COMP 50th Anniversary Distinguished Talk Series - "Opportunities and Challenges in Video Encoding and Video Generation" by Prof. GAO Wen
Research Seminar
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Date
08 Nov 2024
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Organiser
Department of Computing
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Time
10:30 - 11:30
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Venue
Hybrid (F2F / Online via Zoom)
Speaker
Prof. GAO Wen
Summary
The advancement of broadband communication and AI frontier technologies is continuously driving the development of media technology. Efficient representation of visual media is the core foundation of video coding and video generation. The field has ushered in new opportunities and faces significant challenges of technological innovation driven by the dual forces of the breakthrough of generative AI and the growth of AI computing infrastructure. Video coding is evolving from video coding for broadcasting and internet video to machine-oriented video/feature coding, as well as expanding into immersive coding direction. The AVS and AITISA Standard Working Group is leading the development of generative video coding and visual unified representation machine vision coding standards, with data compression ratios expected to be an order of magnitude higher than existing standards. Immersive video coding is the foundational technology for future immersive visual communication, achieving compact representation and efficient transmission of content scenarios, and is an enabling technology for the development of future 6G.
Keynote Speaker
Prof. GAO Wen
Member of Chinese Academy of Engineering
Director of Pengcheng Laboratory
Boya Chair Professor at Peking University
Prof. GAO Wen is a member of Chinese Academy of Engineering, ACM Fellow and IEEE Fellow. He is the founding director of Pengcheng Laboratory (Shenzhen, China). He is also a Boya Chair Professor and the director at the Faculty of Information and Engineering Sciences, Peking University. He is currently a deputy to the 14th National People's Congress. He used to be a member of the 10th, 11th and 12th CPPCC National Committee, the vice president of National Natural Science Foundation of China, the chairman of China Computer Federation and the chief editor of Chinese Journal of Computers. He earned seven State Awards in Science and Technology Achievements as the first accomplisher. He received the National May 1 Labor Medal (2023), Wu Wenjun AI Highest Achievement Award (2023), the Prize for Scientific and Technological Progress of Ho Leung Ho Lee Foundation (2022), the Outstanding Contribution Award of Guangdong Province (2021), the CCF Wang Xuan Award and the title of “2005 China’s Top Ten Educational Talents”. In July 2024, he also received the IEEE Innovation in Societal Infrastructure Award. Prof. Gao has engaged in the research of artificial intelligence, multimedia, computer vision, pattern recognition, image processing, and virtual reality. He published six books and over 300 papers in international journals in the above areas.
