Li Cheng, PhD

Area of Study / Keywords

Signal and Image Processing Software Engineering and Intelligent Systems

About

Li Cheng is professor with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Alberta. He is an associate editor of IEEE Transactions on Multimedia (TMM), Pattern Recognition, and Computer Vision and Image Understanding (CVIU). Prior to joining University of Alberta, He worked at A*STAR, Singapore, TTI-Chicago, USA, and NICTA, Australia. His current research interests include computer vision, and multimedia data analytics, and applications. He has over 200 papers in peer-reviewed journals and conferences. His papers have been Nominated for Best Paper Award at CVPR 2021, and have won the Most Insightful Paper Award at the CVPR 2023 Workshop on Vision-based Industrial Inspection. More recent details can be found at his lab website.

Research

Current research

• Computer and robot vision, multimedia data analytics, and applications.
• Visual human motion analysis, to look at humans and to interpret their poses, motions and behaviors.
• Biomedical image understanding, including retinal fundus image analysis, microscopic image analysis, neuronal tracing, etc
• Precision agriculture applications.

ECE 442 - Introduction to Multimedia Signal Processing

Human visual/audio perception and multimedia data representations. Basic multimedia processing concepts, multimedia compression and communications. Machine learning tools for multimedia signal processing, including principle component analysis and Gaussian mixture modeling. Applications to human-computer interaction, visual-audio, and visual-text processing. Prerequisites: ECE 220 or CMPUT 275, ECE 342, MATH 102 or equivalent knowledge. Credit may be obtained in only one of ECE 442 or E E 442.

ECE 740 - Advanced Topics in Signal and Image Processing

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