Long time collaborators and fiends
  • David Mumford, doctoral advisor at Harvard in 1992-1996.
  • Yingnian Wu, collaborator at Harvrad and UCLA, 1994-- now.
  • Harry Shum , collaborator at Microsoft Research Asia 1998-2008
Ph.D. Students supervised in the US:
  • Zhuowen Tu, [CS] Ph.D. 2002, Image Parsing by Data-Driven Markov Chain Monte Carlo.
  • Cheng-en Guo, [CS] Ph.D. 2004, A Mathematical Theory for Texton and Primal Sketch.
  • Adrian Barbu, [CS] Ph.D. 2005, Cluster Sampling and Its Applications in Segmentation, Stereo and Motion
  • Yizhou Wang, [CS] Ph.D. 2005, Modeling Complex Motion: Photometric, Geometric, Topological, and Dynamic Aspects
  • Feng Han, [CS] Ph.D. 2005, Computing 3D Scene From A Single Image by Bottom-up/Top-Down Bayesian Inference
  • Romeo Maciuca, [Stat] Ph.D 2006, MCMC Analysis: First Hitting Times, Visiting Scheme, and Auxiliary Variables
  • Zijian Xu, [Stat] Ph.D 2007, A Hierarchical Compositional Model for Representation and Sketching of High-resolution Human Images
  • Kent Shi, [Stat] Ph.D 2009, Mapping Natural Image Patches by Explicit and Implicit Manifolds
  • Jacob Porway, [Stat] Ph.D 2010 A Hierarchical and Contextual Model for Learning and Recognizing Highly Variant Visual Categories
  • Zhangzhang Si [Stat] Ph.D 2011 Learning And-Or Templates for Object Recognition by Information Projection
  • Mingtian Zhao [Stat] Ph.D 2011 A Statistical and Computational theory for the Art of Painting
  • Tianfu Wu [Stat] Ph.D 2011 Integration and Goal-guided Scheduling of Bottom-up and Top-Down Computing Processes in Hierarchical Models
  • Benjamin Yao [Stat] Ph.D 2011 Learning Spatial-Temporal Models for Understanding Actions and Events in Video
  • Brandon Rothrock [CS] On Human Figure Recognition with Stochastic Image Grammar
  • Wenze Hu [Stat] On Vehicle Recognition using 3D and 2D AoG models
  • Amy Morrow [Stat] On Causal Reasoning for Understanding Human Behavior in Video Events
  • Jungseock Joo [CS] On Boosting Features and Social Role Inference
  • Seyoung Park [CS] On Visual Attributes and Visual Persuasion
  • Maria Pavlovskaia [Stat] on PAC learning and transportablity of AoG models
  • Yibiao Zhao [Stat] on Scene Parsing and Reasoning
  • Dan Xie [Stat] on Human Action and event reasoning in 3D scene layout.
Postdocs, Visiting students, Master Students supervised in the US
  • Xiuwen Liu, Postdoc 1999-2000, Texture modeling and Julesz ensemble
  • Hong Chen, Postdoc 2003-2006, Human face, hair, and cloth modeling and sketching
  • Haifeng Gong, Postdoc 2007-2009, Intrackability: An information Theoretical Criterion for pursuing Hybrid Video Representations
  • Liang Lin, Postdoc 2007-2009, Layered Graph Matching
  • Mingtao Pei Research Associate 2009-2011, Event understanding and Intent Prediction in Video
  • Kewei Tu Postdoc 2012-, Theory of learning, reasoning and query answering
  • Bo Zheng (U. Tokyo) Visitor 2012, 3D scene parsing and affordance analysis
  • Zhi Han (XJTU) Visiting Ph.D Student 2009-2011, Video Primal Sketch: A Middle Level Generic Representation of Video
  • Shuo Wang (PKU) Visiting Ph.D Student 2011-2013, Scene Modeling and Recognition with Tangram Model
  • Ping Wei (XJTU) Visiting Ph.D Student 2011-2012, Action and scenes semantics
  • Rong Zhang, M.S. 2000, Integrating Top-down/Bottom-up for Object Recognition by DDMCMC
  • Qiming Luo, M.S. 2001, Signal and Range Segmentation by DDMCMC
  • Alex Dubinskiy, M.S. 2003, Multi-scale generative model for animate contour representation
Students co-supervised in Lotus Hill Research Institute, China (partial list):
  • Lin Liang (Ph.D 07 BIT); Zeng Kun (Ph.D 07 Inst Automation); Peng Shaowu (Ph.D 08 HUST) Suo Jinli (Ph.D 10 Institute Computing);
  • Yang Xiong (Ph.D 10 HUST); Zhao Youdong (Ph.D 10 BIT); Zhao Yibiao (Ph.D 11 BJTU); Zhou Quan (Ph.D 11 HUST);
  • Song Xi (Ph.D BIT); Xie Yi (Ph.D, BIT); Zhang Jiangen (Ph.D, BIT); Zhu Jun (Ph.D, SJTU); Meng Meng (MS, BIT);
  • Lv Yang (MS, BIT); Nie XiaoHan (MS, BIT), Li Bo (PhD, BIT)

Quest for a unified foundation of vision, 1996 portraited by a Brown magazine with David Mumford

At the St. Marco square, Venice with Yingnian Wu, 2000, teaching a short course at the Abdus Salum Int'l Institute of Theoretical Physics, Trieste, Italy 2000..

Site visit with Harry Shum, Xiao-ou. Tang et al that founded the Lotus Hill Research Institute, Aug 2004.

Trip to Catalina Island, June, 2011 with part of the group, staff, and family.

Group dinner at Chinese New Year, 2011 , picture taken by Benjamin Yao.

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