Feng Wu received his B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from XIDIAN University in 1992. He received his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Computer Science from Harbin Institute of Technology in 1996 and 1999, respectively. Wu joined in Microsoft Research Asia, formerly named Microsoft Research China as an Associate Researcher in 1999. He has been a researcher with Microsoft Research Asia since 2001 and is now a Senior Researcher/Research Manager.
His research interests include image and video compression, media communication, and media analysis and synthesis. He has authored or co-authored over 200 high quality papers (including over 50 journal papers) and filed 67 US patents (25 granted). His 13 techniques have been adopted into international video coding standards. As a co-author, he got the best paper award in IEEE T-CSVT 2009, PCM 2008 and SPIE VCIP 2007.
Wu has been a Fellow of IEEE. He serves as an associate editor in IEEE Transactions on Circuits and System for Video Technology, IEEE Transactions on Multimedia and several other International journals. He also serves as TPC chair in MMSP 2011, VCIP 2010 and PCM 2009, TPC track chair in ICME 2013, ICIP 2012, ICME 2012, ICME 2011 and ICME 2009, and Special sessions chair in ISCAS 2013 and ICME 2010.
Awards
Best Paper Award, IEEE Transaction on Circuits and Systemes for Video Technology (IEEE T-CSVT), 2009.
Best Paper Award, Pacific-Rim Conference on Multimedia (PCM) 2008
Best Paper Award, SPIE Visual Communication and Image Processing (VCIP) 2007
Second Award on National Technology and Invention, China, 2006
Excellent Ph.D. Thesis Award at the Harbin Institute of Technology, 2000
A finalist of ACM International Conference on Modeling, Analysis and Simulation of Wireless and Mobile System (MSWIM) Best Paper Award, 2011
A finalist of IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo Best Paper Awards, 2009
IEEE TC members
TC member of Image, Video, Multidimensional Signal Processing (IVMSP), IEEE Signal Processing Society (2012 - )
TC member of Multimedia Signal Processing (MMSP), IEEE Signal Processing Society (2011 - )
TC member of Multimedia Communication Technical Committee (MMTC), IEEE Communication Society (2011 - )
TC member of Visual Signal Processing and Communication (VSPC), IEEE Circuits and Systems Society (2006 - )
TC member of Multimedia System and Application (MST), IEEE Circuits and Systems Society (2006 - )
Editorial activities
Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology (2011- ).
Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Multimedia (2011- ).
Area Editor of Signal Processing: Image Communication (2011- ).
Associate Editor of International Journal of Multimedia (2010- ).
Associate Editor of Advances in Multimedia (2007-2012).
Guest Editor, IEEE Transaction on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, Special Issue on Emerging Research and Standard in Next Generation Video Coding (HEVC), 2012
Guest Editor, International Journal of Pattern Recognition Letter, Special Issue on Extracting Semantics from Multi-Spectrum Video, 2012
Guest Editor, IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Signal Processing, Special Issue on Emerging Technologies for Video Compression, 2011
Guest Editor, International Journal of Signal Processing Systems, Special Issue on PCM 2009, 2011
Guest Editor, International Journal of Advance in Multimedia, Special Issue on Multimedia Immersive Technologies and Networking, 2008.
Guest Editor, Journal of Computer Science and Technology, Special Issue on China AVS standard, 2006.
Reviewer of IEEE transaction on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, IEEE transaction on Image Processing, IEEE transaction on Multimedia, IEEE transaction on wireless communications, IEEE Signal Processing Letters, EURASIP Journal, etc.
Conference activities
TPC Chair, IEEE Internaltional workshop on multimedia signal Processing (MMSP), 2011.
TPC Chair, Visual Communication and Image Processing (VCIP) 2010.
TPC Chair, Pacific-Rim Conference on Multimedia (PCM) 2009.
