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Prof. Dr. Zhe-Ming Lu

Research Fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation

In: Chair of Pattern Recognition and Image Processing, Institute for Computer Science, University of Freiburg, Georges-Koehler-Allee 052, room 01-046,  D-79110 Freiburg i.Br. GERMANY. Tel. : +49-(0)761-203-8275(office), Fax: +49-(0)761-203-8262

My Home Address in Germany: Am Schoenberg 3, 79280 AU, Germany. Tel. +49-(0)761-4019463(home)

Email:zheminglu@informatik.uni-freiburg.de,  or zheminglu@dsp.hit.edu.cn,   or zhemingl@yahoo.com

 

 

Experience

1998 - 1999   INSTRUMENT KING Corporation Ltd. of Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, China

Developer (Part-Time)

I developed three kinds of virtual instruments based on computer, i.e., storage oscillograph, wave grapher, and arbitrary waveform generator, during this period.

1999 - 2000   Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, China

Lecturer

I taught the course "Signals and Systems". I published more than 35 papers on vector quantization during this period.

2000 - 2003  Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, China

Associate Professor

I supervised five graduate students in the field of image processing. I published more than 30 papers during this period and one book in chinese named "Vector Quantization Fundamentals and Applications"(Chinese science press, 2002)

2003 - Present  Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, China

Professor

I supervised eight graduate students in the field of Watermarking. I have published more than 15 papers during this period. I organized and chaired the invited session "Image Compression and Digital Watermarking Techniques"for the 7th World Multi-conference on Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics (SCI 2003). I became a member of the IEEE and SPIE.

2004 - 2005   University of Freiburg

Visiting Scientist, Research Fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation

I supervised four undergraduate students in Seminar CBIR for the University of Freiburg, the subjects are: 1. VQ in CBIR (Student Name: Sebastian Boehmer); 2. Watermarking in CBIR (Student Name: Henrik Skibbe); 3. Compressed-domain CBIR (Student Name: Christian Ott); 4. Semantic Based CBIR (Student Name: Frieder Hofmann). The students in Subjects 2 and 3 got the highest score in the Seminar. I cooperated with a ph.d. student and finish one IEEE Transaction Paper. Now one student is working for me in my research. During this research period, I finish 11 papers and one book chapter for AvH Work, and 20 more papers for other research work.

2006-Present  Harbin Institute of Technology Shenzhen Graduate School, Shenzhen, China. Please refer to the new website.

2000 - Present  Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, China

Director of Signal Processing Lab

I managed the graduate students in three research groups, i.e., Speech Processing, Image Processing, and Information Security. The research work in digital watermarking was supported by Chinese National Natural Foundation. I also cooperated with othe research groups in the project, for national defence science and technology committee, "Research on VXI bus based C-series modules"that has been awarded 2001 second prize of national defence science and technology. In addition, "Research on Nonlinear Image Filtering, Vector Quantization Image Compression and Image Fusion"has been awarded 2002 first prize of ministry of education in China.

2003 - Present   Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, China

Vice Superintendent of Information Countermeasure Technique Institute

I am in charge of Signal Processing and Information Hiding in the Information Countermeasure Technique Institute now. 

My Research Lab in China

The HIT in China

Education

1991 - 1995  Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, China

Bachelor/Electrical Engineering

I was the monitor in charge of study in the undergraduate class. I won the first prize of HIT for four times, and the second prize for three times during this period. I was awarded THREE-GOOD student of HIT in 1994.

1995 - 1997  Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, China

Master/Electrical Engineering

I won the first prize of HIT for two times during this period. I took part in the Chinese Communist Party in 1996.

1997 - 2001  Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, China

Doctor/Signal and Information Processing

I won the prize of Chinese Academy of Science in 1999. I became the lecturer of HIT in 1999. I became the associate professor of the HIT and the director of Signal Processing Lab of the HIT in 2000. During this period, I published more than 40 papers on vector quantization in journals and conferences. More than 20 papers are indexed by SCI and EI.

