Feng Tang

Researcher
Multimedia Interaction and Understanding Lab
Palo Alto

Biography

Feng Tang is a researcher in the Multimedia Interaction and Understanding Lab (MIUL) of Hewlett-Packard Labs in Palo Alto, CA. He received the B.E. and M.E. degrees in Computer Science from State Key Lab. of CAD&CG at Zhejiang University, China, in 2001 and 2004, respectively. He obtained the Ph.D. degree in Computer Engineering from University of California, Santa Cruz in 2008.

 

Research interests

Computer vision, machine learning, interactive computer graphics

Awards

  • NSF Travel Grant 2009
  • Listed in Marquis Who's Who in America 2009
  • Chinese Government Award for Outstanding Self-financed Students Abroad 2007
    • This award is established to encourage research excellence and to recognize the achievementamong Chinese students abroad. It is granted across all fields of study and all countries in the world and was presented to only 72 Chinese students in the United States in 2007.
  • UC Santa Cruz Travel Grant 2007
  • The 8th Chinese National "Challenge Cup" College Student Research Competition 2003
    • Outstanding Prize: One of the two outstanding prizes selected from over 50,000 computer science projects competing in the competition throughout Great China. This is the highest prize Zhejiang Province has achieved in recent 10 years, i.e. 2003 - 1991
  • Various scholarships in Zhejiang University 1997-2004
  • Offer to enter the undergraduate program of Zhejiang University, waived of National College Examination 1997

Publications

Selected journal papers:
Feng Tang and Hai Tao, "Probabilistic Object Tracking with Dynamic Attributed Relational Feature Graph," IEEE Trans. Circuit and Systems for Video Technology (TCSVT), 2008
Feng Tang, Ryan Crabb and Hai Tao, "Representing Images Using Non-orthogonal Haar-like Bases," IEEE Trans. Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (PAMI) vol. 29, no. 12, pp.2120-2134, Dec. 2007
Feng Tang and Hai Tao, "Fast Linear Discriminative Analysis using Binary Bases," Pattern Recognition Letters, vol. 28, no. 16, pp. 2209-2218, Dec. 2007
 
Selected conference papers:
Feng Tang, Suk-Hwan Lim, Nelson L. Chang and Hai Tao,"A Novel Feature Descriptor Invariant to Complex Brightness Changes," CVPR 2009, pp 2631-2638, Jun. 2009
Feng Tang and Yuli Gao, "Fast Near Duplicate Detection for Personal Image Collections", accepted to ACM Multimedia 2009
Feng Tang, Michael Harville, Hai Tao and Ian N. Robinson, "Fusing local appearance features with stereo depth for multi-object tracking", CVPR workshop on S3D (Search in 3D), 2008
Feng Tang, Shanne Brennan, Qi Zhao and Hai Tao, "Co-Tracking Using Semi-Supervised Support Vector Machines," Proc. of Int'l Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), pp. 1-8, 2007
Hai Tao, Ryan Crabb, and Feng Tang, Non-orthogonal Binary Subspace and its Applications in Computer Vision," Proc. IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV) vol. 1, pp. 864-870, Oct. 2005
Songhua Xu, Francis Lau, Feng Tang and Yunhe Pan, "Advanced Design for a Realistic Virtual Brush," Proc. of Eurographics 2003, also Comput. Graph. Forum vol. 22, no. 3, 533-542, 2003

Professional activities

  • Student member of IEEE and ACM.
  • Member of British Machine Vision Association & Society for Pattern Recognition.
  • Reviewer for
     Machine Vision and Applications Journal, Pattern Recognition, Pattern Recognition Letters, Neurocomputing, Neural Processing Letters, International Journal of Pattern Recognition and Artificial Intelligence, IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics{Part B: Cybernetics, IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology