Research

[Human Sensing][Graphical Model][Local Image Descriptor][Internet Vision][Mobile Vision]

• Understanding Human from Image and Video

  Contextual Face Recognition in Real-life Photos Gang Hua and Amir Akbarzadeh, "A Robust Elastic and Partial Matching Metric for Face Recognition", in Proc. IEEE 12th International Conf. on Computer Vision (ICCV'2009), Kyoto, Japan, October, 2009. Ashish Kapoor, Gang Hua, Amir Akabarzadeh, and Simon Baker, "Which faces to Tag: Adding Prior Constraints into Active Learning", in Proc. IEEE 12th International Conf. on Computer Vision (ICCV'2009), Kyoto, Japan, October, 2009. John Wright and Gang Hua, "Implicit Elastic Matching with Random Projections for Pose-variant Face Recognition", in Proc. IEEE Conf. on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR'2009), Miami Beach, FL, 2009. Gang Hua, Paul Viola, and Steven Drucker, "Face Recognition using Discriminatively Trained Orthogonal Rank One Tensor Projections", in Proc. IEEE Conf. on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR'2007), Minneaplois, MN, 2007.

  Visual Analysis of Articulated Human Motion Gang Hua and Ying Wu, "A Decentralized Probabilistic Approach to Articulated Body Tracking", Computer Vision and Image Understanding (CVIU), Special issue on spatial coherence for visual motion analysis, Vol. 108, Issue 3, pp.272-283, 2007 Gang Hua and Ying Wu, "Variational Maximum a Posteriori by Annealed Mean Field Analysis", IEEE Trans. on Pattern Recognition and Machine Intelligence(PAMI), Vol.27, No.11, pp.1747-1781, Nov., 2005. Gang Hua, Ming-Hsuan Yang and Ying Wu, "Learning to Estimate Human Pose with Data Driven Belief Propagation", in Proc. IEEE conf. on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR'005), Vol.2, pp. 747-754, San Diego, CA, June, 2005. Gang Hua and Ying Wu, "Capturing Human Body Motion from Video for Perceptual Interfaces by Sequential Variational MAP", Invited, in Proc. 11th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction (HCII'2005), Las Vegas, Nevada, July, 2005. Ying Wu, Gang Hua and Ting Yu, "Tracking Articulated Body by Dynamic Markov Network", in Proc. IEEE International conf. on Computer Vision (ICCV'2003), pp.1094-1101, Nice, France, Oct., 2003.

  Human Detection Zhe Lin, Gang Hua, and Larry S. Davis, "Learning Multiple Instance Features with Shared Descriptor Representation for Part-based Object Detection", Submitted to Interational Journal of Computer Vision, 2009. (Under review) Zhe Lin, Gang Hua, and Larry S. Davis, "Multiple Instance Feature for Robust Part-based Object Detection", in Proc. IEEE Conf. on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR'2009), Miami Beach, FL, 2009. Ying Wu, Ting Yu and Gang Hua,"A Statistical Field Model for Pedestrian Detection", in Proc. ofIEEE conf. on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR'2005), Vol.1, pp.1023-1030, San Diego, CA, June, 2005.

  Face Modeling and Relighting Yang Wang, Lei Zhang, Zicheng Liu, Gang Hua, Zhen Wen, Zhengyou Zhang, and Dimitris Samaras, "Face Re-Lighting from a Single Image under Arbitrary Unknown Lighting Conditions", IEEE Trans. on Pattern Recognition and Machine Intelligence, 2009. (in press) Yang Wang, Zicheng Liu, Gang Hua, Zhen Wen, Zhengyou Zhang, and Dimitris Samaras, "Face Re-Lighting from a Single Image under Harsh Lighting Conditions", in Proc. IEEE Conf. on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR'2007), Minneaplois, MN, 2007.

• Graphical Model for Computer Vision

  Video Object Discovery and Summarization David Liu, Gang Hua, and Tsuhan Chen, "A Hierarchical Visual Model for Video Object Summarization", IEEE Trans. on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, 2009. (to appear) David Liu, Gang Hua, and Tsuhan Chen, "VideoCut: Removing Irrelevant Frames by Discovering the Object of Interest", in Proc. the 10th European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV'2008),  Marseille, France, 2008.

  Complex Deformable Motion Analysis Gang Hua and Ying Wu, "Sequential Mean Field Variational Analysis of Structured Deformable Shapes", Computer Vision and Image Understanding (CVIU), Vol.101, Issue 2, pp. 87-99, Feb., 2006. Gang Hua, Ying Wu and Ting Yu, "Analyzing Structured Deformable Shapes Via Mean Field Monte Carlo", in Proc. IEEE Asia conf. on Computer Vision (ACCV'2004), Jeju Island, Korea, Jan., 2004. Ying Wu, Gang Hua and Ting Yu, "Switching Observation Models for Contour Tracking in Clutter", in Proc. IEEE Conf. on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR'2003), Vol.1, pp.295-302, Madison, Wisconsin, June, 2003.

