Prof. Ma Wing Kin is awarded the Research Excellence Award 2013-14 by the Chinese University of Hong Kong. In granting this Award, the University recognizes his remarkable accomplishment in research. The Award consists of an amount of HK$200,000 in the form of a research grant.

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The University has awarded Professor CHING Pak Chung the Choh-Ming Li Professorship to recognize his distinguished scholastic performance. The awardee will be provided with a general expense account at HK$100,000 p.a. to support his academic and research activities. Congratulations!

Novel Face Recognition System Developed by Prof. WANG Xiaogang (EE) and Prof. Xiaoou Tang (IE) Achieves 99.15% Accuracy

A research team led by Prof. Xiaoou Tang (IE) and Prof. Xiaogang Wang (EE) has built a novel facial recognition system that with the highest accuracy in the world. While humans recognize faces at an accuracy rating of 97.53% on Labeled Faces in the Wild, the recognition system developed by CUHK was tested using thousands of picture sets, and it can recognize faces at an accuracy of 99.15%, regardless of changes in lighting, make-up and camera angles. This is the first time for computing algorithms to reach human face verification performance on this dataset.

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A new standard for evaluating wearable, cuffless blood pressure devices has been approved by IEEE. The chair of the working group for this new standard is IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society Fellow, Prof. Yuan-Ting Zhang. The new standard may influence life-saving innovations in healthcare, and is truly exciting.
For more details, please visit IEEE Engineering in Medicine & Biology Society / IEEE Standards Association.

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