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Computer Science Laboratory
The Computer Science Laboratory provides general facilities for both the undergraduate and postgraduate programmes. It consists of a large number of servers including SUN Enterprise 220R and 4800 Enterprise Servers, over 300 workstations and PCs that are connected through a Gigabit Ethernet switching core, and a wide variety of software tools including Rational Rose, OPNET, Sybase, Oracle and the eTrust Intrusion Detection System. In addition, the laboratory has received the following significant software donations in the past few years.

  • Graphics and multimedia software worth HK$6.8 million from Silicon Graphics Limited for the Interactive Multimedia and Virtual Reality Laboratory.
  • Hardware equipment, software packages and training courses and funding worth HK$11 million from Sun Microsystems for setting up the Sun Center of Excellence in Pervasive Computing.
  • Leading edge e-business infrastructure software, including WebSphere, DB2 and Tivoli, worth HK$14 million from IBM China/Hong Kong Limited. The software is used to support teaching and research in the all aspects of e-commerce technology.
  • RSA Keon® Advanced PKI Pilot Pack and the RSA BSAFE® encryption software development toolkit valued at HK$4.5million from RSA Security Limited.
IMVR Lab

Interactive Multimedia and Virtual Reality Laboratory
The Interactive Multimedia and Virtual Reality Laboratory (IMVR Lab) provides a state of the art teaching and research environment for multimedia systems, computer graphics, virtual-reality and advanced human computer interface studies. It is equipped with an SGI Onyx 2 system, which is one of the most powerful graphics supercomputers in a Hong Kong educational institution, and a number of the latest SGI workstations. A specialized 3-D projection system, cyber-gloves and motion trackers support the Department’s research into interactive media technology.

The laboratory enables City University to take the lead in Hong Kong in teaching and research in the areas of interactive multimedia, visual computing and virtual reality. Projects in these areas have included a body-driven humanmachine interface, a deformable model for 3D volumetric data analysis and automatic image/video indexing and retrieval by content. In computer graphics, the laboratory has developed graphical modelling techniques for facial and hand gesture animation, and the computer synthesis of Chinese calligraphy. In particular, the Body-Brush and Body-Baton projects are pioneering work in integrating art and the technology of computer vision. The laboratory regularly receives visitors from local schools and international institutions.

ICG Lab

Image Computing Laboratory
The Image Computing Laboratory is a research laboratory funded by external grants from the Innovation and Technology Commission, the Hong Kong Jockey Club Charities Trust and the Research Grants Council. It consists of state of the art image and video capturing workstations, as well as high-end computing platforms for pattern recognition, image analysis and synthesis research. It also houses the Multimedia Applications Development Laboratory (MADLab), which specialises in applications and the development of multimedia documents and workflow management technology. Research projects that are conducted in this laboratory include content-based image retrieval, machine learning techniques for multimedia content processing, medical image analysis, personalised technology as applied to education and 3D graphical model watermarking and retrieval.

Mocap Lab

3D Motion Capture Laboratory
The 3D Motion Capture Laboratory provides the state of the art technology for recording human movement in 3D. It is equipped with an optical motion capture system to support the real-time capture of 3D human motions. This technology has been adopted in applications such as animation and movie production. Research projects in this laboratory include real-time dance education, interactive 3D games, indexing and retrieval of captured motions, synthesizing reactive motions and modelling the movements in the presence of multiple subjects.

IS

Specialized Laboratory
The Specialized Laboratory is a laboratory area for building up relatively stable environment for student and staff projects. Student projects of high quality can be properly archived and/or componentized providing a richer environment for further development. The laboratory currently provides for projects in software engineering, information security, mobile computing, and multimedia computing.

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