Curriculum Vitae

Alexander Wong, MASc
Department of Systems Design Engineering
University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Canada N2L 3G1
Phone: 647-280-1947
Email: alexanderwong@einfodaily.com
Web-site: http://www.eng.uwaterloo.ca/~a28wong

 


Academic Degrees
  • Master of Applied Science University of Waterloo 2007 Electrical and Computer Engineering (Adaptive Image and Video Processing and Vision-laser-inertial Hybrid Tracking Systems)

  • Bachelor of Applied Science University of Waterloo 2005 Computer Engineering


Professional Affiliations
  • IEEE member

  • ACM member

  • CGSA member


Refereed Journal Papers
  1. Alexander Wong and Jeff Orchard, Efficient FFT-Accelerated Approach to Invariant Optical-LIDAR Registration, accepted to IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, 2008.

  2. Alexander Wong and Jeff Orchard, Robust Multimodal Registration using Local Phase Coherence Representations, Journal of Signal Processing Systems: Special Issue on Biomedical Imaging (Springer), 2008.

  3. Alexander Wong, Adaptive Bilateral Filtering of Image Signals using Local Phase Characteristics, in Signal Processing (Elsevier), Vol. 88, No. 6, pp. 1615-1619, 2008.

  4. Alexander Wong, A Visual-Inertial Controller Approach to Improving Immersion in 3D Video Games, Journal of CGSA, Vol. 1, No. 2, 2008.

  5. Alexander Wong and William Bishop, Efficient Least Squares Fusion of MRI and CT Images Using a Phase Congruency Model, in Pattern Recognition Letters J., Vol. 29, No. 3, pp. 173-180, 2008.

  6. Alexander Wong and William Bishop, Practical Perceptually Adaptive Texture Map Compression for 3D Video Games, in Journal of Game Development, Vol. 2, No. 4, pp. 5-23, 2007.

  7. Alexander Wong and David Clausi, ARRSI: Automatic Registration of Remote Sensing Images, in IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, Vol. 45, No. 5, Part II, pp. 1483-1493, 2007.

  8. Alexander Wong and William Bishop, Perceptually-Adaptive Image Super-resolution using Statistical Methods, in WSEAS Transactions on Signal Processing, vol. 3, pp. 44-49, January 2007.


Refereed Conference Papers
  1. Alexander Wong, David Clausi, and Paul Fieguth, Phase-Adaptive Image Signal Fusion using Complex-valued Wavelets, accepted to International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR), 2008.

  2. Alexander Wong, Akshaya Mishra, Paul Fieguth, and David Clausi, An Adaptive Monte Carlo Approach to Nonlinear Image Denoising, accepted to International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR), 2008.

  3. Alexander Wong, Simultaneous Multi-modal Registration of Multiple Images based on Multi-Dimensional Joint Phase Moment Distributions, accepted to International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR), 2008.

  4. Alexander Wong and William Bishop, Deblocking of Block-Transform Compressed Images Using Phase-adaptive Shifted Thresholding, accepted to IEEE International Symposium on Multimedia, 2008.

  5. Alexander Wong and William Bishop, Robust Edge Detection Based on Non-Local Contribution of Local Frequency Characteristics, accepted to IEEE International Symposium on Multimedia, 2008.

  6. Alexander Wong and David Clausi, Automatic Registration of Inter-band and Inter-sensor Images using Robust Complex Wavelet Feature Representations, accepted to IAPR Workshop on Pattern Recognition in Remote Sensing (PRRS), 2008.

  7. Alexander Wong and Akshaya Mishra, Adaptive nonlinear image denoising and restoration using a cooperative Bayesian estimation approach, accepted to The IEEE Indian Conference on Computer Vision, Graphics and Image Processing (IEEE ICVGIP), 2008.

  8. X. Wang, P. Ho, and Alexander Wong, Towards Efficient Spectrum Sensing for Cognitive Radio Through Knowledge-Based Reasoning, accepted to IEEE International Symposium on Dynamic Spectrum Access Networks 2008 (IEEE DySPAN 2008), 2008.

  9. Alexander Wong, Akshaya Mishra, Paul Fieguth, David Clausi, Nadine M. Dunk, Jack P. Callaghan, Shape-Guided Active Contour Based Segmentation and Tracking of Lumbar Vertebrae in Video Fluoroscopy Using Complex Wavelets, accepted to Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (IEEE EMBC), 2008.

  10. Akshaya Mishra, Alexander Wong, Wen Zhang, Paul Fieguth, and David Clausi, Improved Interactive Medical Image Segmentation using Enhanced Intelligent Scissors (EIS), accepted to Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (IEEE EMBC), 2008.

  11. Alexander Wong, Paul Fieguth, and David Clausi, A Perceptually-adaptive Approach to Image Denoising using Anisotropic Non-Local Means, accepted to IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP), 2008.

