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AMP member David Liu's paper in top accessed documents

AMP member David Liu's paper titled "DISCOV: A Framework for Discovering Objects in Video" has been ranked 4th among the top documents in March 2008 to be accessed in the IEEE Transactions on Multimedia. The rankings can be found here.

Six AMP papers accepted at CVPR 2008

D. Parikh, L. Zitnick and T. Chen, "From Appearance to Context-Based Recognition: Dense Labeling in Small Images," IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) 2008 (to Appear).

D. Batra, R. Sukthankar, and T. Chen,"Learning Class-Specific Affinities for Image Labelling," IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) 2008 (to Appear).

D. Liu, G. Hua, P. Viola and T. Chen. "Integrated Feature Selection and Higher-order Spatial Feature Extraction for Object Categorization," IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2008 (to Appear).

A.B. Ashraf, S. Lucey and T. Chen. "Learning Patch Correspondences for Improved Viewpoint Invariant Face Recognition," IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2008 (to Appear).

A. Gallagher, T. Chen, “Estimating Age, Gender and Identity using First Name Priors,” IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition 2008 (to Appear).

A. Gallagher, T. Chen, “Multi-Image Graph Cut Clothing Segmentation for Recognizing People ,” IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition 2008 (to Appear).

List of all AMP publications can be found here.

AMP Alumni Dr. Claire Fang moves to Microsoft

AMP Alumni Claire Fang graduated from ECE CMU with her Ph.D. in 2005. She worked at McKinsey, and is now joining Microsoft as a business strategy manager in the Online Service Group.

AMP members receive awards at ECE Diploma Ceremony 2007

Past AMP member Faistinus Gozali received the E. M. Williams award at the ECE Diploma ceremony 2007. The award is given to an ECE senior in recognition of superior scholastic achievement and community service.

Prof. Tsuhan Chen received the Eta Kappa Nu (HKN) Award for Outstanding Faculty Teaching that is presented to an ECE faculty member in recognition of teaching excellence.

Professor Tsuhan Chen gives keynote talk at AVSS 2007

Professor Tsuhan Chen gave a keynote talk at Advanced Video and Signal Based Surveillance (AVSS), 2007 in London, UK, on "A Journey from Signal Processing to Surveillance".

Former AMP member Cha Zhang wins best paper award at ICME 2007

Cha Zhang, now at Microsoft Research, Redmond, was awarded the best paper award at IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME), 2007 for his paper titled "Learning-Based Perceptual Image Quality Improvement for Video Conferencing"

AMP member Devi Parikh wins best paper award at CVPR 2007 workshop

Devi Parikh won the best paper award at the IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), Beyond Patches workshop, 2007 for her paper titled “Unsupervised Learning of Hierarchical Semantics of Objects (hSOs)".

AMP member Andrew Gallagher wins best paper award at CVPR 2007 workshop

Andrew Gallagher won the best paper award at the IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), Workshop on Semantic Learning Applications in Multimedia (SLAM), 2007 for his paper titled “Using Group Prior to Identify People in Consumer Images".

AMP graduate Wende Zhang awarded Ph.D. degree at Diploma Ceremony 2007

Wende Zhang was awarded his Ph.D. degree at the diploma ceremony 2007. His thesis is titled "A Probabilistic Framework for Geometry and Motion Reconstruction Using Prior". He has joined General Motors.

Professor Tsuhan Chen volunteers to be on the dunk tank!

Professor Tsuhan Chen volunteers to be on the dunk tank for the ECE day at CMU! Many of the AMP members dunked Prof. Chen and helped raise several hundred dollars for charity.

Professor Tsuhan Chen named IEEE Fellow

The Board of Directors has named 268 IEEE Senior Members to Fellow Grade effective 1 January 2007. Professor Tsuhan Chen was one of them, for hist contributions to multidisciplinary multimedia signal processing. More information can be found here and here.

Former AMP member Cha Zhang's book "Light Field Sampling" - now in print!

Cha Zhang, a former AMP member who graduated with his doctorate degree in 2005, publishes a book "Light Field Sampling", co-authored by Professor Tsuhan Chen. The publishers of the book are Morgan and Claypool publishers. The book is now in-print yet. For more information can be found here or here or here.

