The Multimedia Processing and Communications (MPAC) Lab is led by Professor Homer H. Chen of the Graduate Institute of Communication Engineering (GICE) at National Taiwan University. The mission of our lab is to develop cutting-edge technology for real-world problems and to give students world-class training in research. Our research projects are related to computational photography and display, big data, music recommendation, and content delivery. The foundation of our technology development includes machine learning, vision science, image processing, audio processing, data science, affective computing, and communication networks.

  • [OCT 2023] 恭賀陳宏銘教授入選 「全球前 2% 頂尖科學家排行榜」.
  • [SEP 2023] 恭賀陳宏銘教授榮獲「第30屆 東元獎」(電機/資訊/通訊科技領域).
  • [JUL 2023] 恭賀錡亭勳、彭琝榮獲「2023臺大電機系大學部精專獎第參獎」.
  • [MAR 2023] 恭賀陳姍苓榮獲「教育部全國大專校院人工智慧競賽 (AI CUP 2022) 優等及趨勢科技學生預聘獎以及佳作獎」.
  • [FEB 2023] 恭賀羅翊展榮獲「臺大電信所110年度最佳博士學位論文獎」.
  • [OCT 2022] Lab party at 曉鹿鳴樓
  • [OCT 2021] 恭賀陳宏銘教授研究團隊榮獲「未來科技獎」.
  • [JUN 2021] 恭賀陳宏銘教授榮膺「第十九屆有庠科技講座」(資通訊科技).
  • [APR 2021] Homer's birthday party.
  • [OCT 2020] 恭賀黃于瑄榮獲「中國電機工程學會109年度青年論文獎」的第二名.
  • [AUG 2020] 恭賀李奕欣榮獲「中華民國影像處理與圖形識別學會第十三屆碩士論文獎」的佳作獎.
  • [JUL 2020] 恭賀劉昶樂榮獲108年度大專學生研究計畫創作獎.
  • [JUL 2020] 恭賀劉昶樂榮獲臺大電機系大學部精專獎的首獎.
  • [JUN 2020] 恭賀劉昶樂榮獲臺大第四屆學士班學生論文獎之傅斯年獎.
  • [JUN 2020] 恭賀施光祖博士後榮獲科技部108年度博士後研究人員學術研究獎.
  • [SEP 2019] 恭賀何吉瑞榮獲台大電機精專獎NTUEE Innovation Award.
  • [SEP 2019] 恭賀何吉瑞榮獲107年度大專學生研究計畫創作獎.
  • [SEP 2019] 恭賀何吉瑞榮獲臺大電機系大學部精專獎首獎.
  • [APR 2019] Our research team presented our AI technique on thumbnail image selection for VOD services at MIPR conference on 28 March, 2019.
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  • [MAR 2019] We won the best creativity award of 2nd Carmaker on 24 March, 2019.
    恭賀陳宏銘教授研究團隊榮獲「第二屆台灣車客松競賽最佳創客獎」。
  • [JUL 2018] 恭賀陳怡瑋榮獲電聲工程特別獎.
  • [JUL 2018] Congratulations to Kuang-Tsu Shih and Kai-En Lin for receiving ICME 2018 Best Demo Paper Award. Paper title: Dehazing with a near-eye display.
  • [JUL 2018] 2018 graduates of our lab.
  • [NOV 2017] Dinner party with our alumni, Chia-Kai Liang.
  • [AUG 2017] 恭喜施光祖榮獲「中華民國影像處理與圖形識別學會第十屆博碩士論文獎」的博士論文優等獎。
  • [JUL 2017] IEEE/ACM TASLP uses Figure 2 of our paper "Component Tying for Mixture Model Adaptation in Personalization of Music Emotion Recognition" on the cover of the July/August issue. 陳昱安論文圖片榮登IEEE/ACM TASLP 期刊 2017年7/8月封面.
  • [OCT 2016] Congratulations to Jen-Shuo Liu for winning the second prize of the Chinese Institute of Electrical Engineering Young Author Best Paper Award (2016). 恭賀劉人碩榮獲中國電機工程學會105年青年論文獎第二名.
  • [OCT 2015] Congratulations to Chia-Hao (Mike) Chung for winning a Top 10% Paper Award from IEEE MMSP Workshop. Title of paper: Vector Representation of Emotion Flow for Popular Music.
  • [AUG 2015] 恭喜蔡東展榮獲「中華民國影像處理與圖形識別學會第八屆博士論文獎」佳作。
  • [JUL 2015] Congratulations to Jen-Shuo Liu, Kuang-Tsu Shih and Prof. Homer H. Chen on winning ICME 2015 Best Demo Award for the demo entitled "Preserving Image Color Appearance on Non-white Projection Surfaces."
  • [JUN 2015] 吳東林、辛爾康榮獲臺大電機系大學部精專獎第二名.
  • [MAR 2015] Prof. Homer H. Chen received 行政院科技部(MOST)103年度傑出研究獎.
  • [NOV 2014] Prof. Homer Chen has been nominated to serve on the Fellow Reference Committee of IEEE Signal Processing Society 2015-2017.
  • [NOV 2014] Congratulations to Dong-Chen Tsai for winning the Best Ph.D. Dissertation Award from the Graduate Institute of Communication Engineering, National Taiwan University (2014) 蔡東展榮獲台大電信所102學年度最佳博士學位論文獎 (2014).
  • [NOV 2014] Professors Pete Sauer and Cedric Langbort of UIUC visited our lab on Nov. 14, 2014.
