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Could you briefly introduce yourself and your research interests?

I am an EE master student in Viterbi. I just finished my first year of master’s. I get my bachelor’s degree from the electronic college in Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications. I like playing tennis, badminton, table tennis and jogging. I also joined the tennis club at USC. My area of interest is machine learning and signal processing. The topic I want to study is video tracking which I think is a very useful technique.

What is your impression about MCL and USC?

I think the members of MCL is very kind. They are always willing to help me when I have questions about the course. They spend lots of time explaining until I fully understand. Besides, I think Professor Kuo is a good manager. Professor Kuo personally guides everyone, and all members of MCL has clear goals and tasks.

What is your future expectation and plan in MCL?

I hope I can work hard and learn more about video tracking and machine learning. I want to have a deeper insight into them. I know I am too naïve now both in experience and knowledge, so I want to learn how to do research and academic report. If possible, I also want to make some contribution to MCL. In the future, I would like to become a PhD student.

Could you briefly introduce yourself and your research interests?

I’m Jiamian Wang, a graduate student of USC Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. I got my bachelor’s degree at Tianjin University, China. My research interests are computer vision and image processing. I participated in the projects of doing image semantic segmentation, doing outlier-detection using CNNs and creating the image generating models. I’m interested in exploring the mathematical logits behind different algorithms.

What is your impression about MCL and USC?

USC provides many high-quality courses for us, from which I got a solid basis and rich experience.  Also, the community provides us with many chances and platforms, through which we share information and communicate with each other effectively. Because of this I know MCL, in which a new theory about computer vision has been proposed and explored. I’m honored to join the MCL and work with the excellent students and professors here.

What is your future expectation and plan in MCL?

Computer vision and image processing is my long-time interest and MCL is the excellent lab specialized for this. For this reason, I want to take this chance and devote as much time and effort onto my work as I can. Hopefully, summer intern is a good start for me and in the future, I want to be one of the formal members of MCL as a PhD student.

Could you briefly introduce yourself and your research interests?

My name is Zhiwei Deng, I am a first year MSEE student at USC. I came from Anhui, China. I received my bachelor’s degree from Shanghai University in 2019. I had some experience in computer vision and machine learning fields during my undergraduate years. In this summer, I will continue to work on these areas, specifically on the topic of 3D point cloud classification and segmentation.

What is your impression about MCL and USC?

USC has a beautiful campus and serious research environment. I really enjoy both the natural views of the campus and the historical buildings with red bricks. I think MCL is a lab with creativity and courage. Old things are challenged, and new things are created here. I think mathematics and logics are quite important for the members of MCL. Also, I feel very honored and motivated to work new things out with these excellent people.

What is your future expectation and plan in MCL?

The most important thing of this summer for me is to have a clearer view in this field and have a deeper understand in certain topics in image processing. Also, I hope I can contribute to some projects during the internship. For the future career plan, I want to dig deeper in these areas in the future and pursue a higher level of academic degree.

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

My name is Yaqi Shao. I graduated from Zhejiang Gongshang University with a B.S. degree in Computer Science and Technology. Now, I am pursuing a master’s degree in Computer Science at University of Southern California. I joined Media Communications Lab as an intern in Spring 2020. In the past, my research experience concentrates on image processing like image defogging and image enhancement. In MCL, I think I will have an opportunity to broaden my experience including face recognition and deep learning.

2. What is your impression about MCL and USC?

USC is an internationally renowned research university and rank in top 5% of the country for EE program. The Viterbi school focus on technology and help students becoming the specialist in their field. I took EE569 as an elective course under the instruction of Prof. Kuo whose hard-working and persistent spirit impressed me deeply. All the members in MCL takes continuous effort, working in groups to help each other.

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

I will continue working on face recognition and deep learning this summer with the group. As a new intern, I think I will learn a lot from Prof. Kuo and the PhD students not only in research methods but also in work methodology. I am very interested with image processing and deep learning and hope to experience related research more.

Congratulations to MCL Director, Professor Kuo, for receiving the 2019 IEEE Signal Processing Society Claude Shannon-Harry Nyquist technical achievement award. Originally, the award would be presented in an Award Ceremony held in ICASSP 2020, Barcelona, Spain. However, due to the COVID-10 pandemic, the Award Ceremony became a virtual one. It took place on May 8 (Friday), 9:30-10:30am, in Los Angeles local time. Here is a short interview with Professor Kuo.

Question: It is a great honor to receive the prestigious IEEE Signal Processing Society Claude Shannon-Harry Nyquist Technical Achievement Award. Do you have any words about this honor?

Answer: I would like to thank my family and all my former and current students for their strong support. It is a teamwork. The credit should go to all people surrounding me.

Question: You have been conducting research for nearly 40 years since you were a graduate student. What keeps you work so hard for so long?

Answer: Passion and curiosity are the key driving factors. I enjoy research. It is not work but fun. Certainly, recognitions from peers and technical communities boost the morale, too.

Question: What was your impactful research?

Answer: I have been working on multimedia computing for 30 years. Many multimedia technologies have become mature and they are widely used today. To give an example, video streaming and conferencing play an important role nowadays. This is especially evident during the COVID-19 pandemic. I have been working on video coding technologies and contributed to standardization activities. Video coding plays a central role in video streaming and conferencing.

Question: What is your current and future research focus?

Answer: Data science and engineering is an emerging field. Sometimes, people give it another name – Artificial Intelligence (AI). There are many fascinating research problems [...]