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WANG, CHAO (王超)

Ph.D., Director of Image Scientist,

Black Sesame Technologies (Shanghai) Co. Ltd.

Email: cwang [dot] ustc [at] gmail [dot] com

11F, No.36, Lane 2777, Jinxiu Rd.(E), Pudong District, Shanghai 201210, China.

Chao Wang has received his BS degree on Electrical and Information Engineering, at University of Science and Technology of China (USTC), in July, 2002. He has received his PhD degree in the majority of infomation and signal processing, at June, 2007. He has been a visiting student in Visual Computing Group, Microsoft Research Asia (MSRA), from December, 2005 to September, 2006. Dr. Wang has joined Omnivision Technologies (Shanghai) Inc.(OVTI) in July 2007, and now he is taking the position of Sr. Staff Image Scientist. He has been working on a variety of topics in image processing, including image fusion , image denoising, image enhancement, image decomposition and compression, stereo matching, HDR, etc.

Projects I have taken part in:

Projects after PhD

• High Dynamic Range imaging: pipeline design and algorithm design
• Extended Dynamic Range rendering
• Multi-Light source AWB: algorithm design
• interpolation of specific raw patterns
• Stereo imaging
• depth map generation
• background removal
• panorama
  • gesture related

Projects before PhD

• Image compression using cartoon-texture decomposition (Nov. 2005 ~ May 2007)
• Image fusion using variational problems and PDEs (July 2004 ~ July 2006)
• Traffic monitoring by video processing (Jan. 2005 ~ Dec. 2006)
• Radar resource configuration (Aug. 2003 ~ Apr. 2004)
• LAMOST 2D fiber spectral data processing software (Nov. 2005 ~ Dec. 2005)
• Smart antenna receiving technique based on DS/CDMA (Sept. 2002 ~ Apr. 2003)

Education and Working Experience:

• Sept. 1998 ~ July 2002, Dept. Electrical Engieering & Information Sciences, University of Science and Technology of China, Bachelor Degree
• Sept. 2002 ~ July 2007, Institute of Statistical Signal Processing, Dept. Electrical Engieering & Information Sciences, University of Science and Technology of China, (a combined master-doctorial program) PhD Degree
• Dec. 2005 ~ Sept. 2006, Visual Computing Group, Microsoft Research Asia, Research intern
• July 2007 ~ Present, Software Department, Omnivision Technologies (Shanghai) Co. Ltd, Principal Image Scientist

Professional Activities:

• Reviewers to IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, Pattern Recognition Letters, IET Image Processing, Journal of Visual Communication and Image Representation, etc.

Honors and Awards:

• Nov. 2009, Outstanding PhD thesis of Anhui Province, China
• July 2006, President Scholorship of Chinese Academy of Sciences
• Dec. 2005, 7th Huawei Cup Competition of Academic Papers Prize in USTC, Grade 1
• Dec. 2005, 7th Huawei Cup Competition of Academic Papers Prize in USTC, Grade 2
• Sept. 2002, Guanghua Scholarship
• July 2002, Outstanding Thesis for Bachelor Degree in USTC
• Sept. 2001, Outstanding Student Scholarship in USTC, Grade 3
• Sept. 2000, Outstanding Student Scholarship in USTC, Grade 1
• Sept. 1999, Outstanding Student Scholarship in USTC, Grade 3

Patents:

• "Salience Preserving Image Fusion", US7636098, issued on Dec .22, 2009; [link]
• "Progressive Cut: Interactive Object Segmentation", United States Patent Application Publication, Pub. No.: US 2008/0136820 A1, Pub. Date: Jun. 12, 2008 [link]

Publications: (by year)

See my author citations here

Richang Hong, Chao Wang, Meng Wang, and Fuming Sun, Salience preserving multi-focus image fusion with dynamic range compression, International Journal of Innovative Computing, Information and Control, (IJICIC), 5(8):2369-2380, 2009; [pdf]

Richang Hong, Xiuqing Wu, and Chao Wang, Multi-focus image fusion with salience preserving, Journal of University of Science and Technology of China, 38(10):1173-1179, 2008; [pdf]

C. Wang, J. Peng, and Z. Ye, Flattest histogram specification with accurate brightness preservation, IET Image Processing, 2(5):249-262, 2008; [pdf] [supp. video] (SCI: 380YL / EI: 084711722036)

