University of Southern California

CGIT  |  IMSC  |  CS  |  SOE  |  USC |

 

 

Professional Activities and Honors

 

 

Committee Member:

o       International Conference on Space Information Technology, 2005

o       ACM SIGGRAPH Symposium on Interactive Graphics (I3D) 2003, 2005, 2006

o       ACM Symposium on Virtual Reality Software and Technology (VRST) 2000, 2001, 2002

o       Paper Section Chair: ACM SIGGRAPH Symposium on Interactive Graphics (I3D) 2003

o       International Conference on Imaging Science, Systems, and Technology (ICISST) 1997, 1998, 1999

o       Motion Tracking and Estimation Paper Section Chair: ICISST 1998

o       Break-out Section Chair: IEEE, ACM International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality (ISMAR) 1999

o       IEEE, ACM International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality  2002, 2004, 2005

Paper Reviewer:

o       ACM: SIGGRAPH (International Conference on Graphics and Interactive Techniques); International Symposium on Interactive 3D Graphics; International Symposium on Virtual Reality, Software and Technology; International Symposium on Mixed Reality (with IEEE Virtual Reality).

o       IEEE: Trans on. Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (PAMI); Trans. on Multimedia; Journal of Computer Graphics & Applications; Trans on Visualization; International Conference on Visualization; CVPR, ACCV,  International Conference on Virtual Reality;  International Conference in Central Europe on Computer Graphics, Visualization and Computer Vision; International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP);  International Symposium on Wearable Computer.

o       International: Eurographics Workshop on Virtual Environment; International Journal on Pattern Recognition and Artificial Intelligence; China Journal of Image and Graphics; Image and Vision Computing.

Honors and Membership:

o       Best Paper Award: “IEEE Virtual Reality”, 2003

o       Royal Society Sino-British Fellowship Trust Award: The Royal Society of British (Machine Vision), 1996

o       Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Research Award: Huazhong University of Science and Technology, 1994

o       ACM, SIGGRAPH, IEEE, IEEE Computer Society

News and Articles:

o       BETTER THAN REALITY” – USC Dental News Letter

o       Behind the Blockbusters--Special Effects Tool Locks Characters onto Film” – US NSF

o       IMSC launches initiative with top university in China” – IMSC News Letter

o       Researchers create Augmented Virtual Environments” – IMSC News Letter

o       Taking the Fastrack” - USC Chronicle & USC News and Features

 

 


 

 

 

Patents and Invention Disclosures

 

 

o       “An Augmented-Reality Tool Employing Scene - Feature Autocalibration During Camera Motions,” U.S. Patent No. 6765569, issued July 20, 2004

o       “Augmented Virtual Environments,” U.S. Patent Provisional Application No. pending, filed September 30, 2003

o       “Augmented Virtual Environments (AVE) for Visualization and Fusion of Dynamic Imagery and 3D Models,” U.S. Patent Provisional Application No. 60/418,841, filed October 15, 2002

o       “A Robust Method of Black/White Pattern Detection and Recognition”,  U.S. Patent filed with Olympus Corporation, Japan, 2002

o       “Augmented Virtual Environments (AVE) for Visualization and Fusion of Dynamic Imagery and 3D Models”, USC Technology Disclosure No. 3045

o       “Camera Pose Estimation for Augmented Reality and Video Applications,” USC Technology Disclosure No. 3011

o       “Extendible Tracking by Line Auto-Calibration,” USC Technology Disclosure No. 3210

o       “Use of Autocalibration Methods in an Augmented Reality Tool,” USC Technology Disclosure No. 3234

o       “Feature Tracking Software,” USC Technology Disclosure No. 2914

 

 


 

 

 

Technology Transitions and Interactions

 

 

o       Northrop Grumman (Carson City, CA): software and technology license – using AVE software system for commercial applications, 2004, 2005

o       ARMY Topographic Engineering Center (TEC): software evaluation – using LiDAR modeling software for DoD applications, 2004

o       Olympus Japan: software and technology license – using AVE software system for commercial applications, 2003

o       Rhythm & Hues Studio (Los Angeles CA): software license – robust image tracking method and software for commercial applications.  The software, named “Fastrack” by Rhythm & Hues, facilitates the process of fusing computer-generated special effects into a film scene by finding and tracking features in the scene that can be tracked accurately over a series of frames as either the objects or the camera move, has been used for special effects for three new films - “Gigli,” “XMen II,” and “Daredevil”, 2002

o       Olympus Japan: software evaluation and license - using tracking methods and software for commercial applications, 2001, 2002

o       Boeing Co. (Long Beach, CA): software evaluation and for training - using augmented reality methods and software for DoD and commercial applications, 2002

o       HP Research Lab (Palo Alto, CA): software license – robust image tracking method and software for research applications, 2002

o       Hughes Research Laboratory (Malibu, CA): software evaluation - using tracking methods and software for research applications, 2001

o       Naval Research Lab (Washington DC): software evaluation - using hybrid tracking methods and software for augmented reality research applications, 2001, 2002, 2003

o       UNC (Chape Hill, NC): software evaluation - robust image tracking method for research applications, 2000

o       Technique demonstrations and interactions to the industrial partners of IMSC/CS/SOE/USC