TPC Special Sessions Chair, International Symposium On Circuits and Systems (ISCAS), 2013
TPC Area Chair, International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP), 2012
TPC Multimedia Networking and Communications Track Chair, International Conference on Multimedia Expo (ICME), 2012.
TPC Multimedia Compression Track Chair, International Conference on Multimedia Expo (ICME), 2011.
TPC Special Sessions Chair, International Conference on Multimedia Expo (ICME), 2010.
TPC Multimedia Coding and Processing Track Chair, International Conference on Multimedia Expo (ICME) 2009.
TPC Visual Signal Processing Track Chair, European Conference on Circuit Theory and Design 2009.
TPC Chair, Visual Information Engineering (VIE) 2008.
TPC Chair, International Conference on Natural Computation (ICNC) 2006.
Demo Sessions Chair, International Conference on Multimedia Expo (ICME) 2007.
Local Arrangement Chair, Visual Communication and Image Processing (VCIP) 2005.
TPC member of MMSP 2009, IMMERSCOM 2009, DCC 2009, MMM 2008, ICME 2007, ICME 2006, PCS 2006, VCIP 2005
Reviewer of ICIP 2009, ICIP 2008, ISCAS 2008, ISCAS 2007, ICME 2007, ISCAS 2006
Other activities
Panelist, Chinese NSF (2008 - 2011)
Chair of China AVS video group, 2002-2004
Selected Research Projects
1. Compressive networking and communication
In the modern communication, data to be processed in the network and physical layers is assumed as random because source redundancy has been removed by compression in the application layer. However, in practical networks and systems, except for image and video many source data are not compressed at all before transmission. There exist a large number of redundancies in these data. Motivated by the emerging compressive sensing (CS) theory, Dr Wu proposes the arithmetic graph codes for a joint source, network and channel coding across different layers. It presents a new architecture for the communication of sparse sources.
Chong Luo, Feng Wu, Jun Sun, Chang Wen Chen, "Compressive data gathering for large-scale wireless sensor networks", International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking (MobiCom), pp. 145-156, 2009.
Feng Wu, Jingjing Fu, Zhouchen Lin, Bing Zeng, “Analysis on rate-distortion performance of compressive sensing for binary sparse source”, Data Compression Conference, pp. 113-122, 2009.
Chong Luo, Feng Wu, Jun Sun, Chang Wen Chen, "Efficient measurement generation and pervasive sparsity for compressive data gathering," IEEE trans. on Wireless Communication, vol. 9, no 12, pp. 3728-3738, 2010.
2. New explorations in coding
There are many new applications appeared in recent years that request new compressions beyond traditional image and video. The multi-view and free-view TVs request high efficient compression for multi-view contents. The popular online games request a new coding scheme for texture contents. The cloud-client systems request the compression of the compound contents in screen that consists of text, graphics, image and even video. To meet these requests, Dr Wu proposed the first scheme to compress multi-view video through the Wyner-ziv coding that shifts the complicated temporal and interview correlation exploration process from the encoder to the decoder. He also proposed the first H.264-based screen coding that can improve the performance up to 10dB.
Xun Guo, Yan Lu, Feng Wu, Debin Zhao, Wen Gao, “Wyner-Ziv-based multi-view video coding”, IEEE transaction on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, vol. 18, no. 6, pp 713-724, 2008.
Cuiling Lan, Guangming Shi, Feng Wu, "Compress compound images in H.264/MPEG-4 AVC by exploiting spatial correlation," IEEE transaction on Image Processing, vol. 19, no 4, pp 946-957, 2010.
Wen Sun, Yan Lu, Feng Wu, Shipeng Li, John Tardif, “High dynamic range texture compression for rendering systems of different capacities”, IEEE transaction on Visualization and Computer Graphics, vol. 16, no 1, pp 57-69, 2010.
