• 2004-2005, MPEG U.S. Delegate.
— To join the standardization activity of MPEG-4 Part 10 Amd. 1 Scalable Video Coding.
— Joined MPEG U.S. delegate.
— Attended U.S. national body meeting.
— Attended MPEG meeting on a regular basis.
— Attended Joint Video Team (JVT) meeting on a regular basis.
— Joined the core experiments (CEs) of MPEG-4 Part 10 Amd. 1 Scalable Video Coding.
— Coordinated the core experiments (CEs) for MPEG-4 Part 10 Amd. 1 Scalable Video Coding.
• 2002-Present, Research Assistant, Institute of Electronics, National Chiao-Tung Uni-versity, HsinChu, Taiwan.
— To develop an embedded entropy coder for advanced scalable video coding and study the platform-based System-on-Chip architecture for MPEG-4 AVC/H.264 codec.
— Invented a context adaptive bit-plane coding for advanced scalable video coding.
— Joined the subjective quality competition of scalable video coding in the 65th MPEG meeting. (The proposed algorithm is among top 3)
— Established an ARM-based MPEG-4 AVC/H.264 decoder.
• 2000-2001, Internship, Intel Microprocessor Research Lab, Santa Clara, Calif., U.S.A.
— To develop MPEG processing library optimized for Intel processor and study the performance bottleneck in current computers.
— Built the first real-time encoder for MPEG-4 Fine Granularity Scalability.
— Improved the coding efficiency of MPEG-4 Fine Granularity Scalability using new prediction scheme.
— Analyzed the core instructions of video coding applications for next generation processor.
• 1999-2000, Research project of Luxxon Co., Mountain View, Calif., U.S.A.
— To prove the concept of MPEG-4 Fine Granularity Scalability.
— Developed an end-to-end video streaming system using MPEG-4 Fine Granularity Scalability.
• 1999-2000, Research project of SiS Co., HsinChu, Taiwan.
— To develop a coding scheme for 3-D texture with multi-resolution.
— Studied and implemented a wavelet-based coding scheme.
• 1997-1999, Research Assistant, Institute of Electronics, National Chiao-Tung University, HsinChu, Taiwan.
hardware architecture.
— Taped-out the proposed architecture using TSMC 0.6um technology.
• 1997-1998, Research project of Sun Plus Co., HsinChu, Taiwan.
— To develop a one-pass JPEG rate control algorithm for digital camera applications.
— Built the JPEG software codec with adaptive quantization scheme.
— The software was used in the courses for IP-core design in NCTU and NTU.
Publication
• Thesis
1. Ph.D Dissertation: ”Scalable Video Coding — Advanced Fine Granularity Scalability”, Institute of Electronics, National Chiao-Tung University, Taiwan, 2005. (to be submitted)
2. Master Dissertation: ”An Efficient Algorithm and Architecture Design for Two-Dimensional Separable Discrete Wavelet Transform”, Institute of Electronics, National Chiao-Tung University, Taiwan, 1999.
• Journal Paper
1. W. H. Peng, T. Chiang, H. M. Hang and C. Y. Lee, ”A Context Adaptive Binary Arithmetic Codec with Maximum likelihood based Stochastic Bit Reshuffling (SBR) Technique for Scalable Video Coding ”, IEEE Trans. on Multimedia, 2005. (Accepted and to be published)
2. S. H. Wang, W. H. Peng, Y. W. He, G. Y. Lin, C. Y. Lin, S. C. Chang, C. N. Wang and T. Chiang, ”A Software-Hardware Co-Implementation of MPEG-4 Advanced Video Coding (AVC) Decoder with Block Level Pipelining”, International Journal of VLSI Signal Processing, vol. 41, no. 1, pp. 93-110, Aug. 2005.
3. S. C. Chang, W. H. Peng, S. H. Wang and T. Chiang, “A Platform based Bus-interleaved Architecture for De-blocking Filter in H.264/MPEG-4 AVC”, IEEE Trans. on Consumer Electronics, vol. 51, no. 1, pp. 249-255, Feb. 2005.
