VASC Seminar Announcement
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Date: Tuesday, 11/9/99
Time: 1:30-2:30
Place: Smith Hall 2nd Floor Common Area

Speaker:  Jin Li
          Microsoft Research, Beijing
          http://www.research.microsoft.com/users/jinl/

Title:  Compression Research in Microsoft Research China

Abstract:

	Compression is a core technology in multimedia application. Good
compression algorithm is highly desired to efficiently store and transmit
large amount of multimedia data. The talk will be a showcase of compression 
technologies developed in Microsoft Research China. In especial, a JPEG 2000
image browser over the internet and a Lumigraph compressor will be shown.

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					Biography

Dr. Jin Li joins Microsoft Research, China after an active 10-year period,
during which he published over 50 technical papers in various journals and
conferences relating to image compression and multimedia communication. Dr.
Li received his Ph.D. in Dept. of Electrical Engineering from Tsinghua
University in 1994, when he was 23 years old. From 1994 to 1996, he served
as a Research Associate at the University of Southern California. Later on,
from 1996-1999, he was a member of the technical staff at the Sharp
Laboratories of America (SLA). In the last two years, he is an active
contributor for the ISO JPEG2000 project. His work on rate-distortion
optimized embedding has been incorporated into the JPEG 2000 VM, and has won
him the 1998Young Investigator Award from SPIE Visual Communication and
Image Processing. His other contribution in JPEG 2000 includes wavelet
visual weighting, visual progressive coding and visual masking. Dr. Li is an
Associate Editor for the Journal of Visual Communication and Image
Representation. He is a senior member of IEEE.