His research interests include visual content analysis and processing, and video networking.

Dr. Lin was named IEEE Fellow for his contributions to multimedia coding and editing in 2018. He is serving on the Board-of-Governors (2022~2024) and Fellow Evaluating Committee (2021~2023) of IEEE Circuits and Systems Society (CASS). He was a Distinguished Lecturer of IEEE CASS (2018~2019). He also served as President of the Chinese Image Processing and Pattern Recognition Association, Taiwan (2019~2020). His paper won the Young Investigator Award of SPIE VCIP 2005 and Best Paper Award of IEEE VCIP 2015. He was awarded the Young Faculty Award (2005~2007) presented by National Chung Cheng University and the Ta-You Wu Memorial Award presented by National Science & Technology Council (NSTC), Taiwan in 2006. He has served on the editorial board of IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, IEEE Multimedia Magazine, Journal of Visual Communication and Image Representation, and Signal Processing: Image Communication. He also served as a Guest Editor of five special issues for IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Signal Processing, IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing, and Journal of Visual Communication and Image Representation, respectively. He was Chair of the Multimedia Systems and Applications Technical Committee of IEEE Circuits and Systems Society (2013~2015). He served as Steering Committee Chair of IEEE ICME (2020~2021), TPC Co-Chair of IEEE ICIP 2019, General Co-Chair of IEEE VCIP 2018, TPC Co-Chair of IEEE ICME 2010, and Special Session Co-Chair of IEEE ICME 2009 and ICME 2018.