Curriculum Vita
Tel: (650) 331-0606
echuang@graphics.stanford.edu
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Bachelor of Science, Electrical Engineering, 1996
Master of Engineering
in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 1997
PhD
in Electrical Engineering.
2004.
Dissertation:
Analysis, Synthesis, and Retargeting of Facial Expressions
Thesis advisor: Chris Bregler
The interdisciplinary
area of computer vision, graphics and machine learning, in particular the
modeling of human facial expressions, body motion and its application to
animation, human computer interaction and communications.
UC
Santa Cruz, Computer Science, Research Associate, Sep 2005 – present
Vsee Lab, Consultant, summer 2004 - present
Startup focused on video
conferencing and distance learning.
Computer vision and animation, including facial
expression tracking, 3D shape reconstruction, analysis of facial expressions
using statistical models, motion retargeting, and
cartoon tracking.
Hewlett
Packard Corp., Intern Researcher, summer 2003
Computer vision algorithm
for 3D immersive video conference application.
Disney Feature Animation, Consultant, summer
2002
Digital Human Project: 3D capture, modeling,
and animation of human face.
Hewlett Packard Corp., ASIC Design Engineer, 1998
- 1999
Design for a mix-signal chip for wireless home
network application.
MIT Speech Communication Lab, Research Asistant, 1995 - 1997
Research in acoustics and
voice modeling for speech recognition and speech synthesis.
IBM, Microelectronics
Division, Intern,
- ASIC design for real-time
video scaler, 6/1996 – 1/1997
- Performance
evaluation for PC memory subsystem, summer 1995
- Circuit design for DRAM chips, summer 1994
E. Chuang, “Analysis, Synthesis
and Retargeting of Facial Expressions”, Ph.D Thesis,
J. Davis, M. Agrawala,
E. Chuang and C. Bregler, "Head Emotion",
E. Chuang, H. Deshpande, C. Bregler, “Facial Expression Space Learning”, Pacific Graphics, 2002.
C.
Bregler, L. Loeb, E. Chuang,
and H. Deshpande, “Turning to the Masters:
Cartoon capture and retargeting”, SIGGRAPH 2002.
E.
Chuang and C. Bregler,
“Performance driven facial animation using blendshape
interpolation”, Stanford University Computer Science Technical Report, CS-TR-2002-02,
April 2002.
H. M. Hanson and E. S. Chuang, “Glottal characteristics of male speakers: Acoustic correlates and comparison with female speakers”, Journal of Acoustic Society of America, Aug. 1999.
J-Y Choi, E. Chuang, D. Gow, K. Kwong, S. Shattuck-Hufnagel, K. Stevens, and Y. Zhang, “Labeling a speech database with landmarks and features”, Journal of Acoustic Society of America, Conference Abstract, Nov. 1997.
E.S. Chuang, “Design and
Implementation of a Real-Time Video and Graphics Scaler”,
Master’s Thesis, MIT 1997.
SIGGRAPH, CVPR, ACM Multimedia, NPAR,
Graphics Interface, Eurographics
National
Science Foundation Graduate Fellowship
Tau
Beta Pi – The Engineering Honor Society
Sigma
Xi – The Scientific Research Society
The art, myth, and science of video conferencing
- Stanford University HCI
seminar, March 2005
The past, present and future of video conferencing
- YangMing Rotary Club of
Taipei, Taiwan, January, 2005
Analysis, synthesis, and retargeting of facial
expressions
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- Industrial Technology
Research Institute,
- Hewlett Packard Corp,
September 2003
Synthesizing believable facial expressions
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Facial expression space learning
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