Yuli Gao

Biography

Yuli is a researcher in the Multimedia Interaction and Understanding Lab, focused on extracting semantic information from multimedia for large-scale media collection management.

Research interests

Computer Vision, Machine Learning, Multimodal analysis for large-scale multimedia collection.

Awards

10/2006  IBM Watson Emerging Leaders in Multimedia.  
10/2006  ACM Multimedia 2006 Student Conference Participation Grant.  
10/2004  ACM Multimedia 2004 Best Paper Runner-up.  

Publications

Selected Publications:

Y. Gao, C. B. Atkins, P. Cheatle, J. Xiao, X. Zhang, H. Chao, P. Wu, D. Tretter, D. Slatter, A. Carter, R. Penny, C. Willis, ``MagicPhotobook: Designer Inspired, User Perfected Photo Albums'', ACM Multimedia 2009.

F. Tang, Y. Gao, ``'Fast Near Duplicate Detection for Personal Image Collections'', ACM Multimedia 2009.

Y. Gao, T. Zhang, J. Xiao, ``Thematic Video Thumbnail Selection'', ICIP 2009.

Y. Gao, C. Yang, Y. Shen, J. Fan, ``Human-Computer Interaction for Large-Scale Image Retrieval'', invited paper, ICME 2009.

Y. Gao, J. Peng, H. Luo, D. Keim, J. Fan, ``An Interactive Approach for Filtering out Junk Images from Keyword Based Google Search Results.'', IEEE Transactions on Circuits and System for Video Technology, Vol. 19, no. 9, Sep 2009.

G. Chen, J. Zhang, F. Wang, C. Zhang, Y. Gao, ``Efficient Multi-label Classification with Hypergraph Regularization'', CVPR 2009.

Y. Gao, H. Luo, J. Fan, "Personalized Image Recommendation", The 15th International Multimedia Modeling Conference (MMM), France, 2009.

J. Xiao, X. Zhang, P. Cheatle, Y. Gao, C.B. Atkins, "Mixed-Initiative Photo Collage Authoring", ACM Multimedia, Vancouver, Canada, 2008.

J. Fan, Y. Gao, H. Luo, D. Keim, Z. Li, "A Novel Approach to Enable Semantic and Visual Image Summarization for Exploratory Image Search", ACM SIGMM International Workshop on Multimedia Information Retrieval (MIR), Vancouver, Canada, 2008.

Y. Gao, J. Fan , H. Luo, S. Satoh, "A Novel Approach for Filtering Junk Images from Google Search Results", The 14th International Multimedia Modeling Conference (MMM), Kyoto, Japan, 2008.

J. Fan, Y. Gao, H. Luo, "Hierarchical Classification for Automatic Image Annotation", ACM SIGIR, 2007, Amsterdam.

J. Yang, J. Fan, D. Hubball, Y. Gao, H. Luo, W. Ribarsky, M. Ward, "Semantic Image Browser: Bridging Information Visualization with Automated Intelligent Image Analysis", IEEE Symposium on Visual Analytics Science and Technology (VAST), 2006.

Y. Gao, J. Fan, "Incorporating Concept Ontology for Hierarchical Classifier Training and Multi-Level Image Annotation", ACM SIGMM International Workshop on Multimedia Information Retrieval (MIR), Santa Barbara, CA, October 26-27, 2006.

Y. Gao, J. Fan, H. Luo, X. Xue, R. Jain, "Automatic Image Annotation by Incorporating Feature Hierarchy and Boosting to Scale Up SVM Classifiers", ACM Multimedia, Santa Barbara, CA, Oct. 22-28, 2006.

Y. Gao, J. Fan, "Automatic Function Selection for Large Scale Salient Object Detection", ACM Multimedia, Santa Barbara, Oct. 22-28, 2006.

Y. Gao, H. Luo, J. Fan, "Searching and Browsing Large Scale Image Database Using Keywords and Ontology", ACM Multimedia, Santa Barbara, CA, Oct. 22-28, 2006.

Y. Gao, J. Fan, "Semantic Image Classification with Hierarchical Feature Subset Selection", ACM SIGMM International Workshop on Multimedia Information Retrieval, Singapore (MIR), Nov. 10-11, 2005.

J. Fan, H. Luo, Y. Gao, M.-S. Hacid, "Mining Image Databases on Semantics via Statistical Learning", KDD Conference, Chicago, IL, Aug. 20-25, 2005.

J. Fan, H. Luo, Y. Gao, "Learning the Semantics of Images by Using Unlabeled Samples", IEEE CVPR, San Diego, CA, June 20-26, 2005.

J. Fan , Y. Gao, H. Luo, G. Xu, "Statistical Modeling and Conceptualization of Natural Images", Pattern Recognition, special issue on Automatic Understanding of Photography, Vol. 38, No. 6, pp. 865-885, 2005.

J. Fan, Y. Gao, H. Luo, "Multi-level Annotation of Natural Scenes Using Dominant Image Components and Semantic Image Concepts", ACM Multimedia, New York, NY, Oct. 10-15, 2004.