Director - Prof. CHEN Changwen

Chair Professor of Visual Computing

BS(USTC); MSEE(USC); PhD(UIUC); FIEEE; FSPIE; MAE

Biography

Prof. Changwen Chen is currently Chair Professor of Visual Computing at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University. Previously, he has been an Empire Innovation Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at the University at Buffalo, State University of New York from 2008 to 2021. He also served as Dean of the School of Science and Engineering at The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen from 2017 to 2020. He was Allen Henry Endow Chair Professor at the Florida Institute of Technology from 2003 to 2007. He was on the faculty of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Missouri-Columbia from 1996 to 2003 and on the faculty of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Rochester from 1992 to 1996.

Prof. Chen has been the Editor-in-Chief for IEEE Transactions on Multimedia from January 2014 to December 2016. He has also served as the Editor-in-Chief for IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology from January 2006 to December 2009. Currently, he is the Associate Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Transactions on Biometrics, Behavior, and Identity Science. He has been an Editor for several other major IEEE Transactions and Journals, including the Proceedings of IEEE, IEEE Journal of Selected Areas in Communications, and IEEE Journal of Emerging and Selected Topics in Circuits and Systems. He has served as Conference Chair for several major IEEE, ACM and SPIE conferences related to multimedia video communications and signal processing. His research has been supported by NSF, DARPA, Air Force, NASA, Whitaker Foundation, Microsoft, Intel, Kodak, Huawei, and Technicolor.

Prof. Chen received his BS degree from University of Science and Technology of China in 1983, MSEE degree from University of Southern California in 1986, and Ph.D. degree from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1992. He and his students have received nine Best Paper Awards or Best Student Paper Awards. He has also received several research and professional achievement awards, including Sigma Xi Excellence in Graduate Research Mentoring Award in 2003, Alexander von Humboldt Research Award in 2009, the University at Buffalo Exceptional Scholar - Sustained Achievement Award in 2012, the State University of New York System Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Scholarship and Creative Activities in 2016, and the Distinguished ECE Alumni Award from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2019. He is an IEEE Fellow since 2004, an SPIE Fellow since 2007 and a member of Academia Europaea since 2021.

Team Members

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News & Events

Our latest accepted papers, organized, and invited events.

30
Oct.

Australia, ACM MM 2024

Prof. Chen is awarded SIGMM Outstanding Technical Achievement Award.

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2
Oct.

U.S.A., MMSP 2024

Prof. Chen has been invited to give a keynote speaking titled "Contemporary Visual Computing for 6G Semantic Communications".

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10
Sep.

Riyadh, GAIN 2024

Prof. Chen has been invited to give a keynote speaking at the Global AI Summit.

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OvSGTR

ECCV 2024 Best Paper Candidate Zuyao Chen et. al.

A framework for fully open-vocabulary Scene Graph Generation, achieving state-of-the-art results by leveraging visual-concept alignment and retention to recognize unseen objects and relationships.

R2-Tuning

ECCV 2024 Ye Liu et. al.

An Efficient Image-to-Video Transfer Learning Method for Fine-Grained Video Temporal Understanding

UGSDA

ACMMM 2024 Guanchen DING et. al.

An Uncertainty-Guided Style Diversity Augmentation method, enabling the crowd counting models to be trained solely on the source domain and directly generalized to different unseen target domains.

Recruitment

Please refer to the requirements for different positions within our research group. If you are interested in applying, please send an email to: changwen.chen AT polyu.edu.hk

Ph.D. Students

  • Self-motivation
  • Teamwork skills
  • Proficient English writing
  • Solid background

Post Doc.

  • Self-motivation
  • Teamwork skills
  • Proficient English skills
  • Strong background
  • Recommendation letter from Supervisor

Visting Student

  • Self-motivation
  • Teamwork skills
  • Proficient English writing
  • Solid background
  • Recommendation letter from Supervisor