Ling Guan

Guan Ling received his B.S. degree in electronic engineering from Tianjin University, China, in 1982, M.S. degree in systems design engineering at University of Waterloo, Canada, in 1985, and Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from University of British Columbia, Canada, in 1989. From 1993 to 2000, he was on the Faculty of Engineering at the University of Sydney, Australia. Since May 2001, he has been a Professor in electrical and computer engineering at Ryerson University, Canada. In 2001, he was appointed to the position of Tier I Canada Research Chair. He is the recipient of Ontario Outstanding Researcher's Award in 2002, and IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology Best Paper Award in 2005. He held visiting positions at British Telecom (1994), Tokyo Institute of Technology (1999), Princeton University (2000), and Microsoft Research Asia. Dr. Guan has authored/coauthored more than 200 scientific publications in multimedia processing and communications, computer vision, machine learning, and adaptive image/signal processing. He served as Associate Guest Editor of numerous international journals, including Proceedings of the IEEE, IEEE Signal Processing Magazine, and two IEEE Transactions. He was the founding General Chair of IEEE Pacific-Rim Conference on Multimedia, and currently serves as the General Chair of 2006 IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo to be held in Toronto, Canada.

Biography Updated on 27 September 2007

Articles in Scholarly Journals [Incomplete List]

  1. High-Strength Fiber Bragg Gratings for a Temperature-Sensing Array
    IEEE Sensors Journal, vol. 6, no. 3, pp. 668–671, 2006
  2. Strategies for unsupervised multimedia processing
    IEEE Computational Intelligence Magazine, vol. 1, no. 2, pp. 27–40, 2006
  3. Semantic retrieval of multimedia by concept languages
    IEEE Signal Processing Magazine, vol. 23, no. 2, pp. 115–123, 2006
  4. Incorporating local statistics in image error measurement for adaptive image restoration
    Optical Engineering, vol. 45, no. 3, p. 037001, 2006
  5. Information Mining from Multimedia Databases
    EURASIP Journal on Applied Signal Processing, vol. 2006, Article ID 49073, 3 pages, 2006
  6. Adaptive Video Indexing and Automatic/Semi-Automatic Relevance Feedback
    IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, vol. 15, no. 8, pp. 1032–1046, 2005
  7. Transformation of Compressed Domain Features for Content-Based Image Indexing and Retrieval
    Multimedia Tools and Applications, vol. 26, no. 1, pp. 5–26, 2005
  8. Refining competition in the self-organising tree map for unsupervised biofilm image segmentation
    Neural Networks, vol. 18, no. 5-6, pp. 850–860, 2005
  9. Pulse-Length-Tolerant Features and Detectors for Sector-Scan Sonar Imagery
    IEEE Journal of Oceanic Engineering, vol. 29, no. 1, pp. 138–156, 2004
  10. A Recurrent Neural Network for Detecting Objects in Sequences of Sector-Scan Sonar Images
    IEEE Journal of Oceanic Engineering, vol. 29, no. 3, pp. 857–871, 2004
  11. Quantifying and Recognizing Human Movement Patterns From Monocular Video Images—Part I: A New Framework for Modeling Human Motion
    IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, vol. 14, no. 2, pp. 179–190, 2004
  12. Quantifying and Recognizing Human Movement Patterns From Monocular Video Images—Part II: Applications to Biometrics
    IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, vol. 14, no. 2, pp. 191–198, 2004
  13. Retrieval For Color Artistry Concepts
    IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, vol. 13, no. 3, pp. 326–339, 2004
  14. An Interactive Approach for CBIR Using a Network of Radial Basis Functions
    IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, vol. 6, no. 5, pp. 703–716, 2004
  15. A recursive soft-decision approach to blind image deconvolution
    IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, vol. 51, no. 2, pp. 515–526, 2003
  16. The Journal of VLSI Signal Processing, vol. 34, no. 1/2, pp. 125–137, 2003
  17. A computational reinforced learning scheme to blind image deconvolution
    IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation, vol. 6, no. 1, pp. 2–15, 2002
  18. Guest editorial special issue on intelligent multimedia processing
    IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks, vol. 13, no. 4, p. 789, 2002
  19. Automatic machine interactions for content-based image retrieval using a self-organizing tree map architecture
    IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks, vol. 13, no. 4, pp. 821–834, 2002
