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Shinko Yuanhsien Cheng, Ph.D.
Computer Vision and Robotics Research Laboratory
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

University of California, San Diego
For Fedex Deliveries: SERF Bldg. Room 150
9500 Gilman Drive, Mail Code 0434
La Jolla CA 92093-0434

TEL: +1 (858) 822-0002
FAX: +1 (858) 822-5336
sycheng.at.ucsd.edu

I have graduated and am now working for HRL Laboratories, LLC.
Please contact me at shinko.cheng.gmail.com

My research interests are in articulated body pose estimation and human activity recognition from image data. Using grayscale, color, LWIR thermal images arriving in single, stereo, or multiple perspective sets, the problem is to learn the articulated body structure, body pose, gesture and activity of the imaged subject. Oftentimes, applications do not require the fidelity of a full body model. Smart airbag systems which sense the occupant's posture in the vehicle to modulate airbag deployment response for example require only the pose of the upper body, or the head and torso. It is also important to examine the operating conditions as part of the problem. For that, I am interested in Intelligent Vehicle, Intelligent Transportation Systems areas as an application for these ideas. Comments and suggestions are always welcome.

Shinko Y. Cheng, Sangho Park, Mohan M. Trivedi, Multi-spectral and Multi-perspective Video Arrays for Driver Body Tracking and Activity Analysis , Computer Vision and Image Understanding: Special Issue on Advances in Vision Algorithms and Systems Beyond the Visible Spectrum, 106(2-3):245-257, May-Jun. 2007, doi: 10.1016/j.cviu.2006.08.010 (pdf)

Shinko Y. Cheng, Anup Doshi, Mohan M. Trivedi, Active Heads-up Display based Speed Compliance Aid for Driver Assistance: A Novel Interface and Comparative Experimental Studies, In IEEE Proc. on intelligent Vehicles Symposium, 2007. (pdf)

Shinko Y. Cheng, Mohan M. Trivedi, Articulated Human Body Pose Inference from Voxel Data Using a Kinematically Constrained Gaussian Mixture Model, In CVPR EHuM2: 2nd Workshop on Evaluation of Articulated Human Motion and Pose Estimation, 2007. (pdf) BEST PAPER AWARD

Shinko Y. Cheng, Mohan M. Trivedi, Lane Tracking with Omnidirectional Cameras: Algorithms and Evaluation, EURASIP Journal on Embedded Systems, Volume 2007 (2007), Article ID 46972, 8 pages doi:10.1155/2007/46972. (pdf)

Mohan M. Trivedi, Shinko Y. Cheng, Holistic Sensing and Active Displays for Intelligent Driver Support Systems, IEEE Computer Magazine: Special Issue on Human-Centered Computing, 40(5):60-68, May 2007. (pdf)

Shinko Y. Cheng, Mohan M. Trivedi, "Turn-Intent Analysis Using Body Pose for Intelligent Driver Assistance" IEEE Pervasive Computing, 5(4):28-37, Oct-Dec 2006. (pdf)

Shinko Y. Cheng, Mohan M. Trivedi, "Multimodal Voxelization and Kinematically Constrained Gaussian Mixture Model for Full Hand Pose Estimation: An Integrated Systems Approach" IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision Systems, Jan. 2006, pages 34-42. (pdf)

Shinko Y. Cheng, S. Park, Mohan M. Trivedi, "Multi-Perspective Thermal IR and Video Arrays for 3D Body Tracking and Driver Activity Analysis" IEEE International Workshop on Object Tracking and Classification in and Beyond the Visible Spectrum in Conjunction with IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, Jun. 2005. (pdf)

Stephen J. Krotosky, Shinko Y. Cheng, M. M. Trivedi, "Real-Time Stereo-Based Head Detection using Size, Shape and Disparity Constraints" In Proceedings of IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium, Jun. 2005. (pdf)

Mohan M. Trivedi, Shinko Cheng, E. Childers, Stephen J. Krotosky, "Occupant Posture Analysis with Stereo and Thermal infrared Video: Algorithms and Experimental Evaluation," IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, Special Issue on In-Vehicle Vision Systems, 53(6), Nov. 2004. (pdf)

Shinko Y. Cheng, Mohan M. Trivedi, "Human Posture Estimation Using Voxel Data for "Smart" Airbag Systems: Issues and Framework" IEEE International Symposium on Intelligent Vehicles, Parma, Italy, May 2004, Pages:84-89. (pdf, poster)

Stephen J. Krotosky, Shinko Y. Cheng, Mohan M. Trivedi, "Face Detection and Head Tracking using Stereo and Thermal Infrared Cameras for 'Smart' Airbags: A Comparative Analysis", In Proceedings of IEEE Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems, March 2004. (pdf)

S. Y. Cheng, M. M. Trivedi, "Hand pose Estimation Using Expectation-Constrained-Maximization from Voxel Data" CVRR Technical Report, Nov. 2005. (pdf)

S. Y. Cheng, "Real-time Partial body Modeling using Voxel Data" CVRR Technical Report, Feb. 2003. (pdf)

Sushi at 100yen each. At the end of Pursuit of Happiness, Will Smith got the job and was overwhelmed with joy. That's how I felt when I saw these. Aji sushi with scallion and a touch ginger near Akihabara, Tokyo, Japan. (2006)