Ting-Chuen PONG (PhD, Virginia Tech, 1984)
Professor of Computer Science and Associate Vice-President for Academic Affairs
Dr. Pong received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from Virginia
Polytechnic Institute and State University in 1984. In 1991,
he joined the Hong Kong University of Science & Technology, where
he is currently a Professor in Computer Science, Associate
Vice-President for Academic Affairs, and Director of the Mainland
Students and Programs Office. He has served as Associate Dean of Engineering
from 1999 to 2002 and Director of the Sino Software Research
Institute at HKUST from 1995 to 2000. Before joining HKUST, he was
an Associate Professor in Computer Science at the University of
Minnesota, Minneapolis, USA. Dr. Pong is a recipient
of the HKUST Excellence in Teaching Innovation Award in 2001.
Dr. Pong's research interests include computer vision, pattern
recognition, multimedia computer and IT in Education. Dr. Pong is
a recipient of the Annual Pattern Recognition Society Award in 1990.
He has served as Program Co-Chair of the Web and Education track
of the Tenth International World Wide Web Conference in 2001, the
Third International Computer Science Conference in 1995 and the
Third Asian Conference on Computer Vision in 1998.
Research interests:
Computer vision and image processing; artificial intelligence;
pattern recognition; IT in Education.
Selected publications:
- Ngo, C.W., Pong, T.C., and Zhang, H.J., "Motion Analysis and
Segmentation through Spatio-Temporal Slices Processing", IEEE
Transactions on Image Processing, Vol. 12, No. 3, March 2003.
- Ngo, C.W., Pong, T.C., and Zhang, H.J., "On Clustering and
Retrieval of Video Shots through Temporal Slices Analysis", IEEE
Transactions on Multimedia, Vol. 4, No. 4, Dec. 2002.
- Ngo, C.W., Pong, T.C., and Zhang, H.J., "Motion-based Video
Representation for Scene Change Detection", International Journal
of Computer Vision, Special issue on Video Computing, Vol. 50, No. 2,
Nov. 2002.
- Ngo, C.W., Pong, T.C., and Chin, R., "Exploiting Image Indexing
Techniques in DCT Domain", Pattern Recognition, Vol. 34, No. 9,
Sept. 2001.
- Ngo, C.W., Pong, T.C., and Chin, R., "Video Partitioning by
Temporal Slice Coherency", IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems
for Video Technology, Vol. 11, No. 8, Aug. 2001.
- Pong, T.C., Haralick, R. and Shapiro, L., "Shape from Shading
Using the Facet Model", Pattern Recognition, Vol.22, No.6, pp.
683-695, 1989. (Received Best Paper Award)
Teaching:
COMP 102 Summer 96 homepage
COMP 221 Spring 98 homepage
tcpong@cs.ust.hk
Computer Science Department
The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Clear Water Bay, Kowloon
HONG KONG
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