Chiou-Ting Candy Hsu

Professor

Department of Computer Science

National Tsing Hua University

Hsinchu, Taiwan, R.O.C.

Room 623, Delta Building

Tel: +886-3-5715131 ext. 42960

Fax: +886-3-5731201

Email: cthsu at gapp.nthu.edu.tw

 


Honors

·       ISI Citation Classic Award, 2001

·       Distinguished Teaching Award, National Tsing Hua University, 2002

·       Thesis Supervision

o   Good Master's Thesis Award, IPPR, 2016 (Student: Li-Hsien Lu)

o   Best Paper Award, CVGIP 2011 (Student: Kai-Wen Luo, Kuei-Hua Chen, and Yi-Lei Chen)

o   Good Phd Thesis Award, IPPR, 2008 (Student: Jue-Yu Lee)

o   Best Master's Thesis Award, College of EECS, National Tsing Hua University, 2005 (Student: J. W. Tung)

o   Good Master's Thesis Award, Institute of Information and Computing Machinery, 2004 (Student: C. C. Cheng)

o   College Student Research Award, National Science Council, 2003 (Student: Y. X. Weng)

o   Master's Thesis Award, National Science Council, 2003 (Student: M. H. Hsieh)

o   Best Master's Thesis Award, College of EECS, National Tsing Hua University, 2003 (Student: M. H. Hsieh)

o   Best Student Paper Award, CIE Engineering Students Paper Contest in Electrical Engineering Group, 2001 (Students: M. C. Shih and Y. X. Chou)

o   Good Student Paper Award, CIE Engineering Students Paper Contest in Electrical Engineering Group, 2001 (Students: Y. S. Tsai, M. H. Hsieh and Y. N. Chien)

·       Contest Award

o   2nd Place Award, ACCV Workshop on Driver Drowsiness Detection from Video 2016 (Student: Tun-Huai Shih)

o   3rd Place Award, Utchzone Machine Vision Prize, 2012 (Students: H.W. Kung, W.R. Sie, Y.S. Wang, and C.J. Chou)

o   3rd Place Award, Utchzone Machine Vision Prize, 2011 (Students: Y.H. Tu, Y.H. Lai and C.H. Chien)


Publications


Teaching

·       CS 4520 Introduction to Image Processing (Fall 2008, 2010-2018)

·       CS 2334 Linear Algebra (Fall 1999-2001, 2005-2007, 2012-2014, 2018)

·       CS 3332 Probability (Spring 2016-2018)

·       CS 5540 Pattern Recognition (Spring 2007-2015, 2017)

·       CS 3332 Probability (Spring 2016)

·       CS 2336 Discrete Mathematics (Spring 2009-2012)

·       CS 3532 Introduction to DSP (Fall 2002-2007)

·       CS 6531 Algorithms for Image Analysis (Spring 2004, 2006)

·       CS 3331 Numerical Methods (Fall 2003, 2004)

·       CS 3334 Engineering Mathematics (Fall 2000-2002)

·       CS 5531 Data Compression (Spring 2000-2003)


Research Interests

·       Image Analysis and Recognition

o   Remote Photoplethysmography Signal Estimation

o   Semantic Image Segmentation

o   Facial Image Analysis (e.g., Expression Recognition, Age Estimation, Emotion Recognition)

o   Tensor Completion, Salient Object Detection, Ridge Network Detection

·       Image Processing

o   De-weathering (e.g. Dehazing, Rain removal)

o   Color Transfer, Exposure Fusion

·       Content-Based Multimedia Retrieval

o   Relevance Feedback, Highlight Detection for Sports Video

·       Digital Forensics

o   Face Anti-Spoofing

o   Recompression Detection, Tamper Detection

 


Academic Activities

·       Associate Editor

o   EURASIP Journal on Image and Video Processing, Nov. 2015 - 2025

o   Journal of Visual Communication and Image Representation, May 2015 - 2025

o   IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security, April 2012 - April 2015

o   Interdisciplinary Information Sciences (IIS), July 2013 - present

o   Advances in Multimedia, Aug 2006 - March 2012

·       Visiting Scholar

o   Data Science Department, EURECOM, Biot, France, Aug. 2019 - July 2020 

o   Tanaka Research Group, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan, Feb. 2010 

o   MAST, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA, Sep 2009 - Jan 2010

o   Microsoft Research Asia, Beijing, China, July 2006 - Sep 2006

o   DVMM Lab, Columbia University, New York, USA, March 2005 - Aug 2005

·       Elected Technical Committee Member

o   Regional-Director-at-Large, Region 10, IEEE Signal Processing Society, 2024-2025

o   Elected Member, IFS-TC, IEEE Signal Processing Society, 2013-2015

o   Elected Member, APSIPA IVM-TC, 2013-2016

·       Student Activities Chair

o   IEEE Taipei Section, 2005-2006

·       Program Committee

o   Student Travel Grant Chair

§  ACM Multimedia 2019, Nice, France, Oct. 2019

o   Registration Chair

§  IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP 2019), Taipei, Taiwan, Sep. 2019

o   Proceedings Chair

§  The 3rd International Conference on Information Technology: Research and Education (ITRE 2005), Hsinchu, Taiwan, June 2005

