Resume
of Career:
Prof.
Ngan received his B.Sc. (Hons) and Ph.D. degrees, both in Electrical
Engineering from Loughborough University, U.K., in 1978 and 1982,
respectively. He joined the Department of Electronic Engineering, the
Chinese University of Hong Kong as Chair Professor in 2003. Previously
he was a Professor at the School of Computer Engineering, Nanyang
Technological University, Singapore, and the School of Electrical, Electronic
and Computer Engineering, University of Western Australia, Australia.
He was appointed as Honorary Professor of Tunku Abdul Rahman University in
Malaysia, Adjunct/Visiting Professor of Zhejiang University, Shanghai
Jiaotong University, Shanghai University, Huazhong University of Science and
Technology and Huaqiao University in China, Distinguished Adjunct Professor
of the National Sun Yat-sen University in Taiwan, and Adjunct Professor of
the University of Western Australia in Australia. He was also the External
Examiner for the B.Eng. degree program of Malaysia's Multimedia University.
Recently, he has been appointed as IEEE Distinguished Lecturer of the
Circuits and Systems Society.
Prof.
Ngan is active in many professional activities. He is an associate
editor of the Journal on Visual Communications and Image Representation,
U.S.A., and an area editor of EURASIP Journal of Image Communications, and
served as an associate editor of IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems
for Video Technology and Journal of Applied Signal Processing. He
chaired a number of prestigious international conferences on video signal
processing and communications and served on the advisory and technical
committees of numerous professional organizations. He will co-chair the
IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP) in 2010 in Hong
Kong. He has published extensively including 3 authored books, and over 200
refereed technical papers in the areas of visual signal processing,
image/video coding and multimedia communications, which are his main research
interests. He also holds 4 patents on image transmission techniques.
Current
Research Interests:
Video coding and communications, digital
image processing, digital signal processing, computer communications,
telecommunication networks.
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K.N. Ngan, T. Meier
and D. Chai, Advanced Video Coding: Principles and Techniques,
Elsevier Science Publishers B.V., ISBN 0-444-82667-X, August 1999, 430
pages.
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K.N. Ngan, C.W. Yap and K.T.
Tan, Video Coding for Future Generation Mobile Communication Systems,
Marcel Dekker Inc., ISBN 0-8247-0489-4, January 2001, 560 pages.
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W.J. Heng and K.N.
Ngan, Digital Video Transition Analysis and Detection, World
Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd., ISBN 981-238-185-6, November 2002, 200
pages.
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Top-cited
Publications:
Second
most cited paper in IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems on Video
Technology in 1999.
D. Chai and K.N. Ngan, “Face segmentation using skin color map
in videophone applications,” IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for
Video Technology, U.S.A., vol. 9, no. 4, June 1999, pp. 551-564.
Fourth
most cited paper in IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems on Video
Technology in 1998.
(Invited paper) T. Meier and K.N. Ngan, “Automatic segmentation
of moving objects for video objects plane generation,” IEEE Transactions
on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, U.S.A., vol. 8, no. 5,
September 1998, pp. 525-538.
Recent
Publications:
- H. Li and K.N. Ngan, “Automatic Video Segmentation
and Tracking for Content-based Multimedia Services”, IEEE
Communications Magazine, U.S.A., vol. 45, no. 1, January 2007, pp.
27-33.
- Z. Chen and K.N. Ngan, “Recent advances in rate
control for video coding,” Signal Processing: Image
Communications, Europe, vol. 22, no. 1, January 2007, pp. 19-38.
- Z. Chen and K.N. Ngan, “Towards rate-distortion
tradeoff in real-time color video coding,” IEEE Transactions on
Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, U.S.A., vol. 17, no. 2,
February 2007, pp. 158-167.
- Y. Liu, F. Wu and K.N. Ngan, “3-D Object-Based
Scalable Wavelet Video Coding With Boundary Effect Suppression,” IEEE
Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, U.S.A.,
vol. 17, no. 5, May 2007, pp. 639-644.
- Y. Liu and K.N. Ngan, “Fast multiresolution motion
estimation algorithms for wavelet-based scalable video coding,” Signal
Processing: Image Communications, Europe, vol. 22, no. 5,
June 2007, pp. 448-465.
