Education

·         Ph.D.  University of Science and Technology of China, in Signal and Information Processing.  June 2009.  Supervised by Dr. Hong-Jiang Zhang and Dr. Mingjing Li.

 

·         B.S.  University of Science and Technology of China, in Electronic Information Engineering.  June 2004.

Work Experience

·         11/2008 – 06/2009: research intern, at Web Search and Mining Group, Microsoft Research Asia, China. Mentor: Lei Zhang.

 

·         05/2008 – 11/2008: research engineer, at Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, National University of Singapore. Mentor: Shuicheng Yan.

 

·         07/2005 – 05/2008: research intern, at Web Search and Mining Group, Microsoft Research Asia, China. Mentor: Lei Zhang.  

 

·         02/2004 – 09/2004: research intern, at Media Computing Group, Microsoft Research Asia, China. Mentor: Hong-Jiang Zhang.   

PublicationS

·         13) Changhu Wang, Lei Zhang, Hong-Jiang Zhang. Graph-based Multiple-Instance Learning for Object-based Image Retrieval, in Proc. of ACM International Conference on Multimedia Information Retrieval (MIR), Vancouver, Canada, October 2008.

 

·         12) Changhu Wang, Lei Zhang, Hong-Jiang Zhang. Learning to Reduce the Semantic Gap in Web Image Retrieval and Annotation, in Proc. of the 31st Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research & Development on Information Retrieval (SIGIR), Singapore, July 2008.

 

·         11) Changhu Wang, Lei Zhang, Hong-Jiang Zhang. Scalable Markov Model-Based Image Annotation, in Proc. of ACM International Conference on Image and Video Retrieval (CIVR), Niagara Falls, Canada, July 2008.

 

·         10) Changhu Wang, Feng Jing, Lei Zhang, Hong-Jiang Zhang. Scalabel Search-based Image Annotation, in Multimedia Systems, June 14, 2008. ISSN: 0942-4962 (Print) 1432-1882 (Online).

 

·         9) Changhu Wang, Feng Jing, Lei Zhang, Hong-Jiang Zhang. Content-Based Image Annotation Refinement, in Proc. of IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA, June 2007.

 

·         8) Changhu Wang, Feng Jing, Lei Zhang, Hong-Jiang Zhang, Learning Query-Biased Web Page Summarization, in Proc. of ACM Sixteenth Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM), Lisboa, Portugal, November 2007.

 

·         7) Xirong Li, Xin-Jing Wang, Changhu Wang, Lei Zhang, SBIA: Search-based Image Annotation by Leveraging Web-Scale Images (Demo), in Proc. of ACM International Conference on Multimedia (ACM MM), Augsburg, Germany, September 2007.

 

·         6) Changhu Wang, Feng Jing, Lei Zhang, Hong-Jiang Zhang. Image Annotation Refinement using Random Walk with Restarts, in Proc. of ACM International Conference on Multimedia (ACM MM), Santa Barbara, USA, October 2006.

 

·         5) Feng Jing, Changhu Wang, Yuhuan Yao, Kefeng Deng, Lei Zhang, Wei-Ying Ma. IGroup: Web Image Search Results Clustering, in Proc. of ACM International Conference on Multimedia (ACM MM), Santa Barbara, USA, October, 2006.

 

·         4) Changhu Wang, Feng Jing, Lei Zhang, Hong-Jiang Zhang. Scalable Search-Based Image Annotation of Personal Images, in Proc. of ACM SIGMM Intl Workshop on Multimedia Information Retrieval (ACM MIR), Santa Barbara, USA, October 2006.

 

·         3) Feng Jing, Changhu Wang, Yuhuan Yao, Kefeng Deng, Lei Zhang, Wei-Ying Ma. IGroup: A Web Image Search Engine with Semantic Clustering of Search Results (Demo), in Proc. of ACM International Conference on Multimedia (ACM MM), Santa Barbara, USA, October 2006.

