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Dr. Weiping Li is an IEEE Fellow. He was a founding board member of MPEG-4 Industry Forum. He served as an Editor of the MPEG-4 International Standard. He also served as the Editor-in-Chief for IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology. He is currently the Past Editor-in-Chief of this premier journal in video technology.

Now he is responsible for the group in Amity Systems developing several patent pending algorithms dealing with the optimization of advanced video technologies such as H.263, H.264, and AVS running efficiently over a distributed network multimedia solution. He most recently served as the CEO of WebCast Technologies from 2000 to 2002. He served as the Director of R&D for Optivision from 1998 to 2000. Weiping's education career preceded his commercial career when he joined the Faculty at Lehigh University as an Assistant Professor in 1987. He was promoted to Associate Professor with Tenure in 1993. He was promoted to Full Professor in 1998. He received his Ph.D. and M.S. degrees from Stanford University in 1988 and 1983 respectively, and his B.S. degree from the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) in 1982, all in electrical engineering.

Prof. Chen is a Fellow of both IEEE and SPIE. He joined the Florida Institute of Technology as the Allen S. Henry Distinguished Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Director, Wireless Center of Excellence in 2003. Previously, he has been on the faculty of Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at the University of Missouri-Columbia from 1996 to 2003, and on the faculty of Electrical Engineering at the University of Rochester from 1992 to 1996. From September 2000 to October 2002, he served as the Head of Interactive Media Group at David Sarnoff Research Laboratories. He has also consulted with Kodak Research Lab, Microsoft Research, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, and Mitsubishi Electric Research Lab.

Currently, he is serving as Editor-in-Chief for IEEE Trans on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology and an Associate Editor for IEEE Trans on Multimedia. He is also on the Editorial Board of IEEE Multimedia Magazine and the Journal of Visual Communication and Image Representation. He has served on the Editorial Board of the Journal of Computerized Medical Imaging and Graphics from 2000 to 2003, and has been a Guest Editor for IEEE Journal of Selected Areas in Communications special issue on Error-Resilient Image and Video Transmission, a Guest Editor for IEEE Trans Circuits and Systems for Video Technology special issue on Wireless Video, a Guest Editor for Journal of Wireless Communication and Mobile Computing special issue on Multimedia over Mobile IP.

He has received research awards from NSF, NASA, Whitaker Foundation, DARPA, and several major corporations. He received the 2003 Sigma Xi Excellence in Graduate Research Mentoring Award from the University of Missouri-Columbia. His Ph.D. students, Jiebo Luo and Li Fan, received the 1994 SPIE Best Student Paper for Visual Communication and Image Processing, and the 1999 SPIE Michael B. Merickel Best Student Paper Award, respectively. His Ph.D. student, Min Wu, was named one of the three Finalist for 2003 Association for the Advancement of Medical Instrumentation (AAMI) Young Investigator Competition.

Prof. Xiaoou Tang
Director, Multimedia Lab
Department of Information Engineering
The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Group Manager, Visual Computing Group
Microsoft Research Asia

He has been an IEEE member since 1999 and a senior member since July 2006. He serves as the reviewer for IEEE trans. on Circuits and Systems for Video Technologies, IEEE trans. on Multimedia, IEEE signal processing letter and some other international journals. He also serves as the member of technical program committee in some international conferences (e.g. ICME 2006, PCS 2006, VCIP 2005). He has authored or co-authored over 100 conference and journal papers. He has about 30 U.S. patents granted or pending in video and image coding.

Dr. Sun has published 100+ Journal / Papers so far in the areas of media security, media analysis, computer vision, etc.


Dr. Weiping Li Vice President and Chief Technologist Amity System Inc.	Dr. Weiping Li is an IEEE Fellow. He was a founding board member of MPEG-4 Industry Forum. He served as an Editor of the MPEG-4 International Standard. He also served as the Editor-in-Chief for IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology. He is currently the Past Editor-in-Chief of this premier journal in video technology. Now he is responsible for the group in Amity Systems developing several patent pending algorithms dealing with the optimization of advanced video technologies such as H.263, H.264, and AVS running efficiently over a distributed network multimedia solution. He most recently served as the CEO of WebCast Technologies from 2000 to 2002. He served as the Director of R&D for Optivision from 1998 to 2000. Weiping's education career preceded his commercial career when he joined the Faculty at Lehigh University as an Assistant Professor in 1987. He was promoted to Associate Professor with Tenure in 1993. He was promoted to Full Professor in 1998. He received his Ph.D. and M.S. degrees from Stanford University in 1988 and 1983 respectively, and his B.S. degree from the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) in 1982, all in electrical engineering.
