Qiong Liu
Associate Professor
q.liu@hust.edu.cn
School of Electronic Information and Communications, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, 430074, P.R.China

Research Interests
3D video processing and understanding, interactive multimedia, 3D computer vision

Awards
Second Prize Award for Progress in Science and Technology, Chinese Ministry of Education, China
The award is certificated for my academia and industrial contributions for innovation technologies in video coding techniques and multimedia communications. This award is the unique one in the field of 3D video granted in China so far.
2009
Chenguang Talent Project Award (Wuhan Rising Star), Bureau of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China
The award is certificated for my industrial contributions for new technologies in 3D content generation and 3D video processing. This award is the unique one in the field of 3D video industry granted in Wuhan in the year of 2012.
2012

Funding and Projects
Multi-view depth of field based efficient video coding and accurate reconstruction for three dimensional video, granted by National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. **).
Position: Independent PI.
2013-2015

Multi-depth Fusion based MVD Joint Processing and Coding, granted by National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. **).
Position: Independent PI.
2015-2018
High efficiency compression tools for dynamic light field, granted by China Postdoctoral Science Foundation (No.)
Position: Independent PI.
2010-2012
Video 2D to 3D conversion, granted by Shenzhen Sxmobi Technology Co.,Ltd.
Position: Independent PI.
2013-2014
Key technologies and prototypes of 3DTV content generation, compression and reconstruction, granted as National High-tech R&D Program of China by China Ministry of Science and Technology (863 Program, No.2009AA01Z327)
Position: Main contributor
2009-2010
Key technologies of 3DTV content generation and display, granted National Key Technology Research and Development Program by the China Ministry of Science and Technology (No.2009ZX03004 -006)
Position: Main contributor
2009-2010

Academic Services
Associate Editor
w KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems, 2015 (SCI-IF 0.561).
Special Issue organization
w Guest Editor of Special Issue on “Computation and Visualization for 3D Data” in Multimedia Tools and Applications, 2015.
Conference organization
w Special Session co-Chair, ACM ICIMCS 2013 and 2014.
w Special Session co-Chair, ACM MMM 2014.
w Special Session co-Chair, ICME 2014
Reviewer of journals
w IEEE Transaction on Circuit System and Video Technology
w IEEE Transaction on Image Processing
w IEEE Transaction on Multimedia
w IEEE Transaction on Broadcasting
w IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics
w Applied Optics
w Optics Express
w Information Sciences
w Neurocomputing
w Journal of Visual Communication and Image Representation
w Multimedia System
w Signal Processing
w Multimedia Tools and Applications
w ETRI Journal
w PLoS ONE

