Ming-Fang Weng

Autobiography

Research Interests

• Digital content analysis
• Image/video information retrieval
• Computer vision
• Multimedia systems and applications

Employment and Research Experience

• Academia sinica, Taipei, Taiwan
  Postdoctoral fellow (Institute of Information Science), August 2011–present
• National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan
  Postdoctoral fellow (Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering), August 2010–July 2011
  Research assistant (Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering), February 2006–July 2010
• Microsoft Research Asia, Beijing, China
  Research intern (Media Computing Group), February 2009–May 2009
• CyberLink Corporation, Taipei County, Taiwan
  Summer intern, July 2007–September 2006
• Institute For Information Industry, Taipei, Taiwan
  Engineer (Network and Multimedia Institute), January 2001–February 2006
• Hitron Technologies Inc., Taipei County, Taiwan
  Contract engineer, July 2000–October 2000
• National Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu, Taiwan
  Research assistant (Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering), August 1998–July 2000

Education

• Ph.D., Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering,
  National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan, June 2010
  Dissertation: "Exploring Contextual and Temporal Relationships for Semantic Video Indexing"
  Advisor: Prof. Yung-Yu Chuang
• M.S., Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering,
  National Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu, Taiwan, June 2000
  Thesis: "Real-Time and Continuous Terrain Rendering With View-Dependent LOD Preserving"
  Advisor: Prof. Jung-Hong Chuang
• B.S., Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering,
  National Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu, Taiwan, June 1998

Publications

• Ming-Fang Weng and Yung-Yu Chuang, "Cross-domain multi-cue fusion for concept-based video indexing," IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (IEEE TPAMI), 2011, accepted for publication.
• Ming-Fang Weng and Yung-Yu Chuang, "Collaborative video re-indexing via matrix factorization," ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing, Communications, and Applications (ACM TOMCCAP), 2011, accepted for publication.
• Ken-Hao Liu, Ming-Fang Weng, Chi-Yao Tseng, Yung-Yu Chuang, and Ming-Syan Chen, "Association and temporal rule mining for post-filtering of semantic concept detection in video," IEEE Transactions on Multimedia (IEEE TMM), vol. 10, no. 2, pp. 240–251, February 2008.

• Tsung-Yi Lin, Yen-Yu Lin, Ming-Fang Weng, Yu-Chiang Wang, Yu-Feng Hsu, and Hong-Yuan Mark Liao, "Cross Camera People Counting with Perspective Estimation and Occlusion Handling," in Proceedings of the IEEE International Workshop on Information Forensics and Security (WIFS 2011), November 2011.
• Chia-Kai Liang, Yu-Ting Hsieh, Tien-Jung Chuang, Yin Wang, Ming-Fang Weng, and Yung-Yu Chuang, "Learning landmarks by exploiting social media," in Proceedings of the International MultiMedia Modeling Conference (MMM 2010), pp. 207–217, January 2010.
• Ming-Fang Weng and Yung-Yu Chuang, "Multi-cue fusion for semantic video indexing," in Proceedings of the ACM International Conference on Multimedia (ACM MM 2008), pp. 71–80, October 2008.
  Paper presentation slides (PDF file).
• Chin-Han Chen, Ming-Fang Weng, Shyh-Kang Jeng, and Yung-Yu Chuang, "Emotion-based music visualization using photos," in Proceedings of the International MultiMedia Modeling Conference (MMM 2008), pp. 358–368, January 2008.
• Ming-Fang Weng, Chun-Kang Chen, Yi-Hsuan Yang, Rong-En Fan, Yu-Ting Hsieh, Yung-Yu Chuang, Winston H. Hsu, and Chih-Jen Lin, "The NTU toolkit and framework for high-level feature detection at TRECVID 2007," in Proceedings of NIST TREC Video Retrieval Evaluation Workshop, November 2007.
  Paper presentation slides (PDF file), also available at the repository of the TRECVID workshop notebook papers/slides.

Patents

• HU, C.-J., WENG, M.-F., LIAO, Y.-C., and LIN, T.-C. Method for fendering animation of vector graphics.
  R.O.C. Patent (2007, NO: I288893).
• WENG, M.-F., KUO, X.-Y., SU, J.-M., and LI, J.-Y. Method for improving luminance effct in scenes.
  R.O.C. Patent (2006, NO: I256455).
• WENG, M.-F., SU, J.-M., CHEN, C.-C., and LI, J.-Y. Interactive 3d spatial light illumination method and system.
  R.O.C. Patent (2006, NO: I268454), Korea Patent (2006, NO: 10-0614739), Japan Patent (2007, NO: 3980004), P. R. China Patent (2007, NO: 342648).
• WENG, M.-F., WANG, S.-W., and J.-D., L. Method for locating a position in a computer terrain model.
  R.O.C. Patent (2005, NO: I245233).

Honors and Awards

• Outstanding Ph.D. Dissertation Award, the Chinese Image Processing and Pattern Recognition Society, Taiwan, 2011.
• ACM Multimedia Conference Student Conference Participation/Travel Grant, 2008.
• First place of the student paper contest for the Cooperative Workshop of Cyberlink and CML on Communications and Multimedia, 2008.
• Summer Visiting Scholar to the University of Tokyo, Sponsored by National Science Council, Taiwan and Interchange Association, Japan, 2007.
• Excellent Award (2nd place) of the 2007 IPPR Contest (Face Detection in Video), IPPR, 2007.
• The First Annual CyberLink Technical Elite Fellowship, 2006.

Links

• Story Between Sophy and Alpha
• Album of my lovely kids (Part I)
• Album of my lovely kids (Part II)
• Album of my lovely kids (Part III)

Last Update: Dec. 24, 2011