Prof. Chang Wen Chen Chair Professor of USTC Allen S. Henry Distinguished Professor Director, Wireless Center of Excellence Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Florida Institute of Technology	Prof. Chen is a Fellow of both IEEE and SPIE. He joined the Florida Institute of Technology as the Allen S. Henry Distinguished Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Director, Wireless Center of Excellence in 2003. Previously, he has been on the faculty of Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at the University of Missouri-Columbia from 1996 to 2003, and on the faculty of Electrical Engineering at the University of Rochester from 1992 to 1996. From September 2000 to October 2002, he served as the Head of Interactive Media Group at David Sarnoff Research Laboratories. He has also consulted with Kodak Research Lab, Microsoft Research, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, and Mitsubishi Electric Research Lab. Currently, he is serving as Editor-in-Chief for IEEE Trans on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology and an Associate Editor for IEEE Trans on Multimedia. He is also on the Editorial Board of IEEE Multimedia Magazine and the Journal of Visual Communication and Image Representation. He has served on the Editorial Board of the Journal of Computerized Medical Imaging and Graphics from 2000 to 2003, and has been a Guest Editor for IEEE Journal of Selected Areas in Communications special issue on Error-Resilient Image and Video Transmission, a Guest Editor for IEEE Trans Circuits and Systems for Video Technology special issue on Wireless Video, a Guest Editor for Journal of Wireless Communication and Mobile Computing special issue on Multimedia over Mobile IP. He has received research awards from NSF, NASA, Whitaker Foundation, DARPA, and several major corporations. He received the 2003 Sigma Xi Excellence in Graduate Research Mentoring Award from the University of Missouri-Columbia. His Ph.D. students, Jiebo Luo and Li Fan, received the 1994 SPIE Best Student Paper for Visual Communication and Image Processing, and the 1999 SPIE Michael B. Merickel Best Student Paper Award, respectively. His Ph.D. student, Min Wu, was named one of the three Finalist for 2003 Association for the Advancement of Medical Instrumentation (AAMI) Young Investigator Competition.
Prof. Zixiang Xiong Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Texas A&M University	Prof. Xiong (http://lena.tamu.edu) received the Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering in 1996 from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. From 1995 to 1997, he was with Princeton University, first as a visiting student, then as a research associate. From 1997 to 1999, he was with the University of Hawaii. Since 1999, he has been with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Texas A&M University, where he is a Professor. His research interests are network information theory, code designs and applications, networked multimedia and genomic signal processing. Dr. Xiong received a National Science Foundation (NSF) Career Award in 1999, an Army Research Office (ARO) Young Investigator Award in 2000, and an Office of Naval Research (ONR) Young Investigator Award in 2001. He also received the 2006 IEEE Signal Processing Magazine best paper award. He served as associate editor for the IEEE Trans. on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology (1999-2005), the IEEE Trans. on Image Processing (2002-2005), and the IEEE Trans. on Signal Processing (2002-2006). He is currently an associate editor for the IEEE Trans. on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics (part B). He is the publications chair of ICASSP'07 and the technical program committee co-chair of ITW'07. He is a fellow of the IEEE.
