Publication List

List of Publications of Steven Choy

Refereed Journal Papers

  1. A.K. Lui, S.O. Choy, Y.H.Y. Cheung, S.C. Li, A Study on the Perception of Students towards Educational Weblogs, Informatics in Education, 2006, Vol. 5, No. 2, 245-266. (Abstract)
  2. S.O.Choy, S. C. Ng, and Y. C. Tsang, “Software Agents to Assist in Distance Learning Environments,” EDUCAUSE Quarterly, Vol. 28, No. 2, 2005, pp 34-40. (View: PDF 181KB | HTML Format)
  3. S.O.Choy, Y.H.Chan and W.C.Siu, "Image restoration by regularisation in uncorrelated transform domain", IEE Proceedings-Vision, image and signal processing, Dec 2000, Vol.147, No.6, pp.587-594. (Abstract)
  4. S.O.Choy, Y.H.Chan and W.C.Siu, "Regularised restoration of vector quantisation compressed images", IEE Proceedings - Vision, Image and Signal Processing. Vol.146, No. 3, Jun 1999, pp.165-171.
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  5. S.O.Choy, Y.H.Chan and W.C.Siu, "Adaptive image noise filtering using transform domain local statistics", Optical Engineering, Vol. 37, No. 8, Aug 1998, pp.2290-2296.
  6. S.O.Choy, Y.H.Chan and W.C.Siu, "A new image restoration performance measure with high precision", Optical Engineering, Vol.36, No.4, Apr 1997, pp.1035-1043.
  7. S.O.Choy, Y.H.Chan and W.C.Siu, "Reduction of block-transform image coding artifacts by using local statistics of transform coefficients", IEEE Signal Processing Letters, Vol.4, No.1, Jan 1997, pp.5-7. (Abstract)
  8. S.O.Choy, C.S.T. Choy and W.C. Siu, "New Single-pass Algorithm for Parallel Thinning", Computer Vision and Image Understanding, Vol.62, No.1, July 1995, pp.69-77. (Abstract)

Refereed Conference Papers

  1. S. O. Choy, S. C. Ng and Y. C. Tsang, "Building Software Agents to Assist Teaching in Distance Learning Environments", Proceedings of the 5th IEEE International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies (ICALT’05), Kaohsiung, Taiwan, July 5 – 8, 2005, pp. 230-232.
  2. S. O. Choy, S. C. Ng, Y. C. Tsang and R. Kwan, "Using Software Agents to Assist Course Coordination in Distance Learning Environment", Proceedings of International Conference on Computers in Education (ICCE 2004), Melbourne, Australia, Nov 30 – Dec 3, 2004, pp.317-321.
  3. A. Lui, R. Kwan, S. O. Choy and S. C. Ng, "An extensible presentation platform for interacting learning content", Proceedings of International Conference on Computers in Education (ICCE 2004), Melbourne, Australia, Nov 30 – Dec 3, 2004, pp.2103-2105.
  4. S. C. Ng, S. O. Choy, R. Kwan and S. F. Chan, "An online and interactive platform for teaching and learning computer programming", Proceedings of the 18th Asian Association of Open Universities (AAOU) Annual Conference, Shanghai, China, Nov 27-30, 2004.
  5. S. O. Choy and S. C. Ng, "An interactive learning environment for teaching and learning of computer programming", Proceedings of the 4th IEEE International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies (ICALT’04), Joensuu, Finland, Aug. 30 – Sept. 1, 2004, pp. 848-849. (PDF file)
  6. S.O. Choy, "Designing an online coursework environment for distance and mobile learning", Proceedings of the 21st ICDE World Conference on Open Learning and Distance Education (ICDE 2004), Hong Kong, Feb 18-21 2004.
  7. S.O.Choy, Y.H.Chan, S.W.Hui and W.C.Siu, "A very efficient algorithm for correction of skewed documents," Proceedings, European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO 2000), Sep 4-8, 2000, Tampere, Finland, Vol.1, pp.239-242.
  8. S.O. Choy and Y.H.Chan, "An adaptive transform-domain estimator for filtering noisy images", Proceedings, Workshop on Image Processing and Coding of 1998 Symposium on Image, Speech, Signal Processing and Robotics (ISSPR’98), Sep 3-4, 1998, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, Vol.II, pp.175-180.
  9. S.O.Choy, Y.H.Chan and W.C. Siu, "A new approach for restoring block-transform coded images with estimation of correlation matrices", Proceedings, IEEE International Symposium on Image Processing (ICIP’97), Oct 26-29, 1997, Santa Barbara, California, USA, Vol II, pp.342-345.
  10. S.O.Choy, C.N.Yue, S.W.Hong and Y.H.Chan, "Regularized restoration of VQ-compressed images with constrained least squares approach", Proceedings, IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS’97), Hong Kong, Jun 9-12, 1997, Vol II, pp.1257-1260.
  11. S.O.Choy and Y.H.Chan, "Reduction of coding artifacts in transform image coding by using local statistics of transform coefficients", Proceedings, IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS’97), Hong Kong, Jun 9-12, 1997, Vol II, pp.1089-1092.
  12. S.O.Choy, Y.H.Chan and W.C.Siu, "Optimal choice of local regularization weights in iterative image restoration", Proceedings, IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS’96), Atlanta, Georgia, USA, May 12-15, 1996, vol.II, pp.604-607.
  13. S.O.Choy, Y.H.Chan and W.C.Siu, "An improved quantitative measure of image restoration quality", Proceedings, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP’96), Atlanta, Georgia, USA, May 7-10, 1996. vol.III, pp 1613-1616.
  14. S.O.Choy, Y.H.Chan and W.C.Siu, "A study of optimal weight matrices for adaptive regularized image restoration", Proceedings, IEEE International Conference on Neural Networks and Signal Processing (ICNNSP’95), Dec 10-13, 1995, Southeast University, Nanjing, China, Vol.II, pp.1374-1377.
  15. S.O.Choy, Y.H.Chan and W.C.Siu, "Effective noise reduction algorithm for iterative image restoration", Proceedings, 1995 IEEE Singapore International Conference on Signal Processing, Circuits and Systems (SICSPCS’95), 3-7 July 1995, Singapore, pp.221-224.
  16. S.O.Choy, Y.H.Chan and W.C.Siu, "New adaptive iterative image restoration algorithm", Proceedings, IEEE International Conference on Image Processing(ICIP’94), Nov 13-16, 1994, Austin, Texas, U.S.A., Vol.II, pp.670-674.
  17. S.O. Choy, S.T. Choy and W.C. Siu, "New Fast Parallel thinning algorithm", Processings, IEEE International Conference on Signal Processing (ICSP 93), v2, pp 814-817, Oct 1993, Beijing, China.

