Wenjun (Kevin) Zeng was born in Longyan, China. He received the B.E. degree
in electronic engineering from Tsinghua University,
Beijing, China, in 1990, the M.S. degree in
electrical engineering from University of Notre Dame, IN, in 1993, and the
Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from Princeton University
in June 1997.
He has been an Associate Professor with the Computer Science Department of
University of Missouri,
Columbia, MO
since Aug. 2003. From 1990 to 1991, he was a research associate at Department
of Electronic Engineering, Tsinghua University
where he was responsible for developing a fast image/video processing system.
He co-developed one of the first content-based sports video indexing systems
that combine both video and speech analysis while he was working at Matsushita
Information Technology Lab, Panasonic Technologies Inc., Princeton, in the
summer of 1995. He worked on perceptually based robust digital watermarking at
Multimedia Communication Lab, Lucent Technologies, Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, NJ,
in the summer of 1996. From June 1997 to Nov. 2000, he was with Sharp Labs of
America, Camas, Washington.
From Dec. 2000 to Aug. 2003, he was with PacketVideo
Corporation, San Diego,
where he was leading some R&D efforts on content security and digital
rights management, encoder quality optimization, and wireless multimedia
streaming.
His research interests include multimedia communications and networking,
content and network security, wireless multimedia, perceptual coding, and
multimedia analysis and processing. He has made significant contribution to
perceptually based robust watermarking, as well as to perceptual image
compression for JPEG2000 standard. He was responsible for coordinating the
visual optimization work in JPEG 2000 standard committee, and was
actively involved in MPEG4 IPMP standardization activities. Four of
his proposals (on point-wise extended visual masking tool, palette-based
JPEG2000 coding, a special wavelet filtering operation to reduce tile boundary
artifacts, and a format-compliant selective encryption/shuffling framework,
respectively) have been adopted by the JPEG2000 and MPEG4 IPMP standards. A
number of his papers have been widely cited, with hundreds of citations each. He
has been awarded 12 patents.
Dr. Zeng has served as a Steering Committee Member, an Organizing Committee
Member and Technical Program Committee Chair/Member for a number of IEEE
international conferences. He is an
Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics &
Security, and IEEE
Transactions on Multimedia (also a
steering committee member of TMM), and is on the Editorial Board of IEEE
Multimedia Magazine. He served as the TPC
Vice Chair of the 2009 IEEE Inter. Conf. Multimedia
and Expo. He was the TPC
Chair for the 2007 IEEE Consumer
Communications and Networking Conference, and co- guest edited the Special
Issue on Recent Advances in Distributed Multimedia Communications for the Proceedings of the IEEE published in January 2008. He was the Lead Guest Editor of IEEE
Transactions on Multimedia’s Special Issue on Streaming Media
published in April 2004. He is a member of the IEEE Signal Processing
Society's Multimedia Signal Processing Technical Committee, a Vice Chair of
the IEEE Communication Society's Multimedia Communications Technical Committee,
and a member of IEEE
Circuits & Systems Society's Multimedia Systems and Applications Technical
Committee.
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