Albert Y. C. Chen

Ph.D. Candidate
Computer Science & Engineering
The State University of New York at Buffalo (SUNY at Buffalo)

e-mail: aychen (AT) buffalo.edu

Short Bio

Albert Yen-Cheng Chen is a Ph.D. candidate at the department of Computer Science and Engineering, SUNY at Buffalo. Chen is the recipient of the very selective Excellence in Teaching Award for Graduate Teaching Assistants, SUNY at Buffalo, in 2010. While Chen worked as a summer research intern at Siemens in 2008, he designed and implemented several feature extraction methods for 3D CT volumes in joint MATLAB/Python, which is still being used by the researchers their as of date. He has been working in Dr. Jason J. Corso's Vision and Perceptual Machines Lab (VPML) since 08/2007, where he's currently a graduate research assistant. He received his Master of Computer Science degree from National Taiwan Normal University, Taipei, Taiwan in the year 2007, and B.S. in Computer Science from  National Tsing-Hua University, Hsinchu, Taiwan in 2004.

Education

  • Ph.D. in Computer Science, The State University of New York at Buffalo (SUNY at Buffalo) (expected 2012)
    • Advisor: Dr. Jason J. Corso
  • Master of Computer Science, National Taiwan Normal University, Taipei, TAIWAN, 2007
    • Advisor: Prof. Greg. C. Lee
    • Thesis (in English): Obscure Video Shot Boundary Determination via Protagonist Trajectory Analysis
  • B.S. in Computer Science, National Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu, TAIWAN, 2004

Research Activities

  • Research Assistant, Vision and Perceptual Machines Lab, SUNY at Buffalo (05/2009 - now)
    • Adaptive-Hierarchy-based Natural Image Labeling (Joint Segmentation and Classification)
    • Efficient Spatiotemporal MRF Construction and Video Labeling using Adaptive hierarchies
  • Summer Research Intern, Siemens Medical Solutions, Malvern, PA (05/2008 - 08/2008)
    • Ground Glass Nodule Segmentation and Detection in high-resolution CT images using a mixture of 3D texture and intensity descriptors.
  • Supervised Research Projects, Vision and Perceptual Machines Lab, SUNY at Buffalo
  • Research Assistant, Visualization & Image Processing Lab, National Taiwan Normal University, Taipei, TAIWAN
    • Video Object Tracking and Segmentation (05/2006 - 06/2007)
    • Content Based Image Retrieval and Image Indexing (09/2005 - 02/2006)
    • Gesture and Human Motion Recognition (02/2006 - 05/2006)
  • Undergraduate Research Project, National Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu, TAIWAN
    • Image Compression using Vector Quantization Techniques (02/2003 - 01/2004)

Teaching Activities

Courses and classes I've tought as an Instructor
Courses I've tought as a Teaching Assistant
  • Teaching Assistant, CSE-555 Pattern Recognition @ SUNY at Buffalo (Spring 2009)
    • Duty Includes: Weekly office hours to help with lecture slides, homework and programming assignments.
  • Teaching Assistant, CSE-111 Great Ideas in Computer Science @ SUNY at Buffalo (Fall 2008)
    • Duty Includes: Lecture review classes and Karol the Robot programming labs, hold weekly office hours, grade HW's, projects, and exams.
  • Teaching Assistant, CSE-111 Great Ideas in Computer Science @ SUNY at Buffalo (Spring 2008)
    • Duty Includes: Lecture review classes and Karol the Robot programming labs, hold weekly office hours, grade HW's, projects, and exams.
  • Teaching Assistant, CSE-111 Great Ideas in Computer Science @ SUNY at Buffalo (Fall 2007)
    • Duty Includes: Lecture review classes and Karol the Robot programming labs, hold weekly office hours, grade HW's, projects, and exams.
  • Teaching Assistant, Programming Skills (for ACM Collegeate Programming Contest) @ National Taiwan Normal University (Spring 2007)
  • Teaching Assistant, Linear Algebra @ National Taiwan Normal University (Fall 2006)
    • Duty Includes: Organize and lecture MATLAB labs, lecture review classes, hold weekly office hours, grade HW's, projects, and exams.
Courses I've tought as an Instructor, outside the academia
  • English Teacher @ Wen-Hsin Children's Cram School, Wen-Shan District, Taipei (Summer & Fall 2005)
  • English Tutor @ High school level courses, Hsinchu, Taiwan (Fall 2004)
  • Student Lecturer @ Debate Club, National Tsing Hua University, TAIWAN (2001-2004)
  • Computer Science Tutor (lectured in English to two French Kids) @ Hsinchu, Taiwan (Summer 2002)
    • Topics: Introduction to Computer Architecture, Communication Theories, C++ Programming and Webpage design
  • English Teacher @ Koahsiung YMCA Children's English Class (Spring & Summer 2000)

