About I-Chen Lin

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I-Chen Lin (Michael)

Languages: Chinese (Taiwanese Mandarin), Taiwanese, English

Visiting countries or regions: Korea, Japan, USA, UK, Germany, Switzerland, France, Thailand, Denmark, Sweden, Hong Kong, Mexico, China, Italy, Vatican City, Turkey, Canada, Macao, Czech Republic, Australia, India, Spain.

Experiences

08/2023 ~ the present : Professor, Dept. of Computer Science and Inst. of Multimedia Engineering, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Taiwan.
08/2024 ~ the present : Director, Degree Program of Cyber Security Management, College of Computer Science, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University.
08/2023 ~ 07/2025 : Board of Directors, ACM SIGGRAPH Taipei Chapter, Taiwan.
09/2021 ~ 07/2023 : Secretary, ACM SIGGRAPH Taipei Chapter.
08/2017 ~ 07/2018 : Visiting Scholar, Dept. of Computer Science, University of California, Davis, US.
08/2015 ~ 07/2017 : Division Director, Division of Industry Cooperation, Office of International Affairs, National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan.
08/2014 ~ 07/2023 : Associate Professor, Dept. of Computer Science and Inst. of Multimedia Engineering, National Chiao Tung University.
08/2005 ~ 07/2014 : Assistant Professor, Dept. of Computer Science and Inst. of Multimedia Engineering, National Chiao Tung University.
02/2005 ~ 07/2005 : Assistant Professor, Dept. of Computer and Information Science, National Chiao Tung University.
07/2003 ~ 01/2005 : Second Lieutenant of Computer Systems, Compulsory military service, Taiwan.

Education

09/1998 ~ 06/2003: Ph.D., Dept. of Computer Science and Information Engineering, National Taiwan University. (08/1999, forward from the M.S. to Ph.D. program)
09/1994 ~ 06/1998: B.S., Dept. of Computer Science and Information Engineering, National Taiwan University.