3. Vision-based coding
Dr. Wu opens up a new direction for image and video coding by combining signal-processing-based compression and vision-based analysis/ synthesis. He published a pioneering work on incorporating image inpainting, an advanced vision-based synthesis method, into conventional coding schemes. The approach offers new opportunities in breaking the waveform compression bottleneck suffered today. This work received the 2009 CSVT Transaction Best Paper Award. His next work on the learning-based visual enhancement of compressed images received the best paper award in 2008 Pacific-Rim conference on multimedia.
Dong Liu, Xiaoyan Sun, Feng Wu, Shipeng Li, Ya-qin Zhang, “Image compression with edge-based inpainting”, IEEE transaction on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, vol. 17, no. 10, pp. 1273-1287, 2007 (Best Paper Award).
Dong Liu, Xiaoyan Sun, Feng Wu, Ya-Qin Zhang, “Edge-oriented uniform intra prediction”, IEEE transaction on Image Processing, vol. 17, no 10, pp 1827-1836, 2008
Zhiwei Xiong, Xiaoyan Sun, Feng Wu, “Block-based image compression with parameter-assistant inpainting”, IEEE trans. on Image Processing, vol. 19, no 6, pp 1651-1657, 2010.
4. Directional transforms
Natural images and video frames contain rich directional correlation neither the horizontal nor the vertical, which cannot be represented compactly by conventional transforms. Dr. Wu invented an innovated approach to construct various directional transforms through incorporating directional operators into the lifting structure. It offers an efficient way to enable directional adaptation in various existing non-directional transforms. His first work in this line is the directional wavelet transform (Google citations 72 in 3 years). By replacing the traditional transform, it improves JPEG 2000 up to 2.0 dB on images with rich orientation features. Next he published the directional DCT and the directional lapped transforms with consistent significant gain.
Wenpeng Ding, Feng Wu, Xiaolin Wu, Shipeng Li, Houqiang Li, “Adaptive directional lifting-based wavelet transform for image coding”, IEEE transaction on Image Processing, vol. 16, no 2, pp. 416-427, 2007.
Hao Xu, Jizheng Xu, Feng Wu, “Lifting-based directional DCT-like transform for image coding”, IEEE transaction on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, vol. 17, no. 10, pp. 1325-1335, 2007.
Jizheng Xu, Feng Wu, Jie Liang, Wenjun Zhang, “Directional lapped transforms for image coding”, IEEE transaction on Image Processing, vol 19, no 1, pp 85-97, 2010.
5. Stream switching
Stream switching - highly efficient adaptation on channel bandwidth is broadly required by streaming video over the Internet. Switching among non-scalable streams and/or scalable streams is a challenging topic because it may cause severe visual artifacts and PSNR degradation due to the mismatch on reconstructed references. Dr. Wu proposed the first scheme for seamless switching of scalable video bitstreams. He significantly improved the design of SP frame coding from both coding efficiency and computation. He is also the first one who proposes the switching of video bitstreams through the Wyner-ziv coding.
Mei Guo, Yan Lu, Feng Wu, Debin Zhao, Wen Gao, “Wyner-Ziv switching scheme for multiple bit-rate video streaming”, IEEE transaction on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, vol. 18, no. 5, pp 569-581, 2008.
Xiaoyan Sun, Feng Wu, Guobin Shen, Wen Gao, “Drift-free switching of compressed video bitstreams at predictive frames”, IEEE transaction on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, vol. 16, no. 5, pp. 565-576, 2006.
Xiaoyan Sun, Feng Wu, Shipeng Li, Wen Gao, Ya-Qin Zhang, “Seamless switching of scalable video bitstreams for efficient streaming”, IEEE transaction on multimedia, special issue on Video Streaming, vol. 6, no. 2, pp. 291-303, 2004.
