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Yun (Raymond) Fu

Dr. and Assistant Professor [since 2010]

Founding Director of SMILE Lab

Department of Computer Science and Engineering

State University of New York (SUNY) at Buffalo

331 Davis Hall

Buffalo, NY 14260-2500

 

Ph: (716) 645-2670    Fax: (716) 645-3464

E-mail: yunfu AT buffalo Dot edu

Hiring 

I am always looking for excellent Ph.D. students to work on machine learning, vision, and social media.

 

Several PostDoc and RA positions are open for machine learning, computer vision, and social media analytics.

 

Please send me your CV if interested.


[Bio] [News] [Press Coverage] [Funding] [Awards] [Research] [Publications] [Teaching] [Service] [SMILE Lab]


Research Interests: Interdisciplinary research in Machine Learning, Social Media Analytics, Human-Computer Interaction, and Cyber-Physical Systems

Education:  Ph.D. (ECE, UIUC)   M.S. (STAT, UIUC)   M.Eng. (PRIS, XJTU)   B.Eng. (IE, XJTU)

Membership: IEEE (senior member), ACM (life member), AAAI (member), SPIE (life member), IMS (life member), Beckman Institute (Beckman Graduate Fellow¡¯07)

Associate Editor: IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology (TCSVT) (2011-), International Journal of Pattern Recognition and Artificial Intelligence (IJPRAI) (2011-), Journal of Multimedia (JMM) (2009-).

Best Paper Awards: IEEE ICIP 2007, IAPR ICFHR 2010, IEEE ICDM LSVA Workshop 2011.


News

-  12/2011, Founding Director of the Synergetic Media Learning (SMILE) Lab.

-  11/2011, PI, "Socio-Cultural Media Sharing as Conversations", $483k, AFOSR, 02/12-02/15.

-  11/2011, Congratulations to my Ph.D. student, Wei Chen, who received the NSF Student Travel Award to attend IEEE ICDM 2011.

-  10/2011, One paper is accepted by IEEE Transactions on Multimedia.

-  10/2011, We won the LSVA Best Paper Award for the IEEE ICDM 2011 Workshop on Large Scale Visual Analytics.

-  10/2011, PI, "Stabilized Manifold Learning", $878k, ONR, 03/12-02/15.

-  09/2011, Keynote at the 7th Joint Conference on Harmonious Human Machine Environment, http://www.hhme.org/hhmebook_100dpi.pdf

-  09/2011, Two papers are accepted by IEEE Transactions on Image Processing.

-  09/2011, UB KinFace Database, Version 2, is released.

-  09/2011, PI, " CPS:Medium:Quantitative Visual Sensing of Dynamic Behaviors for Home-based Progressive Rehabilitation", $1.2million, NSF, 12/11-12/15.

-  08/2011, Dr. Fu accepted the appointment to serve as an Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology (TCSVT).

-  08/2011, PI, "Modeling Spatiotemporal Contextual Dynamics with Sparse-Coded Transfer Learning", $50k, ARMY Research Office, 11/11-10/12.

-  07/2011, A full paper with oral presentation is accepted in ACM CIKM¡¯11, acceptance rate is 15%.

-  07/2011, Dr. Fu is honored as IEEE ICME 2011 Quality Reviewer.

-  06/2011, Co-PI, "Mobile Robots for Swarm Surveillance Research", $290k, DOD DURIP, 06/11-06/12.

-  05/2011, PI, Dr. Fu received an IC Postdoctoral Research Fellowship Award to support his research on Alternative Open Source Motion Imagery, $360k, NGA, 8/11-8/14.

-  01/2011, PI, Dr. Fu received a FutureWei Research Gift to support his research on Visual Classification and Detection.

-  12/2010, PI, Dr. Fu received the Google Faculty Research Award to support his research on Social Media Computing.

-  11/2010, We won the ITESOFT Best Paper Award, 12th IAPR International Conferences on the Frontiers of Handwriting Recognition (ICFHR), 2010.

-  10/2010, Co-PI, "Ontology, Event Agents and Event Recounting for ALADDIN", $1million, IARPA ALADDIN, 12/10-12/15.

-  09/2010, Co-PI, "ISTARE: Intelligent Spatio-Temporal Activity Reasoning Engine", $2million, DARPA Mind's Eye in TCTO, 9/10-8/13.

