Jenq-Neng Hwang

Jenq-Neng Hwang is a Full Professor of the Department of Electrical Engineering of the University of Washington in Seattle. He also served as the Associate Chair for Research & Development in the Electrical Engineering Department from 2003 to 2005. He has published more than 200 journal/conference papers and book chapters in the areas of image/video signal processing, computational neural networks, multimedia system integration, and networking. Dr. Hwang received the 1995 IEEE Signal Processing Society's Annual Best Paper Award (with Shyh-Rong Lay and Alan Lippman). Dr. Hwang was a Member of Design and Implementation of Signal Processing Systems Technical Committee and also a Founding Member of Multimedia Signal Processing Technical Committee of IEEE Signal Processing Society. He served as an Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing from 1992 to 1994. He is now an Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, and an Editor for Journal of Information Science and Engineering. He is also on the editorial board of Journal of VLSI Signal Processing Systems for Signal, Image, and Video Technology. He was the Program Cochair of International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), Seattle, in 1998. Dr. Hwang is a Fellow of IEEE since 2001.

Biography Updated on 21 November 2007

Personal Home Page

http://www.ee.washington.edu/faculty/hwang/

Articles in Scholarly Journals [Incomplete List]

  1. An embedded packet train and adaptive FEC scheme for effective video adaptation over wireless broadband networks
    Journal of Zhejiang University SCIENCE A, vol. 7, no. 5, pp. 811–818, 2006
  2. A Max-Min Fairness Congestion Control for Layered Streaming of Scalable Video
    IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, vol. 16, no. 9, pp. 1074–1085, 2006
  3. Automatic Creation of a Talking Head From a Video Sequence
    IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, vol. 7, no. 4, pp. 628–637, 2005
  4. A scalable VideoGIS system for GPS-guided vehicles
    Signal Processing: Image Communication, vol. 20, no. 3, pp. 205–218, 2005
  5. Constrained Optimization for Audio-to-Visual Conversion
    IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, vol. 52, no. 6, pp. 1783–1790, 2004
  6. Mapping the spatial distribution and time evolution of snow water equivalent with passive microwave measurements
    IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, vol. 41, no. 3, pp. 612–621, 2003
  7. Detecting objects in image sequences using rule-based control in an active contour model
    IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering, vol. 50, no. 6, pp. 705–710, 2003
  8. Object-based analysis and interpretation of human motion in sports video sequences by dynamic bayesian networks
    Computer Vision and Image Understanding, vol. 92, no. 2-3, pp. 196–216, 2003
  9. A novel rate predictor based on quantized DCT indices and its rate control mechanism
    Signal Processing: Image Communication, 2003
  10. A novel hybrid HVPC/mathematical model rate control for low bit-rate streaming video
    Signal Processing: Image Communication, vol. 17, no. 5, pp. 423–440, 2002
  11. The Journal of VLSI Signal Processing, vol. 31, no. 1, pp. 45–55, 2002
  12. Fractal analysis of region-based vascular change in the normal and non-proliferative diabetic retina
    Current Eye Research, vol. 24, no. 4, pp. 274–280, 2002
  13. Fast and automatic video object segmentation and tracking for content-based applications
    IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, vol. 12, no. 2, pp. 122–129, 2002
  14. Object-based video abstraction for video surveillance systems
    IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, vol. 12, no. 12, pp. 1128–1138, 2002
  15. The Journal of VLSI Signal Processing, vol. 29, no. 1/2, pp. 7–21, 2001
  16. The Journal of VLSI Signal Processing, vol. 29, no. 1/2, pp. 51–61, 2001
  17. Passive microwave remote sensing of snow constrained by hydrological simulations
    IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, vol. 39, no. 8, pp. 1744–1756, 2001
  18. A real-time interactive virtual classroom multimedia distance learning system
    IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, vol. 3, no. 4, pp. 432–444, 2001
  19. A fast minimal path active contour model
    IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, vol. 10, no. 6, pp. 865–873, 2001
  20. Ordered statistics decoding of linear block codes on frequency nonselective multipath channels
    IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, vol. 18, no. 11, pp. 2227–2239, 2000
  21. Mapping snow water equivalent by combining a spatially distributed snow hydrology model with passive microwave remote-sensing data
    IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, vol. 37, no. 2, pp. 690–704, 1999
  22. Scene-context-dependent reference-frame placement for MPEG video coding
    IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, vol. 9, no. 3, pp. 478–489, 1999
  23. Closed contour edge detection of blood vessel lumen and outer wall boundaries in black-blood MR images
    Magnetic Resonance Imaging, vol. 17, no. 2, pp. 257–266, 1999
  24. Contour Tracking Using a Knowledge-Based Snake Algorithm to Construct Three-Dimensional Pharyngeal Bolus Movement
    Dysphagia, vol. 14, no. 4, pp. 219–227, 1999
  25. The Journal of VLSI Signal Processing, vol. 18, no. 3, pp. 207–218, 1998
  26. Neural networks for intelligent multimedia processing
    Proceedings of the IEEE, vol. 86, no. 6, pp. 1244–1272, 1998
  27. Expanding Gaussian kernels for multivariate conditional density estimation
    IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, vol. 46, no. 1, pp. 269–275, 1998
  28. Dynamic bit allocation in video combining for multipoint conferencing
    IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II: Analog and Digital Signal Processing, vol. 45, no. 5, pp. 644–648, 1998
  29. A Unified Perspective of Statistical Learning Networks
    IEEE Signal Processing Magazine, vol. 14, no. 6, pp. 36–38, 1997
  30. The past, present, and future of neural networks for signal processing
    IEEE Signal Processing Magazine, vol. 14, no. 6, pp. 28–48, 1997
  31. Lipreading from color video
    IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, vol. 6, no. 8, pp. 1192–1195, 1997
  32. Solving inverse problems by Bayesian neural network iterative inversion with ground truth incorporation
    IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, vol. 45, no. 11, pp. 2749–2757, 1997
  33. Three-dimensional object representation and invariant recognition using continuous distance transform neural networks
    IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks, vol. 8, no. 1, pp. 141–147, 1997
  34. Robust speech recognition based on joint model and feature space optimization of hidden Markov models
    IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks, vol. 8, no. 2, pp. 194–204, 1997
  35. The cascade-correlation learning: a projection pursuit learning perspective
    IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks, vol. 7, no. 2, pp. 278–289, 1996
  36. A neural network-based stochastic active contour model (NNS-SNAKE) for contour finding of distinct features
    IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, vol. 4, no. 10, pp. 1407–1416, 1995
  37. Solving inverse problems by Bayesian iterative inversion of a forward model with applications to parameter mapping using SMMR remote sensing data
    IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, vol. 33, no. 5, pp. 1182–1193, 1995
  38. ChemNets: Theory and Application
    Analytical Chemistry, vol. 67, no. 9, pp. 1497–1504, 1995
  39. Proteus: A reconfigurable computational network for computer vision
    Machine Vision and Applications, vol. 8, no. 2, pp. 85–100, 1995
  40. Regression modeling in back-propagation and projection pursuit learning
    IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks, vol. 5, no. 3, pp. 342–353, 1994
  41. Nonparametric multivariate density estimation: a comparative study
    IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, vol. 42, no. 10, pp. 2795–2810, 1994
  42. Finite precision error analysis of neural network hardware implementations
    IEEE Transactions on Computers, vol. 42, no. 3, pp. 281–290, 1993
  43. Query-based learning applied to partially trained multilayer perceptrons
    IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks, vol. 2, no. 1, pp. 131–136, 1991
  44. Systolic array designs for Kalman filtering
    IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, vol. 39, no. 1, pp. 171–182, 1991
  45. Systolic architectures for radar CFAR detectors
    IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, vol. 39, no. 10, pp. 2286–2295, 1991
  46. Neural network architectures for robotic applications
    IEEE Transactions on Robotics and Automation, vol. 5, no. 5, pp. 641–657, 1989
  47. A systolic neural network architecture for hidden Markov models
    IEEE Transactions on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, vol. 37, no. 12, pp. 1967–1979, 1989
  48. A unified systolic architecture for artificial neural networks
    Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing, vol. 6, no. 2, pp. 358–387, 1989
  49. Ring systolic designs for artificial neural nets*1
    Neural Networks, vol. 1, p. 390, 1988
  50. An algebraic projection analysis for back-propagation learning
    Neural Networks, vol. 1, p. 547, 1988
  51. Wavefront Array Processors-Concept to Implementation
    Computer, vol. 20, no. 7, pp. 18–33, 1987