Mingtian Zhao

Postdoctoral Scholar
Center for Vision, Cognition, Learning and Art
UCLA Department of Statistics
email: 		I'm looking for a research position focusing on graphics, vision, and/or statistics.
Here are my CV and my LinkedIn.

Biography

  • Education
    • Ph.D. in Statistics, University of California, Los Angeles, December 2011
    • M.S. in Statistics, University of California, Los Angeles, March 2009
    • M.S. in Computer Science, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, March 2007
    • B.E. in Software Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, July 2004
  • Research Experiences
    • Postdoctoral Scholar, University of California, Los Angeles, January 2012 - present
    • Graduate Student Researcher, University of California, Los Angeles, April 2008 - December 2011
    • Visiting Student, Lotus Hill Institute, September 2006 - August 2007
    • Research Assistant, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, October 2004 - July 2006
    • Visiting Student, Microsoft Research Asia, November 2003 - May 2004

Here are my CV and my LinkedIn.

Research Interests

  • Statistical Methods in Computer Graphics, Computational Aesthetics, and Visual Arts.
  • Computer Vision, Artificial Intelligence, and Cognitive Science.
  • Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning.

Recent Projects

  • Joint Parsing: Spatial, Temporal, and Causal Inference for Understanding Images and Video
    • Collaborators: Yibiao Zhao, Ping Wei, Amy Morrow, Kewei Tu, Dan Xie, Sinisa Todorovic (OSU), Mohamed Amer (OSU), Tae Eun Choe (ObjectVideo), Mun Wai Lee (IAI), and Song-Chun Zhu
    • Past Collaborator: Zhangzhang Si and Mingtao Pei
  • Painterly Rendering Based On Image Parsing
    • Collaborator: Song-Chun Zhu
    • Past Collaborators: Kun Zeng and Caiming Xiong
  • Analysis and Synthesis of Artistic Images
    • Collaborators: Meng Meng and Song-Chun Zhu
    • Past Collaborator: Xin Jin

Recent Publications

Publications in Preparation/Submission

  • Artistic Rendering of Portraits
    with Song-Chun Zhu
  • Group Activity Recognition
    with Mohamed Amer, Sinisa Todorovic, Dan Xie, and Song-Chun Zhu
  • Causal Inference
    with Amy Morrow and Song-Chun Zhu
  • Joint Parsing: Spatial, Temporal, and Causal Inference for Understanding Images and Video
    with Yibiao Zhao, Ping Wei, Amy Morrow, Kewei Tu, Dan Xie , and Song-Chun Zhu
  • A Perceptual Study on Artistic Paper-Cut of Human Portrait
    with Meng Meng and Song-Chun Zhu
  • Painterly Rendering Using Explicit and Implicit Stroke Patterns
    with Song-Chun Zhu

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