  Contextual Multiple Motion Analysis Ming Yang, Ying Wu, and Gang Hua, "Context-aware Visual Tracking", IEEE Trans. on Pattern Recognition and Machine Intelligence, 2009. Gang Hua and Ying Wu, "Measurement Integration Under Inconsistency for Robust Tracking", in Proc. IEEE conf. on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR'2006), Vol.1, pp.650-657, New York City, NY, June 2006. Gang Hua and Ying Wu, "Multi-scale Visual Tracking by Sequential Belief Propagation", in Proc. IEEE Conf. on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR'2004), Vol.1, pp. 826-833, Washington, DC, June, 2004. Ying Wu, Ting Yu and Gang Hua, "Tracking Appearances with Occlusions", in Proc. IEEE Conf. on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition(CVPR'2003), Vol.I, pp.789-795, Madison, Wisconsin, June, 2003.

• Local Image Descriptor and Feature

  Learning Local Image Descriptors Matthew Brown, Gang Hua, and Simon Winder, "Discriminative Learning of Local Image Descriptors", IEEE Trans. on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, 2009. (accepted) Simon Winder, Gang Hua, and Matthew Brown, "Picking the Best DAISY", in Proc. IEEE Conf. on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR'2009), Miami Beach, FL, 2009. Gang Hua, Matthew Brown, and Simon Winder, "Discriminant Embedding for Local Image Descriptors", in Proc. IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision, (ICCV'2007), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 2007. Please refer to our archival webpage at http://people.cs.ubc.ca/~mbrown/learndesc/learndesc.html for the training data and descriptor parameter files.

  Feature detection and placement Zhimin Fan, Ming Yang, Ying Wu, Gang Hua and Ting Yu, "Efficient Optimal Kernel Placement for Reliable Visual Tracking", in Proc. IEEE conf. on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR'2006), Vol.1, pp.658-665, New York City, NY, June 2006

• Internet Vision

  Internet Image Search and Retrieval Shiliang Zhang, Qi Tian, Gang Hua, Wen Gao, and Shipeng Li, "Descriptive VisualWords: the Visual Correspondences of Text Words", in Proc. ACM International Conference on Multimedia, , Beijing, China, October, 2009. Gang Hua and Qi Tian, "What Can Visucal Content Analysis Do for Text Based Image Search?", , in Proc. IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME'2009), invited, Special Session on Challenges in Large-Scale Image Retrieval, Cancun, Mexico, 2009. Aayushi Sharma, Gang Hua, Zicheng Liu, and Zhengyou Zhang, "Meta-tag propagation by Co-training an Ensemble Classifier for Improving Image Search Relevance", in Proc. 1st IEEE Internal Workshop on Internet Vision, in Conjunction with IEEE Conf. on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition(CVPR'2008), Anchorage, AK, 2008.

  Face Recognition in a Social Networking Environment Gang Hua, "Online Contextual Face Recognition: Towards Large Scale Photo Tagging for Sharing", invited talk, The Second IEEE International Workshop on Internet Vision, June, 2009 Gang Hua, "Face Recognition in a Social Network Context", Microsoft Research Cool Talk Series, April, 2009

  Contextual modeling for visual object recognition David Liu, Gang Hua, and Tsuhan Chen, "A Hierarchical Visual Model for Video Object Summarization", IEEE Trans. on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, 2009. (to appear) David Liu, Gang Hua, and Tsuhan Chen, "VideoCut: Removing Irrelevant Frames by Discovering the Object of Interest", in Proc. the 10th European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV'2008),  Marseille, France, 2008. David Liu, Gang Hua, Paul Viola, and Tsuhan Chen, "Integrated Feature Selection and Higher-order Spatial Feature Extraction for Object Categorization", in Proc. IEEE Conf. on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR'2008), Anchorage, AK, 2008.

• Mobile Vision

  Mobile Visual Media Re-targeting Gang Hua, Cha Zhang, Zicheng Liu, Zhengyou Zhang and Ying Shan, "Efficient Scalespace Spatiotemporal Saliency Tracking for Distortion-Free Video Retargeting", in Proc. 9th Asian Conf. on Computer Vision(ACCV'2009), Xi'an, China, September, 2009.

  Mobile Assistant Gang Hua, Zicheng Liu, Zhengyou Zhang and Ying Wu, "Automatic Business Card Scanning with a Camera", in Proc. IEEE conf. on Image Processing (ICIP'2006), pp.373-376, Atlanta, GA, Octobor, 2006. Gang Hua, Zicheng Liu, Zhengyou Zhang and Ying Wu, "Iterative local-global energy mini-mization for automatic extraction of object of interest", IEEE Trans. on Pattern Recognition and Machine Intelligence (PAMI), Vol.28, No.10, pp.1701-1706, October, 2006.

  Mobile Perceptual Interface Gang Hua, Ting-Yi Yang, and Srinath Vasireddy, "PEYE: Toward a Visual Motion Based Perceptual Interface for Mobile Devices", in Proc. IEEE International Workshop on Human Computer Interaction, in Conjunction with IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision, (ICCV-HCI'2007), Lecture Notes in Computer Science 4796, pp.39-48, Springer 2007, ISBN 978-3-540-75772-6