Book Chapters

  1. Choy, S O, Ng, S C, and Tsang, Y C (2007) ‘Software Agents to Assist in Distance Learning Environments’ in Annual Editions: Computers in Education, Twelfth Edition, McGraw-Hill Contemporary Learning Series, 172-178.
  2. Ng, S C, Choy, S O, Kwan, R, and Chan, S F (2005) ‘A web-based environment to improve teaching and learning of computer programming in distance education’ in R. W. H. Lau et al. (Eds.): Advances in Web-Based Learning-ICWL 2005, LNCS 3583, Germany: Springer-Verlag Heidelberg, 279-290.
  3. Ng, S C, Choy, S O, Kwan, R, and Tsang, Y C (2005) ‘A web-based environment for better administration of distance learning courses’ in Kwan, R, and Fong, J (ed.) Web-based Learning: Technology and Pedagogy, Singapore: World Scientific, 203-211.
  4. Choy, S O (2004) ‘Designing an online course work environment for distance and mobile learning’ in Murphy, D etal (ed.) Distance Education and Technology: Issues and Practice, Hong Kong: Open University of Hong Kong Press, 188-196.

Written Teaching Publications

  1. Choy, S O (2005) ‘The application layer basics’, unit 7 in CT332 Computer Networks, Hong Kong: The Open University of Hong Kong.
  2. Choy, S O (2005) ‘The end users’ Internet applications’, unit 8 in CT332 Computer Networks, Hong Kong: The Open University of Hong Kong.
  3. Choy, S O (2003) ‘Java network programming and streams basics’, unit 2 in MT811 Advanced Java Programming, Hong Kong: The Open University of Hong Kong.
  4. Choy, S O (2003) ‘Client-side, server-side, and client/server networking’, unit 3 in MT811 Advanced Java Programming, Hong Kong: The Open University of Hong Kong.
  5. Choy, S O (2003) ‘Datagram and multicast networking’, unit 4 in MT811 Advanced Java Programming, Hong Kong: The Open University of Hong Kong.
  6. Choy, S O (2003) ‘Building a web server and manipulating URL objects’, unit 5 in MT811 Advanced Java Programming, Hong Kong: The Open University of Hong Kong.
  7. Choy, S O (2003) ‘Remote method invocation and servlets’, unit 6 in MT811 Advanced Java Programming, Hong Kong: The Open University of Hong Kong.
  8. Choy, S O (2002) ‘Case study: CORBA’, unit 10 in MT368 Networks and Distributed Systems, Hong Kong: The Open University of Hong Kong.
  9. Choy, S O (2002) ‘Input, output and computer peripherals’, unit 7 in MT260 Computer Architecture and Operating Systems, Hong Kong: The Open University of Hong Kong.
  10. Choy, S O (2002) ‘CPU design and organization’, unit 8 in MT260 Computer Architecture and Operating Systems, Hong Kong: The Open University of Hong Kong.
  11. Choy, S O (2002) ‘Modern computer systems’, unit 9 in MT260 Computer Architecture and Operating Systems, Hong Kong: The Open University of Hong Kong.