Multimedia-software Engineering Research Centre (MERC) targets at contributing to development of technologies of multimedia and emerging media-types, in Hong Kong, Pearl River Delta region and other areas of China as a whole, enabled by research with high societal impact, educated human resources, and commercialization of new software from top-class engineering researches.
The Centre engages to promote an eco-system of industrial, educational, research and government organizations so as to enhance the performance of engineering and industrialization and contribute to the sustainable development for society.
Positioning itself to be a key hub in China for global partnership in research, knowledge exchange, technology transfer, education and industrial development in all aspects of multimedia science and engineering, the Centre aims to develop global partnerships and transnational research involving multimedia software design, development, standardization and industrialization.
The Centre also serves to facilitate the realization of the commercial and industrial potentials, and works to establish an open technology service platform based on the application requirements for enterprise informatization and multimedia knowledge engineering.
Feb 2021: Prof. Jianping Wang and Prof. Antoni Chan are listed as Top 2% Most Highly Cited Scientists (report by Prof. J. Ionnidis, Stanford)