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CHIA-MING CHENG

Postdoctoral Research Fellow

Department of Computer Science

National Tsing Hua University

Hsinchu 300, Taiwan

 

+886-3-5715131 ext.33927

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Education

Ph.D., Dept. Computer Science, National Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu, Taiwan, Jan 2009

M.S., Dept. Computer Science, National Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu, Taiwan, Sep 2001

B.S., Dept. Engineering and System Science, National Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu, Taiwan, Sep 1999

 

Research Interest

Computer Vision, Computer Graphics, Image-based Modeling, 3DTV Imaging

 

Research Experience / Project Participation

1.   Multiple-Stereo 3D Reconstruction System Incorporated with Silhouette Information [III-NTHU Collaboration Project, 2009]

2.   Efficient Robust Model Fitting Algorithm [NSC Project, 2006-08]

3.   Multiple Novel View Generation from Uncalibrated Stereo Video for Autostereoscopic Displays [ITRI-NTHU Collaboration Project, 2007-08]

4.   3D Human Body Tracking System [ITRI-NTHU Collaboration Project, 2006]

5.   Fast and Robust Structure from Motion for Data Containing Uncertain Outliers [NSC Project, 2004-06]

6.   3D Face Modeling and Animation on PDA [A&W-NTHU Collaboration Project, 2004]

7.   3D Reconstruction of Chinese Treasures of Jadeite Material [ITRI-NTHU Collaboration Project, 2004 ]

8.   3D Face Pose and Structure Estimation on Video Sequence [NSC  Project, 2003]

9.   3D Object Reconstruction from Video [ArcSoft-NTHU Collaboration Project, 2002]

10. Human Body Tracking on Video Sequences [ITRI-NTHU Collaboration Project, 2002]

11. Face Detection using Support Vector Machine [Ulead-NTHU Collaboration Project, 2001]

12. 3D Face Model Reconstruction from Two Images [Program for Promoting Academic Excellence of Universities, 1999-2002]

 

Teaching Experience

1. Lecturer for   [QF2001] Data Structure, Fall 2004

2. Lecturer for   [CS1355] Introduction to Programming, Spring 2003

3. Teaching Assistant of professor S.-H. Lai for [CS6550] Computer Vision, Spring 2003

4. Teaching Assistant of professor S.-H. Lai for [CS6550] Computer Vision, Fall 2002

5. Teaching Assistant of professor S.-H. Lai for [CS6531] Algorithm for Image Analysis, Spring 2001

6. Teaching Assistant of professor S.-H. Lai for [CS6550] Computer Vision, Fall 2001

7. Teaching Assistant of professor S.-H. Lai for [CS6550] Computer Vision, Fall 2000

8. Teaching Assistant of professor S.-H. Lai for [CS2403] Programming Language, Spring 2000

 

Publication List

A. Journal Papers

1. C.-M. Cheng and S.-H. Lai. “A consensus sampling technique for fast and robust model fitting.” Pattern Recognition, 42: pp. 1318-1329, 2009. (SCI, EI)

2. C.-M. Cheng, S.-F. Wang, C.-H. Teng, and S.-H. Lai. “Image-based three-dimensional model reconstruction for Chinese treasure - jadeite cabbage with insects.” Computers & Graphics, 32: 682–694, 2008. (SCI, EI)

3. J.-F. Huang, S.-H. Lai, and C.-M. Cheng. “Robust fundamental matrix estimation with accurate outler detection.” Journal of Information Science and Engineering, 23(4): 1213–1227, 2007. (SCI, EI)

 

B. Conference Papers

1. C.-M. Cheng, X.-A. Hsu, and S.-H. Lai. “A novel structure-from-motion strategy for refining depth map estimation and multi-view synthesis in 3dtv”. In IEEE Int’l Conf. Multimedia and Expo (ICME10), Singapore, July 19-23, 2010. 

2. C.-M. Cheng, L.-H. Chin, X.-A. Hsu, and S.-H. Lai. “Temporally consistent depth map estimation from stereo video sequences” In Int'l Conf. on 3D Systems and Applications (3DSA10), Tokyo, Japan, May 19-21, 2010.

3. S.-J. Lin, C.-M. Cheng, and S.-H. Lai. “Spatio-temporally consistent multi-view video synthesis for autostereoscopic displays” In IEEE Pacific-Rim Conf. on Multimedia (PCM09), Bangkok, Thailand, Dec 15-18, 2009.

