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Wei-Ta
Chu received the B.S. and
M.S. degrees in Computer Science from
National Chi Nan University, Taiwan, in
2000 and 2002, and received the Ph.D.
degree in Computer Science from National
Taiwan University, Taiwan, in 2006. He
was a Professor in National Chung Cheng
University from 2007 to 2019. He is now
a Professor in the Department of
Computer Science and Information
Engineering, National Cheng Kung
University, Taiwan. His research
interests include digital content
analysis, multimedia indexing, deep
learning, and pattern recognition.
He won Best Poster Award at MMM 2023, IEEE MSA-TC Best Paper Award at ISCAS 2021, and the Best Full Technical Paper Award at ACM Multimedia 2006. He was awarded Outstanding Youth Electrical Engineer Award by the Chinese Institute of Electrical Engineering in 2017, the Distinguished Alumni Award presented by National Chi Nan University in 2014, Best GOLD Member Award presented by IEEE Tainan Section in 2013, the K. T. Li Young Researcher Award presented by Institute of Information & Computing Machinery in 2012, and the Young Faculty Awards presented by National Chung Cheng University in 2011. His advised master students received several thesis awards from Taiwan Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Institute of Information & Computing Machinery, the Chinese Institute of Electrical Engineering, and the Chinese Image Processing and Pattern Recognition Society. He was a visiting professor at Nagoya University from January to March 2017, and a visiting scholar at Digital Video & Multimedia Laboratory, Columbia University, from July to August 2008. He is an associate editor of IEEE Transactions on Multimedia since 2022, and was an associate editor of IEICE Transactions on Information and Systems from 2016 to 2020. He serves as General Co-Chair of ACM International Conference on Multimedia Asia 2023; Program Co-Chair of International Conference on Multimedia Modeling 2025, International Conference on Machine Vision Applications 2023, IEEE International Conference on Multimedia & Expo 2022, ACM International Conference on Multimedia Retrieval 2021, International Conference on Multimedia Modelling 2020, and IEEE International Workshop on Multimedia Signal Processing 2019; Special Session Co-Chair of ACM International Conference on Multimedia Asia 2025; Publication Co-Chair of Asian Conference on Computer Vision 2020, IEEE International Conference on Visual Communications and Image Processing 2018, and International Computer Symposium 2016; Area Chair of ACM International Conference on Multimedia 2019 and 2020; Registration Chair of International Computer Symposium 2020; Publicity Co-Chair of Pacific-Rim Conference on Multimedia.