Engineer Software

TERENCE M. SIM

Address: School of Computing, National University of Singapore,

Singapore 117417

Email: ***.*******@*****.***

Tel.: +65-6516-1180

Fax.: +65-6779-4580

Research Face processing: analysis, recognition, modeling, animation, rendering.

Interests: Biometrics. Pattern Recognition.

(also see Computational Photography.

Research Computer vision. Image processing.

Statement)

Education: CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY Pittsburgh, PA

Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering, June, 2002. Advisor: Prof. Takeo Kanade, Director

of Robotics Institute. Thesis: Statistically-Optimal Image-based Rendering and its Application to

Face Recognition.

STANFORD UNIVERSITY Palo Alto, CA

Master of Science in Computer Science, Sept. 1991. Advisor: Prof. Gio Wiederhold. Project:

Penguin, an Object-Oriented front-end for relational databases (Informix on UNIX & Ingres on

VMS).

MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY Cambridge, MA

Bachelor of Science in Computer Science and Engineering, Sept. 1990. Thesis: An Enhanced

Architecture for Composite Information Systems, supervised by Prof. Stuart Madnick of MIT

Sloan School of Management.

Employment: NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE Singapore

July 2002 present. Assistant Professor at the School of Computing. Supervised 12 post-

graduate students, 2 post-doctoral fellow, 4 research assistants. Courses taught: CS1101/S

Programming Methodology (Java, Scheme); CS1231 Discrete Structures; CS4243 Computer

Vision & Pattern Recognition; CS5240 Theory and Practice of Multimedia; CS4340 Digital Special

Effects.

Oct. 1996 June 2002. Senior Tutor at the School of Computing. Tutored discrete mathematics

course. Sponsored by NUS to pursue a Ph.D. at CMU.

PLATINUM TECHNOLOGY PTE. LTD. Singapore

Sept 1995 - Oct 1996. Technical Manager overseeing a team of pre-sales technical staff for

Platinum s products in Systems Management, Database Management, Data Warehouse,

Business Intelligence, Application Life Cycle. Management duties included staff training,

planning of resources, infrastructure setup. Pre-sales duties included customer presentations,

installation/ training of software.

DEVELOPMENT BANK OF SINGAPORE (DBS) Singapore

Sept. 1991 Aug. 1995. Senior Systems Analyst in the bank's Data Resources department.

Project Leader for a client/server, document imaging system on RS/6000 (X Windows, AIX, and

MS Windows). System Administrator for AIX: performance monitoring and tuning of AIX server.

Database Administrator for DB2 (on IBM mainframe) and Informix (on RS/6000 and HP 9000):

performance optimization of application databases.

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DBS RECREATION CLUB MANAGEMENT COMMITTEE Singapore

Aug. 1992 Jul. 1993. Public Affairs Secretary in a committee of 13 people. Created and edited

circulars to publicize sports/cultural/social activities to 5000 club members. Helped organize

annual cross-country runs, Family Day '93 (in which attendance exceeded 8000 people).

Consultancy: Hutcabb Consulting Pte. Ltd.: May 2012.

121View Singapore: May 2009 Feb 2011.

Ministry of Home Affairs, Singapore: June 2008 Dec. 2008.

Stelop Private Limited, Singapore: Jan. 2008 Jan. 2009.

Remarkable Innovation, Singapore: July 2007

Honors, NUS School of Computing Teaching Excellence, 2003 and 2005.

Activities, CMU Graduate Teaching Award, 2001.

Awards: NUS Overseas Scholarship for Doctorate studies 1997.

DBS Bank (Singapore) Overseas Scholarship for Undergraduate studies 1987 1991.

Member of Eta Kappa Nu (USA engineering honors society), 1989 1990.

Valedictorian at Raffles Junior College, won Chiam Tao Soon Engineering Trophy, 1984.

Ministry of Education Pre-University Scholarship 1983 1984.

NUS Faculty Research Council (FRC) grant: Sketch Me If You Can, $105.7K, Mar. 2011 Feb.

Grants

Received: 2013.

NUS FRC grant: Wonder Twins, $73.9K, Sept. 2009 Aug. 2010.

NUS FRC grant: Collaborative Computational Photography, $102.068K, Apr. 2009 Mar.

2012.

Temasek Young Investigator s Award by the Singapore Defence Science & Technology

Agency: Tallyface Project, $700K, Apr. 2006 Mar. 2009.