Professor Tsuhan Chen keynote speaker at PCM 2006

Professor Tsuhan Chen gives a keynote speech titled "Multimedia Analysis: Marriage of Signal Processing and Machine Learning" at the Pacific-Rim Conference on Multimedia 2006. The conference was held at Zhejiang University in Hangzhou, China during November 2 - November 4 2006. Further details can be found here.

Former AMP member Deepak Turaga to serve as Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology

First PhD graduate of the AMP lab, Deepak Turaga, was invited to serve as the Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology. His term of service will be for two years.

Former AMP member Cha Zhang publishes a book "Light Field Sampling"

Professor Tsuhan Chen co-directs iCAST-Carnegie Mellon collaboration with Taiwanese Government to create New Security Technology Research Program

Professor Tsuhan Chen will co-direct iCAST (International Collaboration for Advancing Security Technology) - Carnegie Mellon collaboration. CMU has signed a $3 million agreement with the Taiwanese government, establishing a new research program and education outreach initiative. The rest of the article can be found here.

AMP member Andrew Gallagher and Professor Tsuhan Chen in Discovery News

Andrew Gallagher and Prof. Chen feature in an article in Discovery News - "Red-Eye Tech Gauges Age" on gauging a person's age through digital images. The article can be found here.

AMP member David Liu receives the ECE Outstanding TA Award in the ECE diploma ceremony

David Liu receives the Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award presented to an ECE teaching assistant for extraordinary performance in the department's teaching program. The ECE press release can be found here.

Government Technology notes security unveiled at the Taiwanese Innovation Technology Symposium

The complete article can be found here ( 03/05/2006 )

AMP comments on human gait recognition

The complete article can be found here ( 03/01/2006 )

Professor Tsuhan Chen wins Benjamin Richard Teare Teaching Award

Each year, the Carnegie Institute of Technology (CIT) selects one professor who demonstrates excellence in engineering education for the Benjamin Richard Teare Teaching Award. In 2006, CIT recognized AMP's Tsuhan Chen for his solid teaching contributions. Prof. Chen joins Ed Schlesinger (2001), Rob Rutenbar (1990) and Wojciech Maly (1988) as ECE faculty who have been distinguished with this award. Prof. Chen has taught several courses including "Image and Video Processing", "Mathematical Foundations of Electrical Engineering", "Signal Processing" and "Multimedia Communications". The ECE press release can be found here ( 02/01/2006)

AMP technology recognized by Frost & Sullivan's Sensor Technology Alert

AMP's Miniature MEMS Motion Sensor and ICTrack Tracking Toolbox were highlighted in a Sensor Technology Alert (warning: subscription required) (12/30/2005)

AMP member Todd Stephenson joined Reallaer, LLC

AMP member Todd Stephenson joined Reallaer, LLC in November 2005. (12/09/2005)

AMP graduates, Claire Fang Fang, Xiaoming Liu and Cha Zhang, were awarded Ph. D. degrees at Diploma Ceremony 2005

AMP graduates, Claire Fang Fang, Xiaoming Liu and Cha Zhang, were awarded Ph. D. degrees at Diploma Ceremony 2005. They joined McKinsey, General Electric and Microsoft after graduation respectively. (05/15/2005)

Award winners Thammanit Pipatsrisawat and Anup Doshi were honored at Diploma Ceremony 2005

Frank J. Marshall Scholar Award: To an ECE senior in recognition of outstanding scholastic and research achievement.
Recipient: AMP undergraduate student Thammanit Pipatsrisawat.

International Engineering Consortium – William L. Everitt Student Award of Excellence: Honors outstanding senior students majoring in ECE or Computer Science.
Recipients: Molly Meyer and AMP undergraduate student Anup Doshi. (05/15/2005)

Claire (Fang) successfully defended her PhD dissertation in May

Claire (Fang) successfully defended her PhD dissertation in May. (05/09/2005)

Wende successfully proposed his PhD thesis in May

With committee members Tsuhan Chen, Vijayakumar Bhagavatula (CMU), Martial Hebert (CMU), José M. F. Moura (CMU), and Mark J. Wolski (General Motors Research). (05/09/2005)

Congratulations to Thammanit Pipatsrisawat

AMP undergraduate student Thammanit Pipatsrisawat won 1st prize in the Bose competition and got an honorable mention in the Sigma Xi competition. (05/04/2005).

