Dr Ling Shao

Senior Lecturer

tel: +44 (0) 114 222 5841

BEng, MSc, PhD, SMIEEE

Short Bio

Ling Shao received the B.Eng. degree in Electronic Engineering from the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC), the M.Sc. degree in Medical Image Analysis and the Ph.D. (D.Phil.) degree in Computer Vision at the Robotics Research Group from the University of Oxford.

Dr. Ling Shao is currently a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering at the University of Sheffield. Prior to this, he worked for 4 years as a Senior Research Scientist in the Video Processing and Analysis Group, Philips Research Laboratories, Eindhoven, The Netherlands. He has published over 60 academic papers in refereed journals and conference proceedings and has filed over 10 patent applications. Ling Shao is the editor for several journals of IEEE, Elsevier and Springer. He has also organised and served as Program Committee member for numerous conferences and workshops.

Work Experience

Senior Lecturer, Department of Electronic & Electrical Engineering, The University of Sheffield (2009 - Present)
Senior Research Scientist, Philips Research Laboratories, Royal Philips Electronics, The Netherlands (2005 – 2009)
Senior Research Engineer, The Institute of Electronics, Communications and Information Technology, Queen’s University Belfast (2005 – 2005)
Research Assistant (PhD Candidate), Robotics Research Group, University of Oxford (2001 – 2005)

Research Interests

Object detection, tracking and recognition
Human action/activity recognition
Content-based image/video search and retrieval
Visual feature extraction, representation and description
Multimedia content analysis and understanding
Machine learning for video processing
Image/video enhancement for high-end displays

Professional Activities

Editorship:

Associate Editor, Neurocomputing (Elsevier), 2010-
Associate Editor, EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing, 2009-
Associate Editor, International Journal of Image and Graphics, 2009-
Editorial Board Member, Journal of Electrical and Computer Engineering, 2009-
Editor-in-Chief, Journal of Advances in Multimedia, 2009-2010
Editorial Board Member, The Open Signal Processing Journal, 2008-
Editorial Board Member, Research Letters in Signal Processing, 2008-2009
Lead Guest Editor, Special Issue on “Intelligent Multimedia Interactivity”, Pattern Recognition Letters, 2011.
Guest Editor, Special Issue on “Learning from Social Media Network”, Neurocomputing, 2011.
Lead Guest Editor, Special Issue on "Video Restoration and Enhancement: Algorithms and Applications", Signal, Image and Video Processing, 2011.
Lead Guest Editor, Special Issue on “Fast and Robust Methods for Multiple-view Vision”, EURASIP Journal on Image and Video Processing, February 2010.
Guest Editor, Special Issue on “Video Analysis, Abstraction and Retrieval: Techniques and Applications”, International Journal on Digital Multimedia Broadcasting, March 2010.
Guest Editor, Sepcial Issue on “Robust Processing of Nonstationary Signals”, EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing, July 2010.

Conference/Workshop/Session Organization:

Program Chair, The 3^rd International Workshop on Video Event Categorization, Tagging and Retrieval (VECTaR), in conjunction with International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), 2011. (Co-organized with Prof. Liang Wang, Dr. Jianguo Zhang, Prof. Tieniu Tan and Prof. Thomas Huang)
Co-Chair, The ACM International Workshop on Interactive Multimedia for Mobile and Portable Devices (IMMPD), in conjunction with ACM International Conference on Multimedia (ACM MM), 2011. (Co-organized with Dr. Jiebo Luo, Dr. Caifeng Shan and Dr. Minoru Etoh)
Chair, The 2^nd International Workshop on Video Event Categorization, Tagging and Retrieval (VECTaR), in conjunction with Asian Conference on Computer Vision (ACCV), 2010. (Co-organized with Dr. Jianguo Zhang, Prof. Tieniu Tan and Prof. Thomas Huang)
Chair, Special Session on “Vision-Based Human Action Recognition and Retrieval”, ACM International Conference on Image and Video Retrieval (CIVR), 2010. (Co-organized with Prof. Shaogang Gong and Prof. Jake Aggarwal)
Co-Chair, Special Session on “Interactive Multimedia Analysis”, SPIE International Conference on Visual Communication and Image Processing (VCIP), 2010. (Co-organized with Dr. Tao Mei, Prof. Dacheng Tao and Prof. Zengfu Wang)
General Chair, The 1^st ACM International Workshop on Interactive Multimedia for Consumer Electronics (IMCE), in conjunction with ACM International Conference on Multimedia (ACM MM), 2009. (Co-organized with Dr. Caifeng Shan, Dr. Jiebo Luo and Dr. Minoru Etoh)
Co-Chair, The 1^st International Workshop on Video Event Categorization, Tagging and Retrieval (VECTaR), in conjunction with Asian Conference on Computer Vision (ACCV), 2009.
Chair, Special Session on “Bridging the Gap between Low Quality Video Sources and High Resolution Displays”, IEEE International Symposium on Consumer Electronics (ISCE), 2009.
Poster Co-Chair, IEEE International Conference on Consumer Electronics (ICCE), 2010.
Track Chair, IEEE International Symposium on Consumer Electronics (ISCE), 2009.

Program Committee Member:

IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP), 2009, 2010, 2011.
British Machine Vision Conference (BMVC), 2011.
ACM International Conference on Multimedia Retrieval (ICMR), 2011.
IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME), 2010, 2011.
IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), 2009, 2010, 2011.
ACM International Conference on Multimedia (ACM MM), 2010.
ACM International Conference on Image and Video Retrieval (CIVR), 2008-2010.
IEEE International Conference on Mechatronics and Automation (ICMA), 2010.
European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO), 2007-2010.
Industry DSP Technology Standing Committee, IEEE Signal Processing Society, 2009-Present.
IEEE International Conference on Consumer Electronics (ICCE), 2006-Present.
IASTED International Conference on Signal and Image Processing (SIP), 2006-2008.