Resume of Dr. Oscar Au

Oscar C. Au received his B.A.Sc. from Univ. of Toronto in 1986, his M.A. and Ph.D. from Princeton Univ. in 1988 and 1991 respectively. After being a postdoctoral researcher in Princeton Univ. for one year, he joined the Dept. of Electrical and Electronic Engineering of the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) in 1992. He is now an Associate Professor, Director of Multimedia Technology Research Center (MTrec), and Director of the Computer Engineering (CPEG) Program in HKUST.

His main research contributions are on video and image coding and processing, watermarking and steganography, speech and audio processing. Research topics include fast motion estimation for MPEG-1/2/4, H.261/3/4 and AVS, optimal and fast sub-optimal rate control, mode decision, transcoding, denoising, deinterlacing, post-processing, JPEG/JPEG2000 and halftone image data hiding, etc. He has published about 200 technical journal and conference papers. His fast motion estimation algorithms were accepted into the ISO/IEC 14496-7 MPEG-4 international video coding standard and the China AVS-M standard. He has 3 US patents and is applying for 30+ more on his signal processing techniques. He has performed forensic investigation and stood as an expert witness in the Hong Kong courts many times.

Dr. Au is an active senior member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineering (IEEE). He has been an Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Circuits and System, Part 1 (TCAS1) and the IEEE Trans. On Circuits and Systems for Video Technology (TCSVT). He is the Chairman of the Technical Committee on Multimedia Systems and Applications and a member of the TC on Video Signal Processing and Communications and the TC on DSP of the IEEE Circuits and Systems (CAS) Society. He served on the Steering Committee of IEEE Trans. On Multimedia (TMM) and the IEEE Int. Conf. of Multimedia and Expo (ICME). He also served on the organizing committee of the IEEE Int. Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS) in 1997, the IEEE Int. Conf. On Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP) in 2003, the ISO/IEC MPEG 71st Meeting in 2004, Int. Conf. on Image Processing (ICIP) in 2010, and other conferences.