Other Academic Activities

  • Staff, ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest, Taipei Station 2005
  • Staff, IEEE International Conf. on Advanced Learning Technologies, 2005
    • Receptionist & Local Chair Prof. C. T. Yang's special assistant
  • Student Member of ACM since Dec. 2005
  • Student Member of IEEE Computer Society since Jan. 2007

Honors & Awards

  • Excellence in Teaching Award for Graduate Teaching Assistants, SUNY at Buffalo (very elective, only awarded to 10 out of 4000+ TA) (2010)
  • International Association of Pattern Recognition Travel Stipend, (elective, only 40 awarded out of 1600+ participants) (2008)
  • Award for Outstanding Graduate Students (Scholarship), National Taiwan Normal University (2006)

Presentation and Talks

  • Graph-Shifts, HOPS, and Temporal Graph-Shifts @ Siemens Medical Solutions, May 2008. [ slides ]
  • HOPS: Efficient region labeling using higher order proxy neighborhoods @ ICPR 2008. [ slides ]

Publications

Conference and Workshop Publications (Fully Peer-Reviewed)
[6] A. Y. C. Chen and J. J. Corso. Temporally Consistent Multi-Class Video-Object Segmentation with the Video Graph-Shifts Algorithm. In Proceedings of IEEE Winter Vision Meetings: Workshop on Motion and Video Computing (WMVC), 2011. (Oral Presentation)
[ slides | paper ]
[5] D. Schlegel, A. Y. C. Chen, C. Xiong, J. Delmerico and J. J. Corso. AirTouch: Interacting With Computer Systems At A Distance. In Proceedings of IEEE Winter Vision Meetings: Workshop on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV), 2011. (Oral Presentation)
[ slides | paper ]
[4] A. Y. C. Chen and J. J. Corso. Propagating Multi-class Pixel Labels throughout Video Frames. In Proceedings of 2010 Western New York Image Processing Workshop (WNYIPW), 2010. (Oral Presentation)
[ slides | paper ]
[3] A. Y. C. Chen and J. J. Corso. On the effects of normalization in adaptive MRF hierarchies. In Proceedings of Computational Modeling of Objects Presented in Images (CompIMAGE), 2010 (Oral Presentation)
[ slides | paper ]
[2] Y. Tao, L. Lu, D. Maneesh, A. Y. C. Chen, J. J. Corso, J. Xuan, M. Salganicoff, and A. Krishnan. Multi-level Ground Glass Nodule Detection and Segmentation in CT Lung Images. In Proceedings of Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention (MICCAI), 2009. (summer intern work at Siemens)
[ slides | paper ]

[1] A. Y. C. Chen, J. J. Corso, and L. Wang. HOPS: Efficient region labeling using higher order proxy neighborhoods. In Proceedings of International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR), 2008. (Oral Presentation)

[ slides | paper ]
Other Publications (Abstract Review or No Review)
[0] A. Y. C. Chen. Obscure Video Shot Boundary Determination via Protagonist Trajectory Analysis. Master's Thesis. National Taiwan Normal University. July 2007.
 [ slides | paper ]