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Jeff K.T. Tang

B.Eng (CityUHK), M.Sc. (HKUST), Ph.D. (CityUHK)

3D Motion Capture Laboratory
Department of Computer Science
City University of Hong Kong

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Research Interests:

Pattern Recognition, 3D Motion Analysis and Retrieval, Character Animation, Interaction Techniques, Chinese Handwriting Education, Cross Media.

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Biography

Jeff Tang received the B.Eng. degree in Computer Engineering from City University of Hong Kong, in 2003, the M.Sc. degree from Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, in 2005, and the Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from City University of Hong Kong in 2011. Throughout his graduate studies, he was with the 3D Motion Capture Lab. He is also a member in IEEE and graduate member in HKIE.

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Awards and Honours

Recipient of Student Travel Grant (US$ 180) from the 5th ICUIMC Conference, Feb 2011.
Best Paper (Runner-up) in The 21st Annual Conference on Computer Animation and Social Agents (CASA 2008), Sep 2008.
Certificate of Merit, Best Lifestyle (Social and Spiritual Wellbeing), HKICT Awards 2007, Jan 2008.
Lotfi Zadeh Best Paper Award in The 6th International Conference on Machine Learning and Cybernetics (ICMLC 2007), Aug 2007.

Selected Publications

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Computer Graphics & Character Animation

	Interaction Retrieval by Spacetime Proximity Graphs Computer Graphics Forum (Proc. of Eurographics 2012) (Accepted) by Jeff K.T. Tang, Jacky C.P. Chan, Howard Leung and Taku Komura
	Retrieval of Logically Relevant 3D Human Motions by Adaptive Feature Selection with Graded Relevance Feedback Pattern Recognition Letters, Vol.33, Issue 4, pages 420-430, March 2012. by Jeff K.T. Tang and Howard Leung [ Paper 713KB] \| [DOI] \| [BibTex]
	A Virtual Reality Dance Training System Using Motion Capture Technology IEEE Transactions on Learning Technologies, Vol.4, No. 2, pages 187-195, April-June 2011. *Has been selected as the Spotlight Article of the issue [Detail ] by Jacky C.P. Chan, Howard Leung, Jeff K.T. Tang and Taku Komura [ Paper 955KB] \| [DOI] \| [BibTex]
	Interactive Dancing Game with Real-time Recognition of Continuous Dance Moves from 3D Human Motion Capture Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Ubiquitous Information Management and Communication (ICUIMC 2011) by Jeff K.T. Tang, Jacky C.P. Chan and Howard Leung [ Paper 648KB] \| [DOI] \| [Slides] \| [ Video] \| [BibTex]
	Emulating Human Perception of Motion Similarity Journal of Computer Animation and Virtual World Vol.19, Issue 3-4, pages 211-221, 2008. by Jeff K.T. Tang, Howard Leung, Taku Komura and Hubert P.H. Shum [ Paper 538KB] \| [DOI] \| [Project Webpage] \| [BibTex]
	Finding Repetitive Patterns in 3D Human Motion Captured Data Proceedings of the 2008 International Conference on Ubiquitous Information Management and Communication (ICUIMC 2008) by Jeff K.T. Tang, Howard Leung, Taku Komura and Hubert P.H. Shum [ Paper 586KB] \| [DOI] \| [Project Webpage] \| [BibTex]

Chinese Handwriting Education

Automatic Online Educational Game Content Creation by Identifying Similar Chinese Characters with Radical Extraction and Graph Matching Algorithms
International Journal on Distant Education Technologies (IJDET) Special Issue "Best of ICWL 2009"
Vol.8, issue 3, pages 31-46, 2010.
by K.H. Lai, Howard Leung, Zhihui Hu, Jeff K.T. Tang and, Yun Xu
[ Paper 586KB] | [DOI] | [BibTex]

*The PDFs posted here are final draft versions. For published version please download from the official DOI. Thanks!