Microsoft Research Asia award: Biometrics, USD$15K, Apr. 2006 Mar. 2007.

NUS FRC grant: Digicam Project, $66.8K, Oct. 2005 Sep. 2006.

NUS FRC grant: Face Project, $91.7K, Mar. 2003 Feb. 2005.

NUS FRC grant: Improving Photographs via Image-based Rendering, $23K, Nov. 2002 Apr.

2004.

Total grant amount = $1.2M (~ USD960K)

Patents: US Patent No. 12/779,219 dated 13 May 2010:

Enhancing Photograph Visual Quality Using Texture And Contrast Data From Near Infra-Red

Images (Pending)

US Patent No. 61/357,450 dated 22 June 2010:

Digital Face Makeup by Example (Pending)

US Patent No. 61/353,812 dated 11 June 2010:

General Motion-based Face Recognition (Pending)

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US Patent No. 61/353,602 dated 10 June 2010:

Correcting Over-exposure in Photographs (Pending)

US Patent No. 61/353,815 dated 11 June 2020:

Robust Flash Deblurring (Pending)

Singapore Patent No. 200602272-7, dated 5 April 2006:

Combining Image Rendering and Machine Learning to Improve the Robustness of Face

Recognition (Lapsed)

Students Current: (6 Ph.D. students)

supervised:

Hossein NEJATI, Topic: Eyewitness Sketch and Recognition

Vlad HOSU, Topic: Computational Photography

MA Keng Teck, Topic: Gaze-based Profile Inferencing

Hamed KIANI, Topic: Eyewitness Sketch Recognition

Lewis FOO, Topic: Adaptive Biometrics

ZHANG Li, Topic: Digital Double

Graduated: (7 Ph.D., 8 Masters)

Shaojie ZHUO, Ph.D. 2013. Senior Engineer, Qualcomm, Toronto, Canada. Thesis:

Computational Low Light Photography

Ruchi SRIVASTAVA, Ph.D. 2012. Research Engineer, Institute for Infocomm Research,

Singapore. Thesis: Beyond Traditional Emotion Recognition.

Ning YE, Ph.D. 2010. Post-Doctoral Fellow, Bioinformatics Institute, Singapore. Thesis:

Motion-based Face Recognition.

Dong GUO, Ph.D. 2010. Research Engineer, Facebook, Palo Alto, California, U.S.A. Thesis: A

Collection of Digital Photo Editing Methods.

Bhaskar BHATTACHARYA, M.Comp. 2010. Ph.D. student, Iowa State Univ. Thesis: Automatic

Recommendation of Sunglasses Using Face Images.

Han LU, M.Sc. 2010. IT Consultant at Misys Sophis, China. Thesis: Separating Reflected Images

using WFLD.

Xiaopeng ZHANG, Ph.D. 2010. Senior Engineer, Qualcomm Inc., Toronto, Canada. Thesis:

Gradient Variation: a Key to Enhancing Photographs across Illumination.

Helga MAZYAR, M.Sc. 2009. Ph.D. student, Univ. of Southern California. Thesis: Facial

Expression Animation based on Conversational Text.

FENG Jimin, M.Sc. 2009. Software Engineer, Paypal, Singapore. Thesis: Speeding Up Boosted

Cascade of Object Detection Using Commodity Graphics Hardware.

Jianran LI, M.Sc. 2009. Associate, Goldman Sachs, New York, NY, USA. Thesis: Supervised

Extraction of Face Subspaces based on Multimodal Discriminant Analysis.

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Xiaoping MIAO, Ph.D. 2008. Lecturer, Sun Yat Sen University, China. Thesis: Ambient Image

Recovery and Rendering from Flash Photographs.

Sheng ZHANG, Ph.D. 2007. Software Engineer, Amazon.com, Inc. Thesis: Exploring Face

Space: a Computational Approach.

Rajkumar JANAKIRAMAN, M.Comp. 2006. Software Developer, Microsoft, Redmond, WA,

USA. Thesis: N.A.

Xiaoyu HUANG, M.Sc. 2005. Research Manager, IDC Asia Pacific, Singapore. Thesis: Stereo-

based Human Detection and Tracking for Crowd Monitoring.

Jun YIN, M.Sc. 2005. Software Engineer, Microsoft, Redmond, WA, USA. Thesis: Music

Transcription using Instrument Model.

