台灣師大圖文傳播學系專題演講

“Digital Media Revolution and Its Impact to Human Society”

主講人：Professor C.-C. Jay Kuo(郭宗杰教授)

University of Southern California, USA

時間：2005年10月31日 星期一 10:00-12:00am

地點：國立台灣師範大學科技學院圖文傳播學系B1演講廳

Digital technologies have been widely applied to speech, audio, video and graphics in various commercial applications today. Digital media offer great advantages over the traditional analog media for their ease of high accuracy computation (e.g. compression and encryption) and great freedom in media integration and delivery (e.g. VoIP). Speech was first digitized for transmission via multi-rate filter banks in late 60’s, which proved to be one of the very early applications of digital technology. Then, image was digitized for flexible manipulation such as edge detection and texture segmentation in 70’s. In 90’s, digital audio and video has become more accessible to end users in form of consumer electronics such as audio CD and DVD. For the last several years, we have seen that the digital still camera (DSC) is replacing the traditional optical-based camera while the digital 2G and 2.5G cellular phones have already replaced analog 1G cellular phones. In the near future, we will see the last major wave from a consumer analog product to its digital counterpart, which is the conversion from analog to digital TV. The availability of broadband wired/wireless Internet infrastructures and new technologies such as peer-to-peer networking and grid computing has increased the impact of digital media. This talk will provide some important lessons learned from the history of digital media revolution, and provide an outlook to future business opportunities and R&D directions for digital media integration, distribution and management.

Short Biography of Speaker

Dr. C.-C. Jay Kuo received the B.S. degree from the National Taiwan University, Taipei, in 1980 and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, in 1985 and 1987, respectively, all in Electrical Engineering. Dr. Kuo was Computational and Applied Mathematics (CAM) Research Assistant Professor in the Department of Mathematics at the University of California, Los Angeles, from October 1987 to December 1988. Since January 1989, he has been with the Department of Electrical Engineering-Systems and the Signal and Image Processing Institute at the University of Southern California, where he currently has a joint appointment as Professor of Electrical Engineering and Mathematics. His research interests are in the areas of digital signal and image processing, audio and video coding, multimedia communication technologies and delivery protocols, and embedded system design. Dr. Kuo has guided 62 students to their Ph.D. degrees and supervised 15 postdoctoral research fellows. Currently, his research group at USC consists around 40 Ph.D. students and 5 postdoctors (please visit website http://viola.usc.edu), which is one of the largest academic research groups in multimedia technologies. He is a co-author of about 100 journal papers, 600 conference papers and 7 books.

Dr. Kuo is a Fellow of IEEE and SPIE. He is Editor-in-Chief for the Journal of Visual Communication and Image Representation, Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Speech and Audio Processing and Editor for the Journal of Information Science and Engineering and the EURASIP Journal of Applied Signal Processing. He is also on the Editorial Board of the IEEE Signal Processing Magazine. He served as Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Image Processing in 1995-98 and IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology in 1995-1997. Dr. Kuo received the National Science Foundation Young Investigator Award (NYI) and Presidential Faculty Fellow (PFF) Award in 1992 and 1993, respectively. Dr. Kuo has rich industrial experience. His group at USC has collaborated with more than 35 international companies and research laboratories. He serves as consultant to numerous small and large companies, including III and ITRI in Taiwan. He often gives seminars and short courses in universities and companies.