Publication

[Book] [Journal] [Conferences] [Patents]

Book,Book Chapter, Thesis and Dissertation:

  1. Xiaoyu Wang*, Gang Hua, and Tony X. Han, "Discriminative Multiple Target Tracking", invited Book Chapter, in Machine Learning for Vision based Motion Analysis, Edited by Liang Wang, Guoying Zhao, Li Cheng, and Matti Pietiksine, Springer, 2010. (ISBN: 978-0-85729-056-4)
  2. Xiao Zhang*, Gang Hua, and Lei Zhang, "An Efficient Visual Representation and Indexing Scheme for Large Scale Video Retrieval", invited Book Chapter, in Internet Multimedia Search and Mining, e-Book, Edited by Xian-Sheng Hua, Marcel Worring, and Tat-Seng Chua, Bentham Science Publishers, 2010.
  3. Gang Hua, "Complex Visual Motion Analysis via Probabilistic Variational Methods: A Distributed and Collaborative Approach", VDM Verlag Dr. Muller AG & Co. KG, 2009. (ISBN: 978-3-639-11710-3)
  4. Gang Hua, "Face Recognition by Discriminative Orthogonal Rank-one Tensor Decomposition", invited Book Chapter, in Recent Advances in Face Recognition, Edited by Marian Stewart Bartlett, Kresimir Delac and and Mislav Grgic, 2008.  (ISBN: 978-953-7619-34-3)
  5. Gang Hua, "Probabilistic Variational Methods for Vision based Complex Motion Analysis", Ph.D. Dissertation , Northwestern University, May, 2006.
  6. Gang Hua, "Software&Hardware Co-design of Reconfigureable Real-time Signal Compression System and Research on the Algorithms", Master's thesis, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Press 2002. (in Chinese)
  7. Gang Hua, "Research of the digital processing algorithms in DPTV and its FPGA realization", Bachelor's thesis, Xi'an Jiaotong University., Press 1999. (in Chinese)

Journal Articles:

  1. Michele Merler, Bert Huang, Lexing Xie, Gang Hua, and Apostol Natsev, "Semantic Model Vectors for Complex Video Event Recognition", Submitted to IEEE Trans. on Multimedia, 2011 (Under review)
  2. Matthew Hill, Apostol Natsev, John R. Smith, and Gang Hua, "A Comprehensive Solution to Visual Content based Video Copy Detection", Submitted to IEEE Multimedia special issue on Visual Content Identification and Search, 2011 (Under review)
  3. 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, 2011. (Under major revision)
  4. Shiliang Zhang*, Qi Tian, Gang Hua, Qingming Huang, and Wen Gao, "Generating Descriptive Visual Words and Visual Phrases for Large-Scale Image Applications", IEEE Trans. on Image Processing, 2011 (To appear)
  5. Shiliang Zhang*, Qi Tian, Gang Hua, Wengang Zhou, Qingming Huang, Houqiang Li, and Wen Gao, "Modeling Spatial and Semantic Cues for Large-Scale Near-Duplicated Image Retrieval", Computer Vision and Image Understanding special issue on Featureoriented Image and Video Computing for Extracting Contexts and Semantics, Vol. 115, Issue 3, pp.403-414, 2011.
  6. Matthew Brown, Gang Hua, and Simon Winder, "Discriminative Learning of Local Image Descriptors", IEEE Trans. on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, Vol.33, No.1, pp.43-57, January, 2011
  7. Yan Gao, Alok Choudhary, and Gang Hua, "A Comprehensive Approach to Image Spam Detection: From Server to Client Solution", IEEE Trans. on Information Forensics and Security, Vol.5, Issue.4, December, 2010.
  8. Tian Xia*, Tao Mei, Gang Hua, Yong-Dong Zhang, and Xian-Sheng Hua, "Visual Quality Assessment for Web Videos", Journal of Visual Communication and Image Representation, Vol.21, Issue.8, pp.826-837, November, 2010
  9. David Liu*, Gang Hua, and Tsuhan Chen, "A Hierarchical Visual Model for Video Object Summarization", IEEE Trans. on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, Vol.32, No.12, pp.2178-2190, December, 2010.
  10. 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 (PAMI), Vol.31, No.11, pp.1968-1984, November, 2009.
  11. Ming Yang, Ying Wu, and Gang Hua, "Context-aware Visual Tracking", IEEE Trans. on Pattern Recognition and Machine Intelligence (PAMI), Vol.31, No.7, pp.1195-1209, July, 2009.
  12. 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, December, 2007.
  13. 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.
  14. 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, February, 2006.
  15. 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, November, 2005.
  16. Yan Gao, Gang Hua and Guoji Sun, "A New Hybrid Method for Fast Vector Quantization ", Microelectronics & Computer, Vol.20, No.2, pp.56-59, February, 2003 (in Chinese)
  17. Gang Hua, Nanning Zheng and Jianru Xue, "An approach based on improved Genetic Algorithm to selecting the threshold automatically in edge detection and its application in computer vision system", Mini-micro Systems, Vol.23, No.3, pp.318-321, March, 2002 . (in Chinese)

