NGAN, King Ngi

Professor of Electronic Engineering
Ph.D. (Loughborough), FIEEE, FIET, CEng., FIEAust, CPEng
Email: knngan@ee.cuhk.edu.hk

Tel: +852 26098255
   

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 Full 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 and RMIT University in Australia. He served as the External Examiner for the B.Eng. degree program of Malaysia's Multimedia University, and was appointed as IEEE Distinguished Lecturer of the IEEE Circuits and Systems Society in 2006-2007.

Prof. Ngan is active in many professional activities. He was 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 co-chaired the IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP) in 2010 in Hong Kong. He has published extensively including 3 authored books, 6 edited volumes and over 300 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 11 patents on image coding/transmission techniques.
 

Current Research Interests:

Video coding and communications, digital image processing, digital signal processing, computer communications, telecommunication networks.
   
Authored Books:  
   

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.



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.



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.

K.N. Ngan and H. Li (Eds.), Video Segmentation and Its Applications, Springer, ISBN 978-1-4419-9481-3, 2011, 164 pages.
   
   

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.
 
Other Accolades:

Two PhD students, Zhenzhong Chen and Lin Ma, were awarded the prestigious Microsoft Research Asia (MSRA) Fellowships, in 2005 and 2011, respectively.
 
 
Recent Publications (since 2009): [ Full publication list ]
  1. 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.
  2. 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.
  3. 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.
  4. 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.
  5. D. Zhang, K.N. Ngan and Z. Chen, "A Two-Pass Rate Control Algorithm for H.264/AVC High Definition Video Coding," Signal Processing: Image Communication, Europe, vol. 24, no. 5, May 2009, pp. 357-367.
  6. H. Shu and K.N. Ngan, "Pre- and Post-shift Filtering for Blocking Removing in Downsizing Transcoding," IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, U.S.A., vol. 19, no. 6, June 2009, pp. 882-886.
  7. (Invited Paper) C. Cui, Q. Zhang and K.N. Ngan, "Multi-view Video Based Object Segmentation - A Tutorial," ECTI Transactions on Electrical Engineering, Electronics and Communications, Thailand, vol. 7, no. 2, August 2009, pp. 90-105.
  8. J. Dong, K.N. Ngan, C.K. Fong and W.K. Cham, "2D Order-16 Integer Transforms for HD Video Coding," IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, U.S.A., vol. 19, no. 10, October 2009, pp. 1462-1474.
  9. Z. Liu, H. Yan, L. Shen, K.N. Ngan and Z. Zhang, "Adaptive Image Retargeting Using Saliency-based Continuous Seam Carving," Optical Engineering, U.S.A., vol. 49, no. 1, January 2010, pp. 017002.1-10.
  10. C. Cui and K.N. Ngan, "Plane-based External Camera Calibration with Accuracy Measured by Relative Deflection Angle," Signal Processing: Image Communication, Europe, vol. 25, no. 3, March 2010, pp. 224-234.
  11. L. Ma, S. Li and K.N. Ngan, "Visual Horizontal Effect for Image Quality Assessment," IEEE Signal Processing Letters, U.S.A., vol. 17, no. 7, July 2010, pp. 627-630.
  12. Q. Zhang and K.N. Ngan, "Multi-view Video Based Multiple Objects Segmentation Using Graph Cut and Spatiotemporal Projections," Journal of Visual Communications and Image Representation, U.S.A., vol. 21, no. 5-6, July-August 2010, pp. 453-461.
  13. J. Dong and K.N. Ngan, "Real-time De-interlacing for H.264 Coded HD Videos," IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, U.S.A., vol. 20, no. 8, August 2010, pp. 1144-1149.
  14. J. Dong and K.N. Ngan, "Parametric Interpolation Filter for HD Video Coding," IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, U.S.A., vol. 20, no. 12, December 2010, pp. 1892-1897.
  15. L. Ma and K.N. Ngan, "Adaptive Block-Size Transform Based Just-Noticeable Difference Model for Images/Videos," Signal Processing: Image Communication, Europe, vol. 26, no. 3, March 2011, pp. 162-174.
  16. C. Cui and K.N. Ngan, "Scale and Affine Invariant Fan Feature," IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, U.S.A., vol. 20, no. 6, June 2011, pp. 1627-1640.
  17. Q. Liu and K.N. Ngan, "Automatic Body Segmentation with Graph Cut and Level Set," Journal of Visual Communications and Image Representation, U.S.A., vol. 22, no. 5, July 2011, pp. 367-377.
  18. X. Jin, S. Goto and K.N. Ngan, “Composite Model Based DC Dithering for Suppressing Contour Artifacts in Decompressed Video,” IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, U.S.A., vol. 20, no. 8, August 2011, pp. 2110-2121.
  19. F. Zhang, L. Ma, S. Li and K.N. Ngan, “Practical Image Quality Metric,” IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, U.S.A., vol. 13, no. 4, August 2011, pp. 615-624.
  20. L. Ma, S. Li, F. Zhang and K.N. Ngan, “Reduced-Reference Image Quality Assessment Using Reorganized DCT-Based Image Representation,” IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, U.S.A., vol. 13, no. 4, August 2011, pp. 824-829.
  21. S. Li, F. Zhang, L. Ma and K.N. Ngan, “Image Quality Assessment by Separately Evaluating Detail Losses and Additive Impairments,” IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, U.S.A., vol. 13, no. 5, October 2011, pp. 935-949.
  22. J. Dong and K.N. Ngan, “Adaptive Pre-interpolation Filter for High-performance Video Coding,” Journal of Visual Communications and Image Representation, U.S.A., vol. 22, no. 8, October 2011, pp. 697-703.
  23. H. Li and K.N. Ngan, “Learning to Extract Focused Object from Low DOF Images,” IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, U.S.A., vol. 21, no. 11, November 2011, pp. 1571-1580.
  24. F. Zhang, W. Liu, W. Lin and K.N. Ngan, “Spread Spectrum Image Watermarking Based on Perceptual Quality Metric,” IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, U.S.A., vol. 20, no. 11, November 2011, pp. 3207-3218.
  25. Q. Zhang and K.N. Ngan, “Segmentation and Tracking Multiple Objects under Occlusion from Multi-view Video,” IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, U.S.A., vol. 20, no. 11, November 2011, pp. 3308-3313.
  26. H. Li and K.N. Ngan, “A Co-saliency Model of Image Pairs,” IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, U.S.A., vol. 20, no. 12, December 2011, pp. 3365-3375.
  27. H. Li, G. Liu and K.N. Ngan, “Guided Face Cartoon Synthesis,” IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, U.S.A., vol. 13, no. 6, December 2011, pp. 1230-1239.
  28. J. Dong and K.N. Ngan, “Two-Layer Directional Transform for High Performance Video Coding,” IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, U.S.A., vol. 22, no. 4, April 2012, pp. 619-625.
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