Xiong Zixiang

        Dr. Zixiang Xiong received the Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering in 1996 from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. From 1995 to 1997, he was with Princeton University, first as a visiting student, then as a research associate. From 1997 to 1999, he was with the University of Hawaii. Since 1999, he has been with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Texas A&M University, where he is a professor. He received an NSF Career Award in 1999, an ARO Young Investigator Award in 2000 and an ONR Young Investigator Award in 2001. He also received the 2006 IEEE Signal Processing Magazine best paper award. He served as associate editor for the IEEE Trans. on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology (1999-2005), the IEEE Trans. on Image Processing (2002-2005), the IEEE Trans. on Signal Processing (2002-2006), and the IEEE Trans. on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics (part B) (2005-2009). He is currently an associate editor for the IEEE Trans. on Communications. He is a fellow of the IEEE. ....Related link.....

     Wu Xiaolin

        Dr. Xiaolin Wu received the B.S. degree from Wuhan University, China, in 1982, and the Ph.D. degree from the University of Calgary, Canada, 1988. Right now, he is a Professor of Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, McMasterUniversity and the NSERC-DALSA Industrial Research Chair in Digital Cinema.
        His research interests include visual/multimedia computing and communications, JPEG standardization process. Prof. Wu have published numerous algorithms for computer graphics and image processing (image coding in particular), some of which are being used by practitioners, such as a fast optimal color quantizer, and a Context-based Adaptive Lossless Image Codec (CALIC) which was developed jointly with Nasir Memon as a candidate algorithm for the new JPEG lossless standard. CALIC(executable) is widely used as a benchmark in performance evaluation of lossless image codecs. ....Related link.....

     Lin Weisi

        Dr. Lin Weisi received his B.S. degree in Electronics, M.Sc in Digital Signal Processing from Zhongshan University, China, in 1982 and 1985, respectively, and Ph.D in Computer Vision from King’s College, London University, UK in 1992. He taught and researched in Zhongshan Univ., Shantou Univ. (China), Bath Univ. (UK), Nat’l Univ. of Singapore, Institute of Microelectronics (Singapore) and Institute for Infocomm Research (Singapore). He served as the Lab Head, Visual Processing, and then the Acting Department Manager, Media Processing, in Institute for Infocomm Research. Currently, he is an Associate Professor in School of Computer Engineering, Nanyang Technological Univ., Singapore. His research interests include image processing, perceptual modeling, video compression, multimedia communication, computer vision and embedded systems. ....Related link.....

     Yin Wotao

       Dr. Wotao Yin has been an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computational and Applied Mathematics at Rice University since he received his Ph.D. from IEOR in 2006. He studies numerical optimization and its applications in inverse problems, such as compressed sensing, image processing, computer vision and machine learning. ....Related link....

     Cai Jianfei

        Dr. Cai Jianfei received his PhD degree from the University of Missouri-Columbia in 2002. Currently, he is an Associate Professor with the Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. His major research interests include visual signal processing, multimedia analysis, multimedia networking and wireless networks. He has published over 80 technical papers in international conferences and journals. He has been actively participated in program committees of various conferences, and he is one of the track chairs for ICME 2006 & 2008 & 2009, the technical program co-chair for Multimedia Modeling (MMM) 2007 and the conference co-chair for Multimedia on Mobile Devices 2007. He is also an Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology (T-CSVT). ....Related link....

       Alfonso Fernandez-Vazquez, National Institute for Astrophysics Optics and Electronics (NIAOE), Mexico, Mar. 2007- Aug. 2007.