Dr. Tang Sheng (唐胜), Associate Professor

Multimedia Computing Group, Institute of Computing Technology,

Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), China

Tel: +(8610)62600617; Fax: +(8610) 62601356 (CAS)

Tel: +(65) 6516-8353; Fax: +(65) 6779-1600 (NUS)

EMAIL：ts@ict.ac.cn, tangs@comp.nus.edu.sg, dcsts@nus.edu.sg

Chinese Website: http://www.ict.ac.cn/survey/channel/detail1241.asp

Research: Multimedia information processing, in particular, on indexing, retrieval and extraction of information in image and video. The main focus is on the semantic analysis and retrieval of video.

Academic/Professional Qualifications:

• Visiting Scholar Granted by China Scholarship Council (2009.02-2010.02), School of Computing, National University of Singapore
• TRECVID2006-2008 leader of MCG-ICT-CAS team

• Visiting Scholar (2006.07-2006.08), School of Computing, National University of Singapore
• Ph.D (2001.09-2006.03), Computer Application Technology, Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

• Visiting graduate student (2000.04-2001.07), Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

• Master of Engineering (1998.09-2001.07), Computer Application Technology, Xiangtan University, Hunan, China
• Bachelor of Engineering (1989.10-1993.06), Xiangtan University, Hunan, China

Career History:

• Associate Professor (From 2008.03), Institute of Computing Technology, CAS, China

• Assistant Professor (2006.03-2008.03), Institute of Computing Technology, CAS, China

• Engineer (1998.07–1998.09), Xiangtan University, China

• Assistant Engineer (1993.07-1998.07), Xiangtan University, China

Recent Projects:

•Video Retrieval Research on Combination of Explicit and Latent Concept，NSFC (60873165)，2009.1-2011.12，PI
•Topic Detection and Threading in Internet Video News，Chinese Academy of Sciences，2007.8-2009.8，PI
•Video Analysis for Internet Content Security Monitoring，Institute of Computing Technology (20076031)，2007.5-2008.4，PI
•National Basic Research Program of China (973 Program, 2007CB311105)，2008.1-2012.12
•National High Technology and Research Development Program of China (863 Program, 2007AA01Z416) 2008.01-2010.12
•National Information Security 242 Project of China (2007A44)，2007.10-2008.12
•Research on content-based multimedia digital signature technology，NSFC (60773056)， 2008.1-2008.12

Honors and Awards:

1. He was awarded “Pacemaker to Outstanding Students” of the Graduate School of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and “Dean's Award for Studying Excellence” of the Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences and “SONY Research Award” etc., during his Ph.d study.

2. He was awarded first prize of Beijing Science and Technology in 2006 for his outstanding work in the project “3D Human Motion Simulation and a Video Analysis System for Sports Training”

3. He visited National University of Singapore for participating in TREC Video Retrieval Evaluation (TRECVID) tasks from July to August in 2006. He was TRECVID team (MCG-ICT-CAS) leader of the Multimedia Computing Group, Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences. MCG-ICT-CAS participates regularly in TRECVID, and achieves good positions in the evaluation from 2007 to 2008. He was invited to give presentations in TRECVID 2008 workshop: http://www-nlpir.nist.gov/projects/tvpubs/tv.pubs.org.html

4. The interactive video retrieval system “VisionGo” co-developed by NUS and ICT was awarded the “Best Performance System” in CIVR 2007 Videolympics (http://www.videolympics.org/) .

5. He was selected as the “Academic Star of the Institute of Computing Technology” in July 2007, and a visiting scholar through a rigid academia evaluation process organized by the China Scholarship Council (CSC) in 2008.

Academic Activities:

He has served as the Technical Program Committee (TPC) member of the international conference Visual Information Processing (VIP 2008) in conjunction with Pacific-Rim Conference on Multimedia (PCM) 2008, the reviewer for ACM International Conference on Image and Video Retrieval 2008, and Journal of Computer Science and Technology, Chinese Journal of Computers, Chinese Journal of Computer Research and Development since 2006.

Chinese Patents:

[1] Sheng Tang, Jin-Tao Li, etal; Pornography Detection based on Clustering and Multiple SVMs (Submitted)

[2] Sheng Tang, Jin-Tao Li, Yong-Dong Zhang; Robust Image Hashing, ZL200510077454.X, Authorized on Jan. 9^th, 2008.

[3] Sheng Tang, Yue-Liang Qian, etal; A Database based on Disturbing Stroke Order an Evaluation System for On-line Handwritten Chinese Character Recognition, ZL200410000823.0, Authorized on May 23^th, 2007.
[4]Yue-Liang Qian Sheng Tang, Jin-Tao Li, etal; Remote Serial Communication System for PDA and its Flux Control Method, 01119940.7, Authorized on Aug. 11^th, 2004.

