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Welcome New MCL Lab Member Chang Xu

We are so happy to welcome a new master student, Chang Xu, in Summer 2017. Let us hear what he said about his research and MCL.

1. Could you briefly introduce yourself and your research interests?

My name is Chang Xu, I am a graduate student at USC pursuing Electrical Engineering Degree. I used to study Automation in my undergraduate study. However, after I learned something relate to data science and machine learning, I found that I love to pursue machine learning path to do something for the data. I have passion for learning computer languages like, C++ and python and love applying what I have learned in electrical engineering into practice by some projects.

2. What is your impression about MCL and USC?

I have already been in USC for a year. I love the environment and academic atmosphere here. USC has best professors in the world and enough research resources for students. The MCL is a community of passionate and intelligent students who pursue their research relate to communication and data. I love talking to people in MCL because I can learn a lot of knowledge every time.

3. What is your future expectation and plan in MCL?

To be honest, after taking the course EE569, I love convolutional neural network and machine learning. I want to learn more about them and apply them into some real practice. I hope I can get familiar with how to conduct real research and get to know the fantastic parts of academic life.

By |May 28th, 2017|News|Comments Off on Welcome New MCL Lab Member Chang Xu|

Welcome New MCL Lab Member Zhuwei Xu

We are so happy to welcome a new master student, Zhuwei Xu, in Summer 2017. Let us hear what she said about her research and MCL.

1. Could you briefly introduce yourself and your research interests?

My name is Zhuwei Xu, a master student in Electronic Engineering Department. I pursued my undergraduate degree in Electronic Science and Technology in Sichuan University. I have an interest of research in new fields. I like to know the latest techniques and apply them to different problems. I learnt a lot about signal processing and probability. I would like to be a researcher and explore the unknown knowledge. Nowadays, my research interests are machine learning and image processing.

2. What is your impression about MCL and USC?

I consider MCL is a great laboratory for me, since I would like to make some contribution in multimedia. Also, I think machine learning is a great idea for many new fields, so I am eager to apply some machine learning ideas on multimedia things.

USC is an outstanding university, it has many excellent faculties and peers in EE department. I want to learn from them and improve my abilities.

3. What is your future expectation and plan in MCL?

My research direction will focus on ‘object localization and classification’ this summer. I hope I can know more things about multimedia, machine learning and how to do research. I would like to do some exciting works, and build connections with people in this laboratory.

By |May 25th, 2017|News|Comments Off on Welcome New MCL Lab Member Zhuwei Xu|

Welcome New MCL Lab Member Xuejing Lei

We are so happy to welcome a new master student, Xuejing Lei, in Summer 2017. Let us hear what she said about her research and MCL.

1. Could you briefly introduce yourself and your research interests?

I’m Xuejing Lei, a graduate student pursuing an Electrical Engineering MS degree at USC. I received my B.S. degree from the School of Electronic and Information Engineering, Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an, China in 2016. In my senior year, my partner and I designed an EEG-based control 3D games using motor imagery BCI. That is, subject can play simple games such as reduced Fruit-Cut or Mario by doing some motor imagery or not. Now, my research interest is to learn more about CNN and DNN in image processing and machine learning.

2. What is your impression about MCL and USC?

I have met a group of motivated and intelligent individuals in USC and MCL. Professor Kuo is very kind and professional. Everyone I will ever meet knows something I don’t. I hope I can communicate with them and learn more from them.

3. What is your future expectation and plan in MCL?

I will focus on research of object detection from video this summer. I hope to consolidate my knowledge of image processing, especially CNN and DNN and learn more about development trends of image processing and computer vision. Besides, meeting new individuals is also very attractive. I can’t wait to know them all and make lasting connection with them.

By |May 21st, 2017|News|Comments Off on Welcome New MCL Lab Member Xuejing Lei|
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    Congratulations to Yuzhuo Ren, Chi-Hao Wu, Qin Huang and Weihao Gan in Attending the PhD Hooding Ceremony

Congratulations to Yuzhuo Ren, Chi-Hao Wu, Qin Huang and Weihao Gan in Attending the PhD Hooding Ceremony

Four MCL members attended the Viterbi PhD hooding ceremony on Thursday, May 11, 2017, from 8:00-11:00 a.m. in the Bovard Auditorium. They were Yuzhuo Ren, Chi-Hao Wu, Qin Huang and Weihao Gan. Congratulations to them and their families for their accomplishments in completing their PhD program at USC.

Yuzhuo Ren received her B.S. degree in Hebei University of Technology, China, in 2011 and the M.S. degree from University of Southern California (USC) in 2013. Her research interest is the field of computer vision. Her thesis title is “Machine Learning Techniques for Outdoor and Indoor Layout Estimation”.

Qin Huang received the B.E. in Southeast University, Nanjing, China in 2012 and received the M.S. in Electrical Engineering at USC. He has been in Prof. Kuo’s Media Communications Lab since Nov 2013. His research interests include image and video processing, digital compression and computer vision.

Chi-Hao Wu received his B.S. and M.S. degrees in computer science from National Taiwan University in 2004 and 2006, respectively. He has rich experiences as a software engineer responsible for algorithm design in multimedia fields in Mediatek and IMEC Taiwan Innovation Center. Since 2013, he began his PhD study with Media Communications Lab at USC. His research interests include multimedia signal processing, multi-view image processing and computer vision.

Weihao Gan received his B.S. degree in automation from Huazhong University of Science and Technology in July, 2012. Then he finished his M.S. degree in Electrical Engineering at USC in May 2014. Since June 2013, he has been with Media Communications Lab. Now he is a PhD student in MCL, whose research interests include computer vision, machine learning and visual perception.

By |May 14th, 2017|News|Comments Off on Congratulations to Yuzhuo Ren, Chi-Hao Wu, Qin Huang and Weihao Gan in Attending the PhD Hooding Ceremony|

Welcome New MCL Lab Member Shanshan Cai

We are so happy to welcome a new master student, Shanshan Cai, in Summer 2017. Let us hear what she said about her research and MCL.

1. Could you briefly introduce yourself and your research interests?
My name is Shanshan Cai. I am a graduate student in Electrical Engineering at the University of Southern California. I received my Bachelor’s Degree at Jilin University (China), where I worked in a student lab as a Team Leader for two years.  My field of interest is in signal processing, especially image processing.
2. What is your impression about MCL and USC?
Prof. Kuo is a creative and kind supervisor. He always promotes some useful ideas for the project. I was also impressed by the diligence of the members in the lab. They are motivated and hardworking, focusing on their research. I would like to join them and contribute to the fashion project.
3. What is your future expectation and plan in MCL?
My expectation is that I can learn more knowledge about convolutional network and support teammates with implementing fashion project. I also hope that I can make friends with members in the lab.

By |May 7th, 2017|News|Comments Off on Welcome New MCL Lab Member Shanshan Cai|