Huifang Sun
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Position:
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MERL Fellow Emeritus,
IEEE Fellow -
Education:
Ph.D., University of Ottawa, 1986 -
Research Areas:
- Digital Video
- Computer Vision
- Signal Processing
Huifang's Quick Links
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Biography
After four years as a Professor at Fairleigh Dickinson University, Huifang moved to the Sarnoff Research Laboratory in 1990 becoming Technology Leader for Digital Video Communication. In 1995, Huifang joined MERL as the leader of MERL's video efforts. In recognition of his productive career in video processing, Huifang was made an IEEE Fellow in 2001. After 26 years at MERL, Huifang retired and was given the title Fellow Emeritus in recognition to his great contributions to MERL.
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Awards
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AWARD ISCAS 2007 Outstanding performance as Associate Editor Date: May 1, 2007
Awarded to: Huifang Sun
Awarded for: Outstanding performance as Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology
Awarded by: IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS)
MERL Contact: Huifang SunBrief- MERL researcher Huifang Sun received an award for outstanding performance as Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology in ISCAS.
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AWARD ICIP 2004 Best Student Paper Award Date: January 1, 2004
Awarded to: L. Xie, L. Kennedy, S.-F. Chang, A. Divakaran, H. Sun, and C.-Y. Lin
Awarded for: "Discovering Meaningful Multimedia Patterns with Audio-Visual Concepts and Associated Text"
Awarded by: IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP)
MERL Contact: Huifang Sun
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MERL Publications
- , "Collaborative Localization Based on Traffic Landmarks for Autonomous Driving", IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS), DOI: 10.1109/ISCAS45731.2020.9180894, May 2020.BibTeX TR2020-064 PDF
- @inproceedings{Chen2020may,
- author = {Chen, Siheng and Zhang, Ningxiao and Sun, Huifang},
- title = {Collaborative Localization Based on Traffic Landmarks for Autonomous Driving},
- booktitle = {IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS)},
- year = 2020,
- month = may,
- publisher = {IEEE},
- doi = {10.1109/ISCAS45731.2020.9180894},
- url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2020-064}
- }
- , "Graph Transformation for Keypoint Trajectory Coding", IEEE Global Conference on Signal and Information Processing (GlobalSIP), DOI: 10.1109/GlobalSIP.2016.7905881, December 2016.BibTeX TR2016-157 PDF
- @inproceedings{Tian2016dec,
- author = {Tian, Dong and Sun, Huifang and Vetro, Anthony},
- title = {Graph Transformation for Keypoint Trajectory Coding},
- booktitle = {IEEE Global Conference on Signal and Information Processing (GlobalSIP)},
- year = 2016,
- month = dec,
- doi = {10.1109/GlobalSIP.2016.7905881},
- url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2016-157}
- }
- , "Keypoint trajectory coding on compact descriptor for video analysis", IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP), DOI: 10.1109/ICIP.2016.7532341, August 2016, pp. 171-175.BibTeX TR2016-127 PDF
