Title: Multimedia Intelligence and Networked Living Technologies: NCKU Aspire Home for Quality Life
Jar-Ferr (Kevin) Yang,
Institute of Computer and Communication Engineering,
Department of Electrical Engineering,
National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan
In the fast growing digital world, the design of media, control environments, and computerized home becomes an inevitable and exciting trend for improvement of human lives. However, without considerations of human factor and human intelligent interaction, our daily life will only increase more and more un-integrated infrared remote controllers. Hence, we definitely hope to integrate a human-centric system, which is with the tightly coupled multimedia services and creative media products to create a totally innovated high quality and distinctive experience living space. The intelligent space should link humanity to media, virtual reality, and physical intelligent products together to become a touchable intelligent hypermedia living space. The integration of the developed information communication technology (ICT) with smart product and architecture designs, the NCKU in creative digital life research gradually shows her competency with the world famous media and digital research centers. The NCKU Aspire Home for Quality Life has completed the constructions of NCKU Creative Art Exhibition Corridor, 3D Virtual Reality Room, Interactive Garden, Smart Living Room, Digital Kitchen, Smart Bedroom, and Smart Study Room. The designs of the NCKU Aspire Home will be first addressed and the video demos of all smart rooms will be introduced.
JAR-FERR KEVIN YANG received his B.S. degree from the Chung-Yuan Christian University, Taiwan, in 1977, and M.S. degree from the National Taiwan University, Taiwan, in 1979, and Ph.D. degree from the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, USA, in 1988, all in electrical engineering. Currently, he is a distinguished professor, the Chairperson of Graduate Institute of Computer and Communication Engineering, the Director of the Electrical and Information Technology Center in National Cheng Kung University in Taiwan.
During 2004 - 2005, he was the IEEE Distinguished Lecturer in the IEEE Circuits and Systems Society. During 2007 - 2008, he is the Chair of IEEE Multimedia Systems and Applications Technical Committee in the IEEE Circuits and Systems Society. Currently, he is an Associate Editor of IEEE Transaction on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology and IEEE Circuits and Devices Magazine. He is an Associate Editor of EURASIP Journal of Applied Signal Processing and was a Guest Editor of the Special Issue on “Advanced Video Technologies and Applications for H.264/AVC and Beyond” in this journal. During 2007 - 2010, he is an Editorial Board Member of IET Signal Processing. He has published over 80 journal and 120 conference papers. His teaching and research areas primarily include video, audio, and speech signal processing and coding, adaptive signal processing, and digital life system design and integration. He is a Fellow of IEEE for his contributions to fast algorithms and efficient realization of video and audio coding.
Title: Video Inpainting
Timothy K. Shih
Tamkang University, Taiwan
tshih@cs.tku.edu.tw
http://www.mine.tku.edu.tw/chinese/teacher/tshih.htm
Recent interesting issues in video inpainting are defect removal and object removal. We take one more step to replace the removed objects in a video sequence by implanting objects from another video. Before implant, we improve an exemplar-based image inpainting algorithm by using a new patch matching strategy which incorporates edge properties. The data term used in a priority computation of candidate patches is also redefined. We take varieties of temporal continuities of foreground and background into consideration. A motion compensated inpainting procedure is then proposed. However, to remove objects from a video, the resulting video may have ghost shadows even each individual frame is inpainted properly. We use motion estimation algorithm to separate objects and backgrounds into several layers. Objects in separated layers are inpainted from back to front layers, with a consideration of the temporal continuity of motion segments among different frames. The inpainted video backgrounds are visually pleasant with smooth transitions. A simple tracking algorithm is then used to produce a foreground video, which is implanted into the inpainted background video. Our results are available at http://www.mine.tku.edu.tw/inpainting.
Dr. Shih is a Professor of the Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering at Tamkang University, Taiwan. He is a member of ACM. As a senior member of IEEE, Dr. Shih joins the Educational Activities Board of the Computer Society. His current research interests include Multimedia Computing and Distance Learning. He was a faculty of the Computer Engineering Department at Tamkang University in 1986. In 1993 and 1994, he was a part time faculty of the Computer Engineering Department at Santa Clara University. He was also a visiting professor at the University of Aizu, Japan in summer 1999, a visiting researcher at the Academia Sinica, Taiwan in summer 2001, and an adjunct faculty member of Xidian University, China. Dr. Shih has edited many books and published over 390 papers and book chapters, as well as participated in many international academic activities, including the organization of more than 50 international conferences and several special issues of international journals. He is the founder and co-editor-in-chief of the International Journal of Distance Education Technologies, published by Idea Group Publishing, USA. Dr. Shih is the associate editor of ACM Transactions on Internet Technology. He was also the associate editor of IEEE Transactions on Multimedia. Dr. Shih has received many research awards, including research awards from National Science Council of Taiwan, IIAS research award of Germany, and several best paper awards from international conferences. He also received many funded research grants from both domestic and international agencies. Dr. Shih has been invited to give more than 20 keynote speeches and plenary talks in international conferences, tutorials in IEEE ICME 2001/2006 and ACM Multimedia 2002, and talks at international conferences and overseas research organizations. Publications, demonstrations and contact address of Dr. Shih can be retrieved from http://www.mine.tku.edu.tw/chinese/teacher/tshih.htm.