  20. Dynamic resource allocation via video content and short-term traffic statistics
    IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, vol. 3, no. 2, pp. 186–199, 2001
  21. A neural learning approach for adaptive image restoration using a fuzzy model-based network architecture
    IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks, vol. 12, no. 3, pp. 516–531, 2001
  22. Feature extraction of chromosomes from 3-D confocal microscope images
    IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering, vol. 48, no. 11, pp. 1306–1318, 2001
  23. A CAD system for the automatic detection of clustered microcalcifications in digitized mammogram films
    IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging, vol. 19, no. 2, pp. 115–126, 2000
  24. Application of evolutionary programming to adaptive regularization in image restoration
    IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation, vol. 4, no. 4, pp. 309–326, 2000
  25. A model-based neural network for edge characterization
    Pattern Recognition, vol. 33, no. 3, pp. 427–444, 2000
  26. A New Modeling Approach of H.263+ VBR Coded Video Sources in ATM Networks
    Real-Time Imaging, vol. 6, no. 5, pp. 347–357, 2000
  27. An automated form of video image analysis applied to classification of movement disorders
    Disability & Rehabilitation, vol. 22, no. 1-2, pp. 97–108, 2000
  28. Weight assignment for adaptive image restoration by neural networks
    IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks, vol. 11, no. 1, pp. 156–170, 2000
  29. Video analysis of gait for diagnosing movement disorders
    Journal of Electronic Imaging, vol. 9, no. 1, p. 16, 2000
  30. Adaptive image restoration based on hierarchical neural networks
    Optical Engineering, vol. 39, no. 7, p. 1877, 2000
  31. Automatic detection of clustered microcalcifications in digitized mammogram films
    Journal of Electronic Imaging, vol. 8, no. 1, p. 76, 1999
  32. Modularity in neural computing
    Proceedings of the IEEE, vol. 87, no. 9, pp. 1497–1518, 1999
  33. A Real-time Image Analysis System for Computer-Assisted Diagnosis of Neurological Disorders
    Real-Time Imaging, vol. 5, no. 4, pp. 253–269, 1999
  34. Adaptive Impulsive Noise Removal in TV Picture Transmission
    Real-Time Imaging, vol. 4, no. 2, pp. 113–123, 1998
  35. A combined evolution method for associative memory networks
    Neural Networks, vol. 11, no. 5, pp. 785–792, 1998
  36. Self-organizing tree map for eliminating impulse noise with random intensity distributions
    Journal of Electronic Imaging, vol. 7, no. 1, p. 36, 1998
  37. Adaptive regularization in image restoration by unsupervised learning
    Journal of Electronic Imaging, vol. 7, no. 1, p. 211, 1998
  38. Model-based Neural Networks for Image Processing
    IEEE Signal Processing Magazine, vol. 14, no. 6, pp. 35–36, 1997
  39. Adaptive regularization in image restoration using a model-based neural network
    Optical Engineering, vol. 36, no. 12, p. 3297, 1997
  40. A network of networks processing model for image regularization
    IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks, vol. 8, no. 1, pp. 169–174, 1997
  41. A Partitioned Modified Hopfield Neural Network Algorithm for Real-Time Image Restoration
    Real-Time Imaging, vol. 2, no. 4, pp. 215–224, 1996
  42. A neural network adaptive filter for the removal of impulse noise in digital images
    Neural Networks, vol. 9, no. 3, pp. 373–378, 1996
  43. Adaptive scaled mean square error filtering by neural networks
    Journal of Electronic Imaging, vol. 5, no. 4, p. 460, 1996
  44. Model-based neural evaluation and iterative gradient optimization in image restoration and statistical filtering
    Journal of Electronic Imaging, vol. 4, no. 4, p. 407, 1995
  45. A Distributed Real-time Image Processing System
    Real-Time Imaging, vol. 1, no. 6, pp. 427–435, 1995
  46. Image filtering by a scaled mean-square-error filter using a vector processing algorithm
    Electronics Letters, vol. 31, no. 6, p. 443, 1995
  47. Neural network restoration of images suffering space-variant distortion
    Electronics Letters, vol. 31, no. 16, p. 1358, 1995
  48. Restoration of randomly blurred images via the maximum a posteriori criterion
    IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, vol. 1, no. 2, pp. 256–262, 1992
  49. Restoration of stochastically blurred images by the geometrical mean filter
    Optical Engineering, vol. 29, no. 4, p. 289, 1990
  50. Restoration of randomly blurred images by the Wiener filter
    IEEE Transactions on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, vol. 37, no. 4, pp. 589–592, 1989