4. W. H. Peng and Y. K. Chen, “Enhanced Mode Adaptive Fine Granularity Scal-ability”, International Journal of Imaging Systems and Technology, vol. 13, no. 6, pp. 308-321, Nov. 2003.
• Conference Paper
1. W. H. Peng, T. Chiang and H. M. Hang, “Adding Selective Enhancement in Scalable Video Coding Standard for Region-of-Interest Functionality”, IEEE Int’l Symposium on Circuits and Systems, Greece, 2006. (Submitted)
2. W. H. Peng, C. Y. Tsai, T. Chiang and H. M. Hang, “Advances of MPEG Scalable Video Coding Standard”, KES Int’l Workshop on Intelligent Information Hiding and Multimedia Signal Processing, Melbourne, Sep. 2005.
3. W. H. Peng, T. Chiang and H. M. Hang, “A Low Complexity Prioritized Bit-plane Coding for SNR Scalability in MPEG-21 Scalable Video Coding”, SPIE Int’l Conf.
on Visual Communications and Image Processing, Beijing, July 2005.
4. S. C. Chang, W. H. Peng, S. H. Wang and T. Chiang, “A Platform-based De-blocking Filter Design with Bus Interleaved Architecture for H.264”, IEEE Int’l Conf. on Consumer Electronics, Las Vegas, Jan. 2005.
5. T. M. Liu, S. Z. Wang, W. H. Peng and C. Y. Lee, “Memory-Efficient and Low-Complexity Scalable Soft VLC Decoding for the Video Transmission”, IEEE Asia-Pacific Conf. on Circuit and System, Tainan, Dec. 2004.
6. W. H. Peng, T. Chiang, H. M. Hang and C. Y. Lee, “Enhanced Stochastic Bit Reshuffling for Fine Granular Scalable Video Coding”, IEEE Pacific Rim Conf. on Multimedia, Tokyo, Dec. 2004.
7. W. H. Peng, C. N. Wang, T. Chiang and H. M. Hang, “Context Adaptive Binary Arithmetic Coding with Stochastic Bit Reshuffling for Advanced Fine Granularity Scalability”, IEEE Int’l Symposium on Circuits and Systems, Vancouver, May 2004.
8. S. H. Wang, W. H. Peng, Y. W. He, G. Y. Lin, C. Y. Lin, S. C. Chang, C. N.
Wang and T. Chiang “A Platform-Based MPEG-4 Advanced Video Coding (AVC) Decoder with Block Level Pipelining”, IEEE Pacific Rim Conf. on Multimedia, Singapore, Dec. 2003.
9. W. H. Peng, T. Chiang and H. M. Hang, “Context-Based Binary Arithmetic Coding for Fine Granularity Scalability”, Int’l Symposium on Signal Processing and its Application, Paris, July 2003.
10. Y. K. Chen and W. H. Peng, “Implementation of Real-time MPEG-4 FGS Encoder”, IEEE Pacific-Rim Conf. on Multimedia, HsinChu, Dec. 2002.
11. W. H. Peng and T. Chiang, “A Prioritized End-to-End Video Streaming Scheme Using MPEG-4 Fine Granularity Scalability”, Multiconference on Systemics, Cyber-netics and Informatics, Orlando, July 2002.
12. W. H. Peng and Y. K. Chen, “Error Drifting Reduction in Enhanced Fine Granularity Scalability”, IEEE Int’l Conf. on Image Processing, New York, Oct.
2002.
13. W. H. Peng and Y. K. Chen, “Mode Adaptive Fine Granularity Scalability”, IEEE Int’l Conf. on Image Processing, Greece, Oct. 2001.
14. W. H. Chiang, Y. S. Lee, W. H. Peng and C. Y. Lee, “A Line-Based, Memory Efficient and Programmable Architecture for 2D DWT Using Lifting Scheme”, IEEE Int’l Symposium on Circuits and Systems, Sydney, May 2001.
15. W. H. Peng, H. C. Huang and T. Chiang, “Optimization of Selective Enhancement for MPEG-4 Fine Granularity Scalability”, Workshop on Consumer Electronics, Taipei, July 2000.
