Professor Hong Ren Wu

Position

Professor

School /
Work Unit

Electrical and Computer Eng

Contact Details

+(61 3) 9925 5376

henry.wu@rmit.edu.au

Location

Building: 10
Level: 10
Room: 6

City Campus

College/Portfolio

Science, Engineering & Health

"Hong Ren Wu"

Qualifications

  • Bachelor of Engineering, University of Science and Technology, Beijing, China, 1982
  • Master of Engineering, University of Science and Technology, Beijing, China, 1985
  • PhD, University of Wollongong, NSW, Australia, 1990

Teaching experience

  • 2005 – Present, Professor of Visual Communications Engineering, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology University, (RMIT University), Melbourne, Australia
  • 2005 – 2010, Discipline Head, Computer and Network Engineering, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology University, (RMIT University), Melbourne, Australia
  • 1997 – 2005, Associate Professor, School of Computer Science and Software Engineering, Faculty of Information, Monash University, Australia
  • 1992 – 1996, Senior Lecturer, Department of Digital Systems, Faculty of Information, Monash University, Australia
  • 1990 – 1992, Lecturer, Department of Robotics and Digital Technology, Faculty of Information, Monash University, Australia
  • 1990 – 1990, Lecturer, Department of Robotics and Digital Technology, Chisholm Institute of Technology, Australia
  • 1982 – 1986, Assistant Lecturer, Department of Industrial Automation, University of Science and Technology, Beijing, (formerly Beijing University of Iron and Steel Technology), China

Areas of research and consulting expertise

  • Digital picture (video/image) coding and compression
  • Digital picture quality assessment and metrics
  • Analysis, processing and enhancement of video images
  • Embedded DSP systems and their industrial applications
  • Fast DSP algorithms

Industry collaboration and consulting services

  • Telstra Research Laboratories
  • BHP Research
  • Motorola Australia Research Centre
  • The Ombudsman Victoria
  • Government law enforcement departments and agencies
  • Maurice Blackburn Cashman Lawyers

Selected publications

Book

Special issues

  • A. Luigi, C.W. Chen, D. Tasos, H.R. Wu, (Guest Editors), Special Issue on QoE Management in Emerging Multimedia Services, IEEE Communications Magazine, Volume: 50 Issue: 4 Pages: 18-19, April 2012.
  • G. Ghinea, G.-M. Muntean, P. Frossard, M. Etoh, F. Speranza, H.R. Wu, (Guest Editors), Special Issue on ``Quality Issues on Mobile Multimedia Broadcasting", The IEEE Transactions on Broadcasting, Vol. 54, No.3, Pt II, September 2008.
  • H.-M. Hang, K. R. Rao, T. Sikora, and H.R. Wu, (Guest Editors), Special Issue on Multimedia Communication Services, Circuits, Systems and Signal Processing, No. 3, 2001.

Tutorials and short courses

  • K.R. Rao and H.R. Wu, Advances in Perceptual Coding of Digital Pictures, Tutorial-3, IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME) 2012, Melbourne, Australia, 9 July 2012.
  • H.R. Wu, Advances in Perceptual Coding of Digital Pictures, Tutorial-5, IEEE Visual Communications and Image Processing (VCIP) 2011, Tainan City, Taiwan, 6 November 2011.
  • K.R. Rao and H.R. Wu, Perceptual Coding of Digital Pictures, Tutorial-3, SPIE Visual Communications and Image Processing (VCIP) 2010, Huangshan, China, 11 July 2010.(Supported by ARC grant DP0665572)
  • H.R.Wu and K.R. Rao, Digital Vieo Image Quality and Perceptual Coding, Tutorial 13, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP 2009), Taipei, Taiwan, 20 April 2009. (Supported by ARC grants A4992720 and DP0665572)
  • H.R. Wu, Digital Video Image Quality and Perceptual Coding, Three-Day Short Course, Tampere International Center for Signal Processing, Tampere University of Technology, Finland, 6-8 May 2008.

