LEUNG, Wing-Ho Howard
B.Sc. (McGill), M.Sc., Ph.D. (CMU)

Assistant Professor
Department of Computer Science

Room: B6424, Academic Building   Tel: (852) 2788-7234  Fax: (852) 2788-8614  Email: howard [at] cityu.edu.hk

Howard Leung is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science at City University of Hong Kong. He received the B.Eng. degree in Electrical Engineering from McGill University, Canada, in 1998, the M.Sc. degree and the Ph.D. degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University in 1999 and 2003 respectively.  Throughout his graduate studies, he was with the Advanced Multimedia Processing Lab.  His current research interests include Pattern Recognition, Multimedia and Image Processing, Intelligent Tools for Chinese Handwriting Education, 3D Human Motion Analysis and Retrieval, Web-Based Learning Technologies. He is the Program Co-Chair of ICWL 2007 and Finance Chair of PCM2007.

FINAL YEAR PROJECT TOPICS (POTENTIAL):

1. Dance Lesson Generation with 3D Motion Capture Data
2. Real-time 3D Motion Capture and Analysis for Dance Education
3. Blending Calligraphy and Choreography
4. Classification of Ancient Chinese Calligraphic Masterpieces
5. Creating Animated gif of Chinese Characters from Static Images
6. Generation of Harmonic Animation Effects for Comic Viewing on PDA
7. Study of Comic Reading Behavior on Mobile Device
8. Automatic Derivation of Learning Plan for Simplified Chinese Handwriting
9. Recognition of Chinese Characters from Pen-based Input Device
10. Creating Audio Instructions for Teaching Chinese Character Pronunciation and Handwriting with Text-to-Speech Synthesis

Note:

• Topics 1-2 are related to my Mocap Project: http://mocap.cs.cityu.edu.hk/
• Topic 3 is related to this project: http://www.cs.cityu.edu.hk/~howard/CalliChoreography/
• Topics 4-5 are related to my CCIA project: http://www.cs.cityu.edu.hk/~ccia/ 
• Topics 6-7 are related to my E-Comic Project: http://ecomic.cs.cityu.edu.hk/
• Topics 8-10 are related to my VACHE Project: http://vache.cs.cityu.edu.hk/

RESEARCH PROJECTS

• Virtual Assistant for Chinese Handwriting Education (VACHE)

                    Try our demo now to learn Chinese handwriting on the web!

• Chinese Calligraphy Image Analysis

• Bioinformatics 
  
  

  Classification of Membrane Protein Type

  Protein Subcellullar Localization Using Evolution Information

   
• 3D Human Motion Analysis and Retrieval

       
  
  

• Automatic Content Adaptation for PDA Viewing of E-Comics

   

TEACHING

CS4367/5367 Computer Games Design (Semester B, 2007/2008)
The course webpage will be hosted at Blackboard.

CS4185/5185 Computer Games Design (Semester A, 2007/2008)
The course webpage will be hosted at Blackboard.

• Selected Course Projects

CS4367/5367 Computer Games Design (Semester B, 2006/2007)
The course webpage will be hosted at Blackboard.

• Selected Course Projects

CS4185/5185 Multimedia Technologies and Applications (Semester A, 2006/2007)
The course webpage will be hosted at Blackboard.

CS6483 Mobile Multimedia Systems (Semester B, 2005/2006)
The course webpage is hosted at Blackboard.

CS2363 Computer Programming (Semester A, 2005/2006)
The course webpage is hosted at Blackboard.

IT6902 Multimedia Technology (Semester B, 2004/2005)

IT4303 Multimedia Technologies and Applications (Semester B, 2004/2005)

• Selected Course Projects

IT5901 Computer Technology for Artists (Semester A, 2004/2005)

IT6302 Image Technology for Multimedia Applications on Internet (Semester A, 2004/2005)

IT4303/5303 Multimedia Technologies and Applications (Semester B, 2003/2004)

AWARD

• Certificate of Merit, Best Lifestyle (Social and Spiritual Wellbeing), HKICT Awards 2007, Jan 2008.

