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Tsuhan Chen

Tsuhan Chen Department: ECE

Title: Professor, ECE Director

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Degrees earned:
  B.S. National Taiwan University 1987
 M.S. Caltech 1990
 Ph.D. Caltech 1993

Address:
Office:
 224 Phillips Hall
 Ithaca, NY, 14853

Office Phone: (607) 255-5728

Biography:

Professor Chen earned his B.S. from National Taiwan University and his M.S. and Ph.D. from Caltech, all in electrical engineering. After working for Bell Labs for several years, he joined the ECE faculty at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) in 1997. There, in addition to research and teaching responsibilities, he has served as associate department head of ECE and co-director of the Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI) Laboratory at Carnegie Mellon, a collaborative research program with ITRI in Taiwan.

In 2007, Chen was elected a fellow of IEEE for contributions in the area of multidisciplinary multimedia signal processing. In 2004 and 2008, he delivered the keynote address at International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME), IEEE’s flagship conference on multimedia technologies. From 2002 to 2004, he served as editor-in-chief of the IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, a publication designed to integrate all aspects of multimedia systems and technology, signal processing, and applications.

Chen received the Benjamin Richard Teare Teaching Award in 2006 from the CMU College of Engineering for his consistent excellence in graduate and undergraduate education. He was cited particularly for his success with Signals and Systems, a large undergraduate course serving students with diverse backgrounds and interests, in which he provided clear explanations of complex mathematical methods for analyzing signals and systems. Chen’s success at the intersection of research and education is evident in the awards that he has earned jointly with his graduate students. These include several best paper awards at IEEE Conferences on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition.

Chen was chosen to become the director of the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) at Cornell University after an extensive national search. He succeeds Clifford Pollock effective January 2009.

Research interests:

The word "multimedia" is more than the simple combination of text, audio, images, graphics and video. The interaction among these media, and their interaction with humans, networks, and storage media, are what really make multimedia research exciting. Our research group, the Advanced Multimedia Processing (AMP) Lab, has wide interests in various techniques for multimedia applications. Our current research topics include:

  • Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition: object detection and tracking, 3D reconstruction, video surveillance, 3D object retrieval and streaming, combined vision and inertia sensing
  • Computer Graphics: multiview imaging, image-based rendering, illumination normalization and relighting
  • Multimedia Coding and Streaming: video over wireless, rate shaping/control, traffic/channel modeling, encoder optimization, and error concealment
  • Multimodal Biometrics: face tracking, face recognition, voice identification, and lip-reading
  • System Implementation: hardware-software implementation of speech recognition systems and multimedia codecs
  • Bioinformatics: Analysis and matching of 3D protein structures

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