Yuli Gao, Ph.D.

Selected Publications:

• 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.
• 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.

Education:

• Ph.D. in Information Technology, University of North Carolina at Charlotte
• B.S. in Computer Science, Fudan University, Shanghai, China

Demo:

• Google Image Visualization and Filtering   readme