- @inproceedings{Tian2016aug,
- author = {Tian, Dong and Sun, Huifang and Vetro, Anthony},
- title = {Keypoint trajectory coding on compact descriptor for video analysis},
- booktitle = {IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP)},
- year = 2016,
- pages = {171--175},
- month = aug,
- doi = {10.1109/ICIP.2016.7532341},
- issn = {2381-8549},
- isbn = {978-1-4673-9961-6},
- url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2016-127}
- }
- , "View Synthesis Prediction in the 3D Video Coding Extensions of AVC and HEVC", IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, DOI: 10.1109/TCSVT.2014.2313891, Vol. PP, No. 99, March 2014.BibTeX TR2014-055 PDF
- @article{Zou2014mar,
- author = {Zou, F. and Tian, D. and Vetro, A. and Sun, H. and Au, O.C. and Shimizu, S.},
- title = {View Synthesis Prediction in the 3D Video Coding Extensions of AVC and HEVC},
- journal = {IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology},
- year = 2014,
- volume = {PP},
- number = 99,
- month = mar,
- publisher = {IEEE},
- doi = {10.1109/TCSVT.2014.2313891},
- issn = {1051-8215},
- url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2014-055}
- }
- , "An Analytical Model for Synthesis Distortion Estimation in 3D Video", IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, DOI: 10.1109/TIP.2013.2287608, Vol. 23, No. 1, pp. 185-189, November 2013.BibTeX TR2013-100 PDF
- @article{Fang2013nov,
- author = {Fang, L. and Cheung, N.-M. and Tian, D. and Vetro, A. and Sun, H. and Au, O.C.},
- title = {An Analytical Model for Synthesis Distortion Estimation in 3D Video},
- journal = {IEEE Transactions on Image Processing},
- year = 2013,
- volume = 23,
- number = 1,
- pages = {185--189},
- month = nov,
- doi = {10.1109/TIP.2013.2287608},
- issn = {1057-7149},
- url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2013-100}
- }
- , "Collaborative Localization Based on Traffic Landmarks for Autonomous Driving", IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS), DOI: 10.1109/ISCAS45731.2020.9180894, May 2020.
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MERL Issued Patents
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Title: "Method and Apparatus for Keypoint Trajectory Coding on Compact Descriptor for Video Analysis"
Inventors: Tian, Dong; Sun, Huifang; Vetro, Anthony
Patent No.: 10,154,281
Issue Date: Dec 11, 2018 -
Title: "Method for Coding Pictures Using Hierarchical Transform Units"
Inventors: Cohen, Robert A.; Vetro, Anthony; Sun, Huifang
Patent No.: 8,750,634
Issue Date: Jun 10, 2014 -
Title: "Method for Modeling and Estimating Rendering Errors in Virtual Images"
Inventors: Tian, Dong; Vetro, Anthony; Sun, Huifang; Cheung, Ngai-Man
Patent No.: 8,692,840
Issue Date: Apr 8, 2014 -
Title: "Method for Coding Pictures Using Hierarchial Transform Units"
Inventors: Cohen, Robert A.; Vetro, Anthony; Sun, Huifang
Patent No.: 8,494,290
Issue Date: Jul 23, 2013 -
Title: "Method and System for Randomly Accessing Multiview Videos with Known Prediction Dependency"
Inventors: Yea, Sehoon; Xin, Jun; Martinian, Emin; Sun, Huifang; Vetro, Anthony
Patent No.: 7,903,737
Issue Date: Mar 8, 2011 -
Title: "Method and System for Synthesizing Multiview Videos"
