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Research Interest:

• Video coding

• Multimedia communication: video transcoding, error resilient coding, error concealment and video streaming

• Multimedia data hiding, digital watermarking and multimedia security

Education:

• PhD. Electrical Engineering, Princeton University, 2002
  Dissertation: Video Recoding for Multimedia Communication (Advisor: Bede Liu)
  
  
• Master of Arts, Electrical Engineering, Princeton University, 1999
  
  
• Bachelor of Engineering, Electrical Engineering, 1996
  Electrical Engineering Department / Special Class for Gifted Young (SCGY)
  University of Science and Technology of China (USTC)
  

Experience:

• 07/02-present Member, Technical Staff, Corporate Research, Princeton, Thomson Inc, NJ. Working on: (a) H.264/MPEG4 AVC/JVT video coding algorithm development: motion estimation, mode decision, rate control, weighted prediction, quality improvement, etc. (b)advanced video coding techniques

• 07/00 - 09/00 Research Assistant / Intern, Panasonic Information and Networking Laboratory, NJ. Working on R&D of digital watermarking and multimedia data hiding

• 06/98 - 05/02 Assistant in Research, Princeton University. Working on: (a) video communication and streaming over network and wireless channels: including video transcoding, error resilient coding and error concealment; (b) multimedia data hiding: including digital watermarking and data hiding's application in image and video communication; (c) video coding and rate control

• 06/94 - 06/97 Research Assistant in ISDN lab of USTC and Incorporation of Heng Xing, working on the implementation of telephony service on HFC network, both involving hardware and software designs

• '97 - '01 Assistant in Instruction, Princeton University. For EE senior course Signal Analysis & Communication Systems and Image Processing & Transmission, EE junior course Circuits Signal Processing and EE sophomore course Principles of Applied Electronics

Professional Activity:

• Conference Technical Committee:
  (1) IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP'04, ICIP'03)
  (2) IEEE International Conference on Multimedia & Expo (ICME'04)
  (3) IEEE International Conference on Communicaiton (ICC'03, ICC'04)
  (4) IEEE conference on Information Technology: Research and Education (ITRE'03)
  (5) IEEE conference on Consumer Communication and Networking Conference (CNNC'04)

• Reviewed for :
  (1) IEEE Transactions on Circuits, System and Video Technology
  (2) IEE Proceedings on Vision, Image and Signal Processing
  (3) EURASIP Journal of Applied Signal Processing
  (4) IEEE Transactions on Multimedia
  (5) Several IEEE international conferences

• Invited talk
  (1) "Active Transcoding for Multimedia Communications" at Seventh Annual Multimedia and Networking Technology Conference, Newark, New Jersey, 2000
  (2) "Introduction for Video Transcoding" at Princeton GWISE luncheon seminar, 11/00

• Member of Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineering (IEEE) since 1998

Publications:

[Video Coding]

1. Peng Yin, Jill Boyce: "A New Rate Control Scheme for H.264 Video Coding", International Conference on Image Processing, 2004

2. Peng Yin, Hyeon Cheung Tourapis, Alexandros Tourapis, Jill Boyce: "Fast Mode Decision and Motion Estimation for JVT/H.264", International Conference on Image Processing, 2003

3. Cristina Gomila, Peng Yin: "New Features and Applications of H.264 Video Coding Standard", International Conference on Information Technology: Research Education, 2003

[Video Transcoding]

1. Peng Yin, Anthony Vetro, Bede Liu, Huifang Sun: "Drift Compensation for Reduced Resolution Transcoding", IEEE Transaction on Circuit, System and Video Technology, Nov., 2003 (best CSVT paper award)

2. Peng Yin, Anthony Vetro, Minghui Xia, Bede Liu: "Rate Distortion Models for Video Transcoding", Visual Communication and Image Processing, SPIE'2003

2. Peng Yin, Anthony Vetro, Huifang Sun, Bede Liu: "Drift Compensation Architectures and Techniques for Reduced Resolution Transcoding", Visual Communication and Image Processing, SPIE'2002

3. Anthony Vetro, Peng Yin, Bede liu, Huifang Sun: "Reduced Spatio-temporal Resolution Transcoding Using Intra-Refresh Technique", International Symposium on Circuits and System, 2002

4. Peng Yin, Min Wu, Bede Liu: "Video Transcoding by Reducing Spatial Resolution", International Conference on Image Processing, Canada, 2000

5. Peng Yin: "Active Transcoding for Multimedia Communications", invited talk for Seventh Annual Multimedia and Networking Technology Conference,Newark, New Jersey, 2000

[Error Resilient Coding and Error Concealment]

1. Peng Yin, Min Wu, Bede Liu: "A Robust Error Resilient Approach for MPEG Video Transmission over Internet", Visual Communication and Image Processing, SPIE'2002

2. Peng Yin, Heather Yu, Bede Liu: "Error Concealment Using Data Hiding", International Conference on Acoustic, Speech and Signal Processing, 2001, Salt Lake City, UT, USA, 2001

3. Heather Yu, Peng Yin: "Multimedia Data Recovery using Information Hiding", Globecom'00, San Francisco, CA, USA, 2000

[Video Authentication and Network Security]

1. Heather Yu, Peng Yin, Xiaolong Yu: "Joint Content Authenticaiton and Error Control for Wireless Multimedia Communications", Internation Conference on Consumer Communcations and Networking Conference, 2004

2. Peng Yin, Heather Yu: "Classification of Video Tampering Methods and Countermeasures Using Digital Watermarking", invited paper for SPIE's International Symposium: ITCOM 2001, Denver, Colorado, USA, 2001

3. Peng Yin, Heather Hong Yu: "A Semi-fragile Watermarking System for MPEG Video Authentication", International Conference on Acoustic, Speech and Signal Processing, 2002

4. Heather Yu, Peng Yin, Samuel Cheng, Xiangyang Kong: "Smart Media: empower media with active data hiding", World Computer Congress (WCC) , 2001, published by Springer in the Lecture Notes on Computer Science series

[Network Design]

1. Peng Yin, Min Wu, Peiling Hong, Jinsheng Li: "The Implementation of Telephony Service on HFC Network", Telecommunications Science, China, 4/97

Patent Application Filed:

• 1 Granted, 7 pending

Awards and Honors:

• 03': Circuits and Systems Society CSVT Transaction Best Paper Award

• 96': Excellent Graduate Medal of University of Science and Technology of China (USTC)

• 95': First Prize for Excellent Student, USTC

• 94': Seventh Zhang Zongzhi Scientific Medal, USTC

• 93': First Prize of SRC (Xing He), USTC

• 90': First Prize of Chinese Mathematics Olympiad (CMO)

• 88': Winner of National Middle School Mathematics Competition, China

Skills:

• Standards: JPEG, JPEG2000, MPEG-1/2/4, H.26x

• Programming: C/C++, Java, Assembly, Fortran, Basic, Perl

• Systems: Unix, Windows 95/98/00/NT, DOS

• Tools: Matlab, Mathematica, Maple

• VLSI design

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