Professor, Faculty of Science - Computing Science

Email

herb.yang@ualberta.ca

Education

• B.Sc. (First Class Honours), Physics, University of Hong Kong
• M.Sc., Physics, Simon Fraser University
• M.S., Electrical Engineering, University of Pittsburgh
• Ph.D., Electrical Engineering, University of Pittsburgh

Bio

Dr. Yang is a senior member of the IEEE and serves as Associate Editor for the journal Pattern Recognition. He has published over 80 technical papers in international journals and conference proceedings. In addition, he has served as referee to numerous international journals and conferences. He was co-chair of Vision Interface 98.

Areas

Computer Graphics
Computer Vision and Multimedia Communications

Summary

Dr. Yang's research interest covers various areas in computer graphics and computer vision. Topics include 2D and 3D shape analysis, edge detection, segmentation, motion analysis, ultrasound image processing, colour image processing, physics-based modelling and animation, rendering of realistic imagery, and image-based rendering.