Assistant Project

Shang-hsuan (Sam) Tsai ******@********.***

I. Education

MSEE (2003) Institute of Electronics, National Chiao Tung University

Master Thesis: Motion Information Scalability for Interframe Wavelet Video Coding

Thesis Advisor: Prof. Hsueh-Ming Hang

BSEE (2001) Department of Electronics Engineering, National Chiao Tung University

II. Professional Experience

2003/10~2007/9 Realtek Semiconductor Company (Obligatory Service)

Senior Engineer

Video/Audio firmware team member for Media Codec Project

Coordinator of video decoder team in Taiwan

Consultant of high level system software design

Video Codec Experience: MPEG1/2, RealVideo8/9, VC-1, H.264

Embedded System Task Scheduling, Memory Management, and Debugging

Model development team member for Media Codec Project

Coordinator of model development team

Lecturer, "SystemC Introduction"

Project Initiating Member

Software team member, Research Division

2001/9~2003/6 Communication Electronics and Signal Processing Laboratory, NCTU

Research Assistant, Member of the MPEG Video Project

Motion Information Scalability for Interframe Wavelet

Error Resilience Enhancement for H.264

Motion Capture for MPEG4-FAP applications

Teaching Assistant, Channel Coding (Fall, 2002)

1998/7~2000/7 Solid States Laboratory, NCTU

Research Assistant, Developer of Physics simulation program

III. Publications

(1) Thesis

Sam S. Tsai, and H.-M. Hang, "Motion Information Scalability for Interframe Wavelet Video

Coding," Master Thesis, Inst. of Electronics, National Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu, 2003

(2) Journals

S. S. Tsai, and H.-M. Hang, "Motion information scalability for MC-EZBC", Signal

Processing: Image Communication, Vol. 19, no.7, pp 675-684, Aug. 2004

C.M Kwei, S.S. Tsai, and C.J. Tung, "Angular distribution of electronics elastically

backscattered from amorphous overlayer systems", Surface Science, Vol. 473, No. 1, pp50-58,

Feb. 2001

(3) Patents

S. S. Tsai, C.-C. Huang, and K.-H. Chou, "Method for Block Motion Estimation", ROC Patent (I252695), Pub. Apr. 2006

C.-Y. Tsai, S. S. Tsai, H.-M. Hang, T. Chiang, and G.-Z. Wu, "Method for Video

Processing", ROC Patent (I250423), Pub. Mar. 2006

C.-Y. Tsai, S. S. Tsai, H.-M. Hang, T. Chiang, and G.-Z. Wu, "Method for processing motion

information," US Patent Application 200********, Pub. Feb 2006

S. S. Tsai, H.-M. Hang, C.-Y. Tsai, and T. Chiang, "Apparatus for Video Coding", ROC Patent (I232675), Pub. May. 2005

S. S. Tsai, H.-M. Hang, C.-Y. Tsai, and T. Chiang, "Method and apparatus for interframe

wavelet video coding," US Patent Application 200********, Pub. March 2004

(4) MPEG Contributions

S. S. Tsai, H.-M. Hang, and T. Chiang, "ISO/IEC JTC1/SC 29/WG 11 M9756: Motion

information scalability for MC-EZBC: Response to call for evidence on scalable video coding,"

July 2003 (65th, Trondheim, Norway)

S. S. Tsai, H.-M. Hang, and T. Chiang, "ISO/IEC JTC1/SC 29/WG 11 M8959: Exploration

experiments on the temporal scalability of interframe wavelet coding," Oct. 2002 (62nd,

Shanghai, CN)

IV. Honors, Awards

Taiwanese Ministry of Education Scholarship (exceptional students enrolled in grad school),

2001

Yin-Zhe-Tong Scholarship (distinguished individual research in under-grad: MPEG4 FAP

video capture tool), 2000

Book President Award (top two students in under-grad class in NCTU), several semesters

V. Skills

Programming: C/C++, Matlab, Perl, Bash, MIPS assembly

Languages: English(Proficient), Mandarin(Proficient)

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