Chao Wang, and Zhongfu Ye, Salt-and-pepper noise removal by detection and replacement without fidelity to noise candidates, Journal of University of Science and Technology of China, 38(3):282-287, 2008; [pdf]

Chao Wang, Lu Fang, Fengqin Ye, and Zhongfu Ye, Image cartoon-texture decomposition using Mumford-Shah model and G-space, Journal of Data Acquisition and Processing, (in Chinese), 23(1):17-22, 2008; [pdf] (EI: 081311171257)

Chao Wang, Fengqin Ye, and Zhongfu Ye, An improved image compression method using cartoon-texture decomposition, Journal of University of Science and Technology of China, (in Chinese), 37(12):1449-1454, 2007; [pdf]

Richang Hong, Chao Wang, Yong Ge, Meng Wang, Xiuqing Wu, and Rong Zhang, Salience preserving multi-focus image fusion, IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo, ICME'07, pp:1663-1666, 2007; [pdf] (EI: 082811364956 / ISTP: BHD68)

Chao Wang, Image processing based on variational problems and partial differential equations, PhD thesis, (in Chinese), Department of Electronic Engineering and Information Science, University of Science and Technology of China, June 4th, 2007

Lei Zhang, Zhongrui Bai, Chao Wang, and Zhongfu Ye, Cosmic-ray rejection by an image restoration technique on the spectroscopic CCD image, Journal of University of Science and Technology of China, 37(6):688-694, 2007; [pdf]

Qiong Yang, Chao Wang, Xiaoou Tang, Mo Chen, and Zhongfu Ye, Progressive cut: an image cutout algorithm that models user intentions, IEEE Multimedia, special issue on Advances in Multimedia, 14(3):56-66, 2007; [pdf] (SCI: 190RX / EI: 073610796704)

Chao Wang, and Zhongfu Ye, Perceptual contrast-based image fusion: a variational approach, Acta Automatica Sinica, 33(2):132-137, 2007; [pdf] (EI: 071710571653)

Chao Wang, Qiong Yang, Mo Chen, Xiaoou Tang, and Zhongfu Ye, Progressive Cut, ACM Multimedia, full paper session, pp:251-260; [pdf] (EI: 073110714724)

Chao Wang, Qiong Yang, Xiaoou Tang, and Zhongfu Ye, Salience preserving image fusion with dynamic range compression, IEEE International Conference on Image Processing, ICIP'06, pp:989-992, 2006; [pdf] (ISTP: BFU96)

Chao Wang, and Zhongfu Ye, Variational enhancement for infrared images, Journal of Infrared and Millimeter Waves, (in Chinese), 25(4): 306-310, 2006;(SCI: 076RD / EI: 064110165904)

Chao Wang, and Zhongfu Ye, Similarity-based objective measure for performance of image fusion, Journal of Software, (in Chinese), 17(7): 1580-1587, 2006; [pdf] (EI: 063410082594)

C. Wang, and Z. Ye, First-Order Fusion of volumetric medical imagery, IEE Proceedings- Vision, Image and Signal Processing, 153(2): 191-198, 2006; [pdf] (SCI: 045VR / EI: 06129771856)

Chao Wang, and Zhongfu Ye, Brightness preserving histogram equalization with maximum entropy: a variational perspective, IEEE Transactions on Consumer Electronics, 51(4): 1326-1334, 2005; [pdf] (SCI:996CP / EI: 071410520826)

Chao Wang, and Zhongfu Ye, Variational approach to image enhancement and pseudo-color mapping, Journal of Data Acquisition and Processing, (in Chinese), 20(1): 18-22, 2005; (EI: 05179070162)

Houqiang Li, Chao Wang, Zhongfu Ye, and Jinsong Wang, An improved method for texture segmentation based on Gabor filters, Journal of Circuits and Systems, (in Chinese), 8(6):82-86, 2003;

Zheru Chi, Houqiang Li, and Chao Wang, Plant species recognition based on bark patterns using novel Gabor filter banks, IEEE International Conference on Neural Networks and Signal Processing, ICNNSP'03, pp:1035-1038, 2003; [pdf] (ISTP: BY77R)

Zhongfu Ye, Chao Wang, and Xu Xu, Random weights methods for covariance matrix recovery from single receiver output, Journal of Data Acquisition and Processing, (in Chinese), 18(2):127-131, 2003; (EI: 03327585263)