Dr. Shipeng Li Research Manager, Internet Media Group Microsoft Research Asia	Dr. Shipeng Li joined Microsoft Research Asia (MSRA) in May 1999. He is a senior researcher and research manager of the Internet Media group. He also serves as the technical assistant to the managing director coordinating the research activities at MSRA. His research interests include Signal and Image Processing; Content-based Analysis; Image and Video Coding; HDTV Technology; Multimedia Streaming and Communications over Internet and Wireless Networks; Scalable Multimedia Representation; Application Level Multicast; Digital Right Management; Wireless Communication and Networking; P2P Networking; New Media Formats and Systems. From Oct. 1996 to May 1999, Dr. Li was with Multimedia Technology Laboratory at Sarnoff Corporation in Princeton, NJ (formerly David Sarnoff Research Center, and RCA Laboratories) as a member of technical staff. Dr. Li has been actively involved in research and development of digital television, MPEG, JPEG, image/video compression, next generation multimedia standards and applications, consumer electronics. He has made several major contributions adopted by MPEG-4, H.264, MPEG-4 SVC standards. He invented and developed the world first cost-effective high-quality legacy HDTV decoder rated best quality at CES99. He proposed to start P2P streaming research at MSRA as early as in August 2000. He led and built the first working scalable video streaming prototype and demonstrated the full features through cross continental live streaming from Beijing, China to Fairfax, VA at 60th MPEG meeting (2002). He has been an advocate of scalable coding format and is influential to the standard bodies. He first proposed the 5/D Media 2.0 concepts that outlined the new features of next generation internet media (2006). He has authored and co-authored over 150 journal and conference papers and holds 28 granted (40+ pending) US patents in image/video compression and communications, digital television, multimedia and wireless communication. He is the co-author of book chapter “MPEG-4 Texture Coding” in “Multimedia Systems and Standards” published by the Marcel Dekker, Inc. (2000), the principal author of book chapter “Image and Video Coding” in “The Wiley Encyclopedia of Telecommunications” published by the Wiley and Sons, Inc (2003), a co-editor of “Proceedings of Visual Communications and Image Processing 2005” published by SPIE (2005), and a co-author of book chapter “Scalable Video Coding for Adaptive Streaming Applications” in “Multimedia over IP and Wireless Networks” published by Academic Press (2007). Dr. Li is a member of Visual Signal Processing and Communications technical committee of IEEE Circuits and Systems Society and a member of Multimedia Signal Processing technical committee of IEEE Signal Processing Society. He serves as associate editors of IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology and Journal of Visual Communications and Image Representation. He was a special session chair of IEEE PCM 2000, a local arrangement chair of IEEE PCM 2001, a technical program co-chair for VCIP 2005, a general co-chair of Packet Video 2006, a track co-chair of ICME 2006 on multimedia signal processing and compression, a publicity chair of IEEE ISM 2006, a theme co-chair of IEEE PSIVT 2006. He is a special session co-chair of IEEE ICME 2007. Dr. Li has also served in over a dozen technical committees of various international conferences on multimedia. Dr. Li holds guest or adjunct professorships in Sichuan University, Shandong University, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Shanghai Jiaotong University, the Chinese University of Hong Kong, Nankai University, and Tianjin University, respectively. He is also PhD supervisors for University of Science and Technology of China and Shanghai Jiaotong University. Dr. Li received his B.S. and M.S. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) in 1988 and 1991, respectively. He received his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA, in 1996. He was assistant professor in Electrical Engineering department at University of Science and Technology of China in 1991-1992. Dr. Li was the only student in the history of University of Science and Technology of China that had ever been awarded twice (1987 and 1991) the top honor – Guo Mo Ruo Fellowship. He was also the first recipient of double Sarnoff Technical Achievement Awards (Sarnoff, 1997) in a single year.
Dr. Jiebo Luo Senior Principal Research Scientist Eastman Kodak Research Laboratories	Dr. Jiebo Luo is a Senior Principal Scientist with Kodak Research Laboratories, Rochester, NY. He received the B.S. degree in 1989 and M.S. degree in 1992 from the University of Science and Technology of China, and the Ph.D. degree from the University of Rochester in 1996. Dr. Luo actively participates in the organizing or program committees of numerous conferences, including the chair of the 2008 ACM International Conference on Image and Video Retrieval (CIVR), a co-chair of the 2007 SPIE International Symposium on Visual Communication and Image Processing (VCIP), a member of the Organizing Committee of the 2002 IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP) and 2006 IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME), and a chair of the 1st and 2nd International Workshop on Semantic Learning Application in Multimedia (in association with the IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition). He is a guest editor for the Journal of Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing Special Issue on Multimedia Over Mobile IP (2004), the lead guest editor for the Pattern Recognition Special Issue on Image Understanding for Digital Photos (2005), a guest editor for the IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence special issue on Real-World Image Annotation and Retrieval (2008). He was a member of the Kodak Research Scientific Council. Currently, he serves on the editorial boards of the IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, the IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, Pattern Recognition, and the Journal of Electronic Imaging. Dr. Luo is an adjunct professor at Rochester Institute of Technology and has advised many PhD/MS graduate students from various universities. His research interests include image processing, pattern recognition, computer vision, computational photography, medical imaging, and multimedia communication. He has authored over 100 technical papers and holds over 40 granted U.S. patents. Dr. Luo is a Kodak Distinguished Inventor and a Senior Member of the IEEE.
