Roland T. Chin Professor, Computer Science Vice-President for Academic Affairs (Deputy to the President)

Professor Chin received the B.S. degree with honors in 1975 and the Ph.D. degree in 1979, in electrical engineering from the University of Missouri , Columbia. From 1979 to 1981, he was a researcher at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Maryland. He was on the faculty of Electrical & Computer Engineering at the University of Wisconsin , Madison from 1981 to 1995; served as Associate Department Chair from 1986 to 1990 and became a Professor in 1989. Since 1992, he has been on the faculty of the Computer Science Department of Hong Kong University of Science & Technology.

Professor Chin was the recipient of the NSF Presidential Young Investigator Award in 1984. He had served on the editorial board of Asian Pacific Engineering Journal, as an Associated Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Image Processing , and an Associated Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence.

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Recent Research Publications:

A. Rattarangsi and R.T. Chin, "Scale-based detection of corners of planar curves," IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, vol. PAMI-14, no.4, pp.430-449, April 1992.

B.K. Jang and R.T. Chin, "One-pass parallel thinning: Properties and quantitative evaluation," IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, vol.PAMI-14, no.11, pp.1129-1140, November 1992.

B.K. Jang and R.T. Chin, "Reconstructable one-pass thinning", International Journal of Pattern Recognition and Artificial Intelligence, vol. 7, no. 5, pp. 1145-1181, October 1993.

M.H. Chen and R.T. Chin, "Partial smoothing splines for noisy boundaries with corners", IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, vol. PAMI-15, no. 11, pp. 1208-1216, November 1993.

H.C. Park and R.T. Chin, " Optimal decomposition of convex morphological structuring elements for 4-connected parallel array processors, " IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, vol. PAMI-16, no. 3, pp. 304-313, March 1994.

H.C. Park and R.T. Chin, " Optimal decomposition of arbitrarily-shaped morphological structuring elements, " IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, vol. PAMI-17, no. 1, pp. 2-15, January 1995.

K.F. Lai and R.T. Chin, " Deformable contours: Modeling and extraction, " IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, vol. PAMI-17, no. 11, pp. 1084-1090, November 1995.

Y.L. Fok, J. Chan, and R.T. Chin, " Automated analysis of nerve-cell images using active contour models ," IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging, vol. 15, no. 3, pp. 353-368, June 1996.

B. K. Jang and R.T.Chin, " Morphological scale space for 2D shape smoothing ," Computer Vision, and Image Processing, vol. 70, no. 2, pp. 121-141, 1998.

K. F. Lai and R.T. Chin, " On modeling, extraction, detection and classification of deformable contours fr om noisy images ," Journal of Image and Vision Computing, vol. 16, no.1, pp. 267-277, January 1998.

K. W. Cheung, D. Y. Yeung, and R.T.Chin, " A Bayesian framework for deformable pattern recognition with application to handwritten character recognition ," IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, vol. PAMI-20, no. 12, pp. 1382-1388, December 1998.

H. M. Hajj, T. Q. Nguyen, and R.T.Chin, " 2D multirate Bayesian framework for multiscale feature detection ," Mathematical Imaging and Vision, vol. 8, December 1999.

rchin@cs.ust.hk roland@cs.ust.hk

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