Engineer Assistant

DEREK CHING YIN PANG

*******@********.*** http://www.stanford.edu/~dcypang/

EDUCATION

Ph.D Candidate, Electrical Engineering

Apr. 2012 to Present Stanford, CA

Stanford University Advisor: Prof. Bernd Girod

Research topics include computer vision, interactive multimedia

applications and low-latency video streaming.

M.S., Electrical Engineering

Sept 2009 to Mar 2012 Stanford, CA

Stanford University Advisor: Prof. Bernd Girod

B.A.Sc., Electronics Engineering

Sep 2003 to Aug 2009 Burnaby, BC, Canada

Simon Fraser University Advisor: Prof. Jie Liang

Graduated with First Class Honours. Minor in Business Administration.

Thesis: "Multiview Video Coding using Projective Rectification-Based View

Extrapolation and Synthesis Bias Correction .

WORK EXPERIENCE

Jan 2010 to Present Research Assistant Stanford, CA

Image, Video and Multimedia Systems Group

Stanford University

Developed Android & Apple iOS clients and back-end video

encoding infrastructure for an open-source interactive video

streaming project in online education (http://classx.stanford.edu)

Implemented a low-latency multi-user video streaming test bed for

cloud media.

Investigating an energy-network-content-aware scheduling scheme

for multi-user video encoding and streaming.

Designing an interactive system for multi-video registration and

navigation

Teaching Assistant

Spring 2010,2011,2012 Stanford, CA

EE368 Digital Image Processing

Stanford University

Helped students develop Android applications in mobile image

processing by designing tutorials and holding office hours.

Research Internship

June 2011 to Sept 2011 Menlo Park, CA

Ricoh Innovations, Inc.

Developed a mobile interactive solution for live video streaming and

augmented reality.

Research Engineer (Intern)

June 2010 to Sept 2010 Palo Alto, CA

Droplet Technology

Implemented a real-time human visual saliency extraction algorithm on

an Android mobile client. Investigated and designed a patent -pending

bit-rate and complexity allocation strategy for video compression based

on a human visual attention computational model.

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WORK EXPERIENCE (CONTINUED)

Software Design Engineer in Test (Intern)

Jan 2009 to Apr 2009 Redmond, WA

Microsoft Corporation

Created an automated and time-saving server performance analysis tool

for an internal testing framework using C#, AJAX, ASP.NET and SQL.

Authored and performed test cases for MSN web server features.

Research Assistant

May 2008 to Dec 2008 Burnaby, BC, Canada

Multimedia Communication Laboratory

Simon Fraser University

Implemented and evaluated JPEG XR and JPEG2000 codec on Nokia

Series 60 mobile platform. Designed a new view synthesis prediction

method that reduces multiview video bit-rate by up to 25%.

Research Intern

Jun 2007 to Dec 2007 Atsugi, Japan

Recognition Group, Media Information Lab

NTT Corporation

Devised a novel and patent-pending computational model of human

visual attention for extracting critical visual information and achieved at

least 50% improvement over older models in terms of prediction quality.

Software Test Engineer (Intern)

Jan 2005 to Aug 2005 Burnaby, BC, Canada

Nokia Corporation

Built a new testing framework for Nokia S60 messaging application and

obtained industrial experience in Symbian C++ programming.

PUBLICATIONS

D. Pang, S. Halawa, N.-M. Cheung and B. Girod, "Mobile Interactive Region-of-Interest Video

Streaming with Crowd-Driven Prefetching," International ACM Workshop on Interactive Multimedia

on Mobile and Portable Devices, ACM Multimedia (MM 11), Scottsdale, Arizona, USA, November

2011.

D. Pang, S. Halawa, N.-M. Cheung and B. Girod, "ClassX Mobile - Region-of-Interest Video

Streaming to Mobile Device with Multi-Touch Interaction," ACM Multimedia (MM 11), Scottsdale,

Arizona, USA, November 2011.

S. Halawa, D. Pang, N.-M. Cheung and B. Girod, "ClassX An Open Source Interactive Lecture

Streaming System," ACM Multimedia (MM 11), Scottsdale, Arizona, USA, November 2011.

(Open Source Software Competition Honorable Mention).

M. Makar, YC Lin, N.-M. Cheung, D. Pang and B. Girod, "Quality-Controlled View

Interpolation for Multiview Video," IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP 2011),

Brussels, Belgium, September 2011.

N.-M. Cheung, S. Halawa, D. Pang and B. Girod, "Multimedia Technology for Next Generation

Online Lecture Video," IEEE Communications Society Multimedia Communications Technical

Committee (MMTC), e-Letter, Vol.6, No.1, January 2011.

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PUBLICATIONS (CONTINUED)

X. Xiu, D. Pang and J. Liang, "Projective Rectification-based View Interpolation and

Extrapolation for Multiview Video Coding and Free Viewpoint Video," IEEE Transactions on

Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, Vol. 21, No. 6, June 2011.

1. A. Mavlankar, P. Agrawal, D. Pang, S. Halawa, N.-M. Cheung, and B. Girod, "An Interactive

Region-of-Interest Video Streaming System for Online Lecture Viewing," Special Session on

Advanced Interactive Multimedia Streaming, Proc. of 18th International Packet Video Workshop

(PV), Hong Kong, China, December 2010. (Invited paper).

M. Makar, D. Pang, Y.C. Lin, and B. Girod, "Quality-controlled Motion-compensated

Interpolation," Proc. 44th Annual Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems, and Computers, Pacific

Grove, USA, November 2010. (Invited paper).

D. Pang, X. Xiu, and J. Liang, "Multiview Video Coding Using Projective Rectification -Based

View Extrapolation and Synthesis Bias Correction," Proc. IEEE International Conference on

Multimedia and Expo, ICME 2009, New York, USA, June 2009. (Student Travel Award).

A. Kimura, D. Pang, T. Takeuchi, J. Yamato and K. Kashino, " Dynamic Markov random field for

stochastic modeling of visual attention," Proc. International Conference on Pattern Recognition,

ICPR2008, Tempa, Flordia, USA, December 2008.

D. Pang, A. Kimura, T. Takeuchi, J. Yamato and K. Kashino, "A stochastic model of selective

visual attention with a dynamic Bayesian network," Meeting on Image Recognition and

Understanding, MIRU2008, Karuizawa, Nagano, Japan, July 2008. (Best Interactive Session

Award).

D. Pang, A. Kimura, T. Takeuchi, J. Yamato and K. Kashino, "A stochastic model of selective

visual attention with a dynamic Bayesian network," Proc. IEEE International Conference on

Multimedia and Expo, ICME 2008, Hannover, Germany, June 2008.

ACHIEVEMENTS

2011-2012 NSERC Postgraduate Scholarship

2009 Stanford Departmental Graduate Fellowship

2009 NSERC Postgraduate Scholarship

2008 NSERC Undergraduate Research Award

2007 2nd place in BDC Enterprize Business Plan National Competition

(awarded over CAD$31,000)

2003 SFU Tadeusz Specht Memorial Scholarships

TECHNICAL COMPETENCIES

Software Languages C/C#/C++, Objective C, Java, Perl

Software Tools Eclipse, Xcode, Microsoft Visual C++, MATLAB, FFMpeg, OpenCV, SVN

Web LAMP, Microsoft ASP.NET, Silverlight, SQL

Platforms Google Android, Apple iOS, Linux, Symbian, Windows

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