Interns:

Bahador Saket, Oct. 2011 Apr. 2012, from Multimedia University, Malaysia

Markus Brenner, Aug. Nov. 2010, from Australian National University, Australia.

Karim Krichane, Apr. Oct. 2007, from Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne, Lausanne,

Switzerland.

Jonathan Blanc, Mar. Sep. 2006, from Universite Paul Sabatier, Toulouse, France.

Mounir Krichane, Apr. Oct. 2005, from Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne,

Lausanne, Switzerland.

Selected Towards General Motion-bsed Face Recognition

Publications: Ning Ye and Terence Sim. IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, June

(full list 2010.

available on

request) Robust Flash Deblurring

Shaojie Zhuo, Dong Guo and Terence Sim. IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern

Recognition, June 2010.

Correcting Over-Exposure in Photographs

Dong Guo, Yuan Cheng, Shaojie Zhuo and Terence Sim

IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, June 2010.

Privacy Issues

Terence Sim. Book chapter, Encyclopedia of Biometrics, Springer-Verlag, July 2009.

Smile, You re on Identity Camera

Ning Ye and Terence Sim. IAPR International Conference on Pattern Recognition, Dec. 2008.

Using Targeted Statistics for Face Regeneration

Dan Yu and Terence Sim. IEEE Conference on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition, Sep.

2008.

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Enhancing Photographs Using Near Infrared Images

Xiaopeng Zhang, Terence Sim, and Xiaoping Miao. IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and

Pattern Recognition, June 2008.

Discriminant Subspace Analysis: A Fukunaga-Koontz Approach

Sheng Zhang and Terence Sim. IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence,

Vol. 29, No. 10, Oct. 2007, pp. 1732 1745.

Continuous Verification Using Multimodal Biometrics

Terence Sim, Sheng Zhang, Rajkumar Janakiraman, and Sandeep Kumar. IEEE Transactions on

Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, Vol. 29, No. 4, Apr. 2007, pp. 687 700.

The CMU Pose, Illumination, and Expression (PIE) Database.

Terence Sim, Simon Baker, and Maan Bsat. IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine

Intelligence, Vol. 25, No. 12, December, 2003, pp. 1615 1618.

A Characterization of Inherent Stereo Ambiguities.

Simon Baker, Terence Sim, and Takeo Kanade. 8th IEEE International Conference on Computer

Vision, July, 2001.

Teaching: At NUS:

(also see

Teaching Discrete Structures: AY2012/13

Statement) CS4340 Digital Special Effects: AY2010/11, AY2011/12, AY2012/13

CS5240 Theoretical Foundations in Multimedia: AY2002/03 AY2005/06, AY2009/10,

AY2010/11, AY2012/13

CS4243 Computer Vision & Pattern Recognition: AY2006/07 AY2009/10

CS5245 Vision & Graphics for Special Effects: AY2006/07

CS1101S Programming Metholodogy (Scheme): AY2004/05, AY2005/06

CS1101 Programming Methodology (Java): AY2002/03, AY2003/04

CS105 Discrete Mathematics: AY1996/97

At CMU:

18-794 Pattern Recognition Theory, 2001

18-752 Estimation, Detection and Identification, 2000

15-211 Fundamental Data Structures and Algorithms, 1999

Reviewer / Service as reviewer for conferences:

Program

Committee: Asian Conference on Computer Vision (ACCV) 2006

IEEE Workshop on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV) 2008, 2011

IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) 2009, 2010, 2011

IAPR International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR) 2010, 2012

International Conference on Control, Automation, Robotics and Vision (ICARCV) 2010

IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV) 2009

Service as reviewer for Journals:

IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence

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Pattern Recognition Letters

IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics

IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing

IEEE Transactions in Image Processing

IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security

IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks

International Journal of Biometrics

Information Processing Society of Japan Transactions on Computer Vision and Applications

Program Committee:

Track Chair: IAPR Internation Conference on Pattern Recognition 2014

Session Chari: IAPR Internation Conference on Pattern Recognition 2012

Publicity chair: IEEE International Conference on Face and Gesture Recognition (FG) 2011

IAPR Conference on Machine and Vision Applications 2011

International Workshop on Subspace Methods 2009, 2010

Workshop/tutorial chair: Pacific Symposium on Image and Video Technologies (PSIVT) 2010

Tutorial chair: Asian Conference on Computer Vision 2010

International Conference on Affective Computing & Intelligent Interaction 2009

Associate editor: IEEE/ASME International Conference on Advanced Intelligent Mechatronics

2009

Local Chair: Asian Biometrics Consortium Conference, Sep. 2007.

