STAFF PROFILE
Professor Hong Ren Wu
Position:
Professor
College / Portfolio:
School of Engineering Cluster
School / Department:
Electrical and Biomedical Engineering
Phone:
99255376
Email:
henry.wu@rmit.edu.au
Campus:
Melbourne City Campus
Contact me about:
Research supervision
Teaching Experience
- 2005 – Present, Professor of Visual Communications Engineering, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology University, (RMIT University), Melbourne, Australia
- 2005 – 2010, Discipline Head, Computer and Network Engineering, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology University, (RMIT University), Melbourne, Australia
- 1997 – 2005, Associate Professor, School of Computer Science and Software Engineering, Faculty of Information, Monash University, Australia
- 1992 – 1996, Senior Lecturer, Department of Digital Systems, Faculty of Information, Monash University, Australia
- 1990 – 1992, Lecturer, Department of Robotics and Digital Technology, Faculty of Information, Monash University, Australia
- 1990 – 1990, Lecturer, Department of Robotics and Digital Technology, Chisholm Institute of Technology, Australia
- 1982 – 1986, Assistant Lecturer, Department of Industrial Automation, University of Science and Technology, Beijing, (formerly Beijing University of Iron and Steel Technology), China
Areas of research and consulting expertise
- Digital picture (video/image) coding and compression
- Digital picture quality assessment and metrics
- Analysis, processing and enhancement of video images
- Embedded DSP systems and their industrial applications
- Fast DSP algorithms
- PhD, University of Wollongong, NSW, Australia, 1990
- Master of Engineering, University of Science and Technology, Beijing, China, 1985
- Bachelor of Engineering, University of Science and Technology, Beijing, China, 1982
Book contribution
- H.R. Wu and K.R. Rao, Digital Video Image Quality and Perceptual Coding, CRC Press (ISBN: 0-8247-2777-0), Nov. 2005.
Industry collaboration and consulting services
- Telstra Research Laboratories
- BHP Research
- Motorola Australia Research Centre
- The Ombudsman Victoria
- Government law enforcement departments and agencies
- Maurice Blackburn Cashman Lawyers
- Gong, Y.,Wan, S.,Yang, K.,Wu, H.,Liu, Y. (2019). Temporal-Layer-Motivated Lambda Domain Picture Level Rate Control for Random-Access Configuration in H.265/HEVC In: IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, 29, 156 - 170
- Yang, K.,Gong, Y.,Ma, M.,Wu, H. (2019). An Efficient Rate-Distortion Optimization Method for Low-Delay Configuration in H.265/HEVC Based on Temporal Layer Rate and Distortion Dependence In: IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, 29, 1230 - 1236
- Zou, W.,Yang, F.,Song, J.,Wan, S.,Zhang, W.,Wu, H. (2018). Event-Based Perceptual Quality Assessment for HTTP-Based Video Streaming With Playback Interruption In: IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, 20, 1475 - 1488
- Fayek, H.,Cavedon, L.,Wu, H. (2018). On the Transferability of Representations in Neural Networks Between Datasets and Tasks In: Continual Learning Workshop, 32nd Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS 2018), Montreal, Canada, 2-8 December 2018
- Wu, H.,Tan, D.,Wu, D. (2017). Visual quality-regulated three-dimensional video coding (3-DVC) In: Connected Media in the Future Internet Era, Springer, New York, United States
- Gong, Y.,Wan, S.,Yang, K.,Wu, H.,Li, B. (2017). A Visual-Masking-Based Estimation Algorithm for Temporal Pumping Artifact Region Prediction In: Circuits, Systems, and Signal Processing, 36, 1264 - 1287
- Yang, K.,Wan, S.,Gong, Y.,Wu, H.,Feng, Y. (2017). An efficient Lagrangian multiplier selection method based on temporal dependency for rate-distortion optimization in H.265/HEVC In: Signal Processing: Image Communication, 57, 68 - 75
- Mohseni, S.,Wu, H.,Thom, J. (2017). Automatic recognition of human emotions induced by visual contents of digital images based on color histogram In: Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Digital Image Computing: Techniques and Applications (DICTA 2017), Sydney, Australia, 29 November - 1 December 2017
- Al-Boridi, O.,Wu, H.,van Schyndel, R. (2017). Wavelet decomposition-based stereoscopic 3-D video watermarking - a comparative study In: Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Signal Processing and Communication Systems (ICSPCS 2017), Surfers Paradise, Australia, 13 - 15 December 2017
- Yang, K.,Wan, S.,Wu, H.,Lin, W.,Tan, D.,Gong, Y.,Xie, L. (2016). Detection and estimation of supra-threshold distortion levels of pictures based on just-noticeable difference In: Proceedings of the 6th Visual Communications and Image Processing Conference (VCIP 2016), Chengdu, China, 27-30 November 2016
- Experiential Media Signal Processing on Null Convention Logic. Funded by: ARC Linkage Project 2011 Round 1 from (2011 to 2014)
- Modelling and Removal of Noise and Artefacts in Surveillance and Security Video for Forensic Image Analysis and Enhancement. Funded by: ARC Discovery 2009 from (2009 to 2013)
- Adaptation of Vision Model to Perceptual Digital Picture Compression. Funded by: ARC Discovery 2006 from (2006 to 2008)
- Multimedia Computing, Production, Management and Distribution for HDTV and its Applications. Funded by: ARC LIEF via other University from (2006 to 2006)
Note: Supervision projects since 2004
16 PhD Completions and 1 Masters by Research Completions5 PhD Current Supervisions
Digital signal processing (DSP) and fast algorithms; image processing; quality assessment and metrics for digital images and video sequences; perceptual coding and compression of digital pictures multimedia signal processing and communications DSP industrial applications and fast digital signal processors; hardware and systems. Digital picture (video/image) coding and compression; Digital picture quality assessment and metrics; Analysis, processing and enhancement of video images; Embedded DSP systems and their industrial applications; and Fast DSP algorithms.