Szu-Wei (Wesley) Lee

9505 Gold Coast Driver, Unit#63, San Diego, CA, 92126

515-708-3637

szuwei.lee@usc.edu or swli@ms14.hinet.net

Objective

Software/firmware engineer related to multimedia, audio and video processing

Education

University of Southern California, LA, CA

¡P     PhD candidate, Electrical Engineering

¡P     Academic Advisor: Professor C. C. Jay Kuo

¡P     GPA 4.0

University of Southern California, LA, CA

¡P     MS, Electrical Engineering

¡P     GPA 4.0

National Chiao Tung University, Hsin-Chu, Taiwan

¡P     M.S. Computer science and information engineering

¡P     Academic Advisor: Professor Chi-Min Liu

¡P     GPA 4.0

National Chiao Tung University, Hsin-Chu, Taiwan

¡P     B.S. Computer science and information engineering

¡P     GPA 3.8

08/2005 ¡V 05/2008 (Expected)

08/2005 ¡V 12/2006

08/1996 ¡V 06/2000

08/1992 ¡V 06/1996

Skills/Abilities

¡P     Experience of more than 8 years in Digital Audio and Video Processing

¡P     Expert knowledge on various audio and video compression standards such as Dolby AC-3, MPEG audio, MPEG-2 video and H.264/AVC

¡P     Expert knowledge on audio post-processing algorithms such as Dolby Pro Logic and Pro Logic-II.

¡P     Programming language C/C++, Pascal, Java,  assembly language such as x86, x87 and MMX instructions

¡P     Experience in application speed optimization on Intel and AMD CPUs

¡P     Superior skill in development application software on Windows, Windows CE, and Linux platforms

¡P     Experience in Windows DirectX SDK

Research Interests

Multimedia Signal Processing with special emphasis on Digital Audio and Video compression and Post-processing, including

¡P     Rate-Distortion and Decoder Complexity Optimization Video Encoder Design

¡P     Rate-Distortion Optimization Audio Encoder Design

¡P     Fast Computing Algorithms for 1D, 2D DCT and MDCT

Experience

Internship, Qualcomm, San Diego, CA, US (Feb. 2008 - Present)

Research Assistance, Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Southern California, (Sep. 2006 ¡V Present)

¡P     JPEG 2000 encoder and decoder speed optimization

¡P     JPEG 2000 bit stream transmission over internet (streaming)

Internship, Invervideo, Fremont, CA, US (May 2006 ¡V Aug. 2006) http://www.intervideo.com

¡P     H.264 and MPEG-2 video decoding using DirectX Video Acceleration  2.0 (DXVA 2.0)

¡P     H.264 encoder optimization on Intel dual core platform

Software Manager, Invervideo, Taipei, TW (June 2000 ¡V July 2005) http://www.intervideo.com

¡P     Dolby AC-3 encoder implementation license

¡P     Dolby Pro Logic-II implementation license

¡P     Optimization for software DVD player, WinDVD, for all x86 platform CPUs, such as Intel, AMD, Cyrix and Transmeta

¡P     Video decoding acceleration and video quality customization for various video graphic adapter, such as ATI, Nvidia, Intel, SIS and S3.

¡P     MPEG-2 program stream demux and mux

¡P     DVD video recording (DVD-VR) authoring

¡P     DVD-RW and DVD-RAM burning

¡P     Port WinDVD player from Windows platform to embedded WinCE platform

Software assistant manager, Formosoft, Hsin-Chu, TW (Aug. 1998 ¡V May 2000)

http://www.formosoft.com

¡P     Dolby AC-3 multi-channel decoder implementation license

¡P     Audio enhance component

Professional Activities

Served as a reviewer for several journals and conferences, including

¡P     IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems-Part I: Regular Papers (TCAS-I 2008)

¡P     Journal of Visual Communication and Image Representation for the Special Issue on "Resource-aware adaptive video streaming" (JVCIR2008)

¡P     IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP2008)

¡P     IEEE International Workshop on Multimedia Signal Processing 2007 (MMSP2007)

¡P     IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology (TCSVT 2007)

¡P     IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing (TSP 2004)

¡P     IEEE Signal Processing Letters (SPL 2002, 2004, 2005 and 2007)

Publications

¡P     Szu-Wei Lee and C. C. Jay Kuo, "Complexity Modeling of H.264/AVC CAVLC/UVLC Entropy Decoders,¡¨  accepted by IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems 2008 (ISCAS2008)

¡P     Szu-Wei Lee and C. C. Jay Kuo, ¡§Motion compensation complexity mode for decoder-friendly H.264 system design,¡¨ accepted by International Workshop on Multimedia Signal Processing 2007 (MMSP2007)

¡P     Szu-Wei Lee and C. C. Jay Kuo, ¡§Complexity modeling for context-based adaptive binary arithmetic coding (CABAC) in H.264/AVC decoder,¡¨ accepted by SPIE 2007.

¡P     Szu-Wei Lee and C. C. Jay Kuo, ¡§Complexity Modeling for Motion Compensation in H.264/AVC Decoder¡¨, accepted by IEEE Int. Conf. Image Processing 2007 (ICIP2007).

¡P     Szu-Wei Lee, ¡§Improved algorithm for efficient computation of the forward and backward MDCT in MPEG audio coder¡¨, IEEE Trans. on Circuits and Systems Part II, vol.48, no.10, pp. 990-994, 2001.

¡P     Szu-Wei Lee and Chi-Min Liu,¡¨ Transformation from 512-point transformed coefficients to 256-point transformed coefficients for Dolby AC-3 decoder¡¨, Electronics Letters, vol. 35, no. 19, pp.1614-1615, 1999.

¡P     Chi-Min Liu, Szu-Wei Lee and Wen-Chieh Lee,¡¨Bit allocation method for AC-3 encoder,¡¨ IEEE Trans. on Consumer Electronics, vol. 44, no. 3, pp. 883-887, 1998.