Research

The applicant has achieved fruitfully in the fields of Computer Vision, Machine Learning and Multimedia Content Analysis. The proposed general framework for dimensionality -- Graph Embedding , has been the template to design new algorithms for dimensionality reduction; the proposed Laplacianfaces algorithm has large impact in face recognition area demonstrated by the citation of more than 1500 times;  the proposed object classification, detection and segmentation algorithms are among the world’s best, and won the Championship/Honorable Mention awards for several times in the PASCAL VOC Challenge; furthermore, many innovative applications in the field of Multimedia Content Analysis won the best paper/demo awards for multiple times in the top-tiered conferences, ACM MM 2010, ICME 2010, PCM 2011，ACM MM 2012, etc. The applicant has published more than 70 papers in the top IEEE and ACM Transactions journals, and near 200 papers in the top international conferences like CPVR, ICCV, ACM MM, etc. Currently, the total Google Scholar citation number is more than 8000 and the H-Index in the Google scholar is 40. The SCI citation is 1861 for the papers published in the past 5 years. The applicant also serves as the associate editor of many top journals like TCSVT and ACM TIST, and won the best associate editor award in IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology in 2011. Besides, the applicant has won the Young Scientist Award of Singapore 2011 （three winners only each year in Singapore）, Young Researcher Award of National University of Singapore  2012, etc.