6. Scalable Video Coding
Drifting error, the accumulation of reference mismatches at encoder and decoder along with coded frames, is the most critical problem that greatly degrades the scalable coding efficiency. Dr. Wu is among the first few researchers to work on this problem. He proposed the well-recognized framework of progressive fine granularity scalable (PFGS) video coding (Google citations 272), and showed that the drifting error can be attenuated gracefully. It offers new directions to solve the problem and inspires a series of scalable coding schemes. He further proposed the Barbell-lifting scheme for high efficient scalable video coding. The scheme ranks the first and third among 21 schemes in two testing scenarios, in response to MPEG call for proposals on scalable video coding.
Ruiqin Xiong, Jizheng Xu, Feng Wu, Shipeng Li, “Barbell-lifting based 3-D wavelet coding scheme”, IEEE transaction on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, vol. 17, no. 9, pp. 1256-1269, 2007. (invited paper)
Lin Luo, Feng Wu, Shipeng Li, Zixiang Xiong, Zhenquan Zhuang, “Advanced motion threading for 3D wavelet video coding”, Signal Processing: Image Communication, special issue on subband/wavelet video coding, vol. 19, no 7, pp. 601-616, 2004.
Feng Wu, Shipeng Li, Ya-Qin Zhang, “A framework for efficient progressive fine granular scalable video coding”, IEEE transaction on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, special issue on streaming video, vol. 11, no 3, pp. 332-344, 2001.
ISO/MPEG, ITU-T and JVT Proposals
Dr Wu has been an active contributor to ISO/MPEG, ITU-T and JVT standards. He and his team actively involve the activities of MPEG-4 FGS, H.264/MPEG-4 AVC and the scalable extension of H.264/MPEG-4 AVC. The following proposals were adopted by these standards.
Kai Zhang, Jizheng Xu, Feng Wu, “Frame based selective inter-layer prediction”, ISO/IEC JTC1/SC29/ WG11 and ITU-T SG16 Q.6, JVT-S051, Geneva, April 2006.
Yihua Chen, Jizheng Xu, Feng Wu, Hongkai Xiong, “Response to SVC CE6: Improvements of update step”, ISO/IEC JTC1/SC29/ WG11 and ITU-T SG16 Q.6, JVT-P047, Poznan, July 2005.
Alexis Michael Tourapis, Feng Wu, Shipeng Li, "Performance analysis of Lagrangian parameter selection in JVT", ISO/IEC JTC1/SC29/ WG11 and ITU-T SG16 Q.6, JVT-D041, Klagenfurt, Austria, July 2002.
Alexis Michael Tourapis, Feng Wu, Shipeng Li, "Timestamp independent motion vector prediction for P and B frames with division elimination", ISO/IEC JTC1/SC29/ WG11 and ITU-T SG16 Q.6, JVT-D040, Klagenfurt, Austria, July 2002.
Alexis Michael Tourapis, Jizheng Xu, Feng Wu, Shipeng Li, "Motion vector prediction in bidirectionally predictive (B) frames with regards to direct mode", ISO/IEC JTC1/SC29/ WG11 and ITU-T SG16 Q.6, JVT-C127, Fairfax, Virginia, USA, May 2002.
Xiaoyan Sun, Feng Wu, Shipeng Li, Ragip Kurceren, "The improved JVT-B097 SP coding scheme", ISO/IEC JTC1/SC29/ WG11 and ITU-T SG16 Q.6, JVT-C114, Fairfax, Virginia, USA, May 2002.
Rong Yan, Feng Wu, Shipeng Li and Ya-Qin Zhang, “Error resilience methods in the FGS enhancement bitstream”, ISO/IEC MPEG 53th meeting, M6207, Beijing, China, July 2000.