Conference Papers:

  1. Xiang Huang*, Gang Hua, Lance Williams, and Jack Tumblin, "What Characterizes a Shadow Boundary under the Sun and Sky?",  in Proc. IEEE International Conf. on Computer Vision (ICCV'2011), Barcelona, Spain, November, 2011
  2. Le Wang*, Jianru Xue, Nanning Zheng, Gang Hua, "Automatic Salient Object Extraction with Contextual Cue", in Proc. IEEE International Conf. on Computer Vision (ICCV'2011), Barcelona, Spain, November, 2011
  3. Zhenxing Niu*, Gang Hua, Xinbo Gao, and Qi Tian, "Spatial-DiscLDA for Visual Recognition", in Proc. IEEE Conf. on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR'2011), Colorado Springs, Colorado, June, 2011
  4. Xiaohui Shen*, Gang Hua, Lance Williams, and Ying Wu, "Motion Divergence Fields for Dynamic Hand Gesture Recognition", in Proc. IEEE 9th IEEE Conf. on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition (FG'2011), Santa Barbara, CA, March, 2011
  5. Shiliang Zhang*, Qingming Huang, Gang Hua, Shuqiang Zhang, Wen Gao, and Qi Tian, "Building Contextual Visual Vocabulary for Large-scaleImage Applications", in Proc. ACM International Conf. on Multimedia, Firenze, Italy, October, 2010
  6. Xiaoyu Wang*, Gang Hua, and Tony X. Han, "Discriminative Tracking by Metric Learning", in Proc. 11th European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV'2010), Hersonissons, Heraklion, Crete, Greece, September, 2010
  7. Dahua Lin*, Ashish Kapoor, Gang Hua, and Simon Baker, "Joint People, Event, and Location Recognition in Personal Photo Collections using Cross-Domain Context", in Proc. 11th European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV'2010), Hersonissons, Heraklion, Crete, Greece, September, 2010
  8. Xiao Zhang*, Gang Hua, Lei Zhang, and Heung-Yeung Shum, "Interest Seam Image", in Proc. IEEE Conf. on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR'2010), San Francisco, CA, June, 2010. (Oral presentation).
  9. Yan Gao, Alok Choudhary, and Gang Hua, "A Nonnegative Sparsity Induced Similarity Measure with Application to Cluster Analysis of Spam Images", in Proc. IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP'2010), Dallas, TX, March, 2010 (Oral presentation).
  10. 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.
  11. 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.
  12. Shiliang Zhang*, Qi Tian, Gang Hua, Qingming Huang, and Shipeng Li, "Descriptive VisualWords: the Visual Correspondences of Text Words", in Proc. ACM International Conference on Multimedia, , Beijing, China, October, 2009.
  13. 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.
  14. 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, June, 2009. (Oral presentation)
  15. 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, June, 2009.
  16. 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, June 2009.
  17. 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.
  18. 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.
  19. 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.
  20. 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. 
  21. 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.
  22. 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
  23. 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.
  24. 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.
  25. 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.
  26. 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.
  27. 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
  28. 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'2005), Vol.2, pp. 747-754, San Diego, CA, June, 2005.
  29. 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.
  30. 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.
  31. 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.
  32. 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.
  33. 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.
  34. 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.
  35. 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.
  36. Gang Hua, Nanning Zheng, "A new statistic prediction model and application in arithmetic coding", in Proc. Sixth Biennial International Conference for Young Computer Scientists (ICYCS'2001), Vol.2, pp1065-1067 Hangzhou, China, Oct., 2001.
  37. Gang Hua and Nanning Zheng, "DSP realization of a new statistical-entropy coding algorithm", in Proc. Seventh Annual Conference of Chinese Institute of Electronics for Young Scientists (CIE-YC'2001), Urumchi, China, Aug., 2001. (In Chinese)