Inventors: Behrens, Alexander; Vetro, Anthony; Sun, Huifang; Xin, Jun; Martinian, Emin
Patent No.: 7,728,877
Issue Date: Jun 1, 2010 -
Title: "Method for Randomly Accessing Multiview Videos"
Inventors: Martinian, Emin; Vetro, Anthony; Xin, Jun; Sun, Huifang; Behrens, Alexander
Patent No.: 7,710,462
Issue Date: May 4, 2010 -
Title: "Method and System for Managing Reference Pictures in Multiview Videos"
Inventors: Martinian, Emin; Sun, Huifang; Vetro, Anthony; Xin, Jun; Behrens, Alexander
Patent No.: 7,489,342
Issue Date: Feb 10, 2009 -
Title: "Resource-Constrained Sampling of Multiple Compressed Videos"
Inventors: Vetro, Anthony; Sun, Huifang
Patent No.: 7,489,726
Issue Date: Feb 10, 2009 -
Title: "System and Method for Joint De-Interlacing and Down-Sampling using Adaptive Frame and Field Filtering"
Inventors: Sun, Huifang; Xin, Jun; Vetro, Anthony
Patent No.: 7,483,577
Issue Date: Jan 27, 2009 -
Title: "System and Method for Filtering Artifacts in Images"
Inventors: Vetro, Anthony; Sun, Huifang; Nie, Yao; Kong, Hao-Song
Patent No.: 7,412,109
Issue Date: Aug 12, 2008 -
Title: "Error Concealing Decoding Method of Intra-Frames of Compressed Videos"
Inventors: Kung, Wei-Ying; Sun, Huifang; Vetro, Anthony; Kong, Hao-Song
Patent No.: 7,394,855
Issue Date: Jul 1, 2008 -
Title: "Video Transcoding of Scalable Multi-Layer Videos to Single Layer Video"
Inventors: Chiang, Tihao; Lin, Yao-Chung; Sun, Huifang; Vetro, Anthony; Wang, Chung-Neng
Patent No.: 7,391,807
Issue Date: Jun 24, 2008 -
Title: "Method for Ordering Data Structures in Multimedia"
Inventors: Divakaran, Ajay; Sun, Huifang; Vetro, Anthony
Patent No.: 7,383,504
Issue Date: Jun 3, 2008 -
Title: "Rate-Distortion Models for Error Resilient Video Transcoding"
Inventors: Xia, Minghui; Vetro, Anthony; Liu, Bede; Sun, Huifang
Patent No.: 7,349,472
Issue Date: Mar 25, 2008 -
Title: "System and Method for Classifying Pixels in Images"
Inventors: Sun, Huifang; Vetro, Anthony; Nie, Yao; Kong, Hao-Song
Patent No.: 7,346,224
Issue Date: Mar 18, 2008 -
Title: "Resource-Constrained Encoding of Multiple Videos"
Inventors: Vetro, Anthony; Sun, Huifang
Patent No.: 7,324,592
Issue Date: Jan 29, 2008 -
Title: "Error Resilient Encoding Method for Inter-Frames of Compressed Videos"
Inventors: Sun, Huifang; Kong, Hao-Song; Vetro, Anthony; Kung, Wei-Ying
Patent No.: 7,324,698
Issue Date: Jan 29, 2008 -
Title: "System and Method for Determining Coding Modes, DCT Types and Quantizers for Video Coding"
Inventors: Zhang, Ximin; Kong, Hao-Song; Vetro, Anthony; Sun, Huifang
Patent No.: 7,280,597
Issue Date: Oct 9, 2007 -
Title: "Encoding a Video with a Variable Frame Rate while Minimizing Total Average Distortion"
Inventors: Vetro, Anthony; Sun, Huifang; Wang, Yige
Patent No.: 7,209,519
Issue Date: Apr 24, 2007 -
Title: "Video Transcoder with Spatial Resolution Reduction and Drift Compensation"
Inventors: Yin, Peng; Vetro, Anthony; Liu, Bede; Sun, Huifang
Patent No.: 7,170,932
Issue Date: Jan 30, 2007 -
Title: "Transcoding Compressed Videos to Reducing Resolution Videos"
Inventors: Kong, Hao-Song; Sun, Huifang; Vetro, Anthony
Patent No.: 7,142,601
Issue Date: Nov 28, 2006 -
Title: "Method for Segmenting 3D Objects from Compressed Videos"
Inventors: Divakaran, Ajay; Sun, Huifang; Porikli, Fatih M.
