Professional Activities

The Editor of Interactive Magazines (EIM): IEEE Communications Magazine, Network Magazine, and Personal Communications Magazine, IEEE Communications Society, 2004-2006.

Guest Editor for the Proceedings of the IEEE, A Special Session on Enabling Multimedia Technology for Digital Rights Management, June 2004.  

Technical Program Chair, IEEE 1st Intl. Conf. on Information Technology: Research and Education, Newark, August 2003.  

Organizer/Chair - Video Semantic Concept Collaborative Annotation Forum, supported by NIST, Library of Congress, and 23 other worldwide institutes, (Phase I) February 2003 - November 2003.

Chair, Watson International Workshop on Multimedia, Yorktown Heights, June 2003.

Tutorial Lecturer, 

     "Tutorial on Loseless Data Hiding," IEEE Intl. Symposium on Circuits and Systems, Bangkok, May 2003.  

    "Tutorial on Multimedia Technology and Digital Rights Management," IEEE Intl. Conf. on Multimedia & Expo, Baltimore, July 2003.  

    "Tutorial on Multimedia Technologies for Digital Rights Management," IEEE Global Communications Conference, San Francisco, Dec. 2003.  

Publicity Chair,

        IEEE Pacific-Rim Conf. on Multimedia, Beijing, China, October 2001.  

        IEEE Intl. Conf. on Multimedia & Expo, Taipei, Taiwan, June 2004.  

Special Session Organizer:

"Media Security Issues in Streaming and Mobile Applications," IEEE Intl. Conf. on Image Processing, Singapore, October 2004;

"Content Understanding and Transcoding Techniques for Media Adaptation," IEEE Intl. Conf. on Multimedia & Expo, Taipei, June 2004;

"Emerging Multimedia Security Technologies for Digital Rights Management," IEEE Intl. Conf. on Multimedia & Expo, Taipei, June 2004;

"Special Session on Machine Learning in Extracting Semantics from Multimedia Content," IEEE Intl. Conf. on Image Processing, Barcelona, September 2003;

"Special Sessions on Multimedia Security and Watermarking Applications," IEEE Intl. Conf. on Information Technology: Coding and Computing, Las Vegas, April 2001.   

Guest Lecturer:

"Visual Information Systems", Department of Electrical Engineering, Columbia University, Fall 2001 & Fall 2002.

"Multimedia Understanding and Multimedia Security", Department of Computer Science, Natl. Tsinghua University, Taiwan, Nov. 2003.

Technical Committee Member:

IEEE Communication Society, Multimedia Technical Committee (2002-)

IEEE Circuits and Systems Society, Visual Signal Processing Technical Committee (2003-)

IEEE Circuits and Systems Society, Multimedia System and Application Technical Committee (2003-)

IEEE Computer Society, Technical Committee on Data Engineering (2004-)

IEEE Intl. Conf. on Communications (2005 -)

IEEE Intl. Conf. on Multimedia & Expo (2001 -)

IEEE Intl. Conf. on Information Technology: Coding and Computing  (2001-2002)

IEEE Intl. Conf. on Information Technology: Research and Education (2003 -)

IEEE Intl. Symposium on Next Generation Multimedia at Global Communication Conference (2003)

IEEE Pacific-Rim Conference on Multimedia  (2001 - )

ACM Multimedia (2003 )

Invited Panelist:

"New Visions on Multimedia Security," Multimedia and Security Workshop at ACM Multimedia, Orlando, October 1999. 

Reviewer for:

IEEE Transactions on Multimedia

IEEE Transactions on Image Processing

IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology

IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems

IEEE Signal Processing Letters

IEE Proceedings on Vision, Image and Signal Processing

ACM Multimedia Systems Journal

SPIE Journal of Electronic Imaging

Wieley Journal of Imaging Systems

IEEE Intl. Conf. on Image Processing

IEEE Intl. Conf. on Multimedia & Expo

IEEE Intl. Conf. on Information Technology: Coding and Computing

IEEE Intl. Conf. on Acoustics Speech and Signal Processing

IEEE Intl. Symposium on Circuits and Systems

IEEE Pacific-Rim Conference on Multimedia

ACM Multimedia Conference  

Society Memberships :

IEEE Senior Member (M 96, S 98, M 01, SM 04 ) Signal Processing Society, Communications Society, Circuit and System Society and Computer Society

ACM (1998 - )

SPIE (1998 - 2001)

Ching-Yung Lin, Last Updated: 09/14/2004