  12. Alexander Wong and Jeff Orchard, An Adaptive Non-local Means Approach to Exemplar-based Inpainting, accepted to IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP), 2008.

  13. Alexander Wong, Illumination Invariant Active Contour-based Segmentation using Complex-valued Wavelets, accepted to IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP), 2008.

  14. Jeff Orchard, Mehran Ebrahimi, and Alexander Wong, Efficient Nonlocal-Means Denoising using the SVD, accepted to IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP), 2008.

  15. Alexander Wong and William Bishop, Robust Hough-Based Symbol Recognition using Knowledge-based Hierarchical Neural Networks, accepted to International Conference on Image Processing, Computer Vision, and Pattern Recognition, 2008.

  16. Alexander Wong and William Bishop, Efficient and Robust Approach to Simultaneous Non-rigid Image Registration and Gamma Estimation in the Frequency Domain, accepted to International Conference on Image Processing, Computer Vision, and Pattern Recognition, 2008.

  17. Alexander Wong, An Iterative Approach to Improved Local Phase Coherence Estimation, in the proceedings of Fifth Canadian Conference on Computer and Robot Vision, 2008.

  18. Alexander Wong and William Bishop, Perceptually-Adaptive Color Enhancement of Still Images for Dichromacy Deficiencies, in the proceedings of IEEE CCECE 2008: Symposium on Signal and Multimedia Processing, 2008.

  19. Martin Hansen, William Bishop, Adam Bellemaire, and Alexander Wong, Decompressing Perceptually Adaptive Normal Map Compression (PANMC) Images in Hardware, in the proceedings of IEEE CCECE 2008: Symposium on Signal and Multimedia Processing, 2008.

  20. Alexander Wong and Andrew Kennings, Adaptive Multiple Texture Approach to Texture Packing for 3D Video Games, in the Proceedings of ACM FuturePlay 2007, Toronto, Ontario, November 2007.

  21. Alexander Wong and William Bishop, Robust Invariant Descriptor for Symbol-Based Image Recognition and Retrieval, in the Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Semantic Computing, 2007.

  22. Alexander Wong and William Bishop, A Backwards Compatible, Multi-Level Regions-of-Interest (ROI) Image Encryption Architecture with Biometric Authentication, in the Proceedings of International Conference on Signal Processing and Multimedia Applications (SIGMAP 2007), 2007.

  23. Alexander Wong and William Bishop, Adaptive Large Scale Artifact Reduction in Edge-Based Image Super-Resolution, in the Proceedings of IASTED International Conference on Signal and Image Processing, 2007.

  24. Alexander Wong and William Bishop, Simultaneous Registration and Gamma Correction in the Frequency Domain, in the Proceedings of International Conference on Image Processing, Computer Vision, and Pattern Recognition, 2007.

  25. Alexander Wong and William Bishop, Indirect Knowledge Based Approach to Non-Rigid Multi-Modal Registration of Medical Images, in the Proceedings of IEEE Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering, Vancouver, April 2007.

  26. Alexander Wong and William Bishop, Practical Perceptually Adaptive Approach to Video Logo Placement in TV Broadcasts, in the Proceedings of IEEE Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering, Vancouver, April 2007.

  27. Martin Hansen, Alexander Wong and William Bishop, A Hardware Implementation of Real-Time Video Deblocking Using Shifted Thresholding, in the Proceedings of IEEE Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering, Vancouver, April 2007.

  28. Alexander Wong and William Bishop, Intelligent Multi-Level Regions-of-Interest (ROI) Document Image Encryption using an Online Learning Model, in the proceedings of IASTED International Conference on Signal Processing, Pattern Recognition and Applications, Austria, February 2007.

  29. Alexander Wong and William Bishop, Practical Content-Adaptive Subsampling for Image and Video Compression, IEEE International Symposium on Multimedia, San Diego, December 2006.

  30. Alexander Wong and William Bishop, Adaptive Perceptual Degradation Based on Video Usage, IEEE International Symposium on Multimedia, San Diego, December 2006.

  31. Alexander Wong and William Bishop, Adaptive Normal Map Compression for 3D Video Games, in the proceedings of FuturePlay 2006: The International Academic Conference on the Future of Game Design and Technology, London, Ontario, Canada, October 2006.

  32. Alexander Wong and William Bishop, Efficient Deblocking of Block-Transform Compressed Images and Video Using Shifted Thresholding, in the proceedings of the IASTED International Conference on Signal and Image Processing, Honolulu, Hawaii, August 2006.

  33. Alexander Wong and William Bishop, An Efficient, Parallel Multi-Key Encryption of Compressed Video Streams, in the proceedings of the IASTED International Conference on Signal and Image Processing, Honolulu, Hawaii, August 2006.

