Keynote Speeches
ISPACS 2007 features four high
profiles keynote speakers:
Keynote Speech 1:
Immersive and Intelligent
Collaboration Research
Presented by: Dr. B.H.
Juang, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
Abstract: We
have witnessed tremendous progress in the buildup of communication networks in
the past decade, driven by technologies that afford broad bandwidth and
mobility to the user. While broadband and wireless technologies have greatly
improved the delivery of information, packet-based connectivity promises the needed
flexibility and efficiency for information sharing. Delivery focuses on
transporting information from one point to another while sharing encompasses
experiences in generating, granting and receiving the information, together
with all the parties involved. We are at the onset of (r)evolution in
telecommunication, from information delivery to information sharing, as
evidenced by the industry’s strong push for the notion of telepresence. There
is an expectation of change of mode in telecommunication, from telephony and
telepresence, towards the ultimate goal of intelligent and immersive
collaboration (IIC). Also enthusiastically anticipated is a transformation of
the telecom industry from the business of simply providing information
pipelines to information management and services. IIC refers to a new mode of
tele-collaboration with dimensions that go way beyond the conventional
telephone, email and messaging. It is enabled by technologies and systems that
offer 1) immersive and lifelike experiences for users who communicate, interact
and collaborate over a distance, and 2) intelligent management of the
information generated or required during collaboration. In this talk, we
present past technology development towards the vision of IIC and discuss
remaining challenges ahead of us.
Biography:
Professor
Juang received his Ph.D. from University of California, Santa Barbara. He had
worked at Speech Communications Research Laboratory (SCRL) and Signal
Technology, Inc. (STI) on a number of Government-sponsored research projects.
Notable accomplishments during the period include development of vector
quantization for voice applications, voice coders at extremely low bit rates,
800 bps and around 300 bps, and robust vocoders for use in satellite
communications. He subsequently joined the Acoustics Research Department of
Bell Laboratories in 1982, working in the area of speech coding, recognition
and enhancement. Prof. Juang became Director of Acoustics and Speech Research
at Bell Labs in 1996, and Director of Multimedia Technologies Research at Avaya
Labs (a spin-off of Bell Labs) in 2001. In 2002, he joined Georgia Tech where
he is Motorola Foundation Chair Professor and Eminent Scholar of Georgia
Research Alliance. Prof. Juang has published extensively, including the book
"Fundamentals of Speech Recognition", co-authored with L.R. Rabiner,
and holds about twenty patents. His distinctions include: Fellow of IEEE
(1991), Technical Achievement Award from the IEEE Signal Processing Society
(1998), Bell Labs Fellow (1999), Member of (U.S.) National Academy of
Engineering (2004), and Academician of Academia Sinica (2006).
What VisionCruiser Can Do For
Digital Earth
Presented by: Dr. Deren Li,
Wuhan University, China
Abstract: Digital
Earth is a visionary concept and outlines a charming prospect for the public. This
paper starts from the concept and technologies of Digital Earth and analyzes
the architecture of geo-spatial information services of Digital Earth according
to the developing trend of requirements for geo-spatial information services.
As a promising prospect for Digital Earth, VisionCruiserTM is introduced and
its working principle is given in detail. Through analyzing how VisionCruiserTM
achieve the four functions of Digital Earth including searchable, visuable,
measurable and minable, the conclusion that VisionCruiserTM can satisfy the
need of Digital Earth is testified.
Biography:
Prof.
Li Deren, Doctor of University Stuttgart in Germany, scientist in
photogrammetry and remote sensing, Professor and PhD supervisor of Wuhan
University, Vice-President of the Chinese Society of Geodesy, Photogrmmetry and
Cartography, Director of the National Laboratory for Information Engineering in
Surveying, Mapping and Remote Sensing at Wuhan University. He enjoys dual
membership of both the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the Chinese Academy of
Engineering. He has concentrated on the research and education in spatial
information science and technology represented by remote sensing (RS), global
positioning system(GPS) and geographic information system(GIS). He majors are
the theories and methods for high precision photogrammetric positioning, GPS
aero-triangulation, analysis and processing of SPOT imagery, mathematical
morphology and its application in spatial databases, theories of
object-oriented GIS, image understanding and image understanding, multi-media
communication and mobile mapping systems, etc. The research findings have
promoted the progress of the technology directly and are being turned into products
such as GeoStar, the vehicle mobile mapping system LH-2000 MMS,etc.
Keynote Speech 3:
Automatic Video Segmentation
and Tracking for Content-based Applications
Presented by: Dr. King Ngi
Ngan, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, China
Abstract Advanced
multimedia applications will have to provide content-related functionalities
such as search and retrieval of meaningful objects, detection and analysis of
events, and understanding of scenes, which allow the user to access and
manipulate the multimedia content with greater flexibility. This clearly
depends on the automatic techniques for extracting such objects from multimedia
data.
In
this lecture, a tutorial on the state-of-the-art video segmentation and
tracking technology will be given, with particular emphasis on the recent
developments in visual attention-based object extraction. Performance results
will be shown to highlight this emerging technology.
Biography:
King
N. Ngan holds a Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from Loughborough University
of Technology, U.K. He is a chair
professor in the Department of Electronic Engineering, the Chinese University
of Hong Kong, Hong Kong and was previously a full professor in the Nanyang
Technological University, Singapore, and the University of Western Australia,
Australia.
Professor
Ngan is an associate editor of the Journal on Visual Communications and Image
Representation, U.S.A., as well as an area editor of EURASIP Journal of Signal
Processing: Image Communication, 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 has published extensively including 3
authored books, 5 edited volumes and over 200 refereed technical papers in the
areas of image/video coding and communications.
Professor
Ngan is a Fellow of IEEE (U.S.A.), a Fellow of IEE (U.K.), and a Fellow of
IEAust (Australia).
Keynote
Speech 4:
Paradigm Shift in System LSI Design
Presented by: Dr. Satoshi Goto, Professor,
Abstract The Semiconductor industry suffered serious recession in these few years and has struggled to get out of it. Most of all semiconductor vendors have begun to shift from mass-production oriented schemes to the system LSI business and will become much more dependent on system LSI design. Under this situation, this talk will give the following subjects. (1) Ubiquitous information society and ambient SoC (2) (3) What paradigm shift has been happened in system LSI design? Phase 1: Physical design. Phase 2: Logic design. Phase 3: High level design and verification (4) What is the next paradigm ? Biography: Prof. Satoshi Goto was born in
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