Yi-Ping Hung received his B.S. in Electrical Engineering from the National Taiwan University in 1982, and his Ph.D. degree from Brown University in 1990. He is currently a professor in the Graduate Institute of Networking and Multimedia, and in the Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering, both at the National Taiwan University. From 1990 to 2002, he was with the Institute of Information Science, Academia Sinica, Taiwan, where he received the Young Researcher Publication Award from Academia Sinica, and became a tenured research fellow in 1997. He has served as a deputy director of the Institute of Information Science at Academia Sinica, and is now the director of the Graduate Institute of Networking and Multimedia at the National Taiwan University, since 2007. Professor Hung was the program co-chairs of ACCV’00 and ICAT’00, and the workshop co-chair for ICCV’03. He has served in the editorial board of the International Journal of Computer Vision since 2004. He was the keynote speaker for PSIVT’07, DeSForM’09, and ACE’10, and was the curator of the NPM LOHAS Exhibit (April 2010 – April 2011) at the Future Museum of National Palace Museum, located at the the Taiwan Taoyuan International Airport. His current research interests include computer vision, pattern recognition, image processing, virtual reality, multimedia, and human-computer interaction.
