|
Research Grant Obtaining and Collaboration
Participating
I. Gants Obtained (as
Project Leader/Principal Investigator)
|
Project
|
Grant
(from
a MNC unless specified otherwise)
|
Year of Funding
|
|
1
|
Video Categorization and
representation for Next-generation Compression
|
$618,770
(from
AcRF-Tier 2)
|
2008
|
|
2
|
Audiovisual Quality
Evaluation Model for Multimedia Communications
|
A
PhD Scholarship
(from
AcRF-Tier 1)
|
2007
|
|
3
|
New Methodology for Video
Compression and Delivery
|
$99,790
(from
NTU-SUG)
|
2007
|
|
4
|
Picture Quality Tester for Handphones
|
S$180,000
+ 1 engineer support (from a SME)
|
2006
|
|
5
|
Investigation on Perceived Blur in Video
|
S$150,000
+
cost
of subjective tests
|
2004
|
|
6
|
Development of No-Reference
Visual Perceptual Quality Metric
|
S$150,000
+
cost
of subjective tests
|
2003
|
|
7
|
Perceptual Visual Quality Gauge for Mobile
Multimedia
|
S$150,000
|
2002
|
|
8
|
Development of Perceptual
Distortion Metrics for Decoded Video
|
S$115,000
|
2001
|
|
9
|
Binary Edge Coding for Video
|
S$50,000
|
2001
|
|
10
|
Low-power MP3 Player Design
|
S$450,000
+ 2 attached engineers
|
2000
|
|
11
|
Real-time Video Object Segmentation
|
S$165,000
|
2000
|
|
12
|
Advanced MPEG-4 Coding with Object
Segmentation & Error Resilience
|
S$540,000
|
1999
|
|
13
|
Analysis for Mobile Multimedia Communication
|
S$55,000
|
1999
|
|
14
|
Real-time MPEG-4 Audio & Video Codec
|
S$1,000,000
|
1997
|
|
15
|
Model Indexing in 3D Object Recognition
|
9
engineer-months
(from
Defence Science Organization)
|
1995
|
[1] Multi-National
Corporation.
[2] Small-Medium Enterprise.
II. Grants Obtained (as
Co-Principal-Investigator or Collaborator)
|
Project
|
Grant
|
Year of Funding
|
|
16
|
Context-Aware
Content Adaptation for Pervasive Mobile Media Access and Applications
|
$1,098,880
(Agency
for Science, Technology and Research)
|
2007
|
|
17
|
Perception/content-based
Analysis for Video Coding and Indexing
|
S$520,000
(Agency
for Science, Technology and Research, and NTU)
|
2003
|
|
18
|
Cephalometric
Analysis & Visualisation
|
S$154,500
(Academic
Research Fund, NUS)
|
1996
|
III. Project Participated (as a Key
Developer)
|
Project
|
Grant (from
MNC)
|
Year
|
|
19
|
DSP-based H.324
Video conferencing System
|
S$770K
|
1996
|
IV. Other Collaboration
-
Investigation
into perception related technology for video (2006), with Prof. Nikil
Jayant, School of ECE, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA .
-
Research on Perceptual Quality
Assessment and Coding (2005-2008), with Institute of Image
Communication & Information Processing (IICIP), Shanghai Jiao Tong
University, China (with Prof Yang Xiaokang).
-
Image processing and perceptual
evaluation (2002-present), with A/Prof Xue Ping from School of EEE.
-
Vision-model-based enhancement of
visual signal (2004-present), A/Prof Ashraf Kassim, ECE Dept., National
University of Singapore.
- Joint experiments
in eye tracking and the associated model (2005-2006), with Cognitive
Neuroscience Laboratory,
SingHealth Group, Singapore (with
Prof. Mike Chee)
- Videoconferencing system via W-CDMA
network (1999), with Centre of Wireless Communication, Singapore.
- Preliminary studies of a
mini-navigation system (2000-2001), with Singapore Technologies
Dynamics Pte Ltd.
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