Yan Lu received his Ph.D. degree in computer science from Harbin Institute of Technology, China, in 2003. He is now a Lead Researcher at Media Computing Group of Microsoft Research Asia.

He joined Microsoft Research Asia as a post-doc researcher in 2004, and worked on the key project of media eco-system. He also pursed research on distributed video coding, video streaming and graphics compression. In recent years, he leads a team working on media and mobile computing systems towards the cloud-mobile convergence, through a synthesis of remote computing, multimedia compression, networking, and NUI technologies. He and the team have transferred a number of key technologies to Microsoft products such as Xbox360, Office Live Meeting, MarketPlace and Expression.

Yan Lu was with the JDL Lab, Institute of Computing Technology, China, as a team lead from 2001 to 2004. He worked on various research projects in the field of video coding such as optimized visual tools for MPEG-4, rate and error control for H.264/AVC and multi-view video coding. He also led a team to develop the key technologies for China AVS standard. He was one of the key technical contributors and editors of the first version AVS Video Standard. From 1999 to 2000, he was also with the City University of Hong Kong as a research assistant, where he worked on near CD quality audio compression.

Yan Lu has authored and co-authored 60 papers in international conferences and journals. He is the inventor of 4 granted US patents and over 20 filed applications. He is also the inventor of 19 granted Chinese patents, mainly based on the work developed for China AVS. He received the Chinese National Technology Invention Award (second class) in 2007. He also won the IS&T/SPIE VCIP Best Paper Award in 2007.

News: Open researcher positions are available at Media Computing Group of MSR Asia!

Journal Papers

1. Yan Lu, Shipeng Li, Huifeng Shen, "Virtualized screen: A third element for cloud-mobile convergence," IEEE Multimedia, Vol. 18, No. 2, pp. 4-11, April 2011. (also featured in Computing Now)
2. Wen Sun*, Yan Lu, Feng Wu, Shipeng Li, John Tardif, “High dynamic range texture compression for rendering systems of different capability,” IEEE Trans. on Visualization and Computer Graphics, Vol. 16, No. 1, pp. 57-69, Feb. 2010.
3. Li Su*, Yan Lu, Feng Wu, Shipeng Li, Wen Gao, “Complexity-constrained H.264 video encoding,” IEEE Trans. on Circuits Systems for Video Technology, Vol. 19, No. 4, pp. 477-490, April 2009.
4. Xun Guo*, Yan Lu, Feng Wu, Debin Zhao, Wen Gao, “Wyner-Ziv-based multi-view video coding,” IEEE Trans. on Circuits Systems for Video Technology, Vol. 18, No. 6, pp. 713-724, June 2008.
5. Nan Zhang*, Yan Lu, Feng Wu, Xiaolin Wu, Baocai Yin, “Efficient multiple-description image coding using directional lifting-based transform,” IEEE Trans. on Circuits Systems for Video Technology, Vol. 18, No. 5, pp. 646-656, May 2008.
6. Mei Guo*, Yan Lu, Feng Wu, Debin Zhao, Wen Gao, “Wyner-Ziv switching scheme for multiple bit-rate video streaming,” IEEE Trans. on Circuits Systems for Video Technology, Vol. 18, No. 5, pp. 569-581, May 2008.
7. Yuan Zhang, Wen Gao, Yan Lu, Qingming Huang, Debin Zhao, “Joint source-channel rate-distortion optimization for H.264 video coding over error-prone networks” IEEE Trans. on Multimedia, Vol. 9, No. 3, pp. 445-454, April 2007.
8. Xun Guo*, Yan Lu, Feng Wu, Wen Gao, “Inter-view direct mode in multi-view video coding,” IEEE Trans. on Circuits Systems for Video Technology, Vol. 16, No. 12, pp. 1527-1532, Dec. 2006.
9. Wenxian Yang*, Yan Lu, Feng Wu, Jianfei Cai, King Ngi Ngan, Shipeng Li, “4D wavelet-based multi-view video coding,” IEEE Trans. on Circuits Systems for Video Technology, Vol. 16, No. 11, pp. 1385-1396, Nov. 2006.
10. Siwei Ma, Wen Gao, Yan Lu, “Rate-Distortion Analysis for H.264/AVC Video Coding and Its Application to Rate Control,” IEEE Trans. on Circuits Systems for Video Technology, Vol. 15, No. 12, pp. 1533-1544, Dec. 2005.
11. Yan Lu, Wen Gao, Feng Wu, “Efficient background video coding with static sprite generation and arbitrary-shape spatial prediction techniques,” IEEE Trans. on Circuits Systems for Video Technology, Vol. 13, No. 5, pp. 394-405, May 2003.

Conference Papers 

1. Wen Sun*, Yan Lu, Shipeng Li, “ReDi: An Interactive Virtual Display System for Ubiquitous Devices,” ACM Multimedia, Italy, Oct. 2010.
2. Huifeng Shen*, Zhaotai Pan*, Haicheng Sun, Yan Lu, Shipeng Li, “'A proxy-based mobile browser with rich,” ACM Multimedia, Italy, Oct. 2010.
3. Huifeng Shen*, Yan Lu, Feng Wu, Shipeng Li, “Low-cost real-time screen sharing to multiple clients,” IEEE ICME 2010, Singapore, July 2010.
4. Wen Sun*, Yan Lu, Feng Wu, Shipeng Li, “Level embedded medical image compression based on value of interest,” IEEE ICIP 2009, Cairo, Egypt, Nov. 2009.
5. Wen Sun*, Yan Lu, Feng Wu, Shipeng Li, “Real-time screen image scaling and its GPU acceleration,” IEEE ICIP 2009, Cairo, Egypt, Nov. 2009.
6. Huifeng Shen*, Yan Lu, Feng Wu, Shipeng Li, “A High-performance remote computing platform,” IEEE PerWare 2009 in conjunction with IEEE PerCom 2009, Galveston, Texas, USA, Mar. 2009.
7. Wen Sun*, Yan Lu, Feng Wu, Shipeng Li, “DHTC: an effective DXTC-based high dynamic range texture compression scheme,” SIGGRAPH/EUROGRAPHICS Symposium on Graphics Hardware, Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Jun. 2008.
8. Mei Guo*, Yan Lu, Feng Wu, Debin Zhao, Wen Gao, “Scalable Wyner-Ziv video coding with adaptive bit-plane representation,” SPIE Visual Communications and Image Processing, VCIP 2008 (6822-88), San Jose, CA, USA, Jan. 2008. (invited paper)
9. Wenpeng Ding*, Yan Lu, Feng Wu, “Compound image compression based on H.264/AVC intra coding,” IEEE International Conference on Image Processing 2007, vol. II, pp. 337-340, San Antonio, Texas, USA, Sept. 2007.
10. Li Su*, Yan Lu, Feng Wu, Shipeng Li, Wen Gao, “Real-time video coding under power constraint based on H.264 codec,” SPIE Visual Communications and Image Processing, VCIP 2007 (6508-1), San Jose, CA, USA, Feb. 2007. (Best Paper Award)

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