Feng Chia University

Reliable VLSI Design Lab

Ching-Hwa Cheng
https://fcuece.fcu.edu.tw/en/teachers-detail/?id=T92024&unit_id=CE09

Research Field

Microelectronic Engineering

Introduction

Prof. Ching-Hwa Cheng is currently a full professor of electronic engineering at Feng-Chia University. He is a 20-years IEEE senior member. His studies have included theoretical model analysis, design flow development, cell library generation, physical chip implementation and full system validation. His work differs from that of other researchers in this field is that most of his research designs are silicon proven by a practical system. 20+ years' experience in image-guiding surgery and low-power designed chip by multi-voltage. /p

Our Lab takes semiconductors, components/memory, strongintegrated circuit design/strong and strongsystem development/strong, strongLiDAR/strong applications, and AIoT-related electronic semiconductor industry technology as the main development direction./p


Research Topics

Autonomous driving rely on LiDAR (Light Detection and Ranging) and camera technologies to navigate and perceive their surroundings.  Our research interests include point-cloud segmentation , adverse weather noise-tolerant  , AI-based point-cloud processing for related Lidar system applications, e.g., object segmentation in image and point cloud. Currently, we focus on a reliable LiDAR system implemented in an embedded system.  However, point cloud data can be significantly affected by adverse weather conditions such as heavy rain, snow, fog, or dust storms. These weather conditions can lead to reduced visibility and accuracy in the LiDAR data, posing a significant challenge to the safe and efficient operation of autonomous driving. To address these issues, the project statement focuses on developing a system or algorithm to enhance autonomous driving. Noisy point-cloud data is filtered out to mitigate the adverse effects of weather conditions, thereby improving the reliability and safety of autonomous driving in challenging environmental conditions. These challenges and goals not only present opportunities for innovation but also align with our project's overarching mission to create a cutting-edge solution in the field of semantic segmentation for objects. First is to increase the efficiency and accuracy of the existing system. The second is to execute the algorithm using an embedded system. The third is to reduce computational complexity. Finally, our research work needs can be well demonstrated in a real environment (e.g. heavy raining conditions).


Honor

PI has honored with many competition awards, published more than 45 journal papers, 155 conference papers, developed two design automation tools and has been invited to serve as reviewer for many system and VLSI field journals/conferences.


Educational Background

PI received an M.S.E.E degree from Chung Hwa University, Taiwan, in 1993, and a Ph.D. degree in Computer Science and Information Engineering from National Chung Cheng University, Taiwan, in 2000. He is currently a full professor of electronic engineering at Feng-Chia University./p


Job Description

Your research in here, First is to increase the efficiency and accuracy of the existing system and publish your contribution. The second is to move and execute the algorithm from using an embedded system. The third is to reduce computational complexity. Finally, our research work needs can be well demonstrated in a real environment (e.g. heavy raining conditions).

Pure development by software. Programming Technique may on C, C++, Python, Matlab, OPENCV language, Linux OS (Ubuntu), AI CNN-RNN (Pytorch)

Preferred Intern Educational Level

Prefer Master Degree or Studying currently,

 

Skill sets or Qualities

Prefer from computer science-related departments, with good software programming capability