FULL PUBLICATIONS
Proposal List to ISO/MPEG and ITU-T
Co-Supervised and Supervised Students
Ph.D students
Markus B. Schenkel EPFL, Switzerland
2009.9 ~
Hao CUI Univerisity of Science and Technology of China, China
2009.8 ~
Xiaolin LIU University of Science and Technology of China, China
2009.8 ~
Zhi LI Stanford University, USA
2009.7 ~2009.9
Binxing JIAO University of Science and Technology of China, China
2008.7 ~
Zhiwei XIONG University of Science and Technology of China, China
2007.9 ~
Wei PU University of Science and Technology of China, China
2007.6 ~ 2009.8
Wen SUN University of Science and Technology of China, China
2007.7 ~
Xiulian PENG University of Science and Technology of China, China
2008.7 ~
Jingjing FU Hong Kong University of Science & Technology, Hong Kong
2007.8 ~ 2009.7
Dong LIU University of Science and Technology of China, China
2005.7 ~ 2008.7
Yi GUO University of Science and Technology of China, China
2008.4 ~ 2008.6
Qiu SHEN University of Science and Technology of China, China
2007.8 ~ 2008.1
Ruiqin XIONG Institute of Computing Technology, China
2002.8 ~ 2007.8
Tiantian SUN Institute of Computing Technology, China
2006.5 ~ 2007.4
Wenpeng DING University of Science and Technology of China, China
2006.10 ~ 2007.2, 2008.6 ~ 2009.8
Nan YAO West-North Polytechnic University, China
2006.10 ~ 2007.2
Chunbo ZHU University of Science and Technology of China, China
2006.9 ~ 2007.2
Jingyu YANG Tsinghua University, China
2006.9 ~ 2006.12
Jing MA Xidian University, China
2006.8 ~ 2006.12
Weisheng DONG Xidian University, China
2006.9 ~ 2006.12
Kaichao YANG National Tsinghua University, Taiwan
2006.9 ~ 2006.10
Bing HAN University of Florida, USA
2006.5 ~ 2006.8, 2007.3 ~ 2007.8
Yu LIU Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
2006.4 ~ 2006.7
Li SU Graduate School of China Academy of Science, China
2006.3 ~ 2006.6, 2007.4 ~ 2007.11
Zhenzhong CHEN Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
2006.4 ~ 2006.5
Bin LI Tsinghua University, China
2006.2 ~ 2006.5
Yi LIU ZHE JIANG University, China
2005.10 ~ 2006.4
Xun GUO Harbin Institute of Technology, China
2004.12 ~ 2006.2
Huifeng SHEN University of Science and Technology of China, China
2004.12 ~ 2006.1, 2007.2 ~
Jianhua WU Nanyang Technological University, China
2005.7 ~ 2005.11
Debin LIU Institute of Computing Technology, China
2004.6 ~ 2005. 9
Jie LI Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
2005.7 ~ 2005.9
Nan ZHANG Beijing University of Technology, China
2004.10 ~ 2005.6
Dongdong ZHANG Shanghai Jiaotong University, China
2004.6 ~ 2005.2
Xin JIN Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China
2004.10 ~ 2005.1
Wenxian YANG Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
2004.7 ~ 2004.11
Shaohui LIU Harbin Institute of Harbin, China
2004.6 ~ 2004.9
Li SONG Shanghai Jiaotong University, China
2004.5 ~ 2004.8
Yi WANG University of Science and Technology of China, China
2003.12 ~ 2004.4, 2005.5 ~ 2006.1
Zhijie YANG Institute of Software, China
2002.3 ~ 2004.2
Bojin ZHUANG Peking University, China
2003.9 ~ 2004.2
Lujun YUAN Institute of Computing Technology, China
2003.3 ~ 2004.1
Jungong HAN Xidian University, China
2003.2 ~ 2003.12
Xiangyang JI Institute of Computing Technology, China
2002.12 ~ 2003.3, 2004.3 ~ 2005.7
Tianli CHU Texas A&M University, China
2002.5 ~ 2002.8
Xun LI Beijing Institute of Technology, China
2001.11 ~ 2002.3
