Pei-
Lun Hsieh
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4096
EDUCATION
Columbia University, Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science New York, NY
MS in Electrical Engineering May 2012
Relevant Coursework: Computer Graphics, Computer Animation, Computer Vision, Visual Search Engine, Computational-
Aspect Geometric Design, Computational Photography
GPA: 4.03
National Taiwan University, College of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Taipei, Taiwan
BS in Electrical Engineering Jan 2008
Relevant Coursework: Digital Image Synthesis, Digital Visual Effects, Digital Image Processing, Pattern Recognition, Digital
Signal Processing, Network & Multimedia Lab
GPA: 3.60
EXPERIENCE
Columbia University New York, NY
Interactive Design Using Sensitive Couture, Columbia Computer Graphics Group Apr 2012 Present
Maintain and add features to codes of sensitive couture interactive design tool.
Automatic Retopology of Human Scans, Columbia Computer Graphics Group Dec 2011 Present
Researched on shape deformation, registration, and matching on generic 3D human models.
Developed tools for interactive shape manipulation using embedded deformation and Laplacian surface editing.
Integrated deformation tools with non-
rigid iterated closest point (ICP) algorithm.
Multimedia Data Analysis, Digital Video & Multimedia Lab May 2011 Dec 2011
Developed MATLAB tools to estimate trajectory of blood stains by extracting features on the 3D blood stain samples.
Implemented algorithms to compare the semantic similarities of 3D object models using MATLAB.
Performed location clustering of photos in Facebook albums based on the background of images.
Academia Sinica, Institute of Information Science Taipei, Taiwan
Video Forensics, Multimedia Technologies Laboratory Aug 2009 Dec 2010
Designed an algorithm to recognize license plate numbers on severely blurred images/video frames.
Published a conference paper of the work of blurred license plate image recognition.
National Taiwan University Taipei, Taiwan
Image-
Based Rendering Using Concentric Mosaics, Media IC & System Lab Sep 2007 Jun 2008
Designed equipment to automatically capture concentric mosaics and developed tool for image-
based rendering using .NET.
PUBLICATION
Pei-
Lun Hsieh, Yu-
Ming Liang, Hong-
Yuan Mark Liao, Recognition of Blurred License Plate Images, IEEE International Workshop on
Information Forensics and Security (WIFS) 2010.
SKILLS
Research & Development: Computer Graphics, Geometric Processing, Physically Based Computer Animation, Computer
Vision, Image processing, Multimedia signal processing, Pattern Recognition
Programming Languages: C, C++, C#, Objective-
C, Java, Python, .NET
Applications & Tools: OpenGL, OpenCV, OpenEXR, OpenMesh, MATLAB, Processing, Visual Studio, Xcode
Operating Systems: OS X, Linux, Windows
Languages: English (fluent), Mandarin Chinese (native)