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APSIPA ASC 2025 – Annual Summit and Conference

📅 October 22–24, 2025｜📍 Shangri-La Hotel, Singapore

The 17th APSIPA Annual Summit and Conference (ASC) will bring together researchers and practitioners from academia and industry to share the latest advances in signal processing, information technology, and communications. The technical program covers a wide range of topics including deep learning, multimedia forensics, biomedical signal processing, wireless communications, generative AI, and more.

🔗Link: Website

Video Enhancement for Challenging Environments

📅 10:30 AM-12:00 PM, Aug 12, 2025｜📍 R507 Innovation Building, CCU (中正大學創新大樓 R507)

👤 Speaker: Dr. Nantheera (Pui) Anantrasirichai, University of Bristol, UK

👤 Host: Prof. Rachel Chiang, National Chung Cheng University, Taiwan

Dr. Nantheera (Pui) Anantrasirichai will give a talk on deep learning methods for improving real-world videos affected by noise, blur, and other issues. The talk will cover techniques for aligning and enhancing multiple frames to reduce flicker and enable real-time performance.

🔗Link: Poster

Video Enhancement for Challenging Environments

📅 1:30-2:30 PM, Aug 11, 2025｜📍 EC329, NYCU (陽明交大工程三館 329)/ Online

👤 Speaker: Dr. Nantheera (Pui) Anantrasirichai, University of Bristol, UK

👤 Host: Prof. Wen-Hsiao Peng, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Taiwan

🔗Link: Poster,

Cosmos World Foundation Models For Physical AI

📅 1:20-2:20 PM, June 12, 2025｜📍 EC114, NYCU (陽明交大工程三館 EC114)

👤 Speaker: Dr. Ming-Yu Liu, Vice President of Research, NVIDIA

👤 Host: Prof. Wen-Hsiao Peng, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Taiwan

Dr. Ming-Yu Liu’s talk spotlighted Cosmos-Predict, Cosmos-Transfer, and Cosmos-Reason—foundation models designed to empower intelligent agents with capabilities to simulate dynamics, enhance representations, and perform physical reasoning.

🔗 Link: Poster, Introduction Slides

Cosmos World Foundation Models For Physical AI

📅 2:00-3:00 PM, June 11, 2025｜📍 NTU BL-101 (台大博理館101)

👤 Speaker: Dr. Ming-Yu Liu, Vice President of Research, NVIDIA

👤 Host: Prof. Pei-Yun Tsai, National Taiwan University, Taiwan

🔗Link: Poster

APSIPA DL Talk: Conditional Information-Aware Neural Image and Video Coding.

📅 9 AM, June 7, 2025｜📍 Online

👤 Speaker: Dr. Ying Liu, APSIPA Distinguished Lecturer

👤 Host: Prof. Wen-Hsiao Peng, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Taiwan

Dr. Ying Liu’s presentation unpacked the theoretical foundation of conditional coding and explored its use across neural image coding, GAN-driven video compression, human-machine collaborative tasks, and multimodal visual representation

🔗 Link: Poster , Introduction Slides

APSIPA Reach-out Event: Neural Video Coding Talk at Brazil

📅 February 21, 2025｜📍 Federal University of Pelotas (UFPel), Brazil

👤 Speaker: Prof. Wen-Hsiao Peng

Prof. Wen-Hsiao Peng visited the IEEE Student Branch at UFPel to deliver a lecture on "Rate-Distortion-Complexity Trade-offs of Neural Video Coding." This insightful exchange further strengthened the ties between UFPel and NYCU, fostering collaboration in advanced neural video coding research and extending APSIPA Taiwan Chapter's international reach to the Latin American research community.

🔗Links: ViTech Lab, Vitória Fabricio (IEEE UFPel)

APSIPA Seminar: Development of FTV and MPEG Standardization

📅 January 9, 2025｜📍 National Chung Cheng University

👤 Speaker: Prof. Masayuki Tanimoto, Japan

APSIPA Taiwan kicked off 2025 with a seminar at National Chung Cheng University organized by Prof. Rachel Chiang. The seminar featured Prof. Masayuki Tanimoto from Japan, a pioneer in Free Viewpoint Television (FTV), who delivered a talk titled: “Development of FTV and Its Standardization in MPEG”

Workshop on Visual Data Coding, Standards, and Quality Assessment

📅 June 11, 2024｜📍 National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Taiwan

👤 Speakers: Prof. C.-C. Jay Kuo, Prof. Joern Ostermann, Prof. Jens-Rainer Ohm, PD Mathias Wien, Prof. Wen-Hsiao Peng

The APSIPA Taiwan Chapter held a focused workshop on Visual Data Coding, Standards, and Quality Assessment at NYCU on June 11, 2024. The event was organized by Prof. Wen-Hsiao Peng and brought together leading experts in the field.

The workshop provided a valuable platform for knowledge exchange on emerging techniques in point cloud processing, MPEG standardization, JVET developments, and learning-based video coding.

Link: Poster

International Workshop on HPC for AI

📅 April 25, 2024｜📍 National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University , Taiwan

👤 Speakers: Prof. Zhonghai Lu, Dr. Md Farhadur Reza, Dr. Jonathan Balkind

The International Workshop on HPC for AI was successfully held at NYCU on April 25, 2024. The workshop focused on integrating high-performance computing (HPC) and artificial intelligence (AI) technologies, and featured invited talks from leading international researchers.

Prof. Zhonghai Lu, Dr. Md Farhadur Reza, and Dr. Jonathan Balkind were invited by the AI Chip and Systems Alliance to deliver invited talks on high-performance computing and AI architectures.

🔗Link: Poster

Industry Forum @ IIEEJ IECV 2024

📅 March 14, 2024｜📍 F.C. Lecture Hall, EE Building, Tzu-Chiang Campus, National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan & Online

👤 Organizer: Prof. Chris Gwo Giun Lee (NCKU, Taiwan) and Prof. Seishi Takamura (Hosei Univ./NTT, Japan)

The IEVC2024 Industry Forum was co-organized by Prof. Chris Gwo Giun Lee (NCKU, Taiwan) and Prof. Seishi Takamura (Hosei Univ./NTT, Japan), bringing together industrial leaders to share insights on emerging trends in image electronics and computer vision.

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