ACTIVE BASIS HOMEPAGE
MPEAK HOMEPAGE

My research focuses on searching for generative models for visual patterns such as objects and textures.


Wolfgang Pauli: "I do not mind your thinking slowly, but I mind your publishing faster than you think."

John Wheeler: "The question is, what is the question?"

PAPERS TO DOWNLOAD (list of publications)

YN Wu, Z Si, H Gong, SC Zhu (2009) Learning active basis model for object detection and recognition. International Journal of Computer Vision. DOI 10.1007/s11263-009-0287-0 pdf reproducible latex ppt

Z Si, H Gong, SC Zhu, YN Wu (2009) Learning active basis models by EM-type algorithms. Statistical Science, in press. pdf reproducible latex ppt

YN Wu, C Guo, SC Zhu (2008) From information scaling of natural images to regimes of statistical models. Quarterly of Applied Mathematics, 66, 81-122. pdf latex ppt

YN Wu, Z Si, C Fleming, and SC Zhu (2007) Deformable template as active basis. Proceedings of International Conference of Computer Vision. pdf reproducible latex ppt

M Zheng, LO Barrera, B Ren, YN Wu (2007) ChIP-chip: data, model and analysis. Biometrics, 63, 787-796. pdf source code latex ppt

G Doretto, A Chiuso, YN Wu, S Soatto (2003) Dynamic textures. International Journal of Computer Vision, 51, 91-109. pdf (source code given in paper) results

YN Wu, SC Zhu (2001) Vision and the art of data augmentation. Discussion of a paper by Meng and van Dyk. Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics, 10, 90-93. pdf

YN Wu, SC Zhu, X Liu (2000) Equivalence of Julesz ensembles and FRAME models. International Journal of Computer Vision, 38, 247-265. pdf source code

JS Liu, YN Wu (1999) Parameter expansion for data augmentation. Journal of the American Statistical Association, 94, 1264-1274. pdf

C Liu, DB Rubin, YN Wu (1998) Parameter expansion to accelerate EM -- the PX-EM algorithm. Biometrika, 85, 755-770. pdf

SC Zhu, YN Wu, DB Mumford (1998) Minimax entropy principle and its application to texture modeling. Neural Computation, 9, 1627-1660. pdf

SC Zhu, YN Wu, DB Mumford (1997) Filter, Random field, And Maximum Entropy (FRAME): towards a unified theory for texture modeling. International Journal of Computer Vision, 27, 107-126. pdf

YN Wu (1995) Random shuffling: a new approach to matching problem. Proceedings of American Statistical Association, 69-74. Longer version pdf