  • [OCT 2014] Lab party at KTV.
  • [OCT 2014] Alex Chen received the 2nd prize of the CIEE Young Author Thesis Award, 2014. 陳昱安榮獲中國電機工程學會103年青年論文獎第二名
  • [SEP 2014] Prof. Homer Chen received the Teaching Award from National Taiwan University 台大優良教學獎
  • [JUL 2014] Celebrating the graduation of Dung-Chan Tsai and Alex Chen at La Paella.
  • [APR 2014] Homer Chen has been nominated to serve on the 2015 IEEE Fourier Award Committee.
  • [MAR 2014] Lab trip to a calla lily garden at Yangmingshan national park.
  • [JAN 2014] 台大校訊第 1166 期: 電信工程學研究所陳宏銘教授團隊自動對焦及感知性影像處理技術成果發表
  • [JAN 2014] Our research team presented our perception-inspired techniques for imaging and display at an NSC press conference on January 8, 2014. 台製影像處理技術讚!《魔戒》團隊也愛用[蘋果即時]
  • [2013] Chung-Yao Huang received the 1st prize of the CIEE Young Author Thesis Award, 2013. 黃崇堯榮獲中國電機工程學會102年青年論文獎第一名.
  • [2013] 沙政亞榮獲資訊學會碩士最佳論文獎佳作.
  • [SEP 2013] HP CTO Martin Fink visited our lab on September 10, 2013.
  • [SEP 2013] HP CTO Martin Fink, accompanied by Prof. Homer Chen, visited NTU President Pan-Chyr Yang on September 10, 2013.
  • [AUG 2013] Our autofocus technology has won the first prize of IPPR 技術創新暨產業應用獎
  • [DEC 2012] Tsung-Hsien Tsai received scholarship from 潘文淵文教基金會.
  • [NOV 2012] Keng-Sheng Lin won “Third Place Thesis Award” from the Chinese Institute of Electrical Engineering.
  • [SEP 2012] Tai-Hsiang Huang and Cheng-Tai Kao received “Top 10% Paper Award” from IEEE International Workshop on Multimedia Signal Processing.
  • [JUN 2012] 2012 graduates of our lab.
  • [JUN 2012] Keng-Sheng Lin and Po-Yen Su have passed the oral exam.
  • [JUN 2012] Lab Gathering at Holiday KTV.
  • [JUN 2012] Heather Chen won the first prize of the NTUEE Outstanding Undergraduate Research Award.
  • [JUN 2012] Kuang-Tsu Shih has passed the Ph.D. qualifying exam.
  • [May 2012] Lab Gathering for movie and hot spot.
  • [May 2012] Prof. Homer H. Chen received 潘文淵文教基金會2012年研究傑出獎.
  • [APR 2012] Prof. Homer H. Chen received 旺宏電子講座.
  • [MAR 2012] Cheng-Te Lee and Prof. Homer Chen won the Bronze Medal of the Second Annual Merry Electro-Acoustic Thesis Award (第二屆美律電聲論文獎銅質獎).
  • [JAN 2012] Prof. Homer H. Chen received 行政院國家科學委員會(NSC)100年度傑出研究獎.
  • [JAN 2012] Yi-Hsuan Yang, Yu-Ching Lin, and Ya-Fan Su won the 2011 IEEE Signal Processing Society Young Author Best Paper Award for the paper coauthored with Homer Chen entitled “A regression approach to music emotion recognition” published in IEEE Trans. Audio, Speech, and Language Processing, vol. 16, no. 2, Feb. 2008.
  • [DEC 2011] Prof. Homer H. Chen received IEEE Circuits and Systems Society Distinguished Lecturer, 2012-2013.
  • [OCT 2011] Keng-Sheng Lin, Ann Lee, Yi-Hsuan Yang, Cheng-Te Lee, and Homer H. Chen won the Top 10% Paper Award for their paper entitled “Automatic highlights extraction for dram video using music emotion and human face features” presented at the 2011 IEEE International Workshop on Multimedia Signal Processing, Oct. 2011.
  • [JUN 2011] News about our emotion-based music retrieval system.
  • [JUN 2010] 2010 graduates of our lab.

    M.S. degree

    B.S. degree
  • [MAY 2010] Lab Gathering at Brother Hotel.
  • [OCT 2009] Our bike trip from 公館 to 深坑.
  • [APR 2009] Homer's birthday party after the group seminar. (click to enlarge)
  • [AUG 2008] News about our programmable aperture photography appeared in the Liberty Times.
  • [APR 2008] We won the 2008 IEEE Circuits and Systems Society CSVT Transactions Best Paper Award.