Research Interests:
computer graphics and vision,
shape modeling, surface reconstruction,
digital geometric processing and computing.

I currently work with CCMA, ITRI.

Educational background:

• Ph. D (Sep. 2005 - Dec. 2010)
  Department of Computer Science, National Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu, Taiwan
  Advisor: Prof. Shang-Hong Lai
  Thesis Title: Orientation Inference and Binary Orientation Trees for Surface Reconstruction from Unorganized Points
• M.S. (Sep. 2002 - Jun. 2004)
  Department of Computer Science, National Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu, Taiwan
  Advisor: Prof. Shang-Hong Lai
  Thesis Title: Progressive Reconstruction of Piecewise Implicit Surface
• B.S. (Sep. 1998 - Jun. 2002)
  Department of Computer Science, National Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu, Taiwan

Experiences:

• Reaserch visit to Prof. Tomoyuki Nishita's Lab, in The University of Tokyo. (May 2009 - Apr. 2010)
• Internship with Siemens Corporate Research, New Jersey, U.S.A. (Mar. 2007 - Aug. 2007)
• Research visit to Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan, supported by Summer Program, Japan Interchange Association. (Jul. 2006 - Aug. 2006).

Publications:

Journal Papers

• Yi-Ling Chen, Tung-Ying Lee, Bing-Yu Chen and Shang-Hong Lai, Bipartite Polar Classification for Surface Reconstruction, Computer Graphics Forum, vol. 30, no. 7, pp. 2003-2010, 2011.
• Yi-Ling Chen and Shang-Hong Lai, An Orientation Inference Framework for Surface Reconstruction from Unorganized Point Clouds, IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, vol. 20, issue 3, pp. 762-775, Mar. 2011.
• Yi-Ling Chen, Bing-Yu Chen, Shang-Hong Lai and Tomoyuki Nishita, Binary Orientation Trees for Volume and Surface Reconstruction from Unoriented Point Clouds, Computer Graphics Forum, vol.29, no. 7, pp2011-2019, Sep. 2010.
• Yi-Ling Chen and Shang-Hong Lai, Creating MPU Implicit Surfaces from Unoriented Point Sets with Orientation Inference, The Visual Computer, vol. 25, no. 5, pp 391-399, May 2009.
• Chen-Kuo Chiang, Shu-Fan Wang, Yi-Ling Chen and Shang-Hong Lai, Fast JND-Based Video Carving with GPU Acceleration for Real-Time Video Retargeting, IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, vol. 19, no. 11, pp 1588-1597, Nov. 2009.

Conference Papers

• Tse-Shih Chen, Tsiao-Wen Huang, Liang-Chun Yin, Yi-Ling Chen and Yi-Fu Ciou, Platform-as-a-Service Architecture for Parallel Video Analysis in Clouds, accepted to be presented in International Computer Symposium (ICS 2012), 2012.
• Yi-Ling Chen, Tung-Ying Lee, Bing-Yu Chen and Shang-Hong Lai, Bipartite Polar Classification for Surface Reconstruction, in Proceedings of Pacific Graphics (PG 2011), 2011.
• Li-Hsuan Chin, Yi-Ling Chen, Yi-Hsien Li, Jia-Jie Hung, Shang-Hong Lai and Shou-Der Wei, Depth Estimation from Uncalibrated Stereo Images via Hierarchical Over-Segmentation, in Proceedings of International Conference on 3D Systems and Applications (3DSA'11), 2011.
• Yi-Ling Chen, Bing-Yu Chen, Shang-Hong Lai and Tomoyuki Nishita, Binary Orientation Trees for Volume and Surface Reconstruction from Unoriented Point Clouds, in Proceedings of Pacific Graphics (PG'10), Sep. 2010.
• Te-Feng Su, Yi-Ling Chen, and Shang-Hong Lai, Over-Segmentation Based Background Modeling and Foreground Detection with Shadow Removal Using Hierarchical MRFs, in Proceedings of Asian Conference on Computer Vision (ACCV'10), 2010.
• Shu-Fan Wang, Yi-Ling Chen, Chen-Kuo Chiang, Bing-Yu Chen, Shang-Hong Lai and Tomoyuki Nishita, Content-Aware Geometry Image Resizing, In Proceedings of Computer Graphics International 2010 (CGI'10), June 2010.
• Yi-Ling Chen and Shang-Hong Lai, Creating MPU Implicit Surfaces from Unoriented Point Sets with Orientation Inference, in Proceedings of Computer Graphics International (CGI'09), May 2009.
• Yi-Ling Chen, Shang-Hong Lai, and Tomoyuki Nishita, Robust Surface Reconstruction from Defective Point Clouds by Using Orientation Inference and Volumetric Regularization, In Proceedings of Siggraph Asia 2009 (Sketch).
• Shu-Fan Wang, Yi-Ling Chen, Chen-Kuo Chiang, and Shang-Hong Lai, Surface Simplification by Image Retargeting, In Proceedings of Siggraph Asia 2009 (Sketch).
• Yi-Ling Chen and Xiang Zhang, A Memory Effective Two-phase Approach for Large Scanned Surface Mesh Simplification, In Proceedings of Shape Modeling International 2008 (SMI'08) , New York, June 2008.
• Yi-Ling Chen, Shang-Hong Lai and Tung-Ying Lee, Generalized MPU Implicits by Using Belief Propagation, In Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on 3D Digital Imaging and Modeling (3DIM'07) , Montreal, Canada , August 2007.
• Yi-Ling Chen and Shang-Hong Lai, A Partition-of-Unity Based Algorithm for Implicit Surface Reconstruction Using Belief Propagation, In Proceedings of Shape Modeling International 2007 (SMI'07) , Lyon , France, June 2007.
• Po-Hao Huang, Yi-Ling Chen, Chia-Ming Cheng, Yu-An Lu and Shang-Hong Lai, Robust 3D object model reconstruction from video, In Proceedings of SPIE Conference on Three-Dimensional Image Capture and Applications VI, San Jose, California, U.S.A., Jan. 2004.
• Shang-Hong Lai and Yi-Ling Chen, Learning a statistical 3D geometric head model, In Proceedings of SPIE Conference on Videometrics VII, Santa Clara, California, U.S.A., Jan. 2003.

Domestic Conferences

• Yi-Ling Chen , Tsiao-Wen Huang, Tse-Shih Chen, Shiou-Yaw Wang, Liang-Chun Yin, Hsunfeng Lai, Jejone Ko and Tzi-cker Chiueh, Cloud Video Surveillance System for Vehicle Tracking, In Proc. of IPPR Conf. on CVGIP , Sun Moon Lake, Taiwan, 2012.
• Yi-Ling Chen , Bing-Yu Chen, Shang-Hong Lai and Tomoyuki Nishita, Building Binary Orientation Trees from Unorganized Point Clouds through Visibility Checks, Computer Graphics Workshop, Hsinchu, Taiwan, 2010.
• Yi-Ling Chen, Shang-Hong Lai, and Tomoyuki Nishita, 方向性情報を持っていない三次元点群からの表面形状の復元 , 情報処理学会第七十二回全国大会, Tokyo, Japan 2010.
• Yi-Ling Chen and Shang-Hong Lai, Progressive Reconstruction of Piecewise Implicit Surface, In Proc. of IPPR Conf. on CVGIP , Hualian, Taiwan, 2004.