Sunny's Blog

Contact Information

• Email : sunny (-dot-) chow (-at-) acm (-dot-) org

Objective

Seeking San Jose based company that can leverage advanced image analysis and application development skills to create more intelligent products.

Experience

• Consultant

  Consultant: 03/2010 – Present

  • Implemented a rectangle bounding box algorithm for outlining photographs in a video stream.
  • Developed a DirectShow library to interface with video cameras.
  • Developed a MicroManager (open source Microscope control system) plug-in to control a Direct Electron camera system over TCP/IP using Java.
  • Developed a web service interface for OSCommerce to enable AJAX requests for the aging but widely supported e-commerce platform using PHP, MySQL, JSON & JQuery. Json Interface for OsCommerce
  • Increased e-commerce website conversion rates by 12% by improving the user friendliness of our product display and transaction systems. Barrieronline.com

• FreightScan Cargo

  Senior Software Engineer: 07/2007-04/2008 & 04/2009 – 02/2010

  • Participated in the development of a next generation cargo dimensioning system.
  • Developed automated testing of dimensioning algorithms to measure and improve accuracy.
  • Improved existing dimensioning algorithm and reduced processing time.
  • Used Microsoft XNA to develop an interactive 3D visualization tool.
  • Developed the server-client networking layer using .NET Remoting.
  • Implemented motion triggered cargo scans using OpenCV and DirectShow.
  • Prototyped noise reduction algorithms using MATLAB and implemented it using OpenCV.
  • Prototyped 3D alignment routines for multi-camera systems using MATLAB.

• Alibaba.com (Hangzhou, China headquarters)

  Product Developer: 04/2008 – 04/2009

  • Coordinated regional US and Hong Kong marketing operations from China mainland.
  • Jointly developed overseas online marketing programs and bridged language communications.
  • Oversaw development of a Cost Per Acquisition tracking system for affiliate marketing.
  • Developed custom international trade database import system serving entire countries.

• National Center for Microscopy and Imaging Research

  Associate Development Engineer (07/2001-08/2006)

  • Created an automated system to acquire thousands of individual images to stitch into one single image bringing to fruition gigapixel mosaic images of mouse brains. Software Link
  • Enabled the scientific understanding of genetic disorders expressed in mouse brains at the micro and macro level.
  • Utilized the combination of Microsoft Visual C++, MFC and COM to synchronize stepper motor movements with image acquisition.
  • Engineered a non-uniform illumination correction and image alignment solution in a memory efficient manner via Eclipse and Java Advanced Imaging libraries. JAI Success Story
  • Collaborated with Olympus engineers to develop commercial automated mosaic systems.
  • Published “Automated Microscopy System for Mosaic Acquisition and Processing”, Journal of Microscopy, Vol 222 Issue 2 Pg 76 – May 2006.

Education

• University of California, San Diego

  • M.S. Computer Science, Concentration in Computer Graphics and Vision, June 2004.
  • B.S. Computer Science, June 2001

• Tsinghua University, Beijing China

  • Chinese Language Studies, September 2006 – July 2007
  • Fluent in spoken and written Chinese

Skills

• Programming Languages:

  • C++, C#, Java, PHP, MATLAB

• Windows Programming:

  • Windows MFC & COM, Winsock, Microsoft .NET

• Graphics and Visualization:

  • OpenCV, OpenGL, Java Advanced Imaging Toolkit
  • Development of a distributed ray-tracer with photon mapping

• Computer Vision and Image Processing:

  • Feature and Edge detection, Motion tracking, 3D Scene reconstruction, Segmentation, Random Sample Consensus, Video stabilization