Journal papers

  • S.M. Lajevardi and H.R. Wu, “Facial Expression Recognition in Perceptual Color Space”, IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, Vol.21, No.8, pp.3721-3733, August 2012.
  • Z. Xu, H.R. Wu, X. Yu, K. Horadam and B. Qiu, “Robust Shape-Feature-Vector-Based Face Recognition System”, IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement, Vol.60, No.12, pp.3781-3791, December 2011.
  • J.J. Hwang and H.R. Wu, “Stereo Image Quality Assessment Using Visual Attention and Distortion Predictors”, KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems, Vol.5, No.9, pp.1613-1631, September 2011. (Supported by ARC grant DP00988654)
  • J.X. Yang, D.M. Tan and H.R. Wu, “An Impairment Metric for Video Temporal Fluctuation Measure”, International Journal of Image and Graphics, Vol.11, No.2, pp.251-264, April 2011. (Supported by ARC grant DP00988654)
  • F. Yang, S. Wan, Q. Xie and H.R. Wu, “No-reference Quality Assessment for Networked Video via Primary Analysis of Bit Stream”, IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, Vol.20, No.11, pp.1544-1554, November 2010.
  • Z. Xu, H.R. Wu, X. Yu and B. Qiu, “Colour Image Enhancement by Virtual Histogram Approach”, IEEE Transactions on Consumer Electronics, Vol.56, No.2, pp.704-712, May 2010.
  • J. X. Yang and H.R. Wu, ``Robust Filtering Technique for Reduction of Temporal Fluctuation in H.264 Video Sequences", IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, Vol.20, No.3, pp.458-462, March 20010. (Supported by ARC grant DP0988654)
  • D.M. Tan, C.-S. Tan and H.R. Wu, ``Perceptual Colour Image Coder with JPEG2000", IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, Vol.19, No.2, pp.374-383, February 2010. (Supported by ARC grant DP0665572)
  • Z. Xu, H.R. Wu, B. Qiu and X. Yu ``Geometric Features Based Filtering for Suppression of Impulse Noise in Color Images", IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, Vol.18, No.8, pp.1742-1759, August 2009. (Supported by ARC grant DP0988654)
  • Z. Ma, H.R. Wu and D. Feng, “Fuzzy Vector Partition Filtering Technique for Color Image Restoration”, Computer Vision and Image Understanding, 107(1-2), pp.26-37, July-August 2007.
  • Z. Man, H.R. Wu, S. Liu and X. Yu, “A new Adaptive Backpropagation Algorithm Based on Lyapunov Stability Theory for Neural Networks”, IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks, Vol.17, No.6, pp.1580-1591, November 2006
  • Z. Ma, H.R. Wu and D. Feng, “Partition Based Vector Filtering Technique for Suppression of Noise in Digital Color Images”, Vol.15, No.8, pp.2324-2342, August 2006. (Supported by ARC grant DP0208790)
  • D. Wu, D.M. Tan, M. Baird, J. DeCampo, C. White and H.R. Wu, “Perceptually Lossless Medical Image Coding”,IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging, Vol. 25, No. 3, pp 335 - 344, March 2006.
  • Z. Ma, H.R. Wu and B. Qiu, “A Robust Structure-Adaptive Hybrid Vector Filter for Color Image Restoration”, IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, Vol.14, No.12, pp.1990-2001, December 2005. (Supported by ARC grant DP0208790)
  • Z. Ma, D. Feng and H.R. Wu, “A Neighborhood Evaluated Adaptive Vector Filter for Suppression of Impulse Noise in Color Images”, Real-time Imaging, Special Issue on Multi-Dimensional Image Processing, 11 (2005), pp.403-416. (Supported by ARC grant DP0208790)
  • D.M. Tan, H.R. Wu and Z. Yu, “Perceptual Coding of Digital Monochrome Images”, IEEE Signal Processing Letters, Vol.11, No.2, pp.239-242, Feb. 2004.
  • Z. Yu, H.R. Wu, S. Winkler and T. Chen, “Objective Assessment of Blocking Artifacts for Digital Video with a Vision Model”, (Invited Paper) The Proceedings of The IEEE, Special Issue on Translating Human Vision Research into Engineering Technology, Vol. 90, No. 1, pp.154-169, January 2002. (Supported by ARC grant A4992720)
  • T. Chen, H.R. Wu and B. Qiu, “Adaptive Postfiltering of Transform Coefficients for the Reduction of Blocking Artifacts”, IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, vol. 11, pp.594-602, May 2001.
  • M. Yuen and H.R. Wu, “A Survey of Hybrid MC/DPCM/DCT Video Coding Distortions”, Signal Processing, EURASIP Journal, vol. 70, pp.247-278, October 1998.
  • M. Yuen and H.R. Wu, “Restoration-Based Loop Filtering in Hybrid MC/DPCM/DCT Video Coding”, Optical Engineering, vol. 37, No. 3, pp.1046-1064, March 1998.
  • H.R. Wu and M. Yuen, “A Generalized Block-edge Impairment Metric (GBIM) for Video Coding”, IEEE Signal Processing Letters, pp.317-320, November 1997.
  • H.R. Wu and F. J. Paoloni, “A 2-D Fast Cosine Transform Algorithm based on Hou's Approach”, IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, pp.544--546, February 1991.
  • H.R. Wu and F. J. Paoloni, “The Structure of Vector Radix Fast Fourier Transforms”, IEEE Transactions on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, vol.37, pp.1415-1424, September 1989.

Professional web site link

http://www.set.rmit.edu.au/~e60255/