Gene Cheung

Associate Professor

I joined National Institute of Informatics as an assistant professor 11/2009, promoted to associate professor 04/2012. I was a senior researcher in Hewlett-Packard Laboratories Japan from 08/2000 till 10/2009.

See my CV here (updated 04/16/2012).

News

• 5/17/2012: invited as TPC member of PCM'12.
  
• 5/04/2012: invited to serve as IEEE Tokyo section TPC vice-chair 2013-2014.
  
• 4/27/2012: 1 paper submitted to VCIP'12.
  
• 4/18/2012: 4 papers accepted to ICIP'12.
  
• 4/13/2012: graduate student Zhi Liu won the Graduate University for Advanced Studies Sokendai President's Award. Congrats!
  
• 4/06/2012: 1 paper submitted to MMSP'12.
  
• 3/30/2012: 1 paper submitted to Globecom'12.
  
• 3/28/2012: 1 paper accepted to Hot3D'12.
  
• 3/02/2012: 1 paper accepted to PV'12.
  
• 2/28/2012: 1 paper accepted to ICME'12.
  
• 2/24/2012: 1 CSVT paper submitted.
  
• 2/15/2012: SI proposal on "Advances in 3D Video Processing" accepted in JVCI. CfP in pdf or URL.
• 2/09/2012: 2 papers acepted to PCS'12.
  
• 2/04/2012: invited as area chair for ICIP'12.
  
• 1/26/2012: 1 TMM paper accepted.
  
• 12/23/2011: 2 papers accepted to ICASSP'12.
  

Research Interests

• Robust Visual Media Representation
  
• Single- / Multiple-view Video Coding & Streaming
• Immersive Communication and Interaction

Awards & Recognitions

• The Graduate University for Advanced Studies Sokendai President's Award 2012 for supervised graduate student Zhi Liu.
  
• Best poster award in PCSJ'11.
  
• One of 5 best paper finalists in ICIP'11 (of 2245 submitted papers).
  
• One of 22 best paper finalists in ICME'11 (of 744 submitted papers).
  
• Best student paper award for supervised graduate student Zhi Liu in StreamComm'11.
• Top 10% paper award in MMSP'09, MMSP'11.
  
• French newspaper atelier.fr published a news article on our community streaming research 5/19/2009.

Education

University of California, Berkeley, CA           May 2000
Doctor of Philosophy:   Electrical Engineering
Advisor:   Professor Steven McCanne

University of California, Berkeley, CA           May 1998
Master of Science:   Electrical Engineering
Advisor:   Professor Avideh Zakhor

Cornell University, Ithaca, NY           May 1995
Bachelor of Science:   Electrical Engineering

Professional Activities

IEEE Senior Member.

IEEE Tokyo section Technical Program Committee Vice-Chair 2013-2014.

Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Multimedia 12/2007 till 08/2011.

Associate Editor of DSP Applications Column in IEEE Signal Processing Magazine 12/2010 till present.

Associate Editor for APSIPA Transactions on Signal and Information Processing.

Guest Editor for SI on "Advances in 3D Video Processing" in JVCI. See pdf (or URL) for CfP.

TC Member in Multimedia Signal Processing Technical Committee (MMSP-TC) in IEEE Signal Processing Society 2012-2014.

Board Member of membership board in IEEE Multimedia Communications Technical Committee (MMTC).

Key Member of Interest Group on "Distributed and Sensor Networks for Mobile Media Computing and Applications" in IEEE Multimedia Communications Technical Committee (MMTC), 2010-2012.

Symposium co-chair for Communication Software, Services and Multimedia Applications (CSSMA) Symposium in IEEE GLOBECOM 2012.

Publication co-chair for VCIP 2012.

Co-organizer for 3rd International Workshop on Hot Topics in 3D (Hot3D'12), in conjunction with ICME 2012.

Track co-chair for Multimedia Signal Processing track in ICME 2011.

Area chair for ICIP 2010, 2012.

SPIE VCIP 2010 award committee.

Demo Co-Chair CCNC 2010,

Technical Program Co-Chair PV 2010.

Co-organizer for special session on "Streaming of 3D Content" for 19th International Packet Video Workshop, 2012.

Co-organizer for special session on "compression of high-dimensional media data for interactive navigation" for IEEE ICIP 2011.

Co-chair for special session on "immersive interaction for networked multiview video systems" for SPIE VCIP 2010.

Co-chair for special session on "cooperative media communication" in ICASSP 2010.