Professional activity and service

Membership of Professional Associations
- ACM
  - ACM SIGGRAPH
- IEEE
  - IEEE Taipei Section Member Representative (2019-2020)
Officer of Professional Associations
- Board of Directors, Taipei ACM SIGGRAPH Chapter (08/2023 ~ 07/2025)
- Secretary, Taipei ACM SIGGRAPH Chapter (9/2021 ~ 07/2023)
Organization of International Conferences
- Finance Chair, Pacific Graphics 2017 (PG'17)
Committees of International Conferences
- Program Committee, Computational Visual Media Conference (CVM'25)
- Program Committee, Intl. Conf. on Computer Graphics Theory and Applications 2025 (GRAPP'25)
- Program Committee, ACM SIGGRAPH Intl. Conf. on Virtual-Reality Continuum and its Applications in Industry (VRCAI'24)
- Program Committee, Intl. Conf. on Computer-Human Interaction Research and Applications 2024 (CHIRA'24)
- Program Committee, Intl. Symp. on Visual Information Communication and Interaction 2024 (VINCI'24)
- Program Committee, Computer Graphics International 2024 (CGI'24, LNCS_CAVW_VRIH Track)
- Program Committee, Computational Visual Media Conference (CVM'24)
- Program Committee, Computer Graphics International 2023 (CGI'23, TVC and VRIH Tracks)
- Program Committee, Computational Visual Media Conference 2023 (CVM'23)
- Program Committee, Computational Visual Media Conference 2022 (CVM'22)
- Technical Communications and Posters Committee, ACM SIGGRAPH Conf. and Exhib. on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques in Asia 2021 (SIGGRAPH Asia'21)
- Program Committee, Computational Visual Media Conference 2019 (CVM'19)
- Program Committee, IEEE International Conference on Visual Communications and Image Processing 2018 (VCIP'18)
- Program Committee, Pacific Conference on Computer Graphics and Applications 2018 (Pacific Graphics'18)
- Program Committee, Pacific Conference on Computer Graphics and Applications 2017 (Pacific Graphics'17)
- Program Committee, Intl. Conf. on Computer Graphics, Imaging and Visualization 2012 (CGIV'12)
- Program Committee, IEEE/ACIS Intl. Conf. on Computer and Information Science 2011 (ICIS'11)
- Program Committee, Intl. Conf. on Arts & Technology 2009 (ArtsIT'09)
- Program Committee, IEEE Intl. Conf. on Computer Aided Design and Computer Graphics 2007 (CAD/Graphics'07)
Session Chairs of International Conferences
- Intl. Conf. on Computer Graphics Theory and Applications (GRAPP'19)
- Intl. Conf. on Arts & Technology 2009 (ArtsIT'09)
- Intl. Workshop on Advanced Image Technology 2008 (IWAIT'08)
Associate Editor of International Journals
- Intl. J. Image and Graphics (11/2005 ~ 04/2007)
Organization of Domestic Conferences
- Conference Co-Chair, Computer Graphics Workshop 2020 (CGW'20)
- Organization Co-Chair, Computer Graphics Workshop 2010 (CGW'10)
Program Committees of Domestic Conferences
- Computer Graphics Workshop (CGW '05 ~ '17, '20 ~ the present)
- IPPR Conf. Computer Vision, Graphics, and Image Processing (CVGIP'14 ~ the present)
- TANET 2018
Paper Reviewers
- IEEE Trans. Visualization and Computer Graphics
- IEEE Trans. Multimedia
- IEEE Trans. Image Processing
- IEEE Trans. Circuits and Systems for Video Technology
- IEEE Trans. Information Technology in Biomedicine
- IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications
- IEEE Multimedia
- IEEE Access
- ACM Computing Surveys
- The Visual Computer
- Graphical Models
- Neural Networks
- Advanced Engineering Informatics
- EURASIP Journal on Applied Signal Processing
- IEICE Trans. Information and Systems
- Intl. J. Advanced Robotic Systems
- Intl. J. Electrical Engineering
- Intl. J. Pattern Recognition and Artificial Intelligence
- J. Computer Science and Technology
- J. Information Science and Engineering
- J. Multimedia
- Science China Information Sciences
- ROBOMECH Journal
- Instruments Today
- IEEE Intl. Conf. on Multimedia and Expo'20 '21 '22 '23 '24 '25
- IEEE Virtual Reality'06 '07 '10 '12 '17 '20 '22 '23 '24
- IEEE Intl. Conf. on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing '23 '24
- Intl. Conf. on Pattern Recognition '24
- APSIPA ASC'09 '24
- Pacific Graphics'06 '13 '14 '15 '16 '20 '21
- IEEE Intl. Conf. on Visual Communications and Image Processing'16, '19, '20
- IEEE Pacific Visualization'20
- Intl. Conf. on Pervasive Artificial Intelligence'20
- IEEE Intl. Symp. on Circuits and Systems'15
- IEEE Intl. Midwest Symp. Circuits and Systems'14
- IEEE Intl. Conf. on Computer Aided Design and Computer Graphics'13
- IEEE/ACIS Intl. Conf. on Computer and Information Science'13
- WSCG'08
- Intl. Workshop on Computer Graphics and Geometric Modeling'07
- Asia-Pacific Workshop on Visual Information Processing'07
- Eurographics Workshop on Virtual Environments'06
Project Reviewers
- National Science and Technology Council (NSTC) Project Proposals
- Institute for Information Industry (III) Project Proposals
Referee or Reviewer Committees
- Interview Committee, Government Fellowship for Studying Aboard, Ministry of Education (2024)
- Referee Committee, Nationwide University Student Competition for Digital Humanities and Big Data (2018)
- Question Drafting Committee, the Final of High-school Computer Programming Competition in Taiwan (2008)
Certificates
- Completion of Enhancement in Learning and Teaching in Higher Education Programme, AdvanceHE (2025)
- Completion of Leadership in Learning and Teaching in Higher Education Programme, AdvanceHE (2025)
University Service
- General Affairs Committee (08/2024 ~ 07/2025)
- Student Affairs Committee (08/2014 ~ 07/2016; 08/2020 ~ 07/2022)
College Service
- Funding Equipment and Space Committee (08/2024 ~ 07/2026)
  - Convener (09/2024 ~ 07/2025)
Department Service
- Program Director of CS Training Courses for Industry (09/2022 ~ 07/2025)
- International Student Affairs Committee (08/2024 ~ 07/2026)
- Curriculum Committee (08/2007 ~ 07/2009; 08/2010 ~ 07/2012; 08/2018 ~ 07/2022; 08/2023 ~ 07/2025)
- Funding Equipment and Space Committee (08/2016 ~ 07/2017; 08/2022 ~ 07/2024)
  - Convener (09/2023 ~ 07/2024)
- Student Recruitment Committee (08/2013 ~ 07/2017; 08/2022 ~ 07/2023)
- Department Affairs Committee (02/2013 ~ 01/2014; 08/2019 ~ 07/2022)
- Department Webpage Group (06/2015 ~ 07/2017)
- Recreation Committee (02/2015 ~ 08/2015)

Awards received

2024, Best Paper Award (Publication Track), Computer Graphics Workshop 2024 [Characteristic-preserving Latent Space for Unpaired Cross-domain Translation of 3D Point Clouds, published in IEEE TVCG 2024]
2024, CS College Teaching Award (資訊學院教學獎), National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University.
2024, CS College Teaching-in-English Award (資訊學院英語教學獎), National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University.
2023, CS College Teaching-in-English Award (資訊學院英語教學獎), National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University.
2022, Mentor of Merit Award (績優導師), National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University.
2022, CS College Teaching Award (資訊學院教學獎), National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University.
2019, Gold Medal Award, Taiwan Innotech Expo Contest (台灣創新技術博覽會), with collaborators: Yo-Chung Lau et al. [A System and its Method for Object Recognition and Tracking]
2011, Outstanding Person Honor Reward - in research, National Chiao Tung University.
2000, The 2nd Prize, HP Information Appliance Design Contest, advised by Professor Ja-ling Wu, co-authoring with C.C Ho et al. [Tele-eye: A 3D augmented reality guide with HMD]
1998, The Excellent Student Scholarship, Computer Society of the Republic of China, Taiwan.
1998, Academic Achievement Award (Presidential Award), National Taiwan University.
1997, Academic Achievement Award (Presidential Award), National Taiwan University.