Dr. Mingjing Li Researcher Web Search and Mining Group Microsoft Research Asia	Dr. Mingjing Li received the B.S. degree from the University of Science and Technology of China in 1989, and the Ph.D. degree from the Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences in 1995. He is a researcher with Microsoft Research Asia, and a PhD supervisor in the Department of Electronic Engineering and Information Science, University of Science and Technology of China. He is an associate editor of Pattern Recognition Letters. He has served in the technical program committee of many international conferences, including ACM Multimedia, SIGIR, ICME, MIR etc. So far he has published around 100 technical papers. His research interests include pattern recognition and multimedia search.
Prof. Xiaoou Tang Director, Multimedia Lab Department of Information Engineering The Chinese University of Hong Kong Group Manager, Visual Computing Group Microsoft Research Asia	Prof. Xiaoou Tang (S’93-M’96-SM’02) received the B.S. degree from the University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, in 1990, and the M.S. degree from the University of Rochester, Rochester, NY, in 1991. He received the Ph.D. degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, in 1996. He is a professor and the director of Multimedia Lab in the Department of Information Engineering, the Chinese University of Hong Kong. He is also the group manager of the Visual Computing Group at the Microsoft Research Asia. He is a local chair of the IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV) 2005, an area chair of ICCV’07, a program chair of ICCV’09, and a general chair of the ICCV International Workshop on Analysis and Modeling of Faces and Gestures 2005. He is a guest editor of the Special Issue on Underwater Image and Video Processing for IEEE Journal of Oceanic Engineering and the Special Issue on Image- and Video-based Biometrics for IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology. He is an associate editor of IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (PAMI). His research interests include computer vision, pattern recognition, and video processing.
Dr. Feng Wu Researcher Internet Media Group Microsoft Research Asia	Dr. Feng Wu received his B.S. in Electrical Engineering from XIDIAN University in 1992. He received his M.S. and Ph.D. in Computer Science from Harbin Institute of Technology in 1996 and 1999, respectively. He joined in Microsoft Research China as an associated researcher in 1999. He has been a researcher with Microsoft Research Asia since 2001. His research interests include image and video representation, media compression and communication, computer vision and graphics. He has developed some efficient technologies on scalable video coding from progressive fine granularity scalable coding (PFGS) to 3D wavelet video coding. He is also working on vision-based image and video coding, distributed video coding, multi-view video, stream switching, intermedia, graphics and texture compression, super-resolution, etc. He has been an active contributor to the ISO/MPEG and ITU-T standardization efforts. Some techniques are adopted by MPEG-4 FGS, H.264/MPEG-4 AVC and the coming H.264 SVC standard. He served as the chairman of China AVS video group in 2002~2004 and led the efforts on developing China AVS video standard 1.0. He has been an IEEE member since 1999 and a senior member since July 2006. He serves as the reviewer for IEEE trans. on Circuits and Systems for Video Technologies, IEEE trans. on Multimedia, IEEE signal processing letter and some other international journals. He also serves as the member of technical program committee in some international conferences (e.g. ICME 2006, PCS 2006, VCIP 2005). He has authored or co-authored over 100 conference and journal papers. He has about 30 U.S. patents granted or pending in video and image coding.
Dr. Qibin Sun Institute for Infocomm Research	Dr. Qibin Sun received his Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering, from University of Science and Technology of China (USTC), China, in 1997. Since 1996, he is with the Institute for Infocomm Research (I2R), Singapore, where he is responsible for industrial as well as academic research projects in the areas of media security, image and video analysis. He worked in Columbia University during 2000-2001, as a research scientist. He is also the Head of Delegates of Singapore in ISO/IEC SC29 WG1 (JPEG). Dr. Sun actively participates in many conference activities such IEEE ICME, IEEE ICIP, IEEE ISCAS, IEEE ICASSP and ACM MM, etc. He serves as the member of Editorial Board in IEEE Multimedia Magazine, the member of Editorial Board in LNCS Transactions on Data Hiding and Multimedia Security, the member of Editorial Board in EUROSIP on Information Security, and the Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology (CSVT). Dr. Sun has published 100+ Journal / Papers so far in the areas of media security, media analysis, computer vision, etc.