  34. Alexander Wong and William Bishop, A Flexible Content-Based Approach to Adaptive Image Compression, to appear in the proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Multimedia & Expo, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, July 2006.

  35. Alexander Wong and William Bishop, Expert Knowledge Based Automatic Regions-of-Interest (ROI) Selection in Scanned Documents for Digital Image Encryption, in the proceedings of the 3rd Canadian Conference on Computer and Robot Vision, Quebec City, Quebec, Canada, June 2006.

  36. Alexander Wong, William Bishop and Jeff Orchard, Efficient Multi-Modal Least-Squares Alignment of Medical Images Using Quasi-Orientation Maps, in the proceedings of the 2006 International Conference on Image Processing, Computer Vision, and Pattern Recognition, Las Vegas, Nevada, June 2006.

  37. Alexander Wong and Jeff Orchard, Efficient and Robust Non-Rigid Least-Squares Rectification of Medical Images, in the proceedings of the 2006 International Conference on Image Processing, Computer Vision, and Pattern Recognition, Las Vegas, Nevada, June 2006.

  38. Asad Munshi, Alexander Wong, Andrew Clinton, Sherman Braganza, William Bishop, and Michael McCool, A Parameterizable SIMD Stream Processor in the proceedings of the 2005 IEEE Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada, May 2005.


Patents
  1. Alexander Wong and Hui Zhou, Method and Apparatus for Automatically Estimating the Layout of a Sequentially Ordered Series of Frames to Be Used to Form a Panorama, filed through Epson Canada Ltd., 2005.

  2. Alexander Wong and Hui Zhou, Method and Apparatus for Estimating Shot Boundaries In A Digital Video Sequence, filed through Epson Canada Ltd., 2005.

  3. Alexander Wong and Hui Zhou, Method and Apparatus for Generating a Panorama from a Sequence of Video Frames, filed through Epson Canada Ltd., 2005.

  4. Alexander Wong and Hui Zhou, Method and Apparatus for Generating a Panorama Background from a Set of Images, filed through Epson Canada Ltd., 2006.

  5. Alexander Wong and Hui Zhou, Method and Apparatus for Automatic Image Categorization, filed through Epson Canada Ltd., 2006.


Thesis/Technical Reports/Presentations
  1. Alexander Wong, Low Cost Visual/Inertial Hybrid Motion Capture System for Wireless 3D Controllers, Master's Thesis, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, April 2007.

  2. Alexander Wong, An Adaptive Non-local Means Approach to Exemplar-based Inpainting, presented at University of Waterloo Graduate Student Research Conference, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, April 2008.

  3. Alexander Wong, Indirect Knowledge Based Approach to Non-Rigid Multi-Modal Registration of Medical Images, presented at University of Waterloo Graduate Student Research Conference, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, April 2007.

  4. Alexander Wong, Efficient and Robust Multi-frame Superresolution using Statistical Methods, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, 2006.

  5. Alexander Wong, State of Terahertz Sensing and Applications in Remote Sensing, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, 2006.

  6. Alexander Wong, Efficient Multi-key Encryption of Compressed Video Streams, presented at University of Waterloo Graduate Student Research Conference, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, April 2006.


Awards
  1. NSERC Doctoral Postgraduate Scholarship (Held 2007/09 - 2009/05)

  2. NSERC Industrial Postgraduate Scholarship (Held 2005/09 - 2007/05)

  3. University of Waterloo Graduate Scholarship (Held 2006/05 - 2006/08)

  4. University of Waterloo Graduate Scholarship (Held 2006/09 - 2006/12)


Services
  1. Reviewer for Journal of CGSA

  2. Reviewer for IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters.

  3. Reviewer for Computer and Geoscience, Elsevier.

  4. Reviewer for IEEE International Conference on Image Processing, 2008.

  5. Reviewer for IEEE International Conference on Semantic Computing, 2008.

  6. Reviewer for IEEE Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering, 2008.

  7. Reviewer for Journal of Signal Processing Systems, Springer.

  8. Reviewer for IEEE IECON, 2008.


Professional Experience
  • University of Waterloo Waterloo, ON - Teaching Assistant (Winter 2008)

  • University of Waterloo Waterloo, ON - Teaching Assistant (Fall 2006)

  • KCSL Inc. Toronto, ON - Contract Solution Developer (2007)

  • Epson Canada Limited Toronto, ON - Image Processing Research and Development (2004 - 2005)

  • RoboCoder Corporation Vancouver, BC - Solution Developer (2003)

  • T4G Limited Toronto, ON - Solution Developer (2003)

  • WorldSoft Corporation Vancouver, BC - Software Consultant/Software Developer (2000 - 2002)

  • DefendGate Inc. Toronto, ON - Project Leader/Production Manager (1998 - 2006)