Project Leader

Vision Statement

To conduct world-leading research in the fields of video analysis, video content management, video communication and related multimedia applications

Biography

Dr. Zhang is currently working with National ICT Australia (NICTA) as a principal researcher, project leader and a conjoint associate professor with School of Computer Science and Engineering, University of New South Wales. Dr Zhang is a research leader in area of Multimedia and Video Communications (MMVC) at at NICTA Neville Roach Lab in Sydney, Australia. Apart from more than 70 paper publications and authored book chapters as his research output, he also holds more than ten patents filed in US, UK, Japan and Australia including five issued US patents. He served as Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology (T-CSVT), Associate Editor of EURASIP International Journal of Image and Video Processing and the Co-Guest Editor of the T-CSVT for Special Issue of the Convergence of Knowledge Engineering Semantics and Signal Processing in Audiovisual Information Retrieval. Dr. Zhang is taking initiative for the proposal of hosting IEEE Multimedia Signal Processing Workshop in 2008. 

Dr. Zhang leads two of NICTA research projects in the areas of image and video processing, video surveillance and multimedia content management. He is a senior member of the IEEE Signal Processing Society. 

In 1997, Dr. Zhang joined the Visual Information Processing Lab, Motorola Labs in Sydney as a senior research engineer and later became a principal research engineer, and a team leader of Visual Communications Research Team. While at Motorola labs, he had been working on diverse research projects including image processing, video coding and communication, image segmentation and multimedia content adaptation etc. 

Dr Zhang was awarded a Bachelor of Science in Electronic Engineering from East Normal University, China in 1982; a Masters of Science in Computer Science from Flinders University, South Australia in 1994; and a PhD in Electrical Engineering from the University of New South Wales, Australia in 1997.   

Publications

Book Chapters

J. Zhang, "Error Resilience for Video Coding Service", Chapter 18 in Digital Video C, edited by H.R.Wu and K.R.Rao, CRC Press 2006. 

Selected Publications

[1]  Sakrapee (Paul) Paisitkriangkra, Chunhua Shen and Jian Zhang, �gFast  Pedestrian Detection Using a Cascade of Boosted Covariance Features�h, IEEE Trans. on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, 18(8), pages 1140-1151, August 2008

[2]  Sakrapee (Paul) Paisitkriangkra, Chunhua Shen and Jian Zhang, �gPerformance evaluation of local features in human classification and detection�h, IET Computer Vision, Vol 2 Issue 4, pp 236-246, Dec. 2008

[3]  Sakrapee (Paul) Paisitkriangkra, Chunhua Shen and Jian Zhang, �gReal-time Pedestrian Detection Using a Boosted Multi-layer Classifier�h, The Eight International Workshop on Visual Surveillance in conjunction with the 10^th European Conference on Computer Vision, Oct. 17, 2008. Marseille France

[4]  Cheng Luo, Xiongcai Cai and Jian Zhang, �gRobust Object Tracking Using the Particle Filtering and Level Set Methods: A Comparative Experiment�h, IEEE 10^th Workshop on Multimedia Signal Processing Workshop, pp. 359-364, Oct. 8-10, 2008, Cairns, Australia

[5]  Chunhua Shen, Sakrapee (Paul) Paisitkriangkra and Jian Zhang, �gFACE DETECTION FROM FEW TRAINING EXAMPLES�h, 15^th IEEE International Conference on Image Processing, pp. 2764-2767, Oct. 12-15, 2008. San Diego, California, USA

[6]  Cheng Luo, Xiongcai Cai and Jian Zhang, �gRobust Object Tracking Using the Particle Filtering and Level Set Methods: A Comparative Experiment�h, IEEE 10^th Workshop on Multimedia Signal Processing Workshop, pp. 359-364, Oct. 8-10, 2008, Cairns, Australia

[7] Tuan Hue Thi, Sijun Lu & Jian Zhang, �gSelf-Calibration of Traffic Surveillance Camera using Motion Tracking�h, IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITSC2008), pp. 304-310, Oct. 12-15, 2008 in Beijing, China

[8]  C. Luo, X. Cai, J. Zhang, �gRobust Object Tracking Using the Particle Filtering and Level Set Method: A Comparative Experiment�h, Accepted by IEEE Workshop on Multimedia Signal Processing, 2008

[9]  Sijun Lu, Jian Zhang, David Feng, �gDetecting Unattended Packages through Human Activity Recognition and Object Association�h, the Journal of Pattern Recognition, Volume 40, Number 8, August 2007

Best Paper Award