Qian Lin

Biography

Qian Lin is the director of the Multimedia Interaction and Understanding Lab, which seeks to extract information from multimedia content and interactions for the purpose of knowledge discovery, representation and rendering.

Lin and her team have developed a variety of state-of-the-art image processing technologies, such as red-eye correction and panorama stitching, automatic image enhancement, photo layout, and image and video compression. Notably, Lin and her team developed Snapfish Lab, a website that gives people an advance look at experimental media processing tools and an opportunity to provide feedback.

Lin received her bachelor of science from Xi’an Jiaotong University in China, her master’s of science in electrical engineering from Purdue University and her Ph.D. from Stanford University. She also received the Zonta International Fellowship for women in aerospace engineering.

Lin has received more than 30 patents and authored more than 20 journal and conference papers. She is a steering committee member for the Tsinghua-HP Multimedia Research Center. In 2008, she was the general co-chair for the 6th International Conference on Imaging Science and Hardcopy.

Research interests

Multimedia analysis and image processing

Publications

• More than 20

Professional Activities

• Steering committee, Tsinghua-HP Multimedia Research Center
• General co-chair, 6th International Conference on Imaging Science and Hardcopy (2008)

Patents

More than 30