• Lotfi Zadel Best Paper Award in The 6th International Conference on Machine Learning and Cybernetics (ICMLC 2007): Kai-Tai Tang and Howard Leung "Reconstructing Strokes And Writing Sequences From Chinese Character Images", August 2007.

• Best presentation award in The 3^rd International Conference on Web-Based Learning: Howard Leung and Taku Komura "Web-Based Handwriting Education with Animated Virtual Teacher", July 2004.

PUBLICATIONS

Journal:

• Sam T.S. Wong, Howard Leung and Horace H.S. Ip, "Model-based analysis of Chinese calligraphy images", Computer Vision and Image Understanding, Vol. 109(1), pp.69-85, January 2008.
• Xian Pu, Jian Guo, Howard Leung and Yuanlie Lin, "Prediction of Membrane Protein Type from Sequences and Position-Specific Scoring Matrices", Journal of Theoretical Biology, Vol. 247(2), pp. 259-265, July 2007.
• Sam T. S. Wong, Howard Leung and Horace H. S. Ip, "Skeleton-Based Analysis of Oriental Calligraphic Images", Pattern Recognition and Machine Intelligence (PRAMI), ISSN 1817-3632, International Scientific Publishers, Vol. 01(1), pp.1-21, 2006.
• Jian Guo, Xian Pu, Yuanlie Lin and Howard Leung, "Protein Subcellular Localization based on PSI-BLAST and Machine Learning", Journal of Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, Vol. 4, No. 6, pp.1181-1195, December 2006.
• Howard Leung and Taku Komura, "Web-Based Handwriting Education with Animated Virtual Teacher", Special Issue on Advances in Web-Based Learning, International Journal of Distance Education Technologies, Vol. 4, No. 1, pp.71-80, 2006.
• Taku Komura, Akinori Nagano, Howard Leung, Yoshihisa Shinagawa "Simulating Pathological Gait using the Enhanced Linear Inverted Pendulum Model" IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering, September 2005.
• Wing Ho Leung and Tsuhan Chen, "A Multi-User 3-D Virtual Environment with Interactive Collaboration and Shared Whiteboard Technologies", Journal of Multimedia Tools and Applications, Special Issue on Distributed Multimedia Systems for Virtual Society, Vol. 20, No. 1, pp.7-23, May 2003.
• Zon-Yin Shae, Belle Tseng and Wing Ho Leung, "Immersive Whiteboard Collaborative System", Annals of Software Engineering, Vol. 12, pp.193-212, December 2001.
• Wing Ho Leung and Tsuhan Chen, "Creating a Multiuser 3-D Virtual Environment", IEEE Signal Processing Magazine, Vol. 18, pp.9-16, May 2001.

Invited Paper:

• Howard Leung, Jacky Chan, Kai-Tai Tang and Taku Komura, "Ubiquitous Performance Training Tool Using Motion Capture Technology", 1st International Conference on Ubiquitous Information Management and Communication (ICUIMC 2007), pp.185-194, Suwon, Korea, 8-9 February 2007.
• Kai-Tai Tang and Howard Leung, "VACHE: A Ubiquitous Chinese Handwriting Education System ", 1st International Conference on Ubiquitous Information Management and Communication, pp.309-318, Suwon, Korea, 8-9 February 2007.

Conference:

