Towards Practical Remote Photoplethysmography Detector

Speaker/s

Pong C Yuen received his Ph.D. degree in Electrical and Electronic Engineering from The University of Hong Kong. He joined the Hong Kong Baptist University in 1993 and served as the Head of the Department of Computer Science (2011–2017), and Associate Dean of Science Faculty (2018-2024). Currently, he is a Chair Professor at the Department of Computer Science at Hong Kong Baptist University. Dr. Yuen was a recipient of the University Fellowship to visit The University of Sydney in 1996. Dr. Yuen spent his sabbatical and visited several universities/research institutes, including The University of Maryland Institute for Advanced Computer Studies (UMIACS), the University of Maryland at College Park, INRIA Rhone Alpes, France, ETH Zurich, Switzerland, and The University of Bologna, Italy. Dr. Yuen was the director of Croucher Advanced Study Institute (ASI) on biometric authentication in 2004 and the director of Croucher ASI on Biometric Security and Privacy in 2007. He has been serving as the Director of IAPR/IEEE Winter School on Biometrics since 2017. Dr. Yuen has been actively involved in many international conferences and professional communities. He was the track co-chair of the International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR) 2006, the program co-chair of the IEEE Fifth International Conference on Biometrics: Theory, Applications and Systems (BTAS) 2012, the IEEE International Conference on Identity, Security and Behavior Analysis (ISBA) 2016, the International Workshop on Information, Forensics and Security (WIFS) 2018, International Joint Conference on Biometrics (IJCB) 2021. He served as Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security (2014 – 2018, 2021-2022), and received the Outstanding Editorial Board Service Award in 2018. Dr. Yuen has also served as the Vice President (Technical Activities) of the IEEE Biometrics Council (2017-2019), and Associate Editor/Senior Editor of SPIE Journal of Electronic Imaging (2012-2019). Currently, Dr. Yuen is serving as the Senior Area Editor of IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security, Editorial Board Member of Pattern Recognition, and Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Biometrics, Behavior and Identity Science. He received the first-prize and second-prize Natural Science Awards from the Guangdong Province and the Ministry of Education, China, respectively. He is a Fellow of IAPR. Dr. Yuen's current research interests include biometric security and privacy, video surveillance, and medical informatics.