- Z. Chen and K.N. Ngan, “A Unified Approach of Bit
Rate Control for Binary and Gray Level Shape Sequences Coding,” IEEE
Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, U.S.A.,
vol. 17, no. 7, July 2007, pp. 823-832.
- Z. Chen and K.N. Ngan, “A rate and distortion
analysis of multiscale binary shape coding based on statistical
learning,” IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, U.S.A., vol. 9, no.
5, August 2007, pp. 987-994.
- Z. Wei, T.K. Lam and K.N. Ngan, “Implementation of
H.264 on Mobile Device,” IEEE Transactions on Consumer Electronics,
U.S.A., vol. 53, no. 3, August 2007, pp. 1109-1116.
- C.H. Foh, Y. Zhang, Z. Ni, J.Cai, and K.N. Ngan,
“Optimized Cross-Layer Design for Scalable Video Transmission over the
IEEE 802.11e Networks,” IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for
Video Technology, U.S.A., vol. 17, no. 12, December 2007, pp.
1665-1678.
- H. Li and K.N. Ngan, “Unsupervised video segmentation
with low depth of field,” IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems
for Video Technology, U.S.A., vol. 17, no. 12, December 2007, pp.
1742-1751.
- D. Gao, J. Cai, C.T. Lau, K.N. Ngan, “Improving WLAN
VoIP Capacity through Service Differentiation,” IEEE Transactions on
Vehicular Technology, U.S.A., vol. 57, no. 1, January 2008, pp.
465-474.
- Y. Liu and K.N. Ngan, “Weighted Adaptive
Lifting-based Wavelet Transform for Image Coding,” IEEE Transactions
on Image Processing, U.S.A., vol. 17, no. 4, April 2008, pp.
500-511.
- H. Li, K.N. Ngan and Z. Wei, “Fast and
Efficient Method for Block Edge Classification and Its Application in
H.264/AVC Video Coding,” IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems
for Video Technology, U.S.A., vol. 18, no. 6, June 2008, pp.
756-768.
- H. Li and K.N. Ngan, “Saliency Model based Face
Segmentation and Tracking in Head-and-Shoulder Video Sequences,” Journal
of Visual Communications and Image Representation, Europe, vol. 19,
no. 5, July 2008, pp. 320-333.
- Y. Liu, K.N. Ngan and F. Wu, “3-D Shape-Adaptive
Directional Wavelet Transform for Object-Based Scalable Video Coding,” IEEE
Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, U.S.A.,
vol. 18, no. 7, July 2008, pp. 888-899.
- J. Li and K.N. Ngan “Adaptive Partition Size Temporal
Error Concealment for H.264 using Weighted Double-Sided EBME
Minimization,” Signal Processing: Image Communication,
Europe, vol. 23, no. 6, July 2008, pp. 451-462.
- Z. Wei, K.N. Ngan and H. Li, “An
Efficient Intra Mode Selection Algorithm for H.264 Based on Edge
Classification and Rate-Distortion Estimation,” Signal Processing: Image Communication, Europe, vol. 23, no.
9, October 2008, pp. 699-710.
- Z. Chen, D.
Zhang and K.N. Ngan, “An Efficient Algorithm for H.264/AVC High
Definition Video Coding,” IEEE
Transactions on Consumer Electronics, U.S.A., vol. 54, no. 4,
November 2008, pp. 1852-1857.
- H. Li, K.N.
Ngan and Q. Liu, “FaceSeg: Automatic Face Segmentation for Real-time
Video,” IEEE Transactions on
Multimedia, U.S.A., vol. 11, no. 1, January 2009, pp. 77-88.
- Z. Wei and
K.N. Ngan, “Spatio-temporal Just Noticeable Distortion Profile for Grey
Scale Image/Video in DCT Domain,” IEEE
Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, U.S.A.,
vol. 19, no. 3, March 2009, pp. 337-346.
- W. Gao, K.N.
Ngan and, L. Yu, “Special issue on AVS and its applications: Guest
editorial,” Signal Processing:
Image Communication, Europe,
vol. 24, no. 4, April 2009, pp. 245-246.
- X. Jin, S. Li
and K.N. Ngan, “Platform-independent MB-based AVS video standard
implementation,” Signal
Processing: Image Communication,
Europe, vol. 24, no. 4, April 2009, pp. 312-323.
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