Lab for Engineering Man-Machine System
Division of Engineering
Brown University
Providence, RI 02912

Phone:  (401) 863-2177 (office)
              (401)351-0837 (home)
Email Address: kong@lems.brown.edu

Education:

PhD Candidate ( 8 / 99 - present )

     Lab for Engineering Man-Machine System(LEMS)
     Electrical Sciences and Computer Engineering  Group
     Division of Engineering, Brown University, U.S.A.
     Major: Computer Vision and Image Processing, Computer Graphics
 

Master Degree of Engineering ( 9 / 96 - 7/99 )

     National Lab of Pattern Recognition(NLPR)
     Institute of Automation
     Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, P.R.China.
     Major: Computer Vision and Image Processing
 

Bachelor Degree of Engineering ( 9 / 91-7 / 96 )

    Dept. of Engineering Physics

    Tsinghua University, Beijing, P.R.China
     Major: Engineering Physics
 

Bachelor Degree of Engineering ( 9 / 93 - 7 / 96 )

    Dept. of Automation( Dual-degree Program )

    Tsinghua University, P.R.China
     Major: Electronics and Computer Technology

Languages: C/C++, Assembly, Java, Fortran, Basic, Python

System: Unix, Windows 3.x / 95 / NT, DOS

Tools: Matlab, OpenGL, Protel

Hardware & Software Co-design: Microprocessor/microcontroller System  ( Intel MCS-51; Motorola 68HC11 )

9 / 99 - present:  Assistant in Research, Brown University.  Working on shape representation and analysis

9 / 97 - 7 / 99:  Research Assistant, Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences.  Working on content-based image and video database

1. Mosaic Representation of Video Shots Based on Edges of Contrast by Watershed, Asian Conference on Computer Vision(ACCV'2000), 2000

2. Improvement of Shot Detection Using Illuminant Invariant Metric and Dynamic Threshold Selection, International Conference on Visual Information System(Visual'99), 1999

3. A Fast Algorithm for Color and Shape Based Image Retrieval, International Workshop on Computer Vision, Pattern Recognition & Image Processing(CVPRIP'98), 1998

4. A New Scene Breakpoint Detection Alogorithm Using Slice of Video Stream, IAPR International Workshop on Multimedia Information Analysis & Retrieval(MINAR'98), 1998

5. A High Order Hopfield Neural Network for Landmark-based Shape Recognition, International Conference on Neural Network & Brain(ICNN&B'98), 1998

'96 - '97: First Prize of Academia Sinica Elite Schorlarship

'93 - '96: Tsinghua Excellent Student Schorlarship

'92 - '93: First Prize of Tsinghua Hong Kong Alumini Scholarship

'92: Second Prize of Beijing College Mathematics Competition

Available upon request.