Prof. CHUNG, Chi-Kit Ronald     

Director,     Computer Vision Laboratory
Professor,    Dept. of Mech. & Automation Engineering
                     The Chinese Univ. of Hong Kong

PhD(Comp. Engr.),    Univ. of Southern California, Los Angeles
BSEE,                        The Univ. of Hong Kong, Hong Kong

Areas of Interest:
      Computer Vision, Robotics, Machine Intelligence

Address:
      Dept. of Mech. & Automation Engineering
      The Chinese University of Hong Kong,
      Shatin, HONG KONG, CHINA.
Tel: (852)2609 8339;    Fax: (852)2603 6002
E-mail: rchung@cuhk.edu.hk

Chi-Kit received BSEE (Computer and Control Stream) from the University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, and MSEE and PhD (Computer Engineering) from University of Southern California (USC), Los Angeles. He has been an Integrated Circuit design engineer and an electronics engineer in industry, and has been with the Institute for Robotics and Intelligent Systems (IRIS) of USC for a number of years. He is currently with the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK), Hong Kong, as Director of the Computer Vision Laboratory (CVL) and Professor in the Department of Mech. & Automation Engineering.

His research interest is primarily computer vision, which is about how three-dimensional information including shape and motion of objects could be inferred from images through vision cues like stereo, visual motion, boundary, shading etc. He also studies the application of computer vision to robotics, object recognition, security, wide-field-of-view imaging, graphics, intelligent transportation systems, and others.

He was the chairman of the IEEE Joint Chapter on Robotics and Automation Society and Control Systems Society of Hong Kong in 2001-2003. He has been an Honorary Professor of Nanjing University of Astronautics and Aeronautics (Nanjing, CHINA) and Shanghai Jiaotong University (Shanghai, CHINA) since 2002 and 2006 respectively, helping out in PhD student supervision in the institutions.

He is a senior member of IEEE of USA and a member of MENSA. He is the Principal Inventor of the Patent "Imaging System for Three-Dimensional Reconstruction of Surface Profiles" filed to USA. He was the recipient of the 2005 Exemplary Teaching Award of the Engineering Faculty of CUHK. In his younger days he obtained the "CCS" Award for his score in the Hong Kong public examination HKCEE.

In his spare time, Chi-Kit is a keen movie goer, an occasional ping pong player, and pretends to be a music enthusiast.

Selected Publications:

  1. M. Zhao and R. Chung. Rank Classification of Linear Line Structure in Determining Trifocal Tensor. In Proceedings of the 10th European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV) , Marseille, October 2008, pp. 733-744.
  2. Z. Song and R. Chung. Use of LCD Panel for Calibrating Structured Light-based Range Sensing System. IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement , Vol. 57, No. 11, November 2008, pp. 2623-2630.
  3. J. Cheng, R. Chung, E. Y. Lam, K. S.M. Fung, F. Wang, W.H. Leung. Structured-Light based Sensing using a Single Fixed Fringe Grating: Fringe Boundary Detection and 3D Reconstruction. IEEE Transactions on Electronics Packaging Manufacturing , Vol. 31, No. 1, January 2008, pp. 19-31.
  4. F. Dornaika and R. Chung. Stereo Geometry from 3D Ego-motion Streams. IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics: Part B, Cybernetics , Vol. 33, No. 2, April 2003, pp. 308-323.
  5. R. Chung and H.S. Wong. Polyhedral Object Localization in an Image by Referencing to a Single Model View. International Journal of Computer Vision , Vol. 51, No. 2, February 2003, pp. 139-163.
  6. Y.H. Chow and R. Chung. VisionBug: a Hexapod Robot controlled by Stereo Cameras. Autonomous Robots , Vol. 13, No. 3, November 2002, pp. 259-276.
  7. R. Chung. Relative Viewing Distance: A Correspondence Invariance under Paraperspective Projection. Computer Vision and Image Understanding , Vol. 86, No. 1, April 2002, pp. 1-31.
  8. F. Dornaika and R. Chung. An Algebraic Approach to Camera Self-calibration. Computer Vision and Image Understanding , Vol. 83, No. 3, September 2001, pp. 195-215.
  9. P.-k. Ho and R. Chung. Stereo-Motion with Stereo and Motion in Complement. IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence , Vol. 22, No. 2, February 2000, pp. 215-220.
  10. R. Chung and R. Nevatia. Recovering LSHGCs and SHGCs from Stereo. International Journal of Computer Vision , Vol. 20, No. 1/2, October 1996, pp. 43-58.