Prof. Li-Wei Kang
Department of Electrical Engineering, National Taiwan Normal University
康立威 Ph.D.
Lab Director · Professor, Dept. of Electrical Engineering
Graduate Institute of AI Interdisciplinary Applied Technology, NTNU
Prof. Li-Wei Kang earned his B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees in Computer Science from National Chung Cheng University in 1997, 1999, and 2005, respectively. His research spans computer vision, image processing, multimedia content analysis, and artificial intelligence applications.
He leads the Multimedia and Artificial Intelligence Lab (MMAILAB) at NTNU, focusing on innovative deep learning solutions for vision and multimedia. Prior to NTNU, Dr. Kang held positions at Academia Sinica and National Yunlin University of Science and Technology.
Dr. Kang has published over 100 research papers in prestigious journals and conferences, and has been recognized with multiple awards including the Top 10% Paper Award at IEEE MMSP 2013, the Best Performance Award at ACM Multimedia 2019, and the Best Paper Award at APSIPA ASC 2020.
Research Interests
Education
Selected Awards & Honors
Professional Service
Editorial Roles
- Associate Editor, International Journal of Pattern Recognition and Artificial Intelligence, Jan. 2025–Now
- Guest Editor, Sensors, 2024
- Guest Editor, APSIPA Transactions on Signal and Information Processing, 2019–2022
- Associate Editor, International Journal of Distributed Sensor Networks, 2013–2015
- Guest Editor, International Journal of Electrical Engineering, 2014
Committee Leadership
- Chair, Image, Video, and Multimedia TC, APSIPA, 2025–Now
- Vice Chair, Image, Video, and Multimedia TC, APSIPA, 2023–2024
- Secretary, Image, Video, and Multimedia TC, APSIPA, 2022–2023
- TC Member, Signal Processing Systems TC, APSIPA, 2017–2020
- Multimedia Systems and Applications TC, IEEE Circuits and Systems Society, 2020–2024
Professional Society Roles
- Director, Chinese Image Processing and Pattern Recognition Society, Taiwan, since 2024
- Supervisor, Chinese Image Processing and Pattern Recognition Society, Taiwan, 2020–2024
- Director, APSIPA Taiwan Chapter, since 2022
- Secretary, Chinese Image Processing and Pattern Recognition Society, Taiwan, 2018–2020
- Secretary, IEEE Signal Processing Society Tainan Chapter, 2017–2018
- Founding member, Taiwan ACM SIGMM Chapter, 2014
- Founding member, ACM ICPC Contest Council for Taiwan, 2014
Conference Organization
- Organizing Co-Chair, ACM International Conference on Multimedia Retrieval, 2019
- Organizing Co-Chair, Ph.D. Forum, APSIPA ASC, 2018
- Organizing Co-Chair, APSIPA ASC, 2013
- TPC Member / Reviewer / Area Chair for APSIPA ASC, ICIP, ISCAS, ICASSP, ICME, MMSP, CVPR, ICCV, ACM MM, ICMR, AAAI, and others
- Reviewer for IEEE TIP, TMM, TCSVT, TSP, TNNLS, TIFS, IJCV, ACM TOMM, and others