Wei Zhang

Biography

Wei Zhang is a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow in the Multimedia Interaction and Understanding Lab (MIUL) of Hewlett-Packard Labs in Palo Alto, CA. Wei Zhang received the B.E. and M.E. degrees in Information Engineering from Xi’an Jiaotong University, China, in 2001 and 2004, respectively and the Ph.D. degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Oregon State University in 2009. In 2007, Wei Zhang worked as an intern in the “Responsive Mirror” project in the Palo Alto Research Center (PARC), CA.

 

Research interests

Wei Zhang's research interests include Machine Learning, Computer Vision, Pattern Recognition and User Interface Design. 

Awards

Discovery Channel News report on the "Responsive Mirror" project:
http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2008/01/23/fitting-room-tech.html. 2008.

Three patents, Palo Alto Research Center (PARC), 2007. 

1st Place of 1st Class Award in DSP groups in the 4th Motorola Embedded Processor (MCU/DSP) Design Contest, Shanghai, 2002.

Publications

[1] Wei Zhang. Image features and learning algorithms for biological, generic and social object recognition. Ph.D. Dissertation, Oregon State University, 2009.
[2] Wei Zhang, Akshat Surve, Xiaoli Fern and Thomas Dietterich. Learning non-redundant codebooks for classifying complex objects. in Proceedings of the 26th International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), 2009.
[3] Gonzalo Martínez-Muñoz, Wei Zhang et al. Dictionary-free categorization of very similar objects via stacked evidence trees.  IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2009.
[4] Wei Zhang, Takashi Matsumoto, Juan Liu, Maurice Chu, Bo Begole. An Intelligent Fitting Room Using Multi-Camera Perception.  International Conference on Intelligent User Interface (IUI), 2008.
[5] Wei Zhang, Bo Begole, Maurice Chu, Juan Liu, Nick Yee. Real-Time Clothes Comparison Based on Multi-View Vision. 2nd ACM/IEEE International Conference on Distributed Smart Cameras (ICDSC), 2008.
[6] Wei Zhang, Nick Yee, Juan Liu, Maurice Chu, Bo Begole. Augmented Fashion Exploration Based on Clothes Recognition. Accepted to Advanced Concepts for Intelligent Vision Systems (ACIVS), 2008. 
[7] Wei Zhang, Thomas G. Dietterich. Learning Visual Dictionaries and Decision Lists for Object Recognition. 19th International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR), 2008.
[8] Wei Zhang, Hongli Deng. Understanding Visual Dictionaries via Maximum Mutual Information Curves. 19th International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR), 2008.
[9] Bo Begole, Takashi Matsumoto, Wei Zhang, Juan Liu. Responsive Mirror: Fitting Information for Fitting Rooms. Workshop on Ambient Persuasion at CHI, 2008.
[10] Hongli Deng, Wei Zhang, Thomas G. Dietterich, Eric N. Mortensen and Linda Shapiro. Principal Curvature-based Region Detector for Object Recognition. IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2007. (Oral paper).
[11] Enrique Larios, Hongli Deng, Wei Zhang, Matt Sarpola, Jenny Yuen, Robert Paasch, Andrew Moldenke, David Lytle, Salvador Ruiz Correa, Eric Mortensen, Linda Shapiro, Tom Dietterich.  Automated Insect Identification through Concatenated Histograms of Local Appearance Features. Machine Vision and Application (MVA), 2006.
[12] Wei Zhang, Hongli Deng, Thomas G. Dietterich, Eric N. Mortensen. A Hierarchical Object Recognition System Based on Multi-scale Principal Curvature Regions. Proceedings of the International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR), 2006.
[13] Congde Lu, Taiyi Zhang, Wei Zhang and Guang Yang. An Experimental Assessment of the Performance of Linear and Kernel-based Methods for Face Recognition. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, ISNN (2): 124-130. 2005.
[14] Congde Lu, Taiyi Zhang, Wei Zhang. Support Vector Domain Classifier Based on Multiplicative Updates. IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Fundamentals of Electronics, Communications and Computer Sciences. Vol.E87-A No.8 pp.2051-2053. 2004.
[15] Congde Lu, Chunmei Zhang, Taiyi Zhang, Wei Zhang. Kernel Based Symmetrical Principal Component Analysis for Face Classification. Neurocomputing, 2004.

Professional activities

Wei Zhang is reviewer of IUI (Intl’ Conf. on Intelligent User Interfaces) 2009 and TKDE (Trans. on Knowledge and Data Engineering).