Zhigang Zhu received
his
B.E., M.E. and Ph.D. degrees, all in computer science from Tsinghua University,
Beijing, China, in 1988, 1991 and
1997
respectively.
Dr. Zhu is currently Full Professor of Computer
Science at the City College and the Graduate Center, the City
University of New York. He is Director of the
City College Visual Computing Laboratory (CcvcL), and Co-Director
of
the Center for Perceptual Robotics, Intelligent Sensors and Machines
(PRISM) at CCNY. Previously he has
been an
Associate Professor at Tsinghua
University and a Senior
Research Fellow at the University
of Massachusetts,
Amherst.
From
1997 to 1999 he was Director of the Information Processing and
Application
Division in the Computer Science Department at Tsinghua University.
His research interests include 3D computer
vision,
human-computer interaction (HCI), augmented reality, video
representations, and
various applications in education, environment, robotics, surveillance
and
transportation. He has published over 100
technical papers in the related fields. His recent research activities
include:
an integrated visual navigation approach with panoramic,
omnidirectional and
stereo vision sensors; new 3D layered representations for image-based
rendering
and robot navigation; novel algorithms and systems of stereo mosaics
for
airborne video surveillance; view planning with heterogeneous visual
sensors
for distributed and cooperative robots, multimodal (EO/IR/acoustic)
moving
target detection/identification, and online 3D virtualized classroom
using
image-based modeling/rendering, human tracking, and multi-modal
information
extraction for advanced e-learning.
At Tsinghua
University, he had conducted
more than seven NSF,
High Tech and Advanced Research projects in China
as PI or CO-PI. At UMass he
was involved in several DARPA, NSF and other projects, including NSF
environmental monitoring using aerial images and videos, DARPA ITO
Mobile
Autonomous Robot S/W (MARS) and Software for Distributed Robotics
(SDR), DARPA
SAFER project, the Kollmorgen high-resolution panoramic sensing
project, and an
Under Vehicle Inspection System (UVIS). Currently he is mainly working
with
various research issues and applications of video computing, video
presentations and human-computer interaction using computer vision,
supported
by NSF, AFRL, ARO, NYSIA, CUNY CISDD and CUNY Research
Foundation.
Dr. Zhu is the recipient of CUNY "Certificate of
Recognition" in 2004, 2005 and 2006, "Science and Technology
Achievement
Award" (second prize winner) from Ministry of Electronic Industry China in 1996, "Outstanding Young
Teacher
in Beijing"
in 1997, and "C. C. Lin Applied Mathematics Scholarship" (first prize
winner) at Tsinghua in 1997. His Ph.D. thesis " On Environment Modeling
for Visual Navigation" was selected in 1999 as a special award in the
top
100 dissertations in China
over the last three years, and a book based on his Ph.D. thesis was
published
by China Higher Education Press in December 2001. He has served as a
program
committee member of the IEEE Virtual Reality Conference from 1999 to
2003, and
as a Session Chair of the 1999 International Workshop on Digital and
Computational Video, Tampa, Florida, and a Program Co-Chair of the IEEE
International Workshop on Image and Video Registration (with CVPR'04),
July 2,
2004 in Washington DC. He has reviewed numerous papers for various
international
journals and conferences. He is a senior member of the IEEE, a senior
member
of the
ACM and an Associate Editor of the Machine Vision and Applications
Journal. He is Co-General Chair (with Prof. Thomas S. Huang) of the
2007 IEEE Workshop on Multimodal Sentient Computing, in conjunction
with CVPR 2007 in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and Co-Guest Editor (with
Prof. Takeo Kanade) of the up-coming Special Issue on
Modeling and Representations of Large Scale 3D Scenes, International
Journal of Computer Vision.
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