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Technological innovations developed at CUHK have contributed significantly to regional development through technology transfer. The latest among them include the "Automatic Face Recognition System", "Talking Avatar: Crystal", "Virtual Acupuncture" and "Virtual Anatomy".

"Automatic Face Recognition System"
by Prof. Tang Xiaoou Sean & Prof. Liu Jianzhuang
Department of Information Engineering

Compared to other biometric technologies such as fingerprint and iris scan, the capture of face image is more convenient, and requires less user cooperation. This technology can be used for law enforcement, security verification, and video surveillance.

"Talking Avatar: Crystal"
by Prof. Meng Mei Ling Helen, Dr. Wu Zhi Yong, Mr. Cao Guangqi
Human-Computer Communications Laboratory, Department of Systems Engineering and Engineering Management

This is a real-time Chinese Text-to-Audio-Visual-Speech synthesizer which can generate natural sounding Cantonese and Putonghua speech with an animated talking avatar whose lip movements, facial expressions and head movements are synchronized with the audio.

"Virtual Acupuncture" and "Virtual Anatomy"
by Prof. Heng Pheng Ann
Department of Computer Science and Engineering

By utilizing human datasets, detailed virtual human models have been reconstructed. These visualization systems can facilitate related medical learning and training.

Some of the above research teams have accepted the Alumni Affairs Office (AAO)'s invitation to showcase their research projects for alumni at the 2008 CUHK Homecoming. Do keep an eye on your mailbox or visit AAO's website for further details. For information of other latest research projects of CUHK, please visit the website of the Centre for Innovation and Technology (CINTEC): http://www.cintec.cuhk.edu.hk/tech2007.