\\\\ (@ @) +------------ooOO--(_)--OOoo------------+ | Zhu Li | | Multimedia Communication Research Lab | | Motorola Labs, Schaumburg, Illinois | | email: zli@ece.northwestern.edu, | | zhu.li@motorola.com | | phone: 847 576-6942 | +---------------------------------------+ .oooO Oooo. ( ) ( ) \ ( ) / \_) (_/

About Me:

• PhD in Electrical & Computer Engineering, Advisor: Prof Aggelos Katsaggelos
• 2008~, joined the Dept of Computing, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, my new webpage .
• 2000~2008, Principal Staff Research Engineer, Multimedia Research Lab, Motorola Labs.
• IEEE Senior Member: Signal Processing Society, Communication Society.
• Bio Sketch, Curriculum Vitae

Research:

• Video coding and adaptation, content-awareness, cross-layer optimization in video streaming, scalability and error-resilience, VLBR video at voice rate (12~32kbps).
• Collaborative video communication, distributed optimizaiton techniques and applications in multimedia networking (joint work with CommNet@Princeton and IVPL@Northwestern), related CfPs:
  • J-AM special issue on "Collaboration and Optimization in Multimedia Communication"
  • IEEE ICCCN Symposium on Multimedia Coding and Communication over Wireless and Mixed Network
• Visual info processing, manifold modeling, machine learning and their applications in:
  • Video Summarization and Retrieval [ICME '06 Best Poster Paper Award]. Recent video retrieval results: searching 5 hours of video in 0.02 sec, with > 99% accuracy, see results. (joint work with IVPL@ Northwestern).
  • Local embedding and model localization in large subject set Biometrics problems, e.g., face recognition, head pose estimation[ICME '07 Best Paper Candidate from HCI Track], and object recognition [ICIP '07 DoCoMo Labs Innovative Paper (Best Paper)Award]
  • CfPs: 2nd IEEE Int'l Workshop on Multimedia Analysis & Processing (IMAP), 2008
• Research Statement
• Patents/Publications
• Friends/Collaborators Webpage Links:
  >> Mung Chiang, Princeton Univ
  >> Jianwei Huang, CUHK
  >> Yun Fu, UIUC
  >> Junsong Yuan, Northwestern Univ
  

Have Fun:

• Music Collections
• Trips
• Busse Wood Trail Run
  > 12.5km loop at 59:35, on 05.17.2007
  > 1/2 marathon (21km) at 1:53:21.
  
• Lake Zurich Triathlon [1km-35km-10km]:
  > 2002 time: 21:53 SWM (1km), 1:29:53 BIK, 1:00:35 RUN
  > 2003 time: 20:02 SWM (1km), 1:22:54 BIK, 57:57 RUN.
  > 2004 time: 34:18 SWM (1.5km), 1:21:00 BIK, 1:03:23 RUN.
  > 2007 time: 8:21 SWM (.5km), 1:19:33 BIK, 53:37 RUN
  Lake Geneva Triathlon [1.5km-42km-10km]
  > 2003 time: 31:41 SWM, 1:30:54 BIK, 59:26 RUN
  > 2005 time: 21:03 SWM (1k), 1:32:33 BIK, 1:05:25 RUN
  > 2007 time: 28:57 SWM, 1:28:53 BIK, 56:50 RUN
  
• Accenture Chicago Triathlon[1.5km-40km-10km]
  > 2005 time: 40:35 SWM, 1:26:58 BIK, 1:08:32 RUN
  
• Milwaukee Lakefront Marathon[42km]
  > 2003 time: half@1:48:52, final@4:24:57
• Chicago 1/2 Marathon
  > 2004 time: 1:48:50, split at 53:21, age group rank: 177/541.
• North Shore 1/2 Marathon
  > 2007 time: 1:45:57, rank: 299/1227
• My Kayak
• Politically Incorrect Readings, Wow...

 Updated: 9.18.2007.