Research Grants (1997- )
Principal Investigator:
- UGC Direct Grant for Research 1997/1998 (faculty start-up fund),
"3D Motion Specification in the Virtual Space",
$100,000
- UGC Direct Grant for Research 1998/1999, "Physics-based Picking of Virtual Hand Models",
$93,500
- RGC Cooperative Research Centre (CRC) Grant 1999/2002, "Virtual Reality,
Visualization and Imaging Research Centre", $3,000,000.00,
(Co-PI: Virtual Reality)
- UGC Direct Grant for Research 1999/2000 (fundable RGC Earmarked),
"Pose-based Virtual Hand Input in VR Applications",
$80,000
- Major Research Grant 2000/2001, "Study on Image-based Virtual Reality",
MOP$89,000.00, (Co-PI with Prof. E. Wu, Macau Univ.)
- NSFC/RGC Joint Research Scheme 2001/2003, "Advanced Knowledge
Discovery & Spatial-Temporal Visualization for Georeferenced
Information", $480,000+RMB$350,000
- UGC Direct Grant for Research 2000/2001 (fundable RGC Earmarked),
"Multisensory VR Dental Surgical Simulation", $125,857
- Visit Professor Grant 2000/2001, "Real-time Rendering of Large-Scale
Complex Virtual Environments", State-Key Lab. of CAD/CG,
Zhejiang University, $80,000
- RGC Earmarked Grant 2001/2002, "A Multisensory Virtual Environment
for Dental Surgical Simulation & Training", $387,248
- Major Research Grant 2002/2003, "Processing and Rendering of Out-of-Core
Models", MOP$160,000.00, (Co-PI)
- RGC Earmarked Grant 2002/2003, "Interactive Deformable
Registration & Simulation of Medical Volumetric Datasets", $413,404
- UGC Direct Grant for Research 2002/2004, "Image-based Synthesized
Techniques for Augmented Reality", $100,000
- RGC Earmarked Grant 2003/2004, "Multi-touch Haptic Sculpting with
Constrained Geometries in Virtual Volume Space", $324,000
- National 973 Major Research Grant 2003/2007, "Fundamental Theory,
Algorithms and Application of Virtual Reality", RMB$25,000,000.00,
(Co-PI: Augmented Reality)
- UGC Direct Grant for Research 2004/2006, "Interactive Multi-Resolution
Modeling Based on 2nd Generation Wavelets", $100,000
- Major Research Grant 2004/2005, "Reconstruction & Rendering of Complex
Environment from Depth Images I", MOP$40,000.00, (Co-PI)
- Major Research Grant 2005/2006, "Reconstruction & Rendering of Complex
Environment from Depth Images II", MOP$356,800.00, (Co-PI)
- UGC Direct Grant for Research 2005/2007 (fundable RGC Earmarked),
"Interactive Image/Video
Redressing Simulation for On-line E-Fashion Applications", $65,360
- Croucher Chinese Visitorships, "Research on Real-time Morphing
Animation Techniques", 2003/2004, $144,000
- KC Wong Education Foundation Sponsorship of Chinese Scholars for ACM
VRST 2002, HK$90,000
- RGC Earmarked Grant 2006/2007, "Wavelet-based Multiresolution Analysis
& Modeling of Interactive Surfaces", $700,000
- UGC Direct Grant for Research 2008/2010 (fundable RGC Earmarked),
"Innovative MLFFT-based Image Registration Techniques", $78,076
- The Croucher Foundation Sponsorship of Conferences 2005/2006, "ACM
International Conference on Virtual Reality Continuum and Its
Applications VRCIA 2006", HK$100,000
- KC Wong Education Foundation Sponsorship of Chinese Scholars for ACM
VRCIA 2006, HK$45,000
- RGC Earmarked Grant, "Image/Video based Soft Fabric Redressing on
Objects/Environment for Interactive E-commerce Applications",
2007/2008, $684,000
- UGC Direct Grant for Research 2009/2011 (fundable RGC Earmarked),
"Efficient Image/Video based Large-Scale Displays", $62,000
- National 973 Major Research Grant 2009/2013, "Fundamental
Research and Techniques in Augmented Reality", RMB$32,000,000.00,
(Co-PI: Interactive Hybrid Worlds)
- UGC Direct Grant for Research 2010/2012 (fundable RGC Earmarked),
"Dynamic Soft-fabric Interactions and Simulation", $91,983.5
- RGC Earmarked Grant, "Interactive Natural-Texture Modeling and
Synthesis", (plus CUHK top-up fund), 2011/2014, $1,129,350
- RGC Earmarked Grant, "Realistic Soft-fabrics Interacting with
Augmented Fluids Phenomena", (plus CUHK top-up fund), 2012/2015, $520,000
Co-Investigator:
- Mainland NSFC Grant, "Research on the Techniques of Hybrid Image and
Graphics-based VR Systems", $150,000 (with Prof. Wu
Enhua, Academic Sinica), 1998/2000.
- Industrial Support Fund (ISF), "Airborne Remote Sensing for
Developing Hong Kong Spatial Data Infrastructure", $7,996,000
(with Prof. Lin Hui, JLGIS of CUHK, et al.), 1998/2000.
- RGC Earmarked Grant, "Development of a Virtual Studio for Designing
the Ecological Security Pattern of the Country Park System in Hong
Kong", $605,000 (with Prof. Lin Hui, JLGIS of CUHK,
et al.), 1999/2001.
- Major Research Grant, "Hybrid Approach in Virtual Reality Based
on a Combination of Graphics and Images", $98,600 (with
Prof. E. Wu, Macau Univ.), 2001/2002.
- Focused Scheme C Grant - Groups and Individuals, "Strategic Research
Area in Computer Assisted Medicine", $1,000,000, 2006/2008.
- Mainland NSFC Grant, "Study on Simulation Theory and Key Techniques of
Multi-mold Mixed Fluids", $560,000 (with Prof. SG Liu, Tianjin
University), 2012/2015.
- Mainland NSFC Grant, "Enhanced Content-Aware Rendering Techniques and
System", $780,000 (with Prof. WC Wang, Institute of Software of CAS),
2014/2017.
- Social Science Collaborative Research Fund, "Correlation Analysis of
Emotional Experience based on Dynamic Context-awareness and Multi-modal
Emotion Recognition", $317,814 (with Prof. H. Lin, Institute of Space
and Earth Info. Science, CUHK), 2014/2016.
- Mainland NSFC Young Science Grant, "Multi-camera Joint Synopsis and
Browsing for Surveillance Videos", $200,000 (with Prof. YW Nie, SCUT),
2017/2019.
- CUHK Area of Excellence in the center of Geo-Information Science.