CCNY Lecture Series
Computer Vision, Robotics and Human-Computer
Interaction
Title: Human Computer Intelligent Interaction
Thomas. S. Huang
Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Date: Friday, April 15, 2005
Time: 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Room: Steinman Hall, Room T-512
ABSTRACT
One of the major research themes at the Beckman Institute for Advanced
Science and Technology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, is
Human Computer Intelligent Interaction (HCII). Under this theme a
number of research projects are being carried out in the area of
modeling, analysis, and synthesis (visualization) of human motion.
Another research area is image and video databases, especially
content-based indexing, retrieval, filtering and summarization.
In this talk, we shall concentrate on the first of these two areas. In
particular we shall describe our research project on visual hand
tracking and gesture recognition. We use a 3D model-based approach for
hand/fingers motion tracking. Appearance-based hand gesture recognition
is also being explored. Applications include: Using hand gesture
to control display, and the manipulation of visual objects.
In addition to a description of the above project, we shall also
give a brief overview of the general research acitivities and
facilities at the Beckman Institute. The uniqueness of the
Beckman Institute lies in its Infrastructure and its Culture, which are
particularly conducive to interdisciplinary research.
THOMAS S. HUANG Biography
Thomas S. Huang received his B.S. Degree in Electrical
Engineering from National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan,
China; and his M.S. and Sc.D. Degrees in Electrical Engineering
from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge,
Massachusetts. He was on the Faculty of the Department of
Electrical Engineering at MIT from 1963 to 1973; and on the
Faculty of the School of Electrical Engineering and Director of
its Laboratory for Information and Signal Processing at Purdue
University from 1973 to 1980. In 1980, he joined the University
of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where he is now William L. Everitt
Distinguished Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, and
Research Professor at the Coordinated Science Laboratory, and
Head of the Image Formation and Processing Group at the Beckman
Institute for Advanced Science and Technology and Co-Chair of the
Institute's major research theme Human Computer Intelligent Interaction.
During his sabbatical leaves: Dr. Huang has worked at the MIT
Lincoln Laboratory, the IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center, and the
Rheinishes Landes Museum in Bonn, West Germany, and held visiting
Professor positions at the Swiss Institutes of Technology in Zurich and
Lausanne, University of Hannover in West Germany,
INRS-Telecommunications of the University of Quebec in Montreal,
Canada and University of Tokyo, Japan. He has served as a
consultant to numerous industrial firms and government agencies both in
the U.S. and abroad.
Dr. Huang's professional interests lie in the broad area of
information technology, especially the transmission and processing of
multidimensional signals. He has published 14 books, and over 500
papers in Network Theory, Digital Filtering, Image Processing, and
Computer Vision. He is a Member of the National Academy of
Engineering; a Foreign Member of the Chinese Academies of
Engineering and Sciences; and a Fellow of the International Association
of Pattern Recognition, IEEE, and the Optical Society of American; and
has received a Guggenheim Fellowship , an A.V. Humboldt
Foundation Senior U.S. Scientist Award, and a Fellowship from the Japan
Association for the Promotion of Science . He received the IEEE
Signal Processing Society's Technical Achievement Award in 1987, and
the Society Award in 1991. He was awarded the IEEE Third
Millennium Medal in 2000. Also in 2000, he received the Honda Lifetime
Achievement Award for "contributions to motion analysis". In
2001, he received the IEEE Jack S. Kilby Medal. In 2002, he received
the King-Sun Fu Prize, International Association of Pattern
Recognition; and the Pan Wen-Yuan Outstanding Research Award. He is a
Founding Editor of the International Journal Computer Vision, Graphics,
and Image Processing; and Editor of the Springer Series in
Information Sciences, published by Springer Verlag.
The
lecture series is supported by CCNY School of Engineering, and a
planning grant from NSF Minority Institutional Infrastructure program.