4. C.-H. Sin, C.-M., Cheng, S.-H. Lai, and S.-Y. Yang. “Geodesic tree-based dynamic programming for fast stereo reconstruction.” In IEEE ICCV ECV Workshop (Embedded Computer Vision), Kyoto, Japan, Oct 3, 2009.

5. C.-M. Cheng, S.-J. Lin, S.-H. Lai, K. Lee. “Efficient multiple virtual view generation based on reduced depth stereo image for advanced autostereoscopic displays.” In IEEE Int’l Conf. Multimedia and Expo (ICME09), New York, June 28 - July 3, 2009.

6. C.-M. Cheng, S.-H. Lai, and S.-H. Su. “Self image rectification for uncalibrated stereo video with varying camera motions and zooming effects.” In IAPR Conf. Machine Vision Application (MVA09), Keio University, Japan, May 20-22, 2009.

7. C.-M. Cheng, S.-J. Lin, S.-H. Lai, K. Lee. “Novel multi-view generation algorithm based on two-layered depth image for 3DTV.” In Proc. IDMC/3DSA/Asia Display 09, Taipei, Taiwan, April 27-30, 2009.

8. C.-M. Cheng, S.-J. Lin, S.-H. Lai, J.-C. Yang. “Improved novel view synthesis from depth image with large baseline.” In IEEE Proc. Int’l Conf. on Pattern Recognition (ICPR08), Tampa, Florida, USA, Dec. 2008.

9. C.-M. Cheng, P.-H. Huang, and S.-H. Lai, “Robust metric structure from motion for an extended sequence with outliers and missing data.” In IEEE Proc. ICCV BenCOS Workshop (Towards Benchmarking Automated Calibration, Orientation and Surface Reconstruction from Images), Beijing, China, Oct.15, 2005.

10. C.-M. Cheng, S.-F. Wang; C.-H. Teng, P.-H. Huang, Y.-C. Chien, S.-H. Lai. “Three-dimensional model reconstruction for treasures of jadeite material from uncalibrated image sequences.” In SPIE Proc. Videometrics, V(5665): 320-331, San Jose, California, USA, Jan. 2005.

11. P.-H. Huang, Y.-L. Chen, C.-M. Cheng, Y.-A. Lu, and S.-H. Lai. “Robust 3D object model reconstruction from video.” In SPIE Proc. Three-Dimensional Image Capture and Applications VI, (5302): 156-167, San Jose, California, Jan. 2004.

12. C.-M. Cheng, Shang-Hong Lai, and K.-Y. Chang. “A PDM based approach to recovering 3D face pose and structure from video.” In IEEE Proc. Information Technology: Research and Education, Newark, New Jersey, USA, August 10-13, 2003.

13. C.-M. Cheng and S.-H. Lai. “An integrated approach to 3D face model reconstruction from video.” In IEEE Proc. ICCV RATFG-RTS Workshop (Recognition, Analysis, and Tracking of Faces and Gestures in Real-Time Systems), pp.16-23, Vancouver, Canada, July 2001.

14.  S.-H. Lai and C.-M. Cheng. “Three-dimensional face model creation from video.” SPIE Proc. of Conf. on Three-dimensional Image Capture and Applications IV, Vol. 4298, San Jose, Jan. 2001.

 

C. Local Conference and Journal Papers

1.  P.-H. Huang, C.-M. Cheng, H.-L. Yang, S.-H Lai, and S.-Y. Yang. “On-line 3D modeling system using a general webcam and a turntable.” In IPPR Proc. CVGIP, Sitou, Taiwan, 2009.

2.  C.-M. Cheng and S.-H. Lai. “Robust 2D-3D pose estimation from noisy data.” In IPPR Proc.CVGIP, Hua-Lien, Taiwan, Aug. 2004.

3.  C.-M. Cheng and S.-H. Lai, “3D face model reconstruction from an image sequence.” Image and Recognition, Vol. 7, No. 1, 2001.

4.  C.-M. Cheng and S.-H. Lai. “Computing individualized 3D face model from an image sequence.” In IPPR Proc.CVGIP, Kending, Taiwan, Aug. 2001.

5.  S.-H. Lai and C.-M. Cheng. “3D head model reconstruction from video.” Workshop on the 21st Century Digital Life and Internet Technologies, Tainan, Taiwan, May 2001.

 

Honors

1. The First Prize of the Graduate Student Thesis Contest for The Year by the Chinese Institute of Electrical Engineering, 2001

2. The Excellence Prize of ACER Long-term Science and Technology Thesis Contest, 2001