Publications
I have authored more than 30 peer reviewed papers, including 20+ journal papers and 10+ conference papers. I also owned more than 40 Chinese patents with 30+ have been authorized.
Selected journal papers (* is marked as corresponding author)
[1] Qiong Liu, Zhengjun Zha, Yang Yang; Gradient-domain-based enhancement of multi-view depth video, Information Sciences, vol. 281, 2014, pp. 750-761.
[2] Qiong Liu, You Yang, Rongrong Ji, Yue Gao, and Li Yu; Cross-View Down/Up-Sampling Method for Multiview Depth Video Coding, IEEE Signal Processing Letters, May 2012, Volume 19 , Issue 5, 295- 298.
[3] Qiong Liu, You Yang, Yue Gao, Rongrong Ji, Li Yu; A Bayesian Framework for Dense Depth Estimation Based on Spatial-temporal Correlation, Neurocomputing, vol 109, pp 1-9, March 2013.
[4] Qiong Liu, You Yang, Yue Gao, Richang Hong; Texture-Adaptive Hole-Filling Algorithm in Raster-Order for Three-Dimensional Video Applications, Neurocomputing, vol 111, pp. 154-160, April 2013.
[5] Qiong Liu，Hongjiang Xiao, “A semi-global depth estimation algorithm for mobile three dimensional video applications”, Journal of Tsinghua Science and Technology. Vol. 2, 2012, pp. 67-72.
[6] Qiong Liu, Ruimin Hu, Zhu Li, et.al, Improved fast intra prediction algorithm of H.264/AVC, Journal of Zhejiang University: Science, vol. 7, no.1, 2006, pp. 101-105.
[7] Rongrong Ji, Yue Gao, Richang Hong, Qiong Liu, Dacheng Tao, Xuelong Li; Spectral-Spatial Constraint Hyperspectral Image Classification, IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, vol. 52, no. 3, 2014, pp. 1811-1824.
[8] Hui-Ping Deng, Li Yu, Bin Feng, Qiong Liu; Structural similarity-based synthesized view distortion estimation for depth map coding, IEEE Transactions on Consumer Electronics, Nov 2012, pp. 1338 - 1344
[9] Huiping Deng, Li Yu, Juntao Zhang, Bin Feng and Qiong Liu. Edge-preserving down/up-sampling for depth map compression in high efficiency video coding. Optical Engineering, 52(7), pp 071509-1-8, 2013
[10] You Yang, Xu Wang, Qiong Liu*, Mingliang Xu, Li Yu; A bundled-optimization model of multiview dense depth map synthesis for dynamic scene reconstruction, Information Sciences, DOI: 10.1016/j.ins.2014.11.014 (online)
[11] You Yang, Xu Wang, Qiong Liu*, Mingliang Xu, Wei Wu; User Models of Subjective Image Quality Assessment of Virtual Viewpoint in Free-viewpoint Video System, Multimedia Tools and Applications, DOI: 10.1007/s11042-014-2321-7 (online)
[12] You Yang, Qiong Liu*, Hao Liu, Li Yu, Fanglin Wang; Dense depth image synthesis via energy minimization for three-dimensional video, Signal Processing, vol. 112, July 2015, pp. 199-208.
[13] Xu Wang,Qiong Liu,Ran Wang,Zhuo Chen; Natural Image Statistics based 3D Reduced Reference Image Quality Assessment in Contourlet Domain, Neurocomputing, vol. 151, no. 2, 2015, pp. 683–691
[14] Sen Xiang, Li Yu, You Yang, Qiong Liu, Jialiang Zhou; Interfered depth map recovery with texture guidance for multiple structured light depth cameras, Signal Processing: Image Communication, vol. 31, Feb. 2015, pp. 34-46
[15] Zengqiang Yan, Li Yu, You Yang, Qiong Liu; Beyond the interference problem: hierarchical patterns for multiple-projector structured light system, Applied Optics, Vol. 53, No. 17, June 2014, 3621-3632
[16] You Yang, Qiong Liu*, Rongrong Ji, Yue Gao; Dynamic 3D Scene Depth Reconstruction via Optical Flow Field Rectification, PLoS ONE, Nov. 2012, 7(11), e47041.
[17] You Yang, Qiong Liu*, Rongrong Ji, Yue Gao; Remote Dynamic Three-Dimensional Scene Reconstruction, PLoS ONE, May 2013, 8(5), e55586.
Selected conference papers
[1] Qiong Liu, You Yang, Xu Wang, Liujuan Cao; Quality Assessment on User Generated Image for Mobile Search Application, Multimedia Modeling, MMM 2013, Part II, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol. 7733, 2013, pp. 1-11.
[2] Qiong Liu, XiangyangJi, Yongbing Zhang, QionghaiDai, Geometric mapping assisted multiview depth video coding, ICASSP, 2012, pp. 1-4.
[3] Qiong Liu，Ruimin Hu, “Perceptually motivated adaptive quantization algorithm for region-of-interest coding in H.264”, PCM, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol. 5353, 2008, pp. 129-137.
[4] Qiong Liu, Ruimin Hu, Zhen Han, Adaptive background skipping algorithm for region-of-interest scalable video coding, 11th IEEE International Conference on Communication Systems, 2008, Guangzhou, China.
[5] Qiong Liu, Ruimin Hu, et.al, Adaptive fast inter mode decision for wireless video applications using H.264/AVC, IEEE International Conference on Wireless Communications, Networking and Mobile Computing, 2006, Wuhan, China.
[6] Qiong Liu, Shenfeng Ye, Ruimin Hu, Zhen Han, A novel intra/inter mode decision algorithm based on spatio-temporal correlation, MMM, Lecture Notes in Computer Science: Advance in Multimedia Modeling，vol. 4351, 2007, pp. 568-575.
[7] Qiong Liu, Real-time ROI-based background skipping algorithm for temporal scalable video coding, International Conference on Distributed Computing and Applications for Business, Engineering and Sciences, 2009, Wuhan, China.
[8] Qiong Liu, Ruimin Hu, et.al，An efficient fast block type selection for intra-prediction in inter frame of H.264/AVC Frex, International Conference on Distributed Computing and Applications for Business, Engineering and Sciences, 2006, Hang Zhou, China.
[9] You Yang, Qiong Liu, Yue Gao, Binbin Xiong, Li Yu, Huanbo Luan, Rongrong Ji, Qi Tian; Stereotime: A Wireless 2D and 3D Switchable Video Communication System, ACM Conference on Multimedia 2013, pp. 473-474.
[10] Hongjiang Xiao, Qiong Liu, Qionghai Dai, Cooperative cross-layer transmission for scalable video to resource-constrained receiver, MUM, Beijing, China, 2011.
[11] Dong Li, Yongbing Zhang, Qiong Liu, XiangyangJi, Qionghai Dai, Joint block prediction in stereoscopic video coding, 3DTV-Conference 2011, Antalya, Turkey, 2011.
[12] Qian Ma, Yongbing Zhang, Qiong Liu, XiangyangJi, QionghaiDai, Enhanced rate-distortion optimization for stereo interleaving video coding, International Conference on 3DImaging (IC3D)，Belgium，2011.
[13] Zhen Han, Qiong Liu, Ruimin Hu, et al. Fast intra mode selection algorithm for MPEG-2-to-AVS transcoding, IEE International Conference on Wireless, Mobile and Multimedia, 2010.