Dr. Qi Tian Assistant Professor Department of Computer Science University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA)	Dr. Qi Tian is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science, the University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA). He received his Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering in 2002 from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), and his B.E. in Electronic Engineering in 1992 from Tsinghua University, China. He was a Visiting Professor at the UIUC-MIAS Center (2007), a Visiting Researcher at MSRA (2007), and a Visiting Professor in NEC Laboratories of America, Inc.(2003). He was a Summer Intern (2000, 2001) and Visiting Researcher (2001) in MERL, Cambridge, MA. His research interests include multimedia information retrieval, computer vision, and pattern recognition. His research projects are funded by ARO, DHS, SALSI, CIAS, and UTSA. He was the co-author of a Best Student Paper in IEEE ICASSP 2006. He was Program Chairs of VIP (2007), IMAI (2007), MIR (2005), SPIE Internet Multimedia Management Systems (2005), and Multimedia Systems and Applications VIII, SPIE's International Symposium on Optics East (2006), and Special Session Chairs, Track Chairs and Publicity Chairs in ACM Multimedia, ICME, CIVR, PCM, and TPC and Session Chairs in many IEEE and ACM conferences. He was the Guest co-Editor of Computer Vision and Image Understanding for a Special Issue on Similarity Matching in Computer Vision and Multimedia and is an Editor of Journal of Multimedia. He is a Senior Member of IEEE and a Member of ACM.
Dr. Dacheng Tao Assistant Professor Department of Computing The Hong Kong Polytechnic University	Dr. Dacheng Tao received the B.Eng. degree from the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC), the MPhil degree from the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK), and the PhD from the University of London (UoL). Currently, he is an assistant professor at the department of Computing in the Hong Kong Polytechnic University. His research interests include artificial intelligence, bioinformatics, biometrics, computer vision, data mining, machine learning, multimedia, pattern classification, statistics, and video surveillance. He published extensively at IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (TPAMI), IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE), IEEE Transactions on Image Processing (TIP), IEEE Transactions on Multimedia (TMM), IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology (TCSVT), IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics (TSMC), IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP), IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), IEEE International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR), IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM), ACM International Conference on Multimedia (MM), ACM International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD), etc. Previously he gained several Meritorious Awards from the International Interdisciplinary Contest in Modeling, which is the highest level mathematical modeling contest in the world, organized by COMAP. He is an associate editor of Neurocomputing (Elsevier). He is an editor of the forthcoming books entitled with “Semantic Mining Technologies for Multimedia Databases” and “Computational Intelligence and Its Applications”. He is a guest editor for Computer Vision and Image Understanding (Elsevier) special issue on video analysis, the Pattern Recognition (Elsevier) special issue on learning semantics from multimedia content, the International Journal of Image and Graphics (World Scientific) special issue on machine learning in image and graphics, the Neurocomputing (Elsevier) special issue on Neurocomputing for vision research, and the Pattern Recognition Letters (Elsevier) special issue on video-based object and event analysis. He co-chaired the Special Session on Information Security in the IEEE International Conference on Machine Learning and Cybernetics (ICMLC) and Workshop on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining from Multimedia Data and Multimedia Applications in IEEE International Conf. on Data Mining (ICDM). He serves for a number of major journals and conferences such as TPAMI, TIP, TMM, TIFS, TSMC-B, JASP, Neurocomputing, Computer Vision and Image Understanding (CVIU), KDD, ICCV, CVPR, ICDM, and etc.
Dr. Xing Xie Researcher Web Search and Mining Group Microsoft Research Asia	Dr. Xing Xie is a researcher in the Web Search and Mining Group, Microsoft Research Asia. He received the B.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Computer Science from University of Science and Technology of China in 1996 and 2001, respectively. He joined Microsoft Research Asia in July 2001, working on mobile web search, location based search and mobile multimedia applications. He has served on the organizing and program committees of many international conferences such as WWW, CIKM, MDM, PCM. He is the vice chair of WWW 2008 browser and UI track. He has published over 50 referred journal and conference papers, including SIGIR, ACM Multimedia, CHI, IEEE Trans. on Multimedia, IEEE Trans. on Mobile Computing, etc.