Distinguished Lecture in Computer Science: "Image Processing: Interconnections"
Thomas S. Huang
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
William L. Everitt Distinguished Professor of Electrical Engineering
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Faculty Host: Allen Hanson
"Image Processing: Interconnections"
We live in a complex world. To solve complex problems, we need to combine knowledge and technologies from diverse fields. Image Processing often plays a key role in these interdicsiplinary problems. In a narrow sense, Image Processing comprises three areas: Coding, enhancement/restoration/reconstruction, and analysis (mensuration/detection/recognition). These three areas are of course intiminately related to each other. Many 2D images are perspective views of 3D objectes and scenes. When we try to relate a 2D image to its originating 3D objects/scene, we enter the realm of Computer Vision. Recently Computer Vision techniques are increasingly used in Computer Graphics and animation. One may take the position that in a broad sense, Image Processing subsumes Computer Vision and Computer Graphics. Finally, to solve many important problems, it may be advantageous or necessary to use multimodal (esp. audio and visual) information. In this talk, we shall give two examples of interconnections. First: Very low bitrate video coding using a 3D model-based approach, which combines Computer Vision and Computer Graphics. Second: Audio-visual speech recognition, which combines the audio and the visual modalities.
Thomas S. Huang received his BS from National Taiwan University, and SM and SC.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, all in Electrical Engineering. He was on the Faculties MIT and Purdue University before joining the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1980, where he is currently William L. Everitt Distinguished Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Professor of Center for Advanced Study, Research Professor at Coordinated Science Laboratories, and Co-Chair of the Human Computer Intelligent Interaction major research theme at the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology. Huang's research interests lie in the broad area of Information Technology, but especially Multidimensional and Multimodal Signal Processing, with applicaitons to human computer interaction, and multimedia data indexing, retrieval, and mining. He has published 21 books, and more than 600 journal and conference papers, in 2D digital filtering, digital holography, image and video compression, multimodal human computer infaces, and multimedia data retrieval. He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering, a Fellow of SPIE, OSA, IAPR, and IEEE; and has received numerous awards, including: IEEE Jack S. Kilby Signal Processing Medal (co-recipient with Arun Netravali), and the King-Sun Fu Prize of the Int. Asso. of Pattern Recognition.
Thomas Huang received his Sc.D. from MIT in 1963. He is William L. Everitt Distinguished Professor in the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and the Coordinated Science Lab (CSL); and a full-time faculty member in the Beckman Institute Image Formation and Processing and Artificial Intelligence groups. His professional interests are computer vision, image compression and enhancement, pattern recognition, and multimodal signal processing.
Honors: Member, National Academy of Engineering Foreign Member, Chinese Academy of Engineering Foreign Member, Chinese Academy of Sciences; IEEE Jack S. Kilby Signal Processing Medal (2000) (co-recipient with A. Netravali); Int. Asso. of Pattern Recognition, King-Sun Fu Prize (2002); Honda Lifetime Achievement Award (2000); Professor, Center for Advanced Study, UIUC; IEEE Third Millennium Medal (2000); Honda Lifetime Achievement Award (2000); Keynote Speaker, International Workshop on Gesture, March 17-19, Paris, France (1999); Keynote Speaker, International Conference on Audio and Visual-based Biometric Person Identification, March 22-24, Washington, DC (1999); Keynote Speaker, IEEE International Neuronets for Signal Processing Workshop, August 23-25, Madison, WI (1999); Keynote Speaker, International Conference on Image Analysis and Processing (CAIP), Sept. 1-3, Ljubljana, Slovenia (1999).
