The Information Engineering Department has long been engaging in forefront research and development activities in information Technologies. Our commitment in research can be reflected by our continued success in securing internal and external research funding. Over the past three years, we received around 10 million HK dollars of the Earmarked Grant from the Research Grant Council spreading across 20 projects. In the same period, other research grants from both internal and external sources for 10 projects exceeded 1.6 million HKD. Over that period, a number of research centers of excellence were established in response to the growing industrial need and the strategic directions set forth by the Government, and our department is pleased to join effort with the University of Hong Kong and the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology to establish the Area of Excellence in Information Technologies in 1999. External
Research Funding (2002-2004)
| Research Funding | (HK$ '000) |
|---|---|
| Innovation & Technology Fund | 5,792 |
| RGC Earmarked | 8,967 |
| UGC (AoE) | 3,400 |
| Others | 11,564 |
External Research Funding (1998-2002)
| Research Funding | (HK$ '000) |
|---|---|
| Innovation & Technology Fund | 31,195 |
| RGC Earmarked | 16,320 |
| UGC (AoE) | 10,000 |
| UGC (Network Project) | 7,300 |
| QEF | 18,900 |
| Others | 11,564 |
Research Grants
The following is a list of major research grants received by staff members in the Department since 2000. The amounts are in Hong Kong Dollars unless otherwise specified.
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COMMUNICATIONS THEORY |
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Investigator |
Grant |
Project Title |
Amount |
| T.M. Lok | RGC
Competitive Earmarked Research Grant (2004)
|
Optimal Assignment of Resources for Multiuser Communication Systems |
$337,631 |
| T.M. Lok | RGC
Competitive Earmarked Research Grant (2003)
|
Code Diversity and Scheduling for Multicarrier CDMA Systems |
$337,149 |
| K.W. Wei | RGC
Competitive Earmarked Research Grant (2003)
|
On Mobile and Wireless Security: Mobile Agents, Mobile Signatures, and Authenticated Key Exchange |
$377,149 |
| W.H. Yeung | RGC
Competitive Earmarked Research Grant (2003)
|
Network Error Correction |
$565,723 |
| K.W. Wei | RGC
Competitive Earmarked Research Grant (2002)
|
On the Constant Weight Codes: Bounds, Constructions and Applications |
$599,404 |
| W.H. Yeung | RGC
Competitive Earmarked Research Grant (2000)
|
Fundamental Limits in Information Storage Systems |
$635,817 |
|
INTERNET APPLICATIONS |
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Investigator |
Grant |
Project Title |
Amount |
| Y.B. Lee | RGC
Competitive Earmarked Research Grant (2003) |
Design, Analysis, and Implementation of a Server-less Architecture for Building Scalable, Reliable, and Cost-effective Video Streaming Systems |
$377,149 |
| Y.B. Lee | RGC
Competitive Earmarked Research Grant (2002) |
Design,
Analysis, and Implementation of a Super-Scalar
Architecture for Large-Scale Video-on-Demand
Services |
$413,404 |
| Y.B. Lee | RGC
Competitive Earmarked Research Grant (2001) |
Improving
Disk Efficiency in Continuous-Media Servers
with Soft-scheduling |
$387,248 |
| P.C. Wong | Quality
Education Fund (2000) |
Hong
Kong Education City |
$31,900,000 |
| Y.B. Lee | Innovation
& Technology Commission, Innovation &
Technology Fund 2000 |
Hong
Kong IP Multicast Initiative |
$8,654,000 |
| S.C. Liew | RGC
Competitive Earmarked Research Grant (2000) |
Integrated
Retransmission and Adaptation Scheme for Video
Streaming over legacy and Advanced Internet
with QoS Guarantee |
$437,817 |
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MULTIMEDIA PROCESSING |
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Investigator |
Grant |
Project Title |
Amount |
| X.O. Tang | Innovation & Technology Commission, Innovation & Technology Fund 2004 |
IDFace: Identification and Detection of Face in Image, Video, and Sketch |