Talks

Towards Modeling of Multiple Character Interactions for Motion Retrieval and Synthesis.
5th PhD Student Workshop @ CityU Suzhou Research Centre. 19 Apr 2011.
[ Abstract 27KB]
Interactive Dancing Game with Real-time Recognition of Continuous Dance Moves from 3D Human Motion Capture.
Computer Science Seminar Series @ CityU, HK. 18 Feb 2011.
[ Abstract 33KB]
Adaptive Feature Selection in Retrieving Captured 3D Single Body Movement Data.
4th PhD Student Workshop @ CityU Suzhou Research Centre. 7 Apr 2010.
[ Abstract 50KB]
Finding Repetitive Patterns in 3D Human Motion Captured Data.
Computer Science Seminar Series @ CityU, HK. 6 Dec 2007.
[ Abstract 105KB]

Teaching

At Chinese University of Hong Kong

CMSC5729 Web Service Security, Guest Lecturer (Semester 1, 2011/2012)

At City University of Hong Kong

CS4367/5367 Computer Game Design, TA + Android SDK Programming (Semester B, 2010/2011)
CS2363 Computer Programming, TA (Semester A, 2010/2011)
CS4367/5367 Computer Game Design, TA (Semester B, 2009/2010)
CS2363 Computer Programming, TA (Semester A, 2009/2010)

Professional Activities

Student Helper, The 10th International Conference on Web-Based Learning (ICWL 2011)
Student Helper, The 11th International Conference on Web Information System Engineering (WISE 2010)
Student Helper, Pacific-Rim Conference on Multimedia (PCM 2007)
Student Helper, The 10th International EDOC Conference/The Enterprise Computing Conference (EDOC 2006)
Student Helper, The 5th International Conference on Web-Based Learning (ICWL 2006)
Teaching Helper, CityU-CS Robocode Contest 2010 (Robocode 2010)
Paper Reviewers for
1. Journal of Multimedia Tools and Applications (MTAP)

Last Updated: 11th January 2012

	Interaction Retrieval by Spacetime Proximity Graphs Computer Graphics Forum (Proc. of Eurographics 2012) (Accepted) by Jeff K.T. Tang, Jacky C.P. Chan, Howard Leung and Taku Komura
	Retrieval of Logically Relevant 3D Human Motions by Adaptive Feature Selection with Graded Relevance Feedback Pattern Recognition Letters, Vol.33, Issue 4, pages 420-430, March 2012. by Jeff K.T. Tang and Howard Leung [ Paper 713KB] \| [DOI] \| [BibTex]
	A Virtual Reality Dance Training System Using Motion Capture Technology IEEE Transactions on Learning Technologies, Vol.4, No. 2, pages 187-195, April-June 2011. *Has been selected as the Spotlight Article of the issue [Detail ] by Jacky C.P. Chan, Howard Leung, Jeff K.T. Tang and Taku Komura [ Paper 955KB] \| [DOI] \| [BibTex]
	Interactive Dancing Game with Real-time Recognition of Continuous Dance Moves from 3D Human Motion Capture Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Ubiquitous Information Management and Communication (ICUIMC 2011) by Jeff K.T. Tang, Jacky C.P. Chan and Howard Leung [ Paper 648KB] \| [DOI] \| [Slides] \| [ Video] \| [BibTex]
	Emulating Human Perception of Motion Similarity Journal of Computer Animation and Virtual World Vol.19, Issue 3-4, pages 211-221, 2008. by Jeff K.T. Tang, Howard Leung, Taku Komura and Hubert P.H. Shum [ Paper 538KB] \| [DOI] \| [Project Webpage] \| [BibTex]
	Finding Repetitive Patterns in 3D Human Motion Captured Data Proceedings of the 2008 International Conference on Ubiquitous Information Management and Communication (ICUIMC 2008) by Jeff K.T. Tang, Howard Leung, Taku Komura and Hubert P.H. Shum [ Paper 586KB] \| [DOI] \| [Project Webpage] \| [BibTex]