Technical Program Committee Member: ICCCAS 2004-2005, 2008-2009, ICIP 2005, ICME 2005-2006, Globecom 2006-2007, CCNC 2007, MMM 2008-2009, 2012, DTV Workshop of ICC 2008, ICCCAS , ICME 2010-2012, Hot3D 2010-2011, MMSP 2010-2011, ICCCN 2011, StreamComm 2011, ESPA 2012, PV 2012, MUE 2012, EUSIPCO 2012, PCM 2012.

Competitive External Funding

Microsoft CORE7 FY'11.

JSPS Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B) FY'11-FY'13.

FP7-PEOPLE-2011-IRSES "QoSTREAM--Video Quality Driven Multimedia Streaming in Mobile Wireless Networks" 02/2012-02/2016.

Invited Talks

"Eye-gaze Prediction via Joint-Analysis of Gaze Patterns and Visual Media," hosted by Prof. Ivan Bajic in Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, Canada, March 2012.

"Transform Domain Sparsification of Depth Maps for Depth-Image-Based Rendering," hosted by Dr. Yasuyuki Matsushita in Microsoft Research Asia, Beijing, China, Oct 2011.

"Sparse Representation of Depth Maps for Efficient Transform Coding," hosted by Prof. Jie Liang in Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, Canada, Feb 2011.

"Optimizing Multiview Image / Video Coding and Streaming," hosted by Prof. Lei Zhang in Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Dec 2010.

"Network Video Systems: Error-resilience & Interactivity", hosted by Prof. Gary Chan in Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Dec 2009.

Selected Publications (complete listing)

Journal:

Gene Cheung, Vladan Velisavljevic, Antonio Ortega, "On Dependent Bit Allocation for Multiview Image Coding with Depth-Image-based Rendering," IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, vol.20, no.11, November 2011.

Gene Cheung, Antonio Ortega, Ngai-Man Cheung, "Interactive Streaming of Stored Multiview Video using Redundant Frame Structures," IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, vol.20, no.3, pp.744-761, March 2011.

Xin Liu, Gene Cheung, Chen-Nee Chuah, "Rate-distortion Optimized Joint Source/Channel Coding of WWAN Multicast Video for a Cooperative Peer-to-Peer Collective," IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, vol.21, no.1, pp.39-52, January 2011.

Conference:

Huan Huang, Gary Chan, Gene Cheung, Pascal Frossard, "Distributed Content Replication for Multiple Movies in Interactive Multiview Video Streaming (accepted version)," 19th International Packet Video Workshop, Munich, Germany, May 2012.

Bo Hu, Gene Cheung, Vicky Zhao, "Incentive Analysis for Cooperative Distribution of Interactive Multiview Video (accepted version)," IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, Kyoto, Japan, March 2012.

Gene Cheung, Woo-shik Kim, Antonio Ortega, Junichi Ishida, Akira Kubota, "Depth Map Coding using Graph Based Transform and Transform Domain Sparsification", IEEE International Workshop on Multimedia Signal Processing, Hangzhou, China, October 2011. (Top 10% paper award.)

Gene Cheung, Junichi Ishida, Akira Kubota, Antonio Ortega, "Transform Domain Sparsification of Depth Maps using Iterative Quadratic Programming," IEEE International Conference on Image Processing, Brussels, Belgium, September 2011.

Zhi Liu, Gene Cheung, Yusheng Ji, "Distributed Markov Decision Process in Cooperative Peer-to-peer Repair for WWAN Video Broadcast," IEEE Workshop on Streaming and Media Communications (in conjunction with ICME 2011), Barcelona, Spain, July 2011. (Best student paper award.)

Yunlong Feng, Gene Cheung, Wai-tian Tan, Yusheng Ji, "Hidden Markov Model for Eye Gaze Prediction in Networked Video Streaming," IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo, Barcelona, Spain, July 2011. (One of 22 best paper finalists out of 744 submitted papers.)

Gene Cheung, Akira Kubota, Antonio Ortega, "Sparse Representation of Depth Maps for Efficient Transform Coding," IEEE Picture Coding Symposium, Nagoya, Japan, December 2010. (Patent filing with Chuo University).

Ngai-Man Cheung, Antonio Ortega, Gene Cheung, "Rate-distortion based Reconstruction Optimization in Distributed Source Coding for Interactive Multiview Video Streaming," IEEE International Conference on Image Processing, Hong Kong, China, September, 2010.