Scholarly and Professional Activities/Awards

 

·             Program Committee Member

The Ninth International Conference on Control, Automation, Robotics and Vision (ICARCV) 2006

·             Program Committee Member

The Ninth Pacific Rim International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2006

·             Program Committee Member

The 7th International Conference on automatic Face and Gesture Recognition (FG06), 2006

·             Track Program Chair

The 18th International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR06), 2006

·             Program Committee Member

IAPR International Conference on Biometric (ICB), 2006

·             Program Committee Member

International Symposium on Intelligent Signal Processing and Communication Systems, Dec 2005

·             Program Committee Member

ICCV Workshop on Biometric Recognition Systems, 2005

·             Accessor

Research Grant Council (RGC), Hong Kong 2005

·             Organizing Committee Member (Tutorial Chair)

International Symposium on Intelligent Signal Processing and Communication Systems, Dec 2005

·             Croucher ASI Director

Croucher Advanced Study Institute on “Recent Development on Biometric Authentication”, 2004

·             External Examiner

The Open University of Hong Kong, 2004- 2006

·          Accessor

IT Excellence Awards 2004

·             Accessor

Australian Research Council (ARC), Australia 2004

·             Program Committee Member

International Symposium on Intelligent Multimedia, Video & Speech Processing,  2004

·             Program Committee Member and Organizing Committee Member

The 4th Chinese National Conference on Biometric Recognition, 2004

·             Program Committee Member

The 7th International Eurographics Workshop on Multimedia, 2004

·             Program Committee Member

International Conference on Biometric Authentication (ICBA), 2004

·             Program Committee Member

The 6th International Conference on automatic Face and Gesture Recognition (FG 04), 2004

·             Program Committee Member

The 4th International Conference on Audio and Video Based Personal Authentication (AVBPA), 2003

·             Program Committee Member

The First International Conference on Machine Learning and Cybernetics (ICMLC), 2002.

·             External Examiner

The Open University of Hong Kong, 2001- 2004

·             Program Co-chair

The Sixth International Computer Science Conference: Active Media Technology, 2001.

·             Program Co-chair

The 2nd International Conference on Wavelet Analysis and its Applications, 2001.

·             Committee Member

IT Contest 2001, Coorganized by ITSD, ACM and PolyU

·             Program Committee Member

The Second Asia Pacific Conference on Intelligent Agent, 2001.

·             Guest Co-editor

International Journal of Pattern Recognition and Artificial Intelligence, 2000

·             Program Committee Member

The 3rd International Conference on Multimodal Interface, Beijing, 2000.

·             Organizing Chair, Local Arrangement Chair and Program Committee Member,

The First Asia Pacific Conference on Intelligent Agent, 1999.

·              Program and Organizing Committee Member,

ACM-HK Postgraduate Student Conference, 1999.

·             Organizing and Program Committee Member, Session Chairman,

The 2nd International Conference on Multimodel Interface (ICMI), 1999.

·             Organizing Committee Member,

17th International Conference on Computer Processing of Oriental Languages (ICCPOL), 1997.

·              Award of University Staff Fellowship 1995-96

·             Session chairman,

IEEE TENCON International Conference, 1994.

·              Judge of the Varsity Competition in Electronic Design 93/94, organized by HKUST and Zonta Club of the New Territories

·              External examiner

Doctoral thesis: Zhongshan University (China), City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, National Technology University of Singapore

Master thesis: Zhongshan University (China), National Technology University of Singapore, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, City University of Hong Kong

·             Reviewer,

         IEEE Trans. PAMI, IEEE Trans. SMC, IEEE Trans. Information Forestic and Security, IEEE Trans Multimedia,, Image and Vision computing, Journal of Electronic Imaging,  International Journal of Pattern Recognition and Artificial Intelligence, Journal of Applied Signal Processing, Computer Vision and Image Understanding, Pattern Recognition Letters and Many International Conferences.

·              Listed in Who’s who in the world 1998

·              Invited talks and seminars at Institute of Automation - Academy of Sciences of China, Faculty of Computing and Mathematical Science, Zhongshan University China.

 

 

Major Administrative Duties at Hong Kong Baptist University

 

·              Senate Member 2004 – present

·              Academic Regulations and Review Committee (ARRC) Member 2004 – present

·              Academic and Professional Standards Committee (APSC) Member 2005 – present

·              Teaching Development Grant Committtee Member 2005 - present

·              Course management team member, B.A. (Hons) in Visual Arts, 2005 – present

·              Course planning team member, B.A. (Hons) in Visual Arts, 2004 - 2005

·              Course Coordinator, B.Sc. (Hons) in Computer Science, 1998 – present

·              Chair of Course planning team, B.Sc. (Hons) in Computer Science and Technology, (offered in HKBU Zhuhai Campus), 2004 – 2005

·              Science Faculty Course Board Member 1993– 1998

·              Science Faculty Examination Board Member 1998– present

·              Student Exchange Coordinator 2002 - 2003

·              Science Faculty Safety Committee Member 1993 - 1994

·              Applied Computing Year II Tutor 1994 - 1998

·              Computer Interfacing Laboratory Manger 1994 -1998