• Howard Leung, Jacky Chan, Kai-Tai Tang and Taku Komura, "Finding Repetitive Patterns in 3D Human Motion Captured Data", 2nd International Conference on Ubiquitous Information Management and Communication (ICUIMC 2008), pp.185-194, Suwon, Korea, February 2008.
• Chung Ho Chan, Howard Leung, Taku Komura, "Automatic Panel Extraction of Color Comic Images", Pacific-Rim Conference on Multimedia (PCM 2007), Hong Kong, 11-14 December 2007.
• Zhihui Hu, Howard Leung, Yun Xu, " Stroke Correspondence Based on Graph Matching for Detecting Stroke Production Errors in Chinese Character Handwriting", Pacific-Rim Conference on Multimedia (PCM 2007), Hong Kong, 11-14 December 2007.
• Howard Leung, Jacky Chan, Kai-Tai Tang, Taku Komura, "Immersive Performance Training Tools Using Motion Capture Technology", International Conference on Immersive Communications (IMMESCOM 2007), Bussolengo, Italy, 10-12 October 2007.
• Kai-Tai Tang and Howard Leung, "Reconstructing Strokes and Writing Sequences from Chinese Character Images", International Conference on Machine Learning and Cybernetics (ICMLC 2007), Hong Kong, 19-22 August 2007.
• Ka Ki Li, Howard Leung, Sutie Lam, Cecilia Li-Tsang, " An Assessment Tool for Judging the Overall Appearance of Chinese Handwriting based on Opinions from Occupational Therapists", 6th International Conference on Web-based Learning (ICWL 2007), pp 100-107, Edinburgh, United Kingdom, 15-17 August 2007.
• Jacky Chan and Howard Leung, "A Performance Training Room with Advanced 3D technologies in Ambient Intelligence Environment", 5th International Conference on Intelligent Multimedia & Ambient Intelligence (IMAI 2007), part of Joint Conference on Information Sciences (JCIS), pp 1510-1516, 22-24 July 2007.
• Kai-Tai Tang and Howard Leung, "Reconstructing the Correct Writing Sequence from a Set of Chinese Character Strokes”, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 4285, 17-19 December 2006, pp 333-344, (Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Computer Processing of Oriental Languages, Singapore).
• Kai-Tai Tang and Howard Leung, "Teaching Chinese Handwriting by Automatic Feedback and Analysis for Incorrect Stroke Sequence and Stroke Production Errors", 14th International Conference on Computers in Education (ICCE 2006), pp.107-114, Beijing, China, November 2006.
• Sam T.S. Wong, Howard Leung and Horace H.S. Ip, "Automatic Estimation of Ink Depositing Model Parameters from Analysis of Chinese Calligraphic Images", Proceedings of the 14th Pacific Conference on Computer Graphics and Applications (PG2006), pp. 60-69, Taipei, Taiwan, October 2006.
• Sam T.S. Wong, Howard Leung and Horace H.S. Ip, "Fitting Ellipses to a Region with Application in Calligraphic Stroke Reconstruction", International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP 2006), pp.397-400, Atlanta, USA, October 2006.
• Sam T.S. Wong, Howard Leung and Horace H.S. Ip, "Brush Writing Style Classification from Individual Chinese Characters", International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR 2006), Vol. 1, pp.884-887, Hong Kong, August 2006.
• Kai-Tai Tang, Ka Ki Li and Howard Leung, “A Web-based Chinese Handwriting Education System with Automatic Feedback and Analysis”, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 4181, pp.176-188, 19-21 July 2006, (Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Web-based Learning, Penang (ICWL 2006), Penang, Malaysia).
• Taku Komura, Beta Lam, Rynson Lau and Howard Leung, “e-Learning Martial Arts”, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 4181, pp.239-248, 19-21 July 2006, (Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Web-based Learning, Penang (ICWL 2006), Malaysia).
• Howard Leung and Hui Kang, "Stroke Extraction for Chinese Calligraphy Images", Asia Pacific Workshop on Visual Information Processing (VIP2005), p.223-229, Hong Kong, December 2005.
• Kerry Tsang and Howard Leung, "Teaching Stroke Order for Chinese Characters by Using Minimal Feedback", Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Web-based Learning (ICWL 2005): Technology and Pedagogy, pp.135-143, Hong Kong, August 2005.

• Sam T.S. Wong, Howard Leung and Horace H.S. Ip, "Model-based Analysis of Chinese Calligraphy Images", 9th Intl. Conf. on Information Visualisation (IV05), London, England, July 2005.

