about me.

Hello, I’m Chia-Hao. (or Joe if you like)

I’m currently a researcher at the University of Brescia in Italy. I earned my Master’s degree in Multimedia Engineering from National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University in Taiwan, where I had the privilege of working with Prof. Wen-Hsiao Peng, as a member of the MAPL Lab.

When I’m not in front of a screen, I love to unwind with a good audiobook while exploring nature on hikes or long walks. I’m also a passionate home cook and baker, always eager to try new recipes :)


research interests.

kid_star Learned Image and Video Compression

kid_star Coding for Machines

kid_star Computer Vision

kid_star Machine Learning


experience.

clinical_notes Researcher

University of Brescia, Italy
Dept. of Information Engineering

2024-

school M.S.

National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Taiwan
Institute of Multimedia Engineering

2021-2023

book_4 B.S.

National Central University, Taiwan
Dept. of Computer Science and Information Engineering

2017-2021


publications.

Bridging Compressed Image Latents and Multimodal Large Language Models

C.-H. Kao, C. Chien, Y.-J. Tseng, Y.-H. Chen, A. Gnutti, S.-Y. Lo, W.-H. Peng, R. Leonardi

International Conference on Learning Representations

Learning Optimal Linear Block Transform by Rate Distortion Minimization

A. Gnutti, C.-H. Kao, W.-H. Peng, R. Leonardi

Data Compression Conference

Transformer-based Image Compression with Variable Image Quality Objectives

C.-H. Kao, Y.-H. Chen, C. Chien, W.-C. Chiu, W.-H. Peng

Asia-Pacific Signal and Information Processing Association Annual Summit and Conference

Transtic: Transferring transformer-based image compression from human perception to machine perception

Y.-H. Chen, Y.-C. Weng, C.-H. Kao, C. Chien, W.-C. Chiu, W.-H. Peng

IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision

Transformer-based variable-rate image compression with region-of-interest control

C.-H. Kao*, Y.-C. Weng*, Y.-H. Chen, W.-C. Chiu, W.-H. Peng

IEEE International Conference on Image Processing

Neural Frank-Wolfe Policy Optimization for Region-of-Interest Intra-Frame Coding with HEVC/H. 265

Y.-H. Ho, C.-H. Kao, W.-H. Peng, P.-C. Hsieh

IEEE International Conference on Visual Communications and Image Processing


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