Patent No.: 7,142,602
Issue Date: Nov 28, 2006 -
Title: "System and Method for Adaptive Field and Frame Video Encoding Using Motion Activity"
Inventors: Sun, Huifang; Zhang, Ximin; Vetro, Anthony
Patent No.: 7,092,442
Issue Date: Aug 15, 2006 -
Title: "Video Transcoder with Drift Compensation"
Inventors: Poon, Tommy C.; Yin, Peng; Sun, Huifang; Liu, Bede; Vetro, Anthony
Patent No.: 7,088,780
Issue Date: Aug 8, 2006 -
Title: "Method and Apparatus for Decoding Video Bitstreams to Reduced Spatial Resolutions"
Inventors: Porikli, Fatih M.; Sun, Huifang
Patent No.: 7,006,572
Issue Date: Feb 28, 2006 -
Title: "Adaptively Processing a Video Based on Content Characteristics of Frames in the Video"
Inventors: Sun, Huifang; Peker, Kadir A.; Divakaran, Ajay
Patent No.: 7,003,154
Issue Date: Feb 21, 2006 -
Title: "Activity Descriptor for Video Sequences"
Inventors: Kim, Hae-Kwang; Park, Chul-Soo; Jesudoss, Manoranjan D.; Rattinassababady, Ganesh; Sun, Huifang; Vasudevan, Vinod V.; Manjunath, Bangalore S.; Divakaran, Ajay; Shin, Hyun-Doo; Sun, Xinding
Patent No.: 7,003,038
Issue Date: Feb 21, 2006 -
Title: "Constant Quality Bit-Rate Allocation for Scalable Video Bitstreams"
Inventors: Zhang, Ximin; Shi, Yun-Qing; Sun, Huifang; Vetro, Anthony
Patent No.: 6,925,120
Issue Date: Aug 2, 2005 -
Title: "Structure Analysis of Video Using Hidden Markov Models"
Inventors: Divakaran, Ajay; Chang, Shih-Fu; Sun, Huifang; Xie, Lexing
Patent No.: 6,865,226
Issue Date: Mar 8, 2005 -
Title: "Digital Video Format Converter and Method Therefor"
Inventors: Bao, Jay; Poon, Tommy C.; Sun, Huifang; Vetro, Anthony
Patent No.: 6,859,495
Issue Date: Feb 22, 2005 -
Title: "Compressed Bit-Stream Segment Identification and Descriptor"
Inventors: Divakaran, Ajay; Sun, Huifang
Patent No.: 6,778,708
Issue Date: Aug 17, 2004 -
Title: "Extraction of Semantic and Higher Level Features from Low-Level Features of Multimedia Content"
Inventors: Xu, Peng; Vetro, Anthony; Sun, Huifang; Chang, Shih-Fu; Divakaran, Ajay
Patent No.: 6,763,069
Issue Date: Jul 13, 2004 -
Title: "Video Transcoder with Spatial Resolution Reduction"
Inventors: Sun, Huifang; Poon, Tommy C.; Vetro, Anthony; Yin, Peng; Liu, Bede
Patent No.: 6,671,322
Issue Date: Dec 30, 2003 -
Title: "Estimating Total Average Distortion in a Video with Variable Frameskip"
Inventors: Wang, Yao; Sun, Huifang; Vetro, Anthony
Patent No.: 6,671,324
Issue Date: Dec 30, 2003 -
Title: "Method for Encoding and Transcoding Multiple Video Objects with Variable Temporal Resolution"
Inventors: Vetro, Anthony; Sun, Huifang
Patent No.: 6,650,705
Issue Date: Nov 18, 2003 -
Title: "Network Surveillance and Control System"
Inventors: Sun, Huifang; Vetro, Anthony; Divakaran, Ajay; DaGraca, Paul
Patent No.: 6,646,676
Issue Date: Nov 11, 2003 -
Title: "Methods of Feature Extraction of Video Sequences"
Inventors: Divakaran, Ajay; Ito, Hiroshi; Sun, Huifang
Patent No.: 6,618,507
Issue Date: Sep 9, 2003 -
Title: "Descriptor for Spatial Distribution of Motion Activity for Compressed Video"
