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Bio

James Fung's work has been in the area of applying GPU Hardware for parallel general purpose computing, including implementing Computer Vision on the GPU. He holds a Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Toronto and has authored over a dozen papers in IEEE and ACM conferences in the areas of parallel GPU Computer Vision and Mediated Reality. He is founder of the OpenVIDIA project, which won the ACM Multimedia 2005 Open Source Software Award. He authored "Computer Vision on the GPU" in the popular GPU Gems 2 series of graphics programming books. This work has achieved implementation of vision algorithms on the GPU, including projective image stitching, Chirplet detection, Radon Transforms and natural feature processing and matching. Merging technology with artistic endeavors, his work has appeared on the Discovery Channel and national radio. He currently works at NVIDIA examining computer vision and image processing on graphics hardware.

James Fung will be teaching a workshop on CUDA and GPGPU Programming.