Poster and Demo Chair: International Conference on Image and Video Retrieval (CIVR) 2005.

Local co-Chair: ACM Multimedia Conference 2005.

Service as reviewer for Grant Agencies:

Kentucky Science & Engineering Foundation: 2005

Hong Kong Research Grants Council: 2005, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010

Singapore-Israel Industrial Research and Development Foundation: 2005, 2006

External examiner:

Ph.D. thesis of Junbin Liu, Distributed Low-power Image Processing in Wireless Sensor

Networks for Intelligent Video Surveillance Applications, June 2012. Principal Supervisor:

Professor Sridha Sridharan, Science and Engineering Faculty, Queensland University of

Technology, Australia.

Ph.D. thesis of Ligang Zhang, Towards Spontaneous Facial Expressions Recognition in Real

World Video, Jan. 2012. Principal Supervisor: Professor Dian Tjondronegoro, Science and

Engineering Faculty, Queensland University of Technology, Australia.

Ph.D. thesis of Ronald Tabu Elunai, Particulate texture analysis with applications, Oct. 2010.

Principal Supervisor: Professor Vinod Chandran, School of Engineering Systems, Queensland

University of Technology, Australia.

Appointments: Vice President, PREMIA (Singapore Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence society): Aug. 2010

present

Board Member, PREMIA: Aug. 2008 Aug. 2010.

Protem Treasurer, PREMIA: Jan. Aug. 2004.

Vice-Chairman of the Singapore Biometrics Technical Committee (BTC): 2010 present.

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Chairman, Working Group on Cross-Jurisdictional and Societal Aspects, BTC: 2006 -- 2010.

Judge in the Singapore Science and Engineering Fair: 2007, 2010.

Judge in MOE SMP fair, Sep. 2008.

Judge in Tan Kah Kee Young Inventor's Award: 2009, 2010.

Invited speaker at the Asian Biometrics Consortium Conference and Exhibition, Dec. 2010,

Invited Talks:

organized by the Universiti Technologi Malaysia (UTM), www.abc-2010.com. Title:

Rethinking Eyewitness Sketches for Criminal Identification

Invited speaker at the Biometrics Institute Annual Australian Conference, May 2010,

www.biometricsinstitute.org. Title: Motion-based Face Recognition

Invited speaker at the HIDE (Homeland Security, Biometric Identification & Personal Detection

Ethics) Project Workshop (www.hideproject.org/events/workshops.html), promoted by the

European Commission, 2009. Title: Privacy and Biometric Technologies

Invited speaker at Governmentware 2008 (organized by the Singapore Ministry of Home

Affairs, www.govware.sg ). Title: Continuous Authentication using Multimodal Biometrics

Invited instructor for the Biometrics Short Course, organized by PREMIA, May 2007,

www.premia-sg.org.

Invited panelist speaker at the Global Security Challenge in Singapore, Sept. 2007.

Invited speaker at the Biometrics Institute Annual Australian Conference, June 2007,

www.biometricsinstitute.org. Title: Status of Biometrics in Singapore

Invited speaker at Governmentware 2007 (organized by the Singapore Ministry of Home

Affairs, www.govware.sg ). Title: Biometrics Deployment Increasing User Acceptance

Invited speaker at Governmentware 2006 (organized by the Singapore Ministry of Home

Affairs, www.govware.sg ). Title: Societal Aspects of Biometrics

Invited instructor for the Digital Image Processing Short Course, organized by PREMIA, July

2006, www.premia-sg.org.

Invited speaker at the Biometrics Forum, Sept. 2005, at the Global Entrepolis @ Singapore

(jointly presented by the Economic Development Board and the Singapore Business

Federation, www.globalentrepolis.com ). Title: Biometrics in Society: Secure Sentry or Big

Brother?

Skills: Python, Matlab, Java, C, C++, Scheme, Common Lisp, basic Unix system administration, Unix

shell scripting.

Languages: English: (first language) fluent in speaking, reading, writing.

Chinese Mandarin: fluent in speaking, reading.

Chinese Cantonse, Hokkien, Teochew: fluent in speaking.

Japanese: basic understanding.

Hobbies: Reading; Word games; Playing keyboard, guitar; Running

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