Welcome to visiting scholars: Wen-Hao Wang and Fu-Jen Hsiao

Starting from May 2005, Wen-Hao Wang and Fu-Jen Hsiao from ITRI visit AMP for 6 months.

Cha and Deepak's papers are most requested articles in Signal Processing: Image Communication

"A survey on image-based rendering--representation, sampling and compression" by Cha Zhang and Tsuhan Chen and "No reference PSNR estimation for compressed pictures" by Deepak S. Turaga et al. are ranked the 7th and 14th of the most requested articles from January - August 2004 in Signal Processing: Image Communication. (10/10/2004).

Dr. Shyu from ITRI visits CMU

Dr. Shyu from ITRI visits CMU and the lab "ITRI@CMU". (10/05/2004)

Cha successfully defended his PhD dissertation in June

With committee members Tsuhan Chen, Takeo Kanade (CMU), José M. F. Moura (CMU), and Richard Szeliski (Microsoft Research). (06/02/2004)

Cha and Chen's paper is the 7th most requested article from January - March 2004 in Signal Processing: Image Communication

"A survey on image-based rendering--representation, sampling and compression" by Cha Zhang and Tsuhan Chen (, which is in Signal Processing: Image Communication, 19 (2004) 1-28,) is ranked the 7th of the most requested articles from January - March 2004 in Signal Processing: Image Communication. (05/17/2004)

Welcome to visiting scholars: Chung-Fun Lin and Kai-Yi Cheng

From 4/30-5/15, Chung-Fun Lin and Kai-Yi Cheng from TL visit AMP for 2 weeks. (05/15/2004)

Welcome to visiting scholar: Wan-Ju Chiang

Starting from 4/24, Wan-Ju Chiang from ITRI visits AMP for 6 months. (03/15/2004)

Carnegie Mellon Provost Mark Kamlet greets the ITRI visitors

Apr 5 -- Welcome to the ITRI visitors (Paul Lin, Chung-Cheng Liu, Shiaw-shian Yu, Gin-Kou Ma, Jerry Wang, An-Jian Chao, Hong-Long Chou, and Yu-Tsun Chien) to further establish the cooperation between ITRI and Carnegie Mellon. Carnegie Mellon Provost Mark Kamlet and other delegates, including ECE Department Head Pradeep Khosla, and Professor Tsuhan Chen, Director of the "ITRI Lab@CMU," greeted them on Apr. 5. (04/07/2004)

Cha and Wende gave talks on GMCRL meeting

Apr 2-- AMP graduate student Cha Zhang gave a talk, “The Road Ahead - Information Sharing for Views without Occlusion” and Wende Zhang gave a talk, “Boids - Information Sharing among vehicles for Dynamic Route Planning” on GMCRL meeting. (04/05/2004)

Welcome to visiting scholar: Yu-Tsun Chien

Starting from 3/18, Yu-Tsun Chien from ITRI visits AMP for 5 months. (03/15/2004)

Taiwan President Chen Greets Carnegie Mellon President Jared Cohon and Praised the "ITRI Lab@CMU"

Taiwan President Chen Shui-bian greeted Carnegie Mellon President Jared Cohon and other delegates, including Provost Mark Kamlet, ECE Department Head Pradeep Khosla, and Professor Tsuhan Chen, Director of the "ITRI Lab@CMU," at the Presidential Office in Taipei.

Chen said, CMU is an excellent university not only in USA, but also in the world. It is the leading university in the field of computer engineering. Chen believes that this visit will increase exchanges and cooperation opportunities with Taiwan's academic and industrial institutions.

Chen said he was pleased to know that the CMU has established collaboration with National Chiao Tung University (NCTU), and that the Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI) has set up a research center on the CMU campus, conducting research on system on chip, multimedia, and security technologies. These research areas are very important for Taiwan.

Cohon agrees with Taiwan's effort on investing in education and research, and he expressed hope that CMU will further increase academic exchanges with Taiwan's academic, industrial and government sectors. He believes this will become a good basis for future interaction. (11/31/2003)

Welcome to visiting scholar: Dr. Kubota Akira

Starting from October 2003, Dr. Kubota Akira from the University of Tokyo visits AMP for one year.