Patents (selected)
[1] Qiong Liu, You Yang, Li Yu, Weimin Wu, Yue Gao, Guoxing Yu; A method and system for video fingerprint detection and video sequence matching based on visual features, 3.3 (Chinese patent)
[2] Ruiming Hu, Zhen Han, Qiong Liu, et al; A method for frame labeling in video sequence, 2.3 (Chinese patent)
[3] Ruiming Hu, Zhen Han, Qiong Liu, et al; A method for frame rate checking in video encoding and decoding system, 3.8 (Chinese patent)
[4] Ruiming Hu, Zhen Han, Qiong Liu, et al; A method for signal-to-noise testing in digital video encoding and decoding system, 1.9 (Chinese patent)
[5] Ruiming Hu, Zhen Han, Qiong Liu, et al; A method for audio-video mismatch testing in video encoding and decoding system, 0.4 (Chinese patent)
[6] Ruiming Hu, Yisha Lu, Qiong Liu, et al; A method for scalable video stream switching, 4.5 (Chinese patent)
[7] Ruiming Hu, Qiong Liu, et al; A system of video sequence encoding and decoding, 7.3 (Chinese patent)
[8] Ruiming Hu, Qiong Liu, et al; A method and apparatus for region based video and image encoding and decoding, 5.1 (Chinese patent)
[9] Ruiming Hu, Qijun Wang, Qiong Liu, et al; A method for precision adaptive image region texture encoding, 4.7 (Chinese patent)
[10] Ruiming Hu, Zhen Han, Qiong Liu, et al; A method for Intra-mode fast selection in video trans-coding, 1.5 (Chinese patent)
[11] Ruiming Hu, Yisha Lu, Qiong Liu, et al; A method for ROI based low bit rate spatial enhancement layer decoding, 9.X (Chinese patent)
[12] Ruiming Hu, Qiong Liu, et al; A method for temporal scalable video coding for dual-frame reference video streaming, 2.1 (Chinese patent)
[13] Qiong Liu, Zhen Han, Ruiming Hu, et al; A method for interlaced video sequence Intra-frame field prediction based coding, 5.3 (Chinese patent)
[14] Ruiming Hu, Qiong Liu, et al; A method for real-time temporal scalable video coding based on dual-reference, 6.1 (Chinese patent)
[15] Ruiming Hu, Qiong Liu, et al; A method for frame-rate adjustable compression in video streaming, 1.9 (Chinese patent)
[16] Ruiming Hu, Qiong Liu, et al; A method for image information recoding and fetching in processing video and image coding and decoding, 8.4 (Chinese patent)
[17] Ruiming Hu, Qiong Liu, et al; A method for fast switch in scalable video streaming, 4.5 (Chinese patent)
[18] Ruiming Hu, Qiong Liu, et al; A method for fast Inter-mode selection in video trans-coding, 1.5(Chinese patent)
[19] Ruiming Hu, Qiong Liu, et al; A method for fast Inter-mode selection in video trans-coding, 0.8 (Chinese patent)
[20] Ruiming Hu, Qiong Liu, et al; A method for fast Intra-mode selection in video trans-coding, 3.8 (Chinese patent)
[21] Ruiming Hu, Qiong Liu, et al; A method for fast Intra-mode selection in video trans-coding, 6.0 (Chinese patent)
[22] You Yang, Qiong Liu, Li Yu; An apparatus for optical data sensing and a method to generate corresponding image data, 3.X (Chinese patent)
[23] Li Yu, Xu Li, You Yang, Gang Zhong, Qiong Liu; A method for edge enhancement in depth image upsamping, 8.4 (Chinese patent)