Now we are standing at the end of 2015. This year we have seven students who obtained their PhD degree and five new students that joined the MCL family. We also have publications on top journals and conferences. Congratulations to a fruitful year!
We believe all members are enjoying their holidays at present. MCL sincerely wishes you a merry Christmas and a happy new year!
MCL Director, Professor C.-C. Jay Kuo, has been traveling in Asia and attended a couple of events in the last three weeks. He visited 5 Asian cities, i.e., Singapore, Chengdu, Beijing, Taipei and Hong Kong, in his trip. His activities include the delivery of three speeches: “Reflection on Image/Video Coding: Where Do We Go from Here?”, “Deep Learning: Hype or Hope?” and “Multimodal Image Retrieval in various conferences, campuses and company sites.
In particular, he attended the 10th International Conferences on Information, Communications and Signal Processing (ICICS) held in Singapore (Dec. 2-4) and the 7th Annual Conference of the Asia-Pacific Signal and Information Processing Association (APSIPA) held in Hong Kong (Dec. 16-19). His speeches were very well received.
One of his most enjoyable events was the re-union with MCL alumni in Taipei on Dec. 12.
USC holds a large open house event, Discover USC, for prospective students each year. As part of the event, Viterbi School of Engineering holds a #ViterbiEXPO highlighting all of our programs, projects, faculty and students.
The Multimedia Communication Lab actively participates in Discover USC each year, and there is no exception for this year. As one of the largest programs, MCL lab tour aimed at explaining advanced research and achievements in computer vision and image processing to prospective students who might be interested. To make the tour more fascinating and easier to understand, interesting special effects filter, face warping videos, baby face predictor, super resolution images, as well as 3D images and video clips were demonstrated. Many parents and students showed great interests in the research topics and asked a lot of questions during the tour.
