I²R researchers score in Tan Kah Kee Young Inventors’ Award 2004!

I²R researchers participating in the 2004 Tan Kah Kee Young Inventors’ Award did the institute proud once again this year. From the 266 entries entered for the Open section, I²R emerged as a big winner sweeping a total of six awards, one more than in 2003.

The award ceremony was held at the Singapore Science Centre on 3 April 2004. This year, no Gold Award was given out. Among the three Silver Awards presented, two went out to I²R. Three other teams won Merit Award, with one being a Special Award. Another project won the Commendation Award.

Our congratulations to the following winners:

Silver Award

Non-Intrusive Insertion of Virtual Content into Video Presentations
– by Dr Xu Changsheng

Scalable, Securing JPEG2000 Codec-streams
– by Dr Wu Yong Dong & Ms Ma Di

Merit Award

Dr Chen Jianfeng (left) and Mr Phua Kok Soon with their Merit Award winning project Passive Fetal Heart Monitoring System using Bio-Acoustic Sensor – by Dr Chen Jianfeng, Mr Phua Kok Soon, Dr Louis Shue

CS4: Cascading and sharing for ensembles of Decision Trees
(*Special Award)
– Dr Li Jinyan

Lightweight Advanced Video Codec
– by Dr Lim Keng Pang, Dr Li Zhengguo

Commendation Award
Perceptually-adaptive Video Coding
– by Dr Yang Xiaokang, Dr Lu Zhongkang, Dr Ong Ee Ping

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