$5,792,000 |
| X.O. Tang | RGC Competitive Earmarked Research Grant (2003) |
Video Based Face Recognition |
$423,711 |
| X.O. Tang | RGC
Competitive Earmarked Research Grant (2002) |
Video
Based Character Recognition |
$413,404 |
| Y.M. Wang | RGC
Competitive Earmarked Research Grant (2001) |
Multi-scale
Statistical Shape Models for 2D & 3D Image
Segmentation |
$387,248 |
| X.O. Tang | RGC
Competitive Earmarked Research Grant (2001) |
Face
Image and Sketch Recognition |
$426,364 |
|
NETWORKING |
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Investigator |
Grant |
Project Title |
Amount |
| D.M. Chiu | RGC
Competitive Earmarked Research Grant (2004) |
TCP & Application Friendly Congestion Control: A New Direction for a Controversial Yet Challenging Problem |
$339,414 |
| S.Y. Li | RGC
Competitive Earmarked Research Grant (2004) |
Mathematical Theory of Distributors and Their Recursive Construction |
$653,244 |
| Tony Lee | RGC
Competitive Earmarked Research Grant (2002) |
Design
of Medium Access Control Providing IP QoS for
CDMA-based Mobile Communication System |
$413,404 |
| Tony Lee | RGC
Competitive Earmarked Research Grant (2001) |
Design
of Large-Scale Fibre Channel Fabric for Storage
Area Network |
$387,248 |
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OPTICAL COMMUNICATIONS |
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Investigator |
Grant |
Project Title |
Amount |
| L.K. Chen | RGC
Competitive Earmarked Research Grant (2004) |
Optimization of Supercontinuum-based Photonic Devices for Multi-wavelength Network |
$553,680 |
| C.K. Chan | RGC
Competitive Earmarked Research Grant (2004) |
All-Optical Signal Processing Techniques for High-speed Optical Differential Phase-shift-keying (DPSK) Signals |
$411,859 |
| L.K. Chen | RGC
Competitive Earmarked Research Grant (2003) |
Optical Sampling and Multiplexing for Distortion Reduction in an SCM Optical Network |
$537,204 |
| C.K. Chan | RGC
Competitive Earmarked Research Grant (2003) |
A Reliable and Scalable Network Architecture for Multiwavelength Passive Optical Access Networks |
$493,553 |
| C.K. Chan | RGC
Competitive Earmarked Research Grant (2002) |
Novel
Schemes to alleviate the Intrinsic Detrimental
Effects of In-line Semiconductor Optical Amplifiers
in Optical Transmission Systems |
$476,404 |
| L.K. Chen | RGC
Competitive Earmarked Research Grant (2001) |
A
Generic Optical Switch Fabric for Photonic Code-based
Multi-protocol Label Switching (MPLS) Networks |
$592,607 |
| F.K. Tong | RGC
Competitive Earmarked Research Grant (2001) |
Investigation
of Low-Cost Modulator for a Proposed DWDM Access
Network |
$582,828 |
| F.K. Tong | Innovation
and Technology Commission, Innovation and Technology
Fund (2001) |
Photonic
Packaging Laboratory |
$13,042,000 |
| K.P. Ho | RGC
Competitive Earmarked Research Grant (2000) |
System
Limitations of Optical Networks due to Crosstalk |
$707,817 |
| F.K. Tong | RGC
Competitive Earmarked Research Grant (2000) |
Homodyne
Crosstalk Reduction using FP Laser Diode |
$557,817 |
| T.S. Yum | RGC
Competitive Earmarked Research Grant (2000) |
Architecture
for IP Operating on WDM |
$437,817 |
|
WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS |
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Investigator |
Grant |
Project Title |
Amount |
| T.S. Yum | RGC
Competitive Earmarked Research Grant (2003) |
Fair Routing and Bandwidth Allocation for Packet Rings |
$377,149 |
| T.S. Yum | RGC
Competitive Earmarked Research Grant (2002) |
OVSF
Code Assignment Strategies |
$413,404 |
| W.S. Wong | RGC
Competitive Earmarked Research Grant (2002) |
Code
Allocation in Multi-Rate Spread Spectrum Wireless
Systems |
$413,404 |
| John Moore | RGC
Competitive Earmarked Research Grant (2000) |
Mobile
Communications Enhancement through Fast Adaptive
Signal Processing |
$239,817 |
| W.S. Wong | RGC
Competitive Earmarked Research Grant (2000) |
Power
Control for Wireless Multimedia System in a
Fading Environment |
$437,817 |