§  The 3rd IEEE Pacific-Rim Conference on Multimedia (PCM), 2002

o   Publicity Chair

§  IEEE Pacific-Rim Symposium on Image and Video Technology (PSIVT 2006), Hsinchu, Taiwan, Dec. 2006

o   Finance Chair

§  The 4th International Conference on Cloud Computing Technology Science (CloudCom 2012), Taipei, Taiwan, Dec. 2012

§  The 13th Asia-Pacific Computer Systems Architecture Conference (ACSAC 2008), Hsinchu, Taiwan, Aug. 2008

§  International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Systems (ICPADS 2007), Hsinchu, Taiwan. Dec. 2007

o   PC Member

§  International Conference on University Basic computers Education and eLearning (iCube 2011), Taipei, Dec. 2011

§  International Conference on University Basic computers Education and eLearning (iCube 2010), Taipei, Dec. 2010

§  International Workshop on Multimedia Analysis and Processing (IMAP 2007), Honolulu, Hawaii, USA, Aug. 2007

§  International Conference on Image and Video Retrieval (CIVR 2005), Singapore, July 2005

§  Visual Communications and Image Processing (VCIP 2005), Beijing, China, July 2005

§  Conference of Electronic Imaging and Multimedia Technology IV at Photonics Asia 2004, Beijing, China, Nov. 2004

§  The 3rd IEEE Pacific-Rim Conference on Multimedia (PCM), 2002

§  International Conference on Parallel and Distributed System (ICPADS), 2002

§  SPIE Conference on Visual Communications and Image Processing (VCIP), San Jose, California, USA, Jan. 2002


Projects

·       Remote Physiological Signal Estimation and Status Analysis for Racket Sports Players (NSTC, 2023.8-2026.7)

·       Domain Generalizable Learning for Face Anti-Spoofing and Facial rPPG Estimation (MOST, 2022.8-2025.7)

·       Remote Estimation of Physiological Signal from Contactless Visual Data (MOST, 2019.8-2022.7)

·       Scene Understanding and Object Recognition for Egocentric Videos (MOST, 2016.8-2019.7)

·       Bilateral Visual Understanding via Good Exemplars and User's Emotion (MOST, 2014.8-2017.7)

·       In Search of Lost Time - Time Variant Modeling for Surface and Human Appearance (NSC, 2012.8 - 2015.7)

·       Research on Video Content Editing, Rejuvenation and Personalized Classification (NSC, 2009.8 - 2012.7)

·       Research on Digital Image Forensics I, II, III (NSC, 2007.8-2010.7)

·       Video Content Modeling, Analysis and Retrieval for Video Surveillance System I, II, III (NSC, 2006.8 - 2009.7)

·       Research on Region-Based Issues for Relevance Feedback in CBIR (NSC, 2005.8 - 2006.7)

·       Research on Video Content Analysis for Abstraction and Retrieval I, II, III (NSC, 2004.8 - 2007.7)

·       Research on Content-Based Image & Video Watermarking Techniques I, II, III  (NSC, 2002.8 - 2005.7) 

·       Technologies and Applications for Next-Generation Media (Ministry of Education, 2000.1 - 2004.3)

·       Research on Wavelet-Based Watermarking Techniques with Scalable Robustness and Capacity (NSC 90-2213-E-007-039, 2001.8 - 2002.7)

·       Research on Feature Based Panoramic Image Mosaics (NSC 89-2218-E-007-016, 2000.8 - 2001.7)


Multimedia Processing Laboratory

My Students


Education

·       BS: CS, National Chiao Tung University,1987-1991

·       PhD: CSIE, National Taiwan University, 1992-1997


Professional Experiences

·       2012 - present, Professor, Department of Computer Science, National Tsing Hua University

·       2003 - 2012, Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science, National Tsing Hua University

·       1999 - 2003, Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science, National Tsing Hua University

·       1998 - 1999, Sr. Research Engineer, Philips Innovation Center Taipei, Philips Research

·       1997 - 1998, Post-Doctor Researcher, Communication and Multimedia Lab., Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering, National Taiwan University