Li Cheng, PhD

Professor, Faculty of Engineering - Electrical & Computer Engineering Dept

Contact

Professor, Faculty of Engineering - Electrical & Computer Engineering Dept
Email
lcheng5@ualberta.ca
Phone
(780) 492-9305
Address
11-365 Donadeo Innovation Centre For Engineering
9211-116 St
Edmonton AB
T6G 2H5

Overview

Area of Study / Keywords

Signal and Image Processing Software Engineering and Intelligent Systems


About

Li Cheng is currently professor with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Alberta. Prior to joining University of Alberta in year 2018, He worked at A*STAR, Singapore, TTI-Chicago, USA, and NICTA, Australia. He received his BSc degree in Computer Science from Jilin University in 1996, M Eng degree from Nankai University in 1999, and PhD in Computing Science from the University of Alberta in 2004. His research expertise is mainly on computer vision and applications.


Research

Current research

  • Visual human motion analysis, to look at humans and also animals and to interpret their poses and behaviors, such as pose estimation, tracking, and action recognition.
  • Biomedical image understanding, including retinal fundus image analysis, microscopic image analysis, neuronal tracing, etc.
  • Computer vision, machine learning, including deep learning, and applications.

Courses

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.


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