Patents:

  1. Co-inventor with Xiaohui Shen, Dr. Lance Williams, "Method and Apparatus for Determining Motion", US Patent pending, 2010.
  2. Co-inventor with Dr. Simon Baker, Dr. Ashish Kapoor and Dahua Lin, "Automatic Image Tagging Based Upon Cross Domain Context", US Patent Pending 2009.
  3. Co-inventor with Amir Akbarzadeh, "Priors in Face recognition for social networks", US Patent pending, 2009.
  4. Co-inventor with Amir Akbarzadeh, "A Robust Elastic and Partial Matching Metric for Face", US Patent pending, 2009.
  5. Co-inventor with Dr. Ashiah Kapoor, Dr. Simon Baker and Amir Akbarzadeh, "Adding Constraints to Active Learning for Face Recognition Assisted Face Tagging", US Patent pending, 2009.
  6. Co-inventor with Dr. Simon Winder, "Computationally Efficient Local Image Descriptors", US Patent pending, 2009.
  7. Co-inventor with Dr. John Wright and Amir Akbarzadeh, "Implicit Elastic Matching with Randomized Projections for Pose Variant Face Recognition", US Patent pending, 2009.
  8. Co-inventor with Dr. Minghui Xia, Dr. Jian Sun, Dr. Wen Fang, Dr. Xiaodong Fan, and Dr. Richard Qian, "Similarity-based Re-ranking for Image Search", US Patent pending, 2008
  9. Co-inventor with Dr. Tao Mei, Dr. Xian-Sheng Hua, Dr. Shipeng Li, and Tian Xia, "Video Quality Assessment", US Patent pending, 2008.
  10. Co-inventor with Dr. Paul Viola, David Liu, "Feature selection and extraction", US Patent pending, 2008.
  11. Co-inventor with Dr. Cha Zhang, Dr. Zicheng Liu, Dr. Zhengyou Zhang, Dr. Ying Shan, "Video Retargeting", US Patent pending, 2008.
  12. Co-inventor with Dr. Paul Viola, "Image Classification", US Patent pending, 2008.
  13. Co-inventor with Dr. Zicheng Liu, Dr. Ying Shan, Dr. Cha Zhang, and Dr. Zhengyou Zhang "Efficient Image Displaying", US Patent pending, 2008.
  14. Co-inventor with Dr. Matthew Brown, and Dr. Simon Winder, "Local Image Descriptors Using Linear Discriminant Embedding", US Patent pending, 2007.
  15. Co-inventor with Ting-Yi Yang, Srinath Vasireddy, and Sergey Chub, "Detecting Visual Gestural Pattern", US Patent pending, 2007.
  16. Co-inventor with Dr. Zhengyou Zhang, Dr. Zicheng Liu, and Dr. Yang Wang, "Reconvering Parameters from a sub-optimal image", US Patent pending, 2007
  17. Co-inventor with Dr. Paul Viola, Dr. Steven Drucker, Dr. Michael Revow, and Dr. Richard Zemel, "Image Organization", US Patent pending, 2006
  18. Co-inventor with Dr. Paul Viola, Dr. Steven Drucker, and Dr. Michael Revow, "Face Recognition Using Discriminatively Trained Orthogonal Tensor Projections", US Patent NO. 7936906, Filed on June, 2007, Issued on May, 2011.
  19. Co-inventor with Dr. Zicheng Liu, Dr. Zhengyou Zhang, "Segmentation of objects by minimizing global-local variational energy", US Patent NO. 7706610, Filed in Dec., 2005, Issued on April, 2010.
  20. Co-inventor with Dr. Ming-Hsuan Yang, "Human Pose Estimation With Data Driven Belief Propagation", US Patent NO.7212665, Foreign Reference NO. WO 2005/096216 WO 20051000, Filed on Jan., 2005, Issued on May, 2007.

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