engineering from National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan, China, and his M.S. and Sc.D. Degrees in Electrical Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts. He was on the Faculty of the Department of Electrical Engineering at MIT from 1963 to 1973; and on the Faculty of the School of Electrical Engineering and Director of its Laboratory for Information and Signal Processing at Purdue University from 1973 to 1980. In 1980, he joined the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where he is now William L. Everitt Distinguished Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, and Research Professor at the Coordinated Science Laboratory, and Head of the Image Formation and Processing Group at the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology and Co-Chair of the Institute's major research theme Human Computer Intelligent Interaction.

During his sabbatical leaves: Dr. Huang has worked at the MIT Lincoln Laboratory, the IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center, and the Rheinishes Landes Museum in Bonn, West Germany, and held visiting Professor positions at the Swiss Institutes of Technology in Zurich and Lausanne, University of Hannover in West Germany, INRS-Telecommunications of the University of Quebec in Montreal, Canada and University of Tokyo, Japan.  He has served as a consultant to numerous industrial firms and government agencies both in the U.S. and abroad.

Dr. Huang's professional interests lie in the broad area of information technology, especially the transmission and processing of multidimensional signals. He has published 14 books, and over 500 papers in Network Theory, Digital Filtering, Image Processing, and Computer Vision. He is a Member of the National Academy of Engineering; a Foreign Member of the Chinese Academies of Engineering and Sciences; and a Fellow of the International Association of Pattern Recognition, IEEE, and the Optical Society of American; and has received a Guggenheim Fellowship, an A.V. Humboldt Foundation Senior U.S. Scientist Award, and a Fellowship from the Japan Association for the Promotion of Science. He received the IEEE Signal Processing Society's Technical Achievement Award in 1987, and the Society Award in 1991.  He was awarded the IEEE Third Millennium Medal in 2000. Also in 2000, he received the Honda Lifetime Achievement Award for "contributions to motion analysis". In 2001, he received the IEEE Jack S. Kilby Medal. In 2002, he received the King-Sun Fu Prize, International Association of Pattern Recognition; and the Pan Wen-Yuan Outstanding Research Award. He is a Founding Editor of the International Journal Computer Vision, Graphics, and Image Processing; and Editor of the Springer Series in Information Sciences, published by Springer Verlag.