Kubota Akira received the B.E. degree in electrical engineering from Oita University in 1997, the M.E. and Dr.E. degrees in electrical engineering from the University of Tokyo, Japan, in 1999 and 2002, respectively. He is currently a research fellow of the Japan society for the promotion of science at the University of Tokyo. His research interests are image representation and visual reconstruction. (10/05/2003)

Mike and Wende gave talks on GMCRL meeting

Oct 3-- AMP graduate student Michael Kaye gave a talk, “Stop Sign Detection” and Wende Zhang gave a talk, “Automatic Key Generation for Encryption Based on Biometrics” on GMCRL meeting.

GM Collaborative Research Lab (GMCRL) supplements GM initiatives to provide passengers safe and easy access to information and entertainment. (10/05/2003)

Welcome to new AMP member: David Liu

David got his BS and MS from EE Department of National Taiwan University, Taiwan, in 1999 and 2001. He then served in the army for two years. His current research direction is image retrieval. (09/01/2003)

Congratulations to graduate Dr. Howard Leung joining CityU

Starting from Fall 2003, Howard Leung is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Engineering and Information Technology at City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong. We wish him the best luck in the career. (09/01/2003)

Claire Fang Fang Honored With Best Paper Awards @ TECHCON 2003

August 25-27- AMP graduate student Claire Fang Fang won best paper award at TECHCON 2003 at the Hyatt Regency in Dallas, Texas. Fang's system design paper is called "Efficient Static Analysis of Fixed-Point Error in DSP Applications via Affine Arithmetic Modeling."

TECHCON 2003 featured more than 150 student-presented papers and related posters at TechFair, a recruiting event in CareerConnections, special sessions including presentation of the winners of the SiGe Design Contest, SRC awards presentations, and the Graduate Fellowship Program Annual Conference Banquet. (09/01/2003)

AMP hosts visitors of ITRI @ CMU

AMP lab hosts the visitors (Yao-Jen Kevin Chang, Yu-Tsun Chien, Chien-Chung Chen, Chien-Fu Chang, and Jen-Lung Liu) of ITRI, Taiwan from July to October, 2003. (07/01/2003)

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News from Alumni

Ryanth Atmadja joined Jakarta for Marian Centre Indonesia

Ryanth Atmadja is currently working part-time in Jakarta for Marian Centre Indonesia as an English-Indonesian translator. His tentative plan is to continue his study at Sep. 2004 in Mechatronics Engineering for a Master degree and a PhD degree, at Swiss German University (a recently founded - in year 2000 - international university in Indonesia). (03/29/2004)

Salman Yussof joined Universiti Tenaga Nasional, Malaysia

Salman Yussof is currently a faculty member in the College of IT, Universiti Tenaga Nasional, Malaysia. He has been teaching various subjects. Most of the time he teaches Computer Networks and Image Processing. He have also started his PhD study at the same university recently. (03/13/2004)

Michael Kaye joined Northrop Grumman

Michael Kaye began working at Northrop Grumman in Baltimore, MD, on January 13, 2004. Michael is a software engineer on the New Graduate Professional Development Program. He will experience several different job assignments during the next year before making a commitment to remain permanently in a particular position. Michael's first assignment involves automatic target recognition for synthetic aperture radar. (03/09/2004)

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AMP in the news

Engineering the Family Car of the Future

Our AMP lab is working to develop an automatic stop sign detector for vehicles by mounting cameras on vehicles to measure the time it takes for drivers to stop at dangerous intersections. Our work also includes studying ways to make the car be more "context aware" by the vision sensors so that a car will know enough about the driver and the vehicle's surroundings that it can anticipate when a driver needs certain information. (Shown in "Our Region's Business" at WPXI Channel 11, Feb. 12, 2005.)

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Taking photography to a new dimension

Together with CMU engineering graduate researcher Kate Hyanjung Shim and former student Cha Zhang, Tsuhan Chen, a Carnegie Mellon University engineering professor, has designed a computer-powered camera array that can record from many viewpoints to generate a 3-D optical image on a flat surface. (Tribute-Review, December 22, 2004)

Gesture Interfaces for Automotive CONTROL: (Beyond Digital Expletives)

Researchers are taking the lowly hand gesture out of the realm of digital expletives and making it a full-fledged control interface. Soon, drivers will be able to command vehicle functions with the wave of a hand. (Automotive Design & Production, July, 2003).

Science brief: CMU teams with Taiwan (Post-gazette, June 16, 2003)

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