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On November 17, 2007, Prof. Thomas S. Huang visited the Lotus Hill Institute, and was awarded the title of" Honorary Adviser".
     Prof. Thomas S. Huang and his wife reached Lotus Hill at 10:30am. During the visiting, he showed much interest in our database, and put forward some intentions of cooperation with LHI. Then in the Conference Room, Prof. Huang gave an academic report named "Audiovisual Biometrics" for more than 30 students. His innovative academic viewpoints and his especial style brought round after round of applause. After that, he made some communication with the postgraduates and answered their questions with great interest.
     Due to Prof. Thomas S. Huang' s outstanding contribution to academic, our institute is honorable to appoint him as the "Honorary Advisor". During the report, the representatives of our institute, Prof. Ying Wu and Prof. Nong Sang presented the Certificate of Employment for Prof. Huang. In the noon' s banquet, Deputy Mayor Hu of Ezhou and Director Wang of Ezhou' s Foreign Affairs Office met Prof. Huang, and expressed thanks for Prof. Huang' s support to the institute.
     In the afternoon, Prof. Huang visited the famous beauty spot of Ezhou– West Hill, and listened to our introduction about the city with great interest.

Attached: Thomas S. Huang' s resume
    Prof. Thomas S. Huang is the renowned academic expert of image processing, pattern recognition, computer vision and intelligent human-computer interaction fields. He is the academician of the United States Academy of Engineering, and the double foreign academician of Chinese Academy of Sciences and Chinese Academy of Engineering. Prof. Huang is now an outstanding professor of the electronic and computer engineering department in the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign. He received his Ph. D from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1963, and has joined the faculty of Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the United States Purdue University. He has won the highest award—"IEEE Jack Kilby" Medal in international signal processing field, the highest honor—"King-Sun Fu" Prize in international pattern recognition field, and the "Honda Life Achievement Award" in the field of computer vision.