Yiqun Hu

Biography

Dr Yiqun Hu is currently the Research Assistant Professor in the School of Computer Science and Software Engineering, University of Western Australia. Before joining UWA, he was the Research Fellow in the School of Computer Engineering of Nanyang Technological University. He received the Bachelor degree in Computer Science from Xiamen University in 2002 and received his PhD degree in Computer Engineering from Nanyang Technological University (NTU) in 2008. Before his PhD study in NTU, he worked as a Leading Software Engineer in the small business team and back office team of a silicon valley company www.eHealthInsurance.com R&D center (Xiamen) from 2002 to 2003. Dr Hu's currently scientific interests include local distance learning, multi-label/multi-instance/multi-kernel learning, nonnegative matrix factorization and sparse coding. The applications of his research are mainly in contextual attention modeling, general object recognition, near-duplication retrieval/detection and visual data retargeting.

*Publications *

Book Chapter

• Yiqun Hu, Viswanath Gopalakrishnan and Deepu Rajan, Modeling Visual Saliency in Images and Videos, in Computer Vision for Multimedia Applications: Methods and Solutions, IGI Global, 2011.

Journal Papers

• Ajmal S. Mian, Yiqun Hu, Richard Hartley and Robyn Owens, Image Set based Face Recognition using Self-regularized Non-negative Coding and Adaptive Distance Metric Learning, accepted in IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, (2013).
• Xuejie Zhang, Yiqun Hu and Deepu Rajan, Dynamic Distortion Maps for Image Retargeting, accepted in Journal of Visual Communication and Image Representation (JVCIR), (2012).
• Viswanath Gopalakrishnan, Deepu Rajan and Yiqun Hu, A Linear Dynamical System Framework for Salient Motion Detection, IEEE Transactions on Circuits System and Video Technology (T-CSVT) 22(5): 683-682 (2012).
• Zhengxiang Wang, Yiqun Hu and Liang-Tien Chia, Learning Image-to-Class Distance Metric for Image Classification, ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology (ACM-TIST), Accepted.
• Yiqun Hu, Ajmal S. Mian and Robyn Owens, Face Recognition using Sparse Approximated Nearest Points between Image Sets, IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (T-PAMI) 34(10): 1992-2004 (2012).
• Zhengxiang Wang, Yiqun Hu and Liang-Tien Chia, Improved Learning of I2C Distance and Accelerating the Neighborhood Search for Image Classification, Pattern Recognition (PR) 44(10-11): 2384-2394 (2011).
• Xiangang Cheng, Yiqun Hu and Liang-Tien Chia, Exploiting Local Dependencies with Spatial-Scale Space (S-Cube) for Near-Duplicate Retrieval, Computer Vision and Image Understanding (CVIU) 115(6): 750-758 (2011).
• Viswanath Gopalakrishnan, Yiqun Hu and Deepu Rajan. Random Walks on Graphs for Salient Object Detection in Images. IEEE Transaction on Image Processing (T-IP) 19(12): 3232-3242 (2010).
• Yiqun Hu, Xianggang Cheng, Liang-Tien Chia, Xing Xie, Deepu Rajan and Ah-Hwee Tan. Coherent Phrase Model for Efficient Image Near-Duplicate Retrieval. IEEE Transaction on Multimedia (T-MM) 11(8): 1434-1445 (2009).
• Viswanath Gopalakrishnan, Yiqun Hu and Deepu Rajan. Salient Region Detection by Modeling Distributions of Color and Orientation. IEEE Transaction on Multimedia (T-MM) 11(5): 892-905 (2009).
• Yiqun Hu, Deepu Rajan and Liang-Tien Chia. Attention-From-Motion: A Factorization Approach for Detecting Attention Objects in Motion. Computer Vision and Image Understanding (CVIU) 113(3): 319-331 (2009).
• Yiqun Hu, Deepu Rajan and Liang-Tien Chia. Detection of Visual Attention Regions in Images using Robust Subspace Analysis. Journal of Visual Communication and Image Representation (JVCIR) 19(3): 199-216 (2008).