Scientific Interests

  • Image and Video Compression
  • Visual Information Retrieval
  • Invariant Features
  • Information Security
  • Digital Watermarking
  • Image Analysis

Research in the year 2005

  • VQ Based Image Retrieval
  • Watermarking Technique in Content-based Image Retrieval
  • Semantic Based Image Retrieval
  • 3-D Object Retrieval
  • VQ-based Video Watermarking
  • Watermark Attack Methods
  • Wavelet Transform Based Image Processing

Social Positions by the end of 2005. (For new version, refer to the new website)

  • Associate Editor of “International Journal of Innovation Computing and Information Control”;
  • Research Fellow of Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Guest Professor of University of Freiburg, Germany;
  • Program Committee Member of the first International Conference on Innovative Computing, Information and Control, 2006;
  • Steering Member of International Conference on Intelligent Information Hiding and Multimedia Signal Processing;
  • Program Committee Member of the first International Workshop on Intelligent Information Hiding and Multimedia Signal Processing (SCI-E indexed International Conference), 2005;
  • Program Committee Member of the first International Conference on Computational Intelligence and Security(SCI-E indexed International Conference), 2005;
  • The Session Chair of the international conference SCI’2003 in USA;
  • The reviewer for Elsevier SCI Journal: Journal of Systems and Software;
  • The reviewer for SPIE SCI Journal: Journal of Electronic Imaging;
  • The reviewer for international SCI Journal: Image Science Journal;
  • Member of the IEEE and the SPIE;
  • Member of the First Youth Association of Heilongjiang Province;
  • Chairman of Youth Association of Harbin Institute of Technology;
  • Project Referee of Signal and Information Branch of National Natural Science Foundation of China;
  • The reviewer for SCI-E Journals <JOURNAL OF COMPUTER SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY> and <Chinese Journal of Electronics>.

Publications by the end of 2005

 

Whole Publication List by the end of 2005(110 papers)

 

Some Typical Publication

 

Books or book chapters

1.    Sheng-He Sun and Zhe-Ming Lu (2002): Vector Quantization Fundamentals and Applications. Beijing. Chinese Science Press. pp.1-468. (In Chinese).

2.    Zhe-Ming Lu and Chun-Hui Zhao (2004): Tutorship for the Study and Graduate Entrance Exam of Signals and Systems. Beijing. Chinese Science Press. pp.1-503. (In Chinese).

3.    Sheng-He Sun, Zhe-Ming Lu and Xia-Mu Niu et. al. (2004): Digital Watermarking Fundamentals and Applications. Beijing. Chinese Science Press. pp.1-714. (In Chinese).

4.    C. S. Shieh, H.-C. Huang, Z. M. Lu, and J. S. Pan, "Watermarking Based on Vector Quantization,"J. S. Pan, H.-C. Huang, and L. C. Jain (editors), 2004, Intelligent Watermarking Techniques, World Scientific Publishing Company, Singapore (850 pages + 1 attached CD) (ISBN: 9-81238-757-9), Chapter 7, pp. 165-184. 

Some Typical Papers (Selected first or second authored important papers)

 

IEEE/IEE Journal Papers

1.      Zhe-Ming Lu, Dian-Guo Xu and Sheng-He Sun (2005): Multipurpose Image Watermarking Algorithm Based on Multistage Vector Quantization. IEEE Transactions on Image Processing. 14 (6): 822-831. (SCI: ISSN1057-7149 & EI: 05259169190).

2.      Jeng-Shyang Pan, Zhe-Ming Lu and Sheng-He Sun (2003): An Efficient Encoding Algorithm for Vector Quantization Based on Subvector Technique. IEEE Transactions on Image Processing. 12(3): 265-270. (SCI: ISSN1057-7149 & EI: 03237497779).

3.      Xia-mu Niu, Zhe-ming Lu and Sheng-he Sun (2000): Digital Watermarking of Still Images with Gray-level Digital Watermarks. IEEE Transactions on Consumer Electronics. 46(1): 137-145. (SCI: ISSN0098-3063 & EI: 00045146241).

4.      Zhe-Ming Lu and Hans Burkhardt (2005): Colour Image Retrieval Based on DCT-Domain Vector Quantisation Index Histograms. IEE Electronics Letters. 41(17): 956-957. (SCI: ISSN0013-5194 & EI: 05379362251).

5.      Zhe-Ming Lu, Chun-He Liu, Dian-Guo Xu and Sheng-He Sun (2003): Semi-fragile Image Watermarking Method Based on Index Constrained Vector Quantisation. IEE Electronics Letters. 39(1): 35-36. (SCI: ISSN0013-5194 & EI: 03067352100).

6.      Zhe-Ming Lu, Jeng-Shyang Pan and Sheng-He Sun (2000): Efficient Codeword Search Algorithm Based on Hadamard Transform. IEE Electronics Letters. 36(16): 1364-1365. (SCI: ISSN0013-5194 & EI: 00095305428).