16. W. H. Peng and C. Y. Lee, “An Efficient VLSI Architecture For Separable 2-D Discrete Wavelet Transform”, IEEE Int’l Conf. on Image Processing, Osaka, June 1999.
• MPEG/JVT Document
1. W. H. Peng, T. Chiang and H. M. Hang, “CE8: ROI-based Scalable Video Coding”, ISO/IEC MPEG 72th meeting, JVTO308, Busan, Korea, April 2005.
2. W. H. Peng, T. Chiang and H. M. Hang, “Adding Selective Enhancement Function-ality to Scalable Video Coding”, ISO/IEC MPEG 72th meeting, M11914 (JVTO020), Busan, Korea, April 2005.
4. H. C. Huang, W. H. Peng, Y. C. Lin, C. N. Wang, T. Chiang and H. M. Hang,
“Response to CfP on Scalable Video Coding Technology: Proposal S07 — A Robust Scalable Video Coding Technique”, ISO/IEC MPEG 68th meeting, M10724, Munich, Germany, March 2004.
5. H. C. Huang, W. H. Peng, C. N. Wang, T. Chiang and H. M. Hang, “Stack Robust Fine Granularity Scalability: Response to Call for Evidence on Scalable Video Coding”, ISO/IEC MPEG 65th meeting, M9767, Trondheim, Norway, July 2003.
6. W. H. Peng, T. Chiang and H. M. Hang, “Context-Based Arithmetic Coding for FGS”, ISO/IEC MPEG 61th meeting, M8606, Klagenfrut, Austria, July 2002.
7. W. H. Peng, H. Jiang and Y. K. Chen, “Adding Prediction Modes to Progressive Fine Granularity Scalable (PFGS) Coding”, ISO/IEC MPEG 55th meeting, M6909, Pisa, Italy, Jan. 2001.
• Filed U.S. Patent
1. S. C. Chang, W. H. Peng, S. H. Wang and T. Chiang, “A Platform based Bus-interleaved Architecture for Deblocking Filter in H.264/AVC”, (filed on March 24th, 2005).
2. W. H. Peng, T. Chiang and H. M. Hang, “Context Adaptive Binary Arithmetic Coding with Stochastic Bit Reshuffling for Fine Granularity Scalability”, application number 11/158034.
3. Y. K. Chen and W. H. Peng, “Zigzag In-Order for Image/Video Encoder and Decoder”, published U.S. patent application with document number, 20030138042.
4. W. H. Peng and Y. K. Chen, “Scalable Coding Scheme for Low Latency Applica-tions”, published U.S. patent application with document number, 20030058936.
5. W. H. Peng and Y. K. Chen, “Method and Apparatus for Providing Prediction Mode Fine Granularity Scalability”, published U.S. patent application with document number, 20020126759.
Reference
• Professor and Chairman Chen-Yi Lee
— Professor and Chairman, Dept. of Electronics Engineering, National Chiao-Tung University
— 1001 Ta-Hsueh Rd., HsinChu 30010, Taiwan.
— Office: ED 538
— Tel: +886-3-5731849
— Fax: +886-3-5710580
— E-mail: cylee@mail.nctu.edu.tw
• Professor Tihao Chiang
— Professor, Dept. of Electronics Engineering, National Chiao-Tung University
— 1001 Ta-Hsueh Rd., HsinChu 30010, Taiwan.
— Office: ED506
— Tel :+886-351-31558
— Fax:+886-357-31791
— E-mail: tchiang@mail.nctu.edu.tw
• Professor Hsueh-Ming Hang
— Professor, Dept. of Electronics Engineering, National Chiao-Tung University
— Director, Globalization and Development Office of EECS College
— 1001 Ta-Hsueh Rd., HsinChu 30010, Taiwan.
— Office: ED609
— Tel :+886-357-31861
— Fax:+886-357-31791
— E-mail: hmhang@mail.nctu.edu.tw
• Dr. Yen-Kuang Chen
— Senior researcher, Microprocessor Research Lab, Intel Corp.
— SC12-303, 2200 Mission College Blvd. Santa Clara, CA 95052-8119.
— Tel :+1-408-765-8845
— Fax:+1-408-653-8511
— E-mail: yen-kuang.chen@intel.com