mission | research activities | equipments | admissions enquiries

CityU Computer Systems Lab (CityU-CSL) is one of the well-equipped research laboratories in the Department of Electronic Engineering at the City University of Hong Kong.

Our mission is to invent and exploit new computer systems technology and to leverage these results for economic advantage of Hong Kong.

In keeping with the mission, one of our most important goals is to provide a place where students can perform leading-edge research projects and grow to become disciplined and self-motivated engineers and scientists. We believe that these skills are most important in helping our students succeed in the job market. In our lab, students can enjoy the challenge of developing new techniques with state-of-the-art facilities to solve real world problems. In short, CityU-CSL is a good place for students and the faculty to invent new technology with fun.

Our lab's activities are focused into the following areas:

• 3D Television
• 3D Cyberworld Design
• 3D Object Matching and Recognition
• Connectionist Approach in Language Understanding
• Content Based Image Retrieval
• Fast Block-Based Motion Estimation Algorithms
• Image and Video Coding
• Intelligent Building and Home Automation
• Parallel Processing and Computing
• Text to Animation Conversion

Our research team consists of 2 faculty, 3 research assistants, 8 graduate students, 16 undergraduate students and 2 technicians. For further information and the list of current projects, take a look at the section research accessible from our main page.

To support these research activities, the laboratory is equipped with with Unix-based workstations (Ultra 2, Ultra 1, SPARCs ), and PC workstations(Pentium II, Pentium III, Pentium IV,etc) and various peripherals, which are interconnected with a 100 Mbps Fast Ethernet to the Internet through the backbone of CityU Computer Service Center. Miscellaneous equipment includes hi-resolution laserJet printers, laser color printers and a color flatbed scanner . Larger computational needs are currently fulfilled with super-computer: a Beowolf cluster of 16 PC Workstations with high-speed connectivity for parallel processing (Abacus project).

Other equipments are as follow:

• Aglient Model 1662E 68-CH 100MHz state, 500MHz Timing Benchtop Logic Analyzer
• Microtek 68000 IN-CIRCUIT Emulator
• Microtek 8051 IN-CIRCUIT Emulator
• Silicon Graphics Indigo 2 Solid Impact Workstation
• DELL Precision 220 Pentium III 866MHz PC
• DELL Dimension 4550 Pentium 4 2.4GHz PC

Admission Enquiries

If you would like to apply to our university and join the CityU-CSL research team, you may visit and obtain related information from School of Graduate as appropriate.