7.      Zhe-ming Lu, Jeng-shyang Pan and Sheng-he Sun (2000): VQ-based Digital Image Watermarking Method. IEE Electronics Letters. 36(14): 1201-1202. (SCI: ISSN0013-5194 & EI: 00085269761).

8.      Z. M. Lu and S. H. Sun (2000): Digital Image Watermarking Technique Based on Vector Quantisation. IEE Electronics Letters. 36(4): 303-305. (SCI: ISSN0013-5194 & EI: 00035094224).

9.      Xia-mu Niu, Zhe-ming Lu and Sheng-he Sun (2000): Digital Image Watermarking Based on Multiresolution Decomposition. IEE Electronics Letters. 36(13): 1108-1110. (SCI: ISSN0013-5194 & EI: 00085259175).

10. J. S. Pan, Z. M. Lu and S. H. Sun (2000): Fast Codeword Search Algorithm for Image Coding Based on Mean-Variance Pyramids of Codewords. IEE Electronics Letters. 36(3): 210-211. (SCI: ISSN0013-5194 & EI: 00045115914).

 

Elsevier Journal Papers

11. Shu-Chuan Chu, Zhe-Ming Lu and Jeng-Shyang Pan (2006 Accepted): Hadamard Transform Based Fast Codeword Search Algorithm for High-dimensional VQ Encoding. Information Science. Accepted for publications. Third revised in 2005-12. ID: INS-D-04-00555R2. (SCI,EI).

12. Yu-Long Qiao, Zhe-Ming Lu, Jeng-Shyang Pan, and Sheng-He Sun (2006 Revised). Fast K-Nearest Neighbor Search Algorithm Based on Pyramid Structure of Wavelet Transform and Its Application in Texture Classification. Submitted to Information Science. Revised in 2005-12. ID: INS-D-05-873. (SCI,EI).

 

IEICE Journal Papers

13. Zhe-Ming Lu and Hui Pei (2005): Hybrid Image Compression Scheme Based on PVQ and DCTVQ. IEICE Transactions on Information and Systems. E88-D(10): 2422-2426. (SCI-E: ISSN0916-8532 & EI).

14. Zhe-Ming LU, Bin YAN and Sheng-He SUN (2005): Watermarking Combined with CELP Speech Coding for Authentication. IEICE Transactions on Information and Systems. E88-D(2): 330-334. (SCI-E: ISSN0916-8532 & EI: 05369349626).

15. Zhe-Ming LU, Wen XING, Dian-Guo XU and Sheng-He SUN (2003): Digital Image Watermarking Method Based on Vector Quantization with Labeled Codewords. IEICE Transactions on Information and Systems. E86-D(12): 2786-2789. (SCI-E: ISSN0916-8532 &EI: 04088026854).

16. Zhe-Ming LU, Hao-Tian WU, Dian-Guo XU and Sheng-He SUN (2003): A Multipurpose Image Watermarking Method for Copyright Notification and Protection. IEICE Transactions on Information and Systems. E86-D(9): 1931-1933. (SCI-E: ISSN0916-8532 & EI: 04148092475).

17. Zhe-Ming LU, Dian-Guo XU and Sheng-He SUN (2003): Fast Codeword Search Algorithm for Image Vector Quantization Based on Ordered Hadamard Transform. IEICE Transactions on Information and Systems. E86-D(7): 1318-1320. (SCI-E: ISSN0916-8532 & EI: 03447697803).

18. Zhe-Ming LU and Sheng-He SUN (2003): Equal-average Equal-variance Equal-norm Nearest Neighbor Search Algorithm for Vector Quantization. IEICE Transactions on Information and Systems. E86-D(3): 660-663. (SCI-E: ISSN0916-8532 & EI: 03317578731).

19. Zhe-Ming LU, Bian YANG and Sheng-He SUN (2002): Image Compression Algorithms Based on Side-Match Vector Quantizer with Gradient-Based Classifiers. IEICE Transactions on Information and Systems. E85-D(9): 1409-1415. (SCI-E: ISSN0916-8532 & EI: 02417134054).

20.  Zhe-Ming LU, Jeng-Shyang PAN and Sheng-He SUN (2000): Image Coding Based on Classified Side-Match Vector Quantization. IEICE Transactions on Information and Systems. E83-D(12): 2189-2192. (SCI-E: ISSN0916-8532 & EI: 01015492775).