Rong YAN Beijing Institute of Technology, China
2000.4 ~ 2002.3
Hua CAI Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong
2001.6 ~ 2001.11
Lin LUO University of Science and Technology of China, China
2000.3 ~ 2001.11, 2002.1 ~ 2003.3
Yuwen HE Tsinghua University, China
2001.3 ~ 2001.9
Xiaoyan SUN Harbin Institute of Technology, China
2000.9 ~ 2001.9, 2001.12 ~ 2003.11
Zhen LI Purdue University, USA
2001.5 ~ 2001.8, 2002.5 ~ 2002.8
Yisong CHEN Nanjing University, China
2000.11~2001.3
Qi WANG Tsinghua University, China
2000.4~2000.10
Shunan LIN Polytechnic University, USA
2000.5~2000.8
Jian ZHOU University of Washington, USA
2000.6~2000.8
Undergraduate and Master students
Niao HE University of Science and Technology of China, China
2009.7 ~ 2009.8
Pewen YU University of Science and Technology of China, China
2009.2 ~ 2009.6
Cuiling LAN Xidian University, China
2008.2 ~ 2009.1
Qirong MA University of Science and Technology of China, China
2008.3 ~ 2008.6
Hao CUI University of Science and Technology of China, China
2008.3 ~ 2008.6
Lin MA Harbin Institute of Technology, China
2007.10 ~ 2008.3
Wei GUAN Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
2007.11 ~ 2008.2
Tianmi CHEN Xidian University, China
2007.10 ~ 2007.9
Xiulian PENG University of Science and Technology of China, China
2007.3 ~ 2007.8
Wenrui DAI Shanghai Jiaotong University, China
2007.4 ~ 2007.7
Wei WANG Shanghai Jiaotong University, China
2007.3 ~ 2007.6
Tiantian SUN Institute of Computing Technology, China
2005.10 ~ 2006.4
Yang LI Shanghai Jiaotong University, China
2006.9 ~ 2006.12
Yanyan ZHENG Institute of Computing Technology, China
2006.10 ~ 2006.11
Binxing JIAO University of Science and Technology of China, China
2006.7 ~ 2006.8, 2007.2 ~ 2007.8
Haomian WANG University of Science and Technology of China, China
2006.7 ~ 2006.8
Zhiwei XIONG University of Science and Technology of China, China
2006.2 ~ 2006.8
Kai ZHANG Institute of Computing Technology, China
2005.11 ~ 2006.2, 2006.12 ~ 2007.4
Qiwei LIU University of Science and Technology of China, China
2005.8 ~ 2006.1
Chen WANG Shanghai Jiaotong University, China
2005.6 ~ 2005.10
Gang BAI Beijing University of Technology, China
2004.12 ~ 2005.8
Hao XU University of Science and Technology of China, China
2005.7 ~ 2005.8, 2006.2 ~ 2006.8
Wen SUN University of Science and Technology of China, China
2005.7 ~ 2005.8, 2006.2 ~ 2006.8
Ruishen TANG University of Science and Technology of China, China
2005.2 ~ 2005.8
Yihua CHEN Shanghai Jiaotong University, China
2005.2 ~ 2005.7
Yan CHEN University of Science and Technology of China, China
2004.7 ~ 2004.9
You ZHOU University of Science and Technology Beijing, China
2002.12 ~ 2004.9
CunXun ZANG Institute of Automation, China
2004.5 ~ 2004.8
Qian YU University of Science and Technology of China, China
2004.7 ~ 2004.8, 2005.2 ~ 2005.6
Wenpeng DING University of Science and Technology of China, China
2004.2 ~ 2004.8
Wei PU University of Science and Technology of China, China
2004.2 ~ 2004.8
Bo FENG Tsinghua University, China
2003.12 ~ 2004.4
Jizheng XU Institute of Computing Technology, China
1999.7 ~ 2003.10
Qian XU University of Science and Technology of China, China
2001.8 ~ 2002.6
Xiaodong FAN Johns Hopkins University, USA
2001.5 ~ 2001.8
CONTACT INFORMATION
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Email: fengwu@microsoft.com
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