Gene Cheung

Senior Researcher

I joined HPL Japan as a researcher in 2000.

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

Research Interests

• Delay-sensitive Data Transport over Wireless Networks
• Joint Source/Network Coding for Video Streaming
• Discrete Optimizations and Approximation Algorithms

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--11/2009.

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, CMTA 2009.

Recent Publications (complete listing)

Journal:

Wai-tian Tan, Gene Cheung, Antonio Ortega, Bo Shen, "System and Optimizations for Community Streaming with Interactive Visual Overlays," submitted to Special Issue on Communities and Media Computing in IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, May 2008.

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, Antonio Ortega, Takashi Sakamoto, "Coding Structure Optimization of Interactive Multiview Video Streaming for Virtual World Observation," submitted to 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," submitted to 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," accepted to 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, 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.

Gene Cheung, Takashi Sakamoto, "Construction and Scheduling of Extrapolated Parity Packets for Dead Reckoning in Network Gaming," ACM 6th Annual Workshop on Network and Systems Support for Games: Netgames 2007, Melbourne, Australia, September 2007.

Saqib Raza, Danjue Li, Chen-Nee Chuah, Gene Cheung, "Cooperative Peer-to-Peer Repair for Wireless Multimedia Broadcast," IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo, Beijing, China, July 2007.

Gene Cheung, Wai-tian Tan, "Low-latency Error Control of H.264 Using SP-Frames and Streaming Agent Over Wireless Networks," IEEE International Conference on Communications, Glasgow, Scotland, June 2007.