Department of Electronic Engineering, City University of Hong Kong

 

 

 

Dr. CHOW C. K.

 


Research Fellow
Email: chowchi@cityu.edu.hk
Phone: (852) 2788-9892
SupervisorDr. Kelvin S. Y. Yuen 

 


 

I received my B.Eng., M.Phil. and Ph.D. degrees from the Department of Electronic Engineering, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, in 1999, 2001 and 2005 respectively. My research interests include Machine learning, evolutionary computation, computer vision, image processing, self-organizing algorithm, bioinformatics and multiagent system.

 

Recent Publications

 

Computer Vision

 

1.

C. K. Chow and S. Y. Yuen, “A Solution to Illumination Direction Estimation of a Shaded Image: Genetic Algorithm,” to appear in Image and Vision Computing.

2.

C. K. Chow and S. Y. Yuen, “Recovering Shape by Shading and Stereo Under Lambertian Shading Model”, International Journal of Computer Vision, vol. 85, no. 1, pp. 58 – 100, 2009.

3.

S. Y. Yuen, Y. Y Tsui and  C. K. Chow, “A Fast Marching Formulation of Perspective Shape from Shading under Frontal Illumination,” Pattern Recognition Letters, vol. 28, pp. 806-824, 2007.

4.

C. K. Chow and S. Y. Yuen, “Lighting Direction Estimation in Perspective Shape from Shading by Genetic Algorithm,” in Proc. of the 4th Canadian Conference on Computer and Robot Vision, pp. 289-296, 2007.

5.

C. K. Chow and S. Y. Yuen, “Lighting Direction Estimation of a Shaded Image by a Surface-input Regression Network,” in Proc. of IEEE International Joint Conference on Neural Networks, pp. 201-206, 2007.

6.

C. K. Chow and S. Y. Yuen, “Equivalence of Oblique and Frontal Illumination in Perspective Shape from Shading,” in Proc. of IEEE International Conf. on Machine Vision, pp. 7-11, 2007.

7.

C. K. Chow, H. T. Tsui and T. Lee, “Surface registration using a dynamic genetic algorithm”, Pattern Recognition, 37 (1), pp. 105 – 117, 2004.

8.

C. K. Chow, T. Lee and H. T. Tsui, “Surface registration and integration using Genetic algorithm”, in Proc. of Asian Conference on Computer Vision, 2002.

9.

C. K. Chow, T. Lee, H. T. Tsui and T. K. Lau, “Medical image registration and model construction using genetic algorithms,” in Proc. of IEEE International Workshop on Medical Imaging and Augmented Reality, pp. 174 – 179, 2001.

 

Evolutionary Computation

 

1.

C. K. Chow and S. Y. Yuen, “Continuous Non-revisiting Genetic Algorithm with Random Search Space Re-partitioning and One-Gene-Flip Mutation”, to appear in Proc. of IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence 2010.

2.

S. W. Leung, S. Y. Yuen and C. K. Chow, “Parameter Control by the Entire Search History: Case Study of History-driven Evolutionary Algorithm”, to appear in Proc. of IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence 2010.

3.

C. K. Chow and S. Y. Yuen, “An Evolutionary Algorithm that Makes Decision Based on the Entire Previous Search History”, to appear in IEEE Trans. on Evolutionary Computation.

4.

S. Y. Yuen and C. K. Chow, “A Study of Operator and Parameter Choices in Non-Revisiting Genetic Algorithm”, in Proc. of IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence 2009, 2977-2984, 2009.

5.

S. Y. Yuen and C. K. Chow, “Continuous Non-Revisiting Genetic Algorithm”, in Proc. of IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence 2009, pp. 1896-1903, 2009.

6.

S. Y. Yuen and C. K. Chow, “A Genetic Algorithm That Adaptively Mutates and Never Revisits”, IEEE Trans. on Evolutionary Computation, vol. 13, no. 2, pp. 454-472, 2009.

7.

S. Y. Yuen and C. K. Chow, “A Non-revisiting Simulated Annealing Algorithm”, in Proc. of IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence 2008, pp. 1886 - 1892.

8.

C. K. Chow and S. Y. Yuen, “A Non-revisiting Particle Swarm Optimization,” in Proc. of IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence 2008, pp. 1879 - 1885.