Inventors: Divakaran, Ajay; Peker, Kadir A.; Sun, Huifang
Patent No.: 6,600,784
Issue Date: Jul 29, 2003 -
Title: "Video Transcoding Using Syntactic and Semantic Clues"
Inventors: Sun, Huifang; Vetro, Anthony; Divakaran, Ajay
Patent No.: 6,574,279
Issue Date: Jun 3, 2003 -
Title: "Estimating Rate-Distortion Characteristics of Binary Shape Data"
Inventors: Sun, Huifang; Guleryuz, Onur G.; Wang, Yao; Vetro, Anthony
Patent No.: 6,542,545
Issue Date: Apr 1, 2003 -
Title: "Adaptable Compressed Bitstream Transcoder"
Inventors: Divakaran, Ajay; Sun, Huifang; Vetro, Anthony
Patent No.: 6,542,546
Issue Date: Apr 1, 2003 -
Title: "Three-Layer Scaleable Decoder and Method of Decoding"
Inventors: Poon, Tommy C.; Sun, Huifang; Vetro, Anthony
Patent No.: 6,519,288
Issue Date: Feb 11, 2003 -
Title: "Object-Based Bitstream Transcoder"
Inventors: Sun, Huifang; Vetro, Anthony; Wang, Yao
Patent No.: 6,493,386
Issue Date: Dec 10, 2002 -
Title: "Adaptable Bitstream Video Delivery System"
Inventors: Divakaran, Ajay; Sun, Huifang; Vetro, Anthony
Patent No.: 6,490,320
Issue Date: Dec 3, 2002 -
Title: "Methods of Scene Change Detection and Fade Detection for Indexing of Video Sequences"
Inventors: Ito, Hiroshi; Divakaran, Ajay; Poon, Tommy C.; Sun, Huifang
Patent No.: 6,449,392
Issue Date: Sep 10, 2002 -
Title: "Method for Ordering Image Spaces to Search for Object Surfaces"
Inventors: Lin, I-Jong; Sun, Huifang; Kung, Sun-Yuan; Vetro, Anthony
Patent No.: 6,400,846
Issue Date: Jun 4, 2002 -
Title: "Methods of Scene Fade Detection for Indexing of Video Sequences"
Inventors: Poon, Tommy C.; Sun, Huifang; Ito, Hiroshi; Divakaran, Ajay
Patent No.: 6,327,390
Issue Date: Dec 4, 2001 -
Title: "Method for Ordering Image Spaces to Represent Object Shapes"
Inventors: Sun, Huifang; Lin, I-Jong; Vetro, Anthony; Kung, Sun-Yuan
Patent No.: 6,307,964
Issue Date: Oct 23, 2001 -
Title: "Object Boundary Detection Using a Constrained Viterbi Search"
Inventors: Vetro, Anthony; Lin, I-Jong; Sun, Huifang; Kung, Sun-Yuan
Patent No.: 6,266,443
Issue Date: Jul 24, 2001 -
Title: "Motion Compensated Digital Video Signal Processing"
Inventors: Kung, Sun-Yuan; Sun, Huifang; Vetro, Anthony; Chen, Yen-Kuang
Patent No.: 6,192,080
Issue Date: Feb 20, 2001 -
Title: "Digital Video Decoder and Method of Decoding a Digital Video Signal"
Inventors: Vetro, Anthony; Sun, Huifang; Bao, Jay; Poon, Tommy C.
Patent No.: 6,144,698
Issue Date: Nov 7, 2000 -
Title: "Adaptive Video Coding Method"
Inventors: Vetro, Anthony; Sun, Huifang
Patent No.: 5,969,764
Issue Date: Oct 19, 1999 -
Title: "Method and Apparatus for Down-Converting a Digital Signal"
Inventors: Sun, Huifang; Bao, Jay; Poon, Tommy C.
Patent No.: 5,835,151
Issue Date: Nov 10, 1998 -
Title: "Adaptive Video Coding Method"
Inventors: Vetro, Anthony; Sun, Huifang
Patent No.: 5,790,196
Issue Date: Aug 4, 1998
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Title: "Method and Apparatus for Keypoint Trajectory Coding on Compact Descriptor for Video Analysis"