Dr. Antoni B. Chan

Assistant Professor
BSc MEng Cornell, PhD UC San Diego

Video, Image, and Sound Analysis Lab (VISAL)
Department of Computer Science
City University of Hong Kong

Office: Room B6408, Academic Building (lift 8)
Phone: +852 3442 6509
Fax: +852 3442 0503
Email: abchan at cityu dot edu dot hk

Bio

Dr. Antoni Chan is an assistant professor at the City University of Hong Kong in the Department of Computer Science. Before joining CityU, he was a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of California, San Diego (UC San Diego). He received the Ph.D. degree from UC San Diego in 2008 studying in the Statistical and Visual Computing Lab (SVCL). He received the B.Sc. and M.Eng. in Electrical Engineering from Cornell University in 2000 and 2001. From 2001 to 2003, he was a Visiting Scientist in the Computer Vision and Image Analysis lab at Cornell. In 2005, he was a summer intern at Google in New York City.

Research Interests [more]

Computer Vision, Surveillance, Machine Learning, Pattern Recognition, Computer Audition, Music Information Retrieval
dynamic textures, motion segmentation, motion analysis, semantic image annotation, image retrieval, crowd counting, probabilistic graphical models, support vector machines, Bayesian regression, Gaussian processes, semantic music annotation and retrieval, music segmentation, feature extraction.

For more information about my current research projects, please visit my lab website.

Recent News [more]

  • [Apr 11, 2012] Two papers accepted to CVPR 2012: "Growing a Bag of Systems Tree for Fast and Accurate Classification" (w/ Emanuele Coviello and Gert Lanckriet, UCSD); "Adaptive Figure-Ground Classification" (w/ Yisong Chen, Peking Univ.)
  • [Sep 23, 2011] Journal paper on "Counting People with Low-Level Features and Bayesian Regression" accepted to IEEE Trans. on Image Processing (TIP).
  • [Jul 01, 2011] Journal paper on "Time Series Models for Semantic Music Annotation" appears in IEEE Trans. on Audio, Speech, and Language Processing (TASLP).
  • [Jun 21, 2011] Conference paper on "Generalized Gaussian Process Models" presented at CVPR 2011.
  • [Oct 02, 2010] Congratulations to Tom LI for graduating!
  • Opportunities for graduate students and research assistants! If you are interested in joining the lab, please check this information.

Selected Publications [more]

  • Generalized Gaussian Process Models,
    A. B. Chan and D. Dong,
    in IEEE Conf. Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR),
    Colorado Springs, Jun 2011. ©IEEE [pdf]
  • Layered dynamic textures,
    A. B. Chan and N. Vasconcelos,
    IEEE Trans. on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence: Special Issue on Probabilistic Graphical Models in Computer Vision (TPAMI),
    Vol. 31(10), pp. 1862-1879, Oct 2009. ©IEEE [pdf]
  • Modeling, clustering, and segmenting video with mixtures of dynamic textures,
    A. B. Chan and N. Vasconcelos,
    IEEE Trans. on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (TPAMI),
    Vol. 30(5), pp. 909-926, May 2008. ©IEEE [pdf]
  • Modeling music as a dynamic texture,
    L. Barrington, A. B. Chan, and G. R. G. Lanckriet,
    IEEE Trans. on Audio, Speech and Language Processing (TASLP),
    vol. 18 (3), pp. 602-612, Mar 2010. ©IEEE [pdf]
  • Privacy Preserving Crowd Monitoring: Counting People without People Models or Tracking,
    A.B. Chan, Z.S.J. Liang, and N. Vasconcelos,
    in IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR),
    Anchorage, Jun 2008. ©IEEE [pdf]
  • Supervised learning of semantic classes for image annotation and retrieval,
    G. Carneiro, A.B. Chan, P.J. Moreno, and N. Vasconcelos,
    IEEE Trans. on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (TPAMI),
    Vol. 29(3), pp. 394-410, Mar 2007. ©IEEE [pdf]

Teaching

  • CS 2363 (A) - Computer Programming -- 2009/10, 2010/11, 2011/12.
  • CS 3306 (B) - Contemporary Programming Methods in Java -- 2009/10.
  • CS 4380 (B) - Web 2.0 Technologies -- 2010/11, 2011/12.
  • Final Year Projects
  • Research Mentoring Scheme

Awards and Honors

  • NSF IGERT Fellowship: Vision and Learning in Humans and Machines, UCSD, 2006-07.
  • Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award, ECE Department, UCSD, 2005-06.
  • Office of the President Award, UCSD, 2003.
  • Henry G. White Scholorship, Cornell University, 2001.
  • Knauss M. Engineering Scholorship, Cornell University, 2001.
  • GTE Fellowship, Cornell University, 2001.

Mailing Address:

Dr. Antoni Chan,
Department of Computer Science,
City University of Hong Kong,
Tat Chee Avenue,
Kowloon Tong, Hong Kong.