Awards received by supervised students

2024, (TA: 黃于九 ) Award for Outstanding Teaching Assistant (傑出教學助理獎), National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University.
2023, (TA: 蘇柏凱 ) Award for Outstanding Teaching Assistant (傑出教學助理獎), National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University.
2023, (TA: 王心柔, 吳昱橋, 黃于九) Award for Excellent Teaching Assistant (優良教學助理獎), National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University.
2022, (Representative TAs: 凃仲謙, 傅信瑀, 林裕晟; TA group member: 廖映銜) Award for Excellent Teaching Assistant (優良教學助理獎), National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University.
2021, (Representative TA: 邱怡華; TA groups: 林陽, 于兆良, 李芷佳, 許振揚) Award for Excellent Teaching Assistant (優良教學助理獎), National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University.
2021, (Advisees: 林千慧, 呂思函, 陳書玟, 張巧如) Best Story Award (最佳劇情獎), VR Battle 2021, organized by Taipei ACM SIGGRAPH.
2014, (Advisee: 張育綸) Novatek Foundation Scholarship.
2012, (Advisees: Wei-Cheng Chen, May-Fang She, Yu-Chien Lan, and Wei-Ta Cheng) The 3rd prize, ASUS Xtion Pro application development competition.
2012, (HCI course advisees: 黃証揚,楊文宇,紀博洋, 呂泓熠) The 2nd prize, ASUS Xtion Pro application development competition.
2009, (Advisees 尤筱青, group members: 陳威丞莊夢嬿), Excellence Award, Spring Presentation Contest (思源簡報競賽), National Chiao Tung University.

Academic Talks

"Interactive Object Pose Estimation for Augmented Reality", at Dept. of EE, Yuan-Ze University, Dec. 2023.
"Image Recognition and 3D Shape Transfer with Generative Models", at Intelligent Manufacturing and Generative Artificial Intelligence Workshop, Industrial Technology Research Institute, Aug. 2023.
"Sensing Techniques for AR Interaction among Real and Virtual Objects", at Dept. of EE, Yuan-Ze University, Oct. 2020.
"Object Pose Estimation, Image Inpainting and their Applications", brief talk at Graduate School of Informatics, Kyoto University, Nov. 2019.
"AR Assembly Instruction and Object Pose Estimation", brief talk at Graduate School of Media Design, Keio University, Nov. 2019.
"Structure-aware Analysis and Synthesis for Foreground Extraction, Portrait Enhancement, and Tracking in AR", at EECS, Oregon State University, May 2018.
"Introduction to Computer Techniques for Visual Special Effects and Augmented Reality", at Taichung First Senior High School, Feb. 2017.
"Motion Capture, Data Representation and Surface Deformation for 3D Character Animation", at Dept. of CSIE, Chang Gung University, Dec. 2014.
"Adaptive Motion Representation and Real-time Surface Deformation with Character Motion Data", at Inst. of Computing and Informatics, Providence University, Oct. 2013.
"Adaptive Control and Representation of Motion Capture Data", at Dept. of CSIE, National Taiwan University, May 2011.
"Adaptive Representation and Low-cost Capture of Character Motion for Animation", at Dept. of CS, National Tsing Hua University, May 2010.
"Motion Capture, Representation and Synthesis in Character Animation", at Dept. of CSIE, National Chiayi University, April 2010.
"Motion Capture and Synthesis of Animated Characters", at Dept. of CSIE, National Taiwan University of Science and Technology, Nov., 2009.
"Capture, Representation, and Synthesis of Animated Characters", at Dept. of CSIE, National Cheng Kung University, Nov., 2009.
"Introduction to Content Acquisition and Rendering of 3D Display", at AU Optronics Corp., May 2008.
"From Motion Capture to Example-based Character Animation", at Dept. of CS, Asia University, April 2008.
"Motion Capture and Example-based Animation", at Inst. of CS, National Hsinchu University of Education, Jan. 2008.
"Introduction to the State-of-the-art Techniques in Facial Animation", at Dept. of CS, National Chiao Tung University, March 2006.
"Extracting Motion Parameters from Video for Realistic 3D Facial Animation", at Dept. of CIS, National Chiao Tung University, March 2005.

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