IEEE Talk: Beamforming Framework for Video Background and Object Extraction

Abstract:

It is well known that a beamformer aims to receive the signal-of-interest at a possibly known direction-of-arrival while suppressing the surrounding interferences and noise. In this talk, the beamforming concept is exploited to the application of video background and object extraction. The formulated problems are solved by alternating direction method of multipliers, fixed point iterations, and Lagrange programming neural network. Experimental results on real video sequences with different complex backgrounds demonstrate the excellent performance of the proposed approach. Possible research directions in this area will also be <a href="http://discussed.

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Hing Cheung So was born in Hong Kong. He received the B.Eng. degree from the City University of Hong Kong and the Ph.D. degree from The Chinese University of Hong Kong, both in electronic engineering, in 1990 and 1995, respectively. From 1990 to 1991, he was an Electronic Engineer with the Research and Development Division, Everex Systems Engineering Ltd., Hong Kong. During 1995–1996, he was a Postdoctoral Fellow with The Chinese University of Hong Kong. From 1996 to 1999, he was a Research Assistant Professor with the Department of Electronic Engineering, City University of Hong Kong, where he is currently a Professor. His research interests include detection and estimation, fast and adaptive algorithms, multidimensional harmonic retrieval, robust signal processing, source localization, and sparse approximation. He has been on the editorial boards of IEEE Signal Processing Magazine (2014–2017), IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing (2010–2014), Signal Processing (2010–), and Digital Signal Processing (2011–). He was also Lead Guest Editor for IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Signal Processing, special issue on “Advances in Time/Frequency Modulated Array Signal Processing” in 2017. In addition, he was an elected member in Signal Processing Theory and Methods Technical Committee (2011–2016) of the IEEE Signal Processing Society where he was chair in the awards subcommittee (2015–2016). He has been named a 2015 IEEE Fellow in recognition of his contributions to spectral analysis and source <a href="http://localization.

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Agenda:
12:30 PM: Pizza lunch

1:00 PM: IEEE Talk

Room: WLH 314, Bldg: Walter Light Hall, Queen’s University, 19 Union St, Kingston, Ontario, Canada