9.

S.Y. Yuen and C. K. Chow, “Applying Non-revisiting Genetic Algorithm to Traveling Salesman Problem,” in Proc. of IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence 2008, pp. 2217 - 2224.

10.

C. K. Chow and S. Y. Yuen, “A Non-revisiting Genetic algorithm,” in Proc. of IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation, pp. 4583-4590, 2007.

11.

S. Y. Yuen, H. S. Lam,  C. K. Fong, S. F. Chen and C. K. Chow, “A Robust Iterative Hypothesis Testing Design of the Repeated Genetic Algorithm,” Image and Vision Computing, vol. 23, no. 11, pp. 972-980, 2005.

12.

C. K. Chow and H. T. Tsui, “Autonomous Agent Response Learning by a Multi-Species Particle Swarm Optimization”, in Proc. of IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation, pp. 778 – 785, 2004.

13.

C. K. Chow, H. T. Tsui and Tong Lee, “Optimization on unbounded solution space using dynamic genetic algorithms”, in Proc. of IEEE International Joint Conference on Neural Networks, pp. 2349 – 2354, 2001.

 

Machine Learning

 

1.

C. K. Chow and S. Y. Yuen, “Illumination Direction Estimation for Augmented Reality using a Surface Input Real Valued Output Regression Network”, Pattern Recognitions, vol. 43, no. 4, pp. 1700-1716.

2.

C. K. Chow and S. Y. Yuen, “Bayesian Signal Classifier,” in Proc. of IEEE International Joint Conference on Neural Networks, pp. 207-212, 2007.

3.

C. K Chow and S. Y. Yuen, “Signal Self Organizing Map,” Proc. of IEEE International Joint Conference on Neural Networks, pp. 213-218, 2007.

4.

C. K. Chow and H. T. Tsui, “Agent Swarm Regression Network”, in Proc. of IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man and Cybernetics, pp. 5609 – 5614, 2004.

5.

C. K. Chow and H. T. Tsui, “Agent Swarm Classification Network”, in Proc. of IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man and Cybernetics, pp. 5604 – 5608, 2004.

6.

C. K. Chow and H. T. Tsui, “Sequential RBF Function Estimator: Memory Regression Network”, in Proc. of IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man and Cybernetics, pp. 4815 – 4820, 2004.

7.

C. K. Chow and H. T. Tsui, “Image Enlargement as an Edge Estimation”, in Proc. of IEEE International Joint Conference on Neural Networks, pp. 2577 – 2581, 2004.

8.

C. K. Chow and H. T. Tsui, “Response Knowledge Learning of Autonomous Agent”, in Proc. of IEEE International Joint Conference on Neural Networks, pp. 1133 – 1136, 2004.

9.

C. K. Chow and T. Lee, “Construction of multi-layer feedforward binary neural network by a genetic algorithm”, in Proc. of IEEE International Joint Conference on Neural Networks, pp. 2562 – 2567, 2002.

 

Bioinformatics

 

1.

C. K. Chow, H. Zhu, J. Lacy and W. P Kuo, “Error Margin Analysis for Feature Gene Extraction,” BMC Bioinformatics, 11(241), 2010.

2.

C. K. Chow, H. Zhu, J. Lacy, M. W.  Lingen, W. P.  Kuo and K. Chan, “A Cooperative Feature Gene Extraction Algorithm that Combines Classification and Clustering,” in Proc. of IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine Workshop, 2009, pp. 197-202, 2009.

3.

C. K. Chow and H. Zhu, “A Feature Gene Selection That Considers Classification Accuracy And Gene Redundancy,” in Proc. of the Eight Asia Pacific Bioinformatics Conference, 2010.

 

Heating, Ventilating and Air Conditioning Systems

 

1.

K.F. Fong, S.Y. Yuen, C.K. Chow and S.W. Leung, “Energy management and design of centralized air-conditioning systems through the non-revisiting strategy for heuristic optimization methods,” to appear in Applied Energy.

 

 

 

Professional Services

 

Program Committee Member of International Conference on Evolutionary Computation 2010 (ICEC 2010)

 

Reviewer of Journals

1.      Pattern Recognition Letters

2.     The Computer Journal

 


Last Updated:  July 23, 2010