 

·         2) Changhu Wang, Shuicheng Yan, Hong-Jiang Zhang, Wei-Ying Ma. Realistic 3D Face Modeling by Fusing Multiple 2D Images, in Proc. of International Multimedia Modeling Conference (MMM), Melbourne, Australia, January 2005.

 

·         1) Changhu Wang, Shuicheng Yan, Hua Li, Hong-Jiang Zhang, Mingjing Li. Automatic, Effective, and Efficient 3D Face Reconstruction from Arbitrary View Image, PCM 2004, 5th Pacific Rim Conference on Multimedia, Proceedings, Part II, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer, Kiyo Aizawa, Yuichi Nakamura, Shin’ichi Satoh (Eds.), vol. 3332, pp. 553-560, Nov. 2004. (SCI Expanded, IDS Number: BBL59, ISSN: 0302-9743).

Patents

·          “Generating Clusters of Images for Search Results”, US20070174269 - July 26, 2007. 

related projects

·         “IGroup” image search engine (http://igroup.msra.cn/).  Not only co-created the original idea of IGroup with his mentors Feng Jing and Lei Zhang, but also designed and implemented the whole algorithm and the first version of IGroup.  Two related papers have been published and one patent has been filed.

 

·         “VirtualTour”.  I am a member of the dream team for VirtualTour, and contribute a lot to the algorithm part.

 

·         “Search-based Image Annotation”.  I am a key member of this project.  Several related papers have been published.

PROFESSIONAL ActivitIES

·         Participate ACM International Conference on Multimedia (ACM MM), Vancouver, Canada, October 2008.

·         Participate ACM SIGIR Conference (SIGIR), Singapore, July 2008.

·         Review for IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM) 2008.

·         Review for ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM) 2008.

·         Review for ACM International Conference on Multimedia (ACM MM) 2008.

·         Review for IEEE Transactions on Multimedia.

·         Review for Neurocomputing Journal.

·         Review for Imaging Science Journal.

·         Review for ACM International Conference on Image and Video Retrieval (CIVR) 2008.

·         Review for ACM International Conference on Multimedia (ACM MM) 2007.

·         Review for ACM SIGIR Conference (SIGIR) 2007.

·         Review for IEEE International Conference on Multimedia & Expo (ICME) 2007.

·         Participate ACM International Conference on Multimedia (ACM MM), Santa Barbara, USA, October 2006.

·         Review for International Multimedia Modeling Conference (MMM) 2006.

·         Review for IEEE Pacific-rim Conference on Multimedia (PCM) 2006.

SELECTED PresENTATIONS/INVITED TALKS

·         Oral presentation, “Graph-based Multiple-Instance Learning for Object-based Image Retrieval,” at ACM International Conference on Multimedia Information Retrieval (MIR), Vancouver, Canada, 10/2008.

·         Oral presentation, “Learning to Reduce the Semantic Gap in Web Image Retrieval and Annotation,” at the 31st Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research & Development on Information Retrieval (SIGIR), Singapore, 07/2008.

·         Invited talk, “Several works on Web Image Search,” School of Computing, National University of Singapore, Singapore, 06/2008.

·         Invited talk, “Several works on Web Image Search,” Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, 12/2007.

·         Oral presentation, “Scalable Search-based Image Annotation of Personal Images,” at the ACM SIGMM Intl Workshop on Multimedia Information Retrieval (ACM MIR), Santa Barbara, USA, 10/2006.

AwardS

·         SIGIR Student Travel Grant, 2008

·         Championship of Microsoft Research Asia “Games on SILK” competition (Chinese chess), 2007

·         Microsoft Fellowship, 2007  

·         Hua Wei Scholarship, 2007

·         Student Conference Participation Grant of ACM International Conference on Multimedia (ACM MM) 2006

·         Excellent Bachelor Thesis Award of University of Science and Technology of China, 2004

·         Outstanding Student Scholarship of University of Science and Technology of China, 2003

·         Second prize award of Robot Competition of University of Science and Technology of China, 2002  

·         Guanghua Education Scholarship, 2002

·         Di Ao Scholarship, 2001

·         Outstanding Freshman Scholarship Grade 1 of University of Science and Technology of China, 2000