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Call for Papers

-  The 2nd IEEE International Workshop on Mobile Vision (IWMV'2011), [Call-for-Papers]

In conjunction with IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), 2011

-  The 4th IEEE International Workshop on Multimedia Computing and Communications (MCC¡¯12), [Call-for-Papers]

In conjunction with IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications and Network (ICCCN), 2012


Courses

-  Spring 2012, CSE 705 Seminar in Representation and Low-Rank Matrix Analytics [CourseWeb]

-  Fall 2011, CSE 456/556 Visualization [CourseWeb]

-  Spring 2011, CSE 678 Face and Gesture Recognition [CourseWeb]

-  Fall 2010, CSE 456/556 Introduction to Visualization [CourseWeb]

-  Spring 2010, CSE 704 Seminar in Manifold and Subspace Learning [CourseWeb]


Recent Publications [Full-List]

[B-01]    Yun Fu and Yunqian Ma, ¡°Graph Embedding for Pattern Classification,¡± Springer, 2012 (in press)

[B-02]    Yunqian Ma and Yun Fu, ¡°Manifold Learning Theory and Applications,¡± CRC Press, 2012.

[B-03]    Rama Chellappa, Andrea Cavallaro, Ying Wu, Caifeng Shan, Yun Fu, and Kari Pulli, ¡°Special Issue on Video Analysis on Resource-Limited Systems,¡± IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology (T-CSVT), 2012.

[B-04]    Yun Fu, Xian-Sheng Hua, Zhu Li, Aggelos K. Katsaggelos, and Thomas S. Huang, ¡°Special Issue on Subspace and Manifold Learning for Image and Video Indexing and Searching,¡± IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, Part B (T-SMC-B), 2012.

[B-05]    Gang Hua, Yun Fu, Matthew Turk, Marc Pollefeys, and Zhengyou Zhang, ¡°Introduction to the Special Issue on Mobile Vision,¡± International Journal of Computer Vision (IJCV), 2012.

[B-06]    Yun Fu, Shuicheng Yan and Thomas S. Huang, ¡°Special Issue on Feature-Oriented Image and Video Computing for Extracting Contexts and Semantics,¡± Computer Vision and Image Understanding (CVIU), Volume 115, Issue 3, 2011.

[J-01]    Siyu Xia, Ming Shao, Jiebo Luo, and Yun Fu, ¡°Understanding Kin Relationships in a Photo¡±, IEEE Transactions on Multimedia (T-MM), 2012.

[J-02]    Junsong Yuan, Gangqiang Zhao, Yun Fu, Zhu Li, Aggelos K. Katsaggelos, and Ying Wu, ¡°Discovering Thematic Objects in Images and Videos: a Bottom-up Approach,¡± IEEE Transactions on Image Processing (T-IP), 2012.

[J-03]    Ya Su, Yun Fu, Xinbo Gao and Qi Tian, ¡°Discriminant Learning through Multiple Principal Angles for Visual Recognition,¡± IEEE Transactions on Image Processing (T-IP), 2012.

[J-04]    Xu Zhao, Yun Fu, and Yuncai Liu, ¡°Human Motion Tracking by Temporal-Spatial Local Gaussian Process Experts,¡± IEEE Transactions on Image Processing (T-IP), vol. 20, no. 4, pp. 1141-1151, 2011.

[J-05]    Xu Zhao, Kai-Hsiang Lin, Yun Fu, Yuxiao Hu, Yuncai Liu and Thomas S. Huang, ¡°Text from Corners: A Novel Approach to Detect Text and Caption in Videos,¡± IEEE Transactions on Image Processing (T-IP), vol. 20, no. 3, pp. 790-799, 2011.

[J-06]    Yun Fu, Guodong Guo and Thomas S. Huang, ¡°Age Synthesis and Estimation via Faces: A Survey,¡± IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (T-PAMI), vol. 32 no. 11, pp. 1955-1976, 2010.

[C-01]    Wei Chen, Ming Shao, and Yun Fu, ¡°Fast Low-Rank Approximation for Large Graph,¡± IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM), Workshop on Large Scale Visual Analytics, 2011. (Oral Presentation, Best Paper Award)

[C-02]    Pradipto Das, Rohini Srihari and Yun Fu, ¡°Simultaneous Joint and Conditional Modeling of Documents Tagged from Two Perspectives,¡± ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM), 2011. (Full paper, Oral Presentation, Acceptance Rate: 15%)

[C-03]    Ming Shao, Siyu Xia and Yun Fu, ¡°Genealogical Face Recognition based on UB KinFace Database,¡± IEEE CVPR Workshop on Biometrics (CVPR¡¯11 BIOM), 2011. (Oral Presentation)

[C-04]    Siyu Xia, Ming Shao and Yun Fu, ¡°Kinship Verification through Transfer Learning,¡± International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI), pp. 2539-2544, 2011.

[C-05]    Xiong Li, Xu Zhao, Yun Fu and Yuncai Liu, ¡°Bimodal Gender Recognition from Face and Fingerprint¡±, IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR¡¯10), 2010.


Acknowledgements of Support

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Last Update: 11-16-2011, Copyright 2004~2012, Raymond Fu, All Rights Reserved