About

Welcome to the Video, Image, and Sound Analysis Lab (VISAL) at the City University of Hong Kong! The lab is directed by Dr. Antoni Chan in the Department of Computer Science.

Our main research activities include:

• Computer Vision, Surveillance
• Machine Learning, Pattern Recognition
• Computer Audition, Music Information Retrieval

For more information about our current research, please visit the projects and publication pages.

Recent News [more]

• [Apr 11, 2012] Two papers accepted to CVPR 2012: "Growing a Bag of Systems Tree for Fast and Accurate Classification" (w/ Emanuele Coviello and Gert Lanckriet, UCSD); "Adaptive Figure-Ground Classification" (w/ Yisong Chen, Peking Univ.)
• [Sep 23, 2011] Journal paper on "Counting People with Low-Level Features and Bayesian Regression" accepted to IEEE Trans. on Image Processing (TIP).
• [Jul 01, 2011] Journal paper on "Time Series Models for Semantic Music Annotation" appears in IEEE Trans. on Audio, Speech, and Language Processing (TASLP).
• [Jun 21, 2011] Conference paper on "Generalized Gaussian Process Models" presented at CVPR 2011.
• [Oct 02, 2010] Congratulations to Tom LI for graduating!
• Opportunities for graduate students and research assistants! If you are interested in joining the lab, please check this information.