Gene Cheung

Senior Researcher

I joined HPL Japan as a researcher in 2000.

(see my HP internal page here. and my updated CV here.)

Research Interests

• Media Transport over Wireless Networks
• Joint Source/Network Coding for Video Streaming
• Community-based Media Interaction

Education

University of California, Berkeley, CA           May 2000
Doctor of Philosophy:   Electrical Engineering
Advisor:   Professor Steven McCanne

University of California, Berkeley, CA           May 1998
Master of Science:   Electrical Engineering
Advisor:   Professor Avideh Zakhor

Cornell University, Ithaca, NY           May 1995
Bachelor of Science:   Electrical Engineering

Professional Activities

IEEE Senior Member.

Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Multimedia 12/2007--present.

Voting Member of IEEE Multimedia Communications Technical Committee (MMTC).

Technical Program Committee Member: ICCCAS 2004-2005, ICIP 2005, ICME 2005-2006, Globecom 2006-2007, CCNC 2007, MMM 2008-2009, DTV Workshop of ICC 2008, ICCCAS 2008-2009.

Demo Co-Chair CCNC 2010, Technical Program Co-Chair PV 2010.

Co-organizer for special session proposal on "cooperative media communication" in ICASSP'10.

Recent Publications (complete listing)

Journal:

Gene Cheung, Antonio Ortega, Ngai-Man Cheung, Bernd Girod, "Structuring Media for Interactive Streaming in Immersive Applications," submitted white paper to Special Issue on Immersive Communication in IEEE Signal Processing Magazine, August 2009.

Xin Liu, Gene Cheung, Chen-Nee Chuah, "Practical Joint Source/Channel Coding for a Cooperative Peer-to-Peer Collective using Network Coding," submitted to IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, June 2009.

Wai-tian Tan, Gene Cheung, Antonio Ortega, Bo Shen, "Community Streaming with Interactive Visual Overlays: System and Optimization," IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, vol.11, no.5, August 2009. (atelier.fr published a news article on this work on 19th May 2009.)

Xin Liu, Gene Cheung, Chen-Nee Chuah, "Structured Network Coding and Cooperative Wireless Ad-hoc Peer-to-Peer Repair for WWAN Video Broadcast," IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, vol.11, no.4, June 2009.

Gene Cheung, Puneet Sharma, Sung-Ju Lee, "Smart Media Striping over Multiple Burst-Loss Channels," IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Signal Processing, vol.1, no.2, August 2007.

Gene Cheung, Wai-tian Tan, Connie Chan, "Reference Frame Optimization for Multiple-Path Video Streaming with Complexity Scaling," IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, vol.17, no.6, June 2007.

Conference:

Gene Cheung, Ngai-Man Cheung, Antonio Ortega, "Optimized Frame Structure using Distributed Source Coding for Interactive Multiview Video Streaming," accepted to IEEE International Conference on Image Processing, Cairo, Egypt, November 2009.

Gene Cheung, Antonio Ortega, Ngai-Man Cheung, "Bandwidth-Efficient Interactive Multiview Live Video Streaming using Redundant Frame Structures," accepted to 2009 APSIPA Annual Summit and Conference, Sapporo, Japan, October 2009.

Xin Liu, Gene Cheung, Chen-Nee Chuah, "Joint Source/Channel Coding of WWAN Multicast Video for a Cooperative Peer-to-Peer Collective using Structured Network Coding," accepted to 2009 IEEE International Workshop on Multimedia Signal Processing, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, October 2009.

Ngai-Man Cheung, Antonio Ortega, Gene Cheung, "Distributed Source Coding Techniques for Interactive Multiview Video Streaming," 27th Picture Coding Symposium, Chicago, IL, May 2009.

Gene Cheung, Antonio Ortega, Ngai-Man Cheung, "Generation of Redundant Frame Structure for Interactive Multiview Streaming," 17th International Packet Video Workshop, Seattle, WA, May 2009.

Gene Cheung, Wai-tian Tan, "New Paradigms in Community Media: Transport and Interactivity," invited article in IEEE MMTC E-Letter, April 2009.

Gene Cheung, Antonio Ortega, Takashi Sakamoto, "Coding Structure Optimization for Interactive Multiview Video Streaming in Virtual World Observation," IEEE 2008 International Workshop on Multimedia Signal Processing, Cairns, Queensland, Australia, October 2008.

Xin Liu, Gene Cheung, Chen-Nee Chuah, "Structured Network Coding and Cooperative Local Peer-to-peer Repair for MBMS Video Streaming," IEEE 2008 International Workshop on Multimedia Signal Processing, Cairns, Queensland, Australia, October 2008.

Wai-tian Tan, Bo Shen, Andrew Patti, Gene Cheung, "Temporal Propagation Analysis for Small Errors in a Single-Frame in H.264 Video," IEEE International Conference on Image Processing, San Diego, CA, October, 2008.

Xin Liu, Gene Cheung, Chen-Nee Chuah, "Rate-distortion Optimized Network Coding for Cooperative Video Stream Repair in Wireless Peer-to-Peer Networks," 1st IEEE Workshop on Mobile Video Delivery in 9th IEEE International Symposium on a World of Wireless, Mobile and Multimedia Networks (WoWMoM), Newport Beach, CA, June, 2008.

Xin Liu, Saqib Raza, Chen-Nee Chuah, Gene Cheung, "Network Coding Based Cooperative Peer-to-Peer Repair in Wireless Ad-Hoc Newtorks,"IEEE International Conference on Communications, Beijing, China, May, 2008.

Gene Cheung, Antonio Ortega, Takashi Sakamoto, "Fast H.264 Mode Selection Using Depth Information for Distributed Game Viewing," IS&T/SPIE Visual Communications and Image Processing (VCIP), San Jose, CA, January 2008.

Gene Cheung, Wai-tian Tan, Bo Shen, Antonio Ortega, "ECHO: A Community Video Streaming System with Interactive Visual Overlays," IS&T/SPIE 15th Annual Multimedia Computing and Networking (MMCN'08), San Jose, CA, January 2008. (long paper acceptance rate: 26.3%)