 

Other SCI-Expanded Journal Papers

21. LU Zheming and LI Yuenan(2005 Accepted): A Mean Value Predictive Vector Quantizer for Image Compression. Chinese Journal of Electronics. Accepted for publication. (SCI, EI).

22. LU Zheming and LI Suzhi (2006): Multipurpose Watermarking Algorithm for Secret Communication. Chinese Journal of Electronics. 15(1): 79-84. (SCI, EI).

23. LU Zheming, YANG Bian, GUO Shize and SUN Shenghe (2003): A Hybrid VQ Scheme for Complexity Constrained Image Compression Applications. Chinese Journal of Electronics (English Version). 12(3): 330-334. (SCI-E: ISSN1022-4653 & EI: 03307558648).

24. LU Zheming, LIU Chunhe and SUN Shenghe (2002): Digital Image Watermarking Technique Based on Block Truncation Coding with Vector Quantization. Chinese Journal of Electronics (English Version). 11(2): 152-157. (SCI-E: ISSN1022-4653 & EI: 02226962529).

25. LU Zheming, PAN Jengshyang and SUN Shenghe (2000). An Efficient BTC Image Compression Algorithm with Vector Quantization. Chinese Journal of Electronics (English Version). 9(4): 453-456. (SCI-E: ISSN1022-4653 & EI: 00115411507).

26. LU Zheming, PAN Jengshyang and SUN Shenghe (2000): A Modified Tabu Search Algorithm for Codeword Index Assignment. Chinese Journal of Electronics (English Version). 9(2): 166-168. (SCI-E: ISSN1022-4653 & EI: 00275177688).

27. JIANG Shouda, LU Zheming and WANG Qi (2003): Fast Norm-Ordered Nearest-Neighbor Codeword Search Algorithms for Image Vector Quantization. Chinese Journal of Electronics (English Version). 12(3): 373-376. (SCI-E: ISSN1022-4653 & EI: 03307558657).

28. NIU Xiamu, LU Zheming and SUN Shenghe (2000): Gray-Level Digital Watermarking of Still Images. Chinese Journal of Electronics (English Version). 9(3): 253-256. (SCI-E: ISSN1022-4653 & EI: 00095334597).

29. PAN J. S., LU Zheming, SHIEH C. S. and SUN Shenghe (2000): Application of Tabu Search Approach to Energy Allocation for Index Transmission of Codeword. Chinese Journal of Electronics (English Version). 9(4): 471-474. (SCI-E: ISSN1022-4653 & EI: 00115411511).

 

SCI-Expanded Conference Papers

30. Zhe-Ming Lu, Henrik Skibbe, and Hans Burkhardt. Image Retrieval Based on a Multipurpose Watermarking Scheme. Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, Volume 3682, Aug 2005: 573-579. 2005 International Workshop on Intelligent Information Hiding and Multimedia Signal Processing, September 14-16, 2005, Hilton Hotel, Melbourne, Australia. (SCI-E: ISSN0302-9743, EI).

31. Zhe-Ming Lu, Hui Pei, and Hans Burkhardt (2005): A Spatial/Frequency Hybrid Vector Quantizer Based on A Classification in the DCT Domain. Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, Volume 3802, pp. 820-825. 2005 International Conference on Computational Intelligence and Security, December 15-19, 2005, Xi'an, China. (SCI-E: ISSN0302-9743, EI).

32. Bin Yan, Zhe-Ming Lu, Sheng-He Sun, and Jeng-Shyang Pan (2005): Speech Authentication by Semi-fragile Watermarking. Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, Volume 3683, Aug 2005:497-504. 2005 International Workshop on Intelligent Information Hiding and Multimedia Signal Processing, September 14-16, 2005, Hilton Hotel, Melbourne, Australia. (SCI-E: ISSN0302-9743, EI).

 

Other International Journal Papers

33. Zhe-Ming Lu, Su-Zhi Li and Hans Burkhardt (2005 Accepted): A Content-based Image Retrieval Scheme in JPEG Compressed Domain. Submitted to International Journal of Innovative Computing, Information and Control. Accepted for publication. (2005-5-28, IJICIC-05-028).

34. Zhe-Ming Lu and Xin-Wu Liao (2005 Accepted): COUNTERFEITING ATTACKS ON TWO ROBUST WATERMARKING SCHEMES. International Journal of Innovative Computing, Information and Control. Accepted for publication. (IJICIC-05-024) (EI).