• Bin Peng and Howard Leung, "A Two-level Evaluation Scheme for Chinese Handwriting", 12th Conf. of the International Graphonomics Society (IGS2005), pp.79-83, Salerno, Italy, June 2005.
• Taku Komura, Howard Leung, Shunsuke Kudoh, James Kuffner, "A Feedback Controller for Biped Humanoids that Can Counteract Large Perturbations During Gait", IEEE Intl. Conf. on Robotics and Automation 2005, pp.2001-2007.
• Taku Komura, Howard Leung, James Kuffner "Animating Reactive Motions for Biped Locomotion", ACM Symposium on Virtual Reality Software and Technology 2004 (ACM VRST 2004), Hong Kong, November 2004.
• Howard Leung and Taku Komura, "Web-based Handwriting Education with Animated Virtual Teacher", Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol 3143, 8-11 August 2004, pp 293-300, (Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Web-based Learning (ICWL 2004): Advances in Web-based Learning, Springer, Beijing, PRC).
• Howard Leung, “Analysis of Traditional Chinese Seals and Synthesis of Personalized Seals", IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expos (ICME 2004), Taipei, Taiwan, June 2004.
• Wing Ho Leung and Tsuhan Chen, "Hierarchical Matching for Retrieval of Hand-Drawn Sketches", IEEE Intl. Conf. on Multimedia and Expo. (ICME 2003), Vol 2, pp.29-32, Baltimore, MD, July 2003.
• Wing Ho Leung and Tsuhan Chen, "Retrieval of Hand-Drawn Sketches With Partial Matching", IEEE Intl. Conf. on Acoustics Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP 2003), Vol. 3, pp.5-8, Hong Kong, China, April 2003.
• Wing Ho Leung and Tsuhan Chen, "eMeeting: A Multimedia Application for Interactive Meeting and Seminar", IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference (Globecom 2002), Vol. 3, pp.2994-2998, Taipei, Taiwan, R.O.C., November 2002.
• Wing Ho Leung and Tsuhan Chen, "Retrieval of Sketches Based on Spatial Relation Between Strokes", IEEE Intl. Conf. on Image Processing (ICIP 2002), Vol. 1, pp. 908-911, New York, September 2002.
• Wing Ho Leung and Tsuhan Chen, "Trademark Retrieval Using Contour-Skeleton Stroke Classification", IEEE Intl. Conf. on Multimedia and Expo. (ICME 2002), Lausanne, Switzerland, August 2002.
• Wing Ho Leung and Tsuhan Chen, "User-Independent Retrieval of Free-Form Hand-Drawn Sketches", IEEE Intl. Conf. on Acoustics Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP 2002), Vol. 2, pp.2029-2032, Orlando, Florida, May 2002.
• Belle Tseng, Zon-Yin Shae, Wing Ho Leung and Tsuhan Chen, "Immersive Whiteboards in a Networked Collaborative Environment", IEEE Intl. Conf. on Multimedia and Expo. (ICME 2001), Tokyo, August 2001.
• Wing Ho Leung and Tsuhan Chen, "Compression with Mosaic Prediction for Image-Based Rendering Applications", IEEE Intl. Conf. on Multimedia and Expo. (ICME 2000), Vol. 3., pp.1649-1652, New York, July 2000.
• Wing Ho Leung, Khalid goudeaux, Sooksan Panichpapiboon, Sy-Bor Wang and Tsuhan Chen, "Networked Intelligent Collaborative Environment (NetICE)", IEEE Intl. Conf. on Multimedia and Expo. (ICME 2000), Vol. 3., pp.1645-1648, New York, July 2000.
• Wing Ho Leung, Belle L. Tseng and Tsuhan Chen, "Realistic Video Avatar", IEEE Intl. Conf. on Multimedia and Expo. (ICME 2000), Vol. 2, pp.631-634, New York, July 2000.
• Wing Ho Leung and Tsuhan Chen, "Networked Collaborative Environment with animated 3D avatar", IEEE Workshop on Multimedia Signal Processing, Los Angeles, California, Dec 1998.

Technical Report and White Paper:

• Wing Ho Leung and Tsuhan Chen, "CMU Trademark Retrieval System", White Paper, October 2002.
• Wing Ho Leung and Tsuhan Chen, "Line-Space Representation and Compression for Image-Based Rendering", Carnegie Mellon Technical Report: AMP01-02.  

Thesis:

• Howard Wing Ho Leung, "Representations, Feature Extraction, Matching and Relevance Feedback for Sketch Retrieval", Carnegie Mellon University, June 2003.