Hong Ren Wu, Associate Professor

PhD, The University of Wollongong, NSW, 1990

MEng, University of Science and Technology, Beijing, 1985

BEng, University of Science and Technology, Beijing, 1982

Expertise and research interests

Digital signal processing (DSP) and fast algorithms, image processing, audio/image/video coding and compression, quality assessment and metrics for digital images and video sequences, variable bit rate video coding and transmission for ATM networks, multimedia signal processing and communications, DSP industrial applications, and fast digital signal processors, hardware and systems.

Background

Dr Wu completed his PhD research program in Electrical and Computer Engineering with the thesis entitled 'The Implementation of Multidimensional Discrete Transforms for Digital Signal Processing'. After receiving his PhD from the University of Wollongong, Dr Wu joined Chisholm Institute of Technology and then Monash University in 1990, where he is currently an associate professor in the School of Computer Science and Software Engineering. Since 1989, Dr Wu has conducted and completed R&D contracts for industrial organisations such as Telstra Research Laboratories and BHP Research in the areas of digital video coding and real-time image processing. Dr Wu has headed numerous research projects in digital video coding, compression and communications funded by Australian Research Council, Australian Telecommunication and Electronics Research Board and Monash University. He conducted a five-day DSP training course for electrical and electronic engineers, and computing professionals in 1993. Dr Wu has authored and co-authored over ninety papers in refereed international journals and conferences as well as commercial-in-confidence R&D reports in areas of digital signal processing and fast algorithms, image processing, video coding and compression, circuit and systems, automatic control and DSP education. For many years, he has been a referee in his areas of expertise for many international, prestigious research journals, including the IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing (formerly the IEEE Transactions on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing/, the IEEE Transactions on Communications, the IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, the EURASIP journal Signal Processing: 'Image Communication', Computer Vision, Graphics, and Image Processing: 'Graphic Models and Image Processing', Journal of Visual Communication and Image Representation. Dr Wu was a co-chair of the 1998 1EEE Intelligent Signal Processing and Communication Systems. His current research interests include DSP and fast algorithms, image processing, audio/image/video coding and compression, variable bit rate video coding and transmission for ATM networks, multimedia signal processing and communications, DSP industrial applications, and fast digital signal processors, hardware and systems.

Selected publications

H R Wu and F J Paoloni, 'The structure of vector radix fast fourier transforms', IEEE Transactions on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, vol. 31, pp.1415-1424, September 1989.

H R Wu and F J Paoloni, 'A 2-D fast cosine transform algorithm based on Hou's approach', IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, pp.544-546, February 1991.

H R Wu and A P Paplinski and Q X Jian and M Yuen, 'Performance evaluation of spatial dynamic motion compensation algorithms', Proceedings of the IS&SPIE Symposium on Electronic Imaging Science and Technology, the Conference on Digital Video Compression: Algorithms and Technologies 1995, vol. 2419, pp.116-187, February 1995.

H R Wu and M Yuen, 'A generalised block-edge impairment metric (GBIM) for video coding', IEEE Signal Processing Letters, pp.317-320 November 1991.

M Yuen and H R Wu, 'Restoration-based loop filtering in hybrid MC/DPCM/DCT video coding', Journal of Optical Engineering, vol. 37, No. 3, pp.1046-1064, March 1998.

M Yuen and H R Wu, 'A survey of hybrid MC/DPCM/DCT video coding distortions', Signal Processing, EURASIP Journal, vol.10, pp.247-278, October 1998.

H R Wu and Z Man, 'A comment on 'fast algorithm and implementation of 2-D discrete cosine transform', the IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, vol. 8, pp.128-129, April 1998.

 

back top