Selected Publications:

[1] Sheng Tang, Jin-Tao Li, Yong-Dong Zhang,etal; “PornProbe: an LDA-SVM based Pornography Detection System”; ACM Multimedia 2009, Beijing, China, Oct.19-24, 2009.

[2] Sheng Tang, Jin-Tao Li, Ming Li, Cheng Xie, Yi-Zhi Liu, Kun Tao, Shao-Xi Xu; “TRECVID 2008 High-Level Feature Extraction By MCG-ICT-CAS”; Proc. TRECVID Workshop, Gaithesburg, USA , Nov 2008.

[3] Sheng Tang, Jin-Tao Li, Yong-Dong Zhang, "SSF Fingerprint for Image Authentication: An Incidental Distortion Resistant Scheme", In Proc. ACM Multimedia 2005, Page(s): 523 - 526, November 6-11, 2005, Singapore.

[4] Sheng Tang, Jin-Tao Li, Yong-Dong Zhang, "Compact and Robust Image Hashing", Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Volume 3481, Apr 2005, Pages 547 – 556.

[5] S. Tang, Y. Zhang, J. Li, M. Li, etal; “TRECVID 2007 High-Level Feature Extraction By MCG-ICT-CAS ”; In Proc. TRECVID Workshop,Gaithesburg, USA , Nov 2007.

[6] Sheng Tang, Yong-Dong Zhang, Jin-Tao Li, etal; “Rushes Exploitation 2006 By CAS MCG”; In Proc. TRECVID 2006 Workshop, Gaithesburg, USA , Nov 13-14. 2006.

[7] Sheng Tang, Jin-Tao Li, Yong-Dong Zhang, "Compact And Robust Fingerprints Using DCT Coefficients Of Key Blocks", Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Volume 3523, May 2005, Pages 521 – 528.

[8] Tat-Seng Chua, Sheng Tang, Remi Trichet, Hung Khoon Tan, Yan Song; “MovieBase: A Movie Database for Event Detection and Behavioral Analysis”, ACM Multimedia 2009 Workshop on Web-Scale Multimedia Corpus, Beijing, China, Oct.23, 2009.

[9] Tat-Seng Chua, Sheng Tang, etal;  "TRECVID 2007 Search Tasks by NUS-ICT";  In Proc. TRECVID Workshop,Gaithesburg, USA , Nov 2007.

[10] Yongdong Zhang, Ke Gao, Sheng Tang, Xiao Wu, Xiaoyuan Cao, Huamin Ren,Yufen Wu, Jian Yang;  “TRECVID 2008 Content-Based Copy Detection By MCG-ICT-CAS”; Proc. TRECVID Workshop,Gaithesburg, USA , Nov 2008.

[11] Yong-Dong Zhang, Sheng Tang, and Jin-Tao Li, Secure and Incidental Distortion Tolerant Digital Signature for Image Authentication, Journal of Computer Science and Technology (JCST), 2007，Vol.22, No.4, Page: 618-625.

[12] Anan Liu, Sheng Tang, Yongdong Zhang, et al., “A Hierarchical Framework for Movie Content Analysis: Let Computers Watch Films like Humans”, In Proceeding of the 3rd CVPR2008 Workshop on Semantic Learning Applications in Multimedia (SLAM2008), Anchorage, America, pp. 1-8, 2008.

[13] Shaoxi Xu, Sheng Tang, Jintao Li, Yongdong Zhang, “Pseudo Relevance Feedback with Incremental Learning for High Level Feature Detection”, ICME, 2009

[14] Xuefeng Pan, Jintao Li, Yongdong Zhan，Sheng Tang，Lejun Yu；“Format-Independent Motion Content Description Based on Spatiotemporal Visual Sensitivity”；IEEE Transactions on Consumer Electronics; Vol.53,No.2,Page769-774; 2007.

[15] Juan Cao, Tian Xia, Jintao Li, Yongdong Zhang, and Sheng Tang，"A Density-Based Method for Adaptive LDA Model Selection", in press, Neurocomputing, 2008.

[16] Huan-Bo Luan, Shi-Yong Neo, Tat-Seng Chua, Yan-Tao Zheng, Sheng Tang, Yong-Dong Zhang, Jin-Tao Li; “Active Learning Approach to Interactive Spatio-temporal News Video Retrieval”, ACM CIVR 2007, July 9-11, 2007, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

[17] 曹娟，张勇东，李锦涛，唐胜，一种基于密度的自适应最优LDA模型选择方法，计算机学报，31(10): 1780-1787，2008.