Ai-Based Image and Video Coding: Methods, Standards, and Applications (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9789819677139)

Wei Gao is an Assistant Professor at the School of Electronic and Computer Engineering, Peking University, Shenzhen, China. He earned his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the City University of Hong Kong in February 2017. Dr. Gao's research focuses on multimedia coding, multimedia processing, and multimodal learning, areas directly relevant to the topics explored in this book.

With over 160 high-quality technical papers published, Dr. Gao has contributed significantly to multimedia coding standardization, submitting more than 50 technical proposals. He is the author or co-author of two influential books, and is an elected member of the IEEE Visual Signal Processing and Communications Technical Committee (VSPC-TC), and APSIPA Image Video and Multimedia Technical Committee (IVM-TC). He serves on the editorial board of Elsevier Signal Processing, and has organized workshops at prominent conferences such as IEEE ICME and ACM MM.

In addition to his academic achievements, Dr. Gao leads several open-source projects, including OpenAICoding, OpenPointCloud, and OpenDatasets, providing valuable resources for the research community. As a Senior Member of IEEE, he is also a frequent speaker at international conferences, where he shares his expertise on deep learning and multimedia technologies.