Frank Guan
Profile
Biography
Dr Frank Guan Yunqing currently is an Associate Professor at Singapore Institute of Technology. His research interests include Virtual Reality (VR), Augmented Reality (AR), and Artificial Intelligence (AI).
Dr Guan had been leading and conducting research in a number of large collaborative research centers and has published dozens of papers in top-tier conferences and journals. His research has often been cited by other publications in top-ranked venues, i.e. Nature. Due to his excellent track record of research, he received the Andrew Fraser Prize from IMechE (UK) in 2006. Dr Guan has served in the programme and organizing committee for a number of international conferences and academic organizations. He also has aspirations and passion towards innovation and entrepreneurship and was awarded the SMART Innovation Fellow in 2015 from the Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology.
SIT Appointments
- Associate Professor– Present
- Programme Leader, Bachelor of Science in Computer Science in Real-Time Interactive Simulation–
- Programme Leader, Bachelor of Fine Arts in Digital Art and Animation–
- Programme Leader, Bachelor of Science with Honours in Computer Science in Real-Time Interactive Simulation–
- Programme Leader, Bachelor of Arts in Game Design–
- Programme Leader, Bachelor of Science with Honours in Computer Science in Interactive Media and Game Development–
- Programme Leader, Bachelor of Science in Computer Science and Game Design–
- Programme Leader, Bachelor of Arts in User Experience and Game Design–
- Assistant Professor–
Education
- PhDNanyang Technological University , Singapore
- B.EngZhejiang University , China
Professional Certification
- Senior MemberIEEE
Research
Research Interests
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Augmented Reality
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Virtual Reality
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Artificial Intelligence
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Computational Imaging
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3D Visualization
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Computer Graphics
Publication
Journal Papers
Xinxing Xia, Yunqing Guan, Andrei State, Praneeth Chakravarthula, Kishore Rathinavel, Tat-Jen Cham, Henry Fuchs (2019). Towards a switchable AR/VR near-eye display with accommodation-vergence and eyeglass prescription support. IEEE transactions on visualization and computer graphics (TVCG), 25 (11), 3114-3124.
HG Wan, YY Cai and YQ Guan (2014), Graphics Native Approach to Identifying Surface Atoms of Macromolecules. GPU Computing and Applications, Springer.
I Chandrasekaran, YY Cai, YQ Guan and M Opas (2012), Adaptive Weighted Cubic B-Spline Using Lookup Tables for Fast and Efficient Axial Resolution Enhancement of 3D Confocal Microscopy Images, Microscopy Research and Technique, 75 (1): 20-27.
YQ Guan, Tan H.S., Furtado F., Tan A. & Yusman F. (2011) Application of Cascade Hand Detection for Touch-less Interaction in Virtual Design. Journal of Computing and Information Science in Engineering, 12(1).
I Chandrasekaran, YY Cai, YQ Guan and M Opas (2011), An Automatic Segmentation Algorithm for 3D Cell Cluster Splitting using Volumetric Confocal Images. Journal of Microscopy, 243 (1): 60-76.
YQ Guan, YY Cai, XC Zhang, YT Lee and M Opas (2007), Adaptive Correction Technique for 3D Reconstruction of Fluorescence Microscopy Images, Microscopy Research and Technique, Wiley, 71(2):146-157.
YQ Guan, Y.Y Cai, Y.T.Lee and M Opas (2006), An Automatic Method for Identifying Appropriate Gradient Magnitude for 3D Boundary Detection of Confocal Image Stacks, Journal of Microscopy, Blackwell Publishing, 223:66–72.
YQ Guan, YY Cai, M Opas, ZW Xiong, YT Lee (2006), A VR Enhanced Collaborative System for 3D Confocal Microscopic Image Processing and Visualization, International Journal of Images and Graphics, World Scientific Publishing, 6(2): 231-250.
Conferences
XX Xia, YQ Guan, A State, TJ Cham, H Fuchs (2018), Towards Efficient 3D Calibration for Different Types of Multi-view Autostereoscopic 3D Displays, Computer Graphics International (CGI) 2018, Indonesia.
Joe Poh Sheng Yeong, Jin Yan Zhang, YQ Guan, Yiyu Cai, Puay Hoon Tan (2018). A Novel Method for High-accuracy Prognosis for Triple-Negative Breast Cancer with Artificial Intelligence. ACCAS 2018, Shanghai, PR China.
XJ Yu, L Meng, XH Tian, S Fauvel, B Huang, YQ Guan, ZQ Shen, CY Miao, C Leung (2018), Usability Analysis of the Novel Functions to Assist the Senior Customers in Online Shopping, Social Computing and Social Media, Held as Part of HCI International 2018, Las Vegas, NV, USA.
XH Tian, L Meng, SY Liu, ZQ Shen, ES Chng, C Leung, YQ Guan, CY Miao (2017), Novel Functional Technologies for Age-Friendly E-commerce, HCI International 2017, Canada.
L Meng, HQ Nguyen, XH Tian, ZQ Shen, ES Chng, YQ Guan, CY Miao, C Leung (2016), Towards
Age-friendly E-commerce Through Crowd-Improved Speech Recognition, Multimodal Search, and Personalized Speech Feedback, International Conference on Crowd Science and Engineering, Vancouver, Canada.HG Wan, YY Cai and YQ Guan (2013), Graphics Native Approach to Identifying Surface Atoms of Macromolecules, 2013 Symposium on GPU Computing and Applications, Singapore, 9 Oct 2013.