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Research interests
Computer Science / Information Technology - Artificial intelligence
Computer Science / Information Technology - Speech recognition and synthesis
Computer Science / Information Technology - Speaker recognition and verification
Computer Science / Information Technology - Sign language recognition and generation
Computer Science / Information Technology - Natural language processing
Computer Science / Information Technology - Speech recognition and synthesis
Computer Science / Information Technology - Speaker recognition and verification
Computer Science / Information Technology - Sign language recognition and generation
Computer Science / Information Technology - Natural language processing
Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals
In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):
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Education/Academic qualification
PhD in Computer Science, PhD, Oregon Graduate Institute of Science and Technology
1998
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Projects
- 5 Finished
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HKUST-Xiao-i Joint Laboratory on Machine Learning and Cognitive Reasoning
MAK, B. K. W. (CoI), YEUNG, D. Y. (CoI), LIN, F. (PI), CHEN, L. (CoI) & ZHANG, N. L. (CoI)
1/06/19 → 31/05/22
Project: Research
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End-to-end Automatic Sign Language Recognition and Translation of the Hong Kong Sign Language
MAK, B. K. W. (PI)
1/01/19 → 30/06/22
Project: Research
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Training Big and Deep Neural Networks for Automatic Speech Recognition
MAK, B. K. W. (PI)
1/01/17 → 30/06/20
Project: Research
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PEP: A personalized E-Learning Platform
MAK, B. K. W. (CoI), KATZ, B. (CoI), YEUNG, D. Y. (PI), MIYAGAWA, S. (CoI), WONG, R. C. W. (CoI) & PONG, T. C. (CoI)
1/07/16 → 30/06/18
Project: Research
Research output
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A Simple Baseline for Spoken Language to Sign Language Translation with 3D Avatars
Zuo, R., Wei, F., Chen, Z., Mak, B., Yang, J. & Tong, X., 2025, Computer Vision – ECCV 2024 - 18th European Conference, Proceedings. Leonardis, A., Ricci, E., Roth, S., Russakovsky, O., Sattler, T. & Varol, G. (eds.). Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH, p. 36-54 19 p. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics); vol. 15107 LNCS).Research output: Chapter in Book/Conference Proceeding/Report › Conference Paper published in a book › peer-review
1 Citation (Scopus) -
Detecting Neurocognitive Disorders through Analyses of Topic Evolution and Cross-Modal Consistency in Visual-Stimulated Narratives
Li, J., Wang, Y., Li, J., Kang, J., Zheng, B., Wong, K. H., Mak, B., Fung, H. H., Woo, J., Mak, M. W., Kwok, T., Mok, V., Gong, X., Wu, X., Liu, X., Wong, P. C. M. & Meng, H., 15 Oct 2025, (Accepted/In press) In: IEEE Journal on Selected Topics in Signal Processing. 14 p., 11204003.Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal Article › peer-review
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Efficient Mouth Alignment for Visual Speech Recognition
Niu, Z. & Mak, B., 24 Oct 2025, 35th IEEE International Workshop on Machine Learning for Signal Processing: Signal Processing in the Age of Lorge Language Models, MLSP 2025. IEEE Computer Society, 11204267. (IEEE International Workshop on Machine Learning for Signal Processing, MLSP).Research output: Chapter in Book/Conference Proceeding/Report › Conference Paper published in a book › peer-review
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A Hong Kong Sign Language Corpus Collected from Sign-interpreted TV News
Niu, Z., Zuo, R., Mak, B. & Wei, F., 2024, 2024 Joint International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Language Resources and Evaluation, LREC-COLING 2024 - Main Conference Proceedings. Calzolari, N., Kan, M.-Y., Hoste, V., Lenci, A., Sakti, S. & Xue, N. (eds.). European Language Resources Association (ELRA), p. 636-646 11 p. (2024 Joint International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Language Resources and Evaluation, LREC-COLING 2024 - Main Conference Proceedings).Research output: Chapter in Book/Conference Proceeding/Report › Conference Paper published in a book › peer-review
2 Citations (Scopus) -
Improving Continuous Sign Language Recognition with Consistency Constraints and Signer Removal
Zuo, R. & Mak, B., 8 Mar 2024, In: ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing, Communications and Applications. 20, 6, 163.Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal Article › peer-review
17 Citations (Scopus)
Activities
- 2 Editorial work
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Speech Communication Journal (Journal)
MAK, B. K. W. (Editorial Board Member)
1 Jan 2005 → …Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work › Editorial work
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Various international conferences such as ICASSP, Interspeech, ASRU, SLT, etc. (Journal)
MAK, B. K. W. (Reviewer)
1 Jan 1998 → …Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work › Editorial work
Awards
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The School of Engineering Teaching Award 2017-18
MAK, B. K. W. (Recipient), Dec 2018
Prize: Honorary Award
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Gold Award in Web Accessibility Recognition 2015
MAK, B. K. W. (Recipient), WONG, K. S. A. (Recipient) & WOO, K. T. (Recipient), 15 Apr 2014
Prize: Others