35. Yu-Long Qiao, Zhe-Ming Lu, Jeng-Shyang Pan and Sheng-He Sun (2005 Accepted): Spline Wavelets Based Texture Features for Image Retrieval. International Journal of Innovative Computing, Information and Control. Accepted for publication. (IJICIC-05-014) (EI).

36. Zhe-Ming Lu, Xiu-Na Xu and Jeng-Shyang Pan (2005 Accepted): Face Detection Based on Vector Quantization in Color Images. International Journal of Innovative Computing, Information and Control. Accepted for publication. (IJICIC-05-026) (EI).

37. Zhe-Ming Lu, Shu-Chuan Chu and Kuang-Chih Huang (2005). Equal-average equal-variance equal-norm nearest neighbor codeword search algorithm based on ordered Hadamard transform. International Journal of Innovative Computing, Information and Control. 1(1): 35-41. (EI).

38. Hao-Xian Wang, Zhe-Ming Lu, Jeng-Shyang Pan and Sheng-He Sun (2005). Robust blind video watermarking with adaptive embedding mechanism. 1(2):247-259. (EI).

39. Xia-Mu Niu, Zhe-Ming Lu and Sheng-He Sun (2000): Digital Watermarking Based on Error Correction Coding Technique. Image Processing & Communications. 6(1-2): 23-28.

 

Selected EI-indexed Conference Papers

40. Hao-Luo and Zhe-Ming Lu (2005): A Block-DCT Based Edge Detector Algorithm. The 6th International Symposium on Test and Measurement (ISTM'2005), Dalian ,China, June 1-4,2005: 6381-6383.   (EI).

41. Xiu-Na Xu and Zhe-Ming Lu (2005): Real-Time Face Detection based on Skin Color Model. The 6th International Symposium on Test and Measurement (ISTM'2005), Dalian ,China, June 1-4,2005: 6362-6365. (EI).

42. Yu-Long Qiao, Zhe-Ming Lu and Sheng-He Sun (2005): An Improved Partial Distance Search Algorithm for K Nearest-neighbor Classification. The 6th International Symposium on Test and Measurement (ISTM'2005), Dalian ,China, June 1-4,2005: 5825-5828.  (EI).

43. Zhe-Ming Lu and Zhen Sun (2005). An Image Watermarking Method Based on Mean-removed Vector Quantization for Multiple Purposes. IAPR Conference on Machine Vision Applications. Tsukuba International Congress Center, Tsukuba Science City, Japan, May 16-18, 2005: 558-561. (EI).

44. Xin-Wu Liao, Zhe-Ming Lu, and Zhen-Sun (2005): Attack on Quantized Projection Watermarking Scheme. The 6th International Symposium on Test and Measurement (ISTM'2005), Dalian ,China, June 1-4,2005: 6366-6369. (EI).

45. Shu-Chuan Chu, Zhe-Ming Lu, Jeng-Shyang Pan and Kuang-Chih Huang (2004): Hadamard Transform Based Fast Codeword Search Algorithm for High-dimensional VQ Encoding.. 2004 IEEE Asia-Pacific Conference on Circuits and Systems, December 6-9, 2004, Tainan, Taiwan. 85-88. (EI: 05078841356).

46.  J. S. Pan, Z. M. Lu, S. C. Chu and S. H. Sun (1999): Non-redundant VQ Channel Coding Using Modified Tabu Search Approach with Simulated Annealing. The 3rd International Conference on Knowledge-based Intelligent Information Engineering Systems (IKES’99, IEEE Press), Adelaide, Australia, 31st Aug.-1st Sept., 1999: 242-245. (EI: 00025004830).

47. J. S. Pan, Z. M. Lu and S. H. Sun (2000): A Fast Image Coding Algorithm Using Variable-Rate Mean-Match Correlation Vector Quantization. The 4th International Conference on Knowledge-Based Intelligent Engineering Systems & Allied Technologies (IKES’2000, IEEE press), Brighton, United Kingdom, Aug. 30- Sept. 1, 2000: 572-576. (EI: 00115417821).

48. J. S. PAN, Z. M. LU and S. H. SUN (2000): Image Coding Using SMVQ with Two-Level Block Classifier. IEEE International Symposium on Multimedia Software Engineering (MSE’2000), Tamkang University, Taipei, Taiwan, Dec., 11-13, 2000: 276-279. (ISTP: BR48X).

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