Research Interests: Computer vision and machine learning, with focus on Shape Analysis, Shape retrieval and Shape based object detection.
Education: Ph.D. (06-2011, CIS, TEMPLE)  B.Eng (02-06, EIE, HUST)
Ph.D. Adviser: Prof. Longin Jan Latecki

- One joint paper accepted by IJCV   - One Joint paper accepted by NIPS 2011.

Selected Publications

1. Contour Based Object Detection as dominant set computation.  Xingwei Yang, Hairong Liu, Longin Jan Latecki  Pattern Recognition, accpeted.  2. Dense Neighbors on Affinity Graph Hairong Liu, Xingwei Yang, Longin Jan Latecki and Shuicheng Yang.  International Journal of Computer Vision, (IJCV) accpeted.  3.  Maximal Cliques that Satisfy Hard Constraints with Application to Deformable Object Model Learning Xinggang Wang, Xiang Bai, Xingwei Yang, Wenyu Liu and Longin Jan Latecki Neural Information Processing Systems Conf. (NIPS), 2011

   4. Affinity Learning on a Tensor Product Graph with Applications to Shape and Image Retrieval. [Demo]   Xingwei Yang and Longin Jan Latecki.    IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2011. 

5. Particle Filter with State Permutations for Solving Image Jigsaw Puzzles. Xingwei Yang, Nagesh Adluru, and Longin Jan Latecki  IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2011.

6. Weakly Supervised Shape Based Object Detection with Particle Filter.  Xingwei Yang, and Longin Jan Latecki  The 11th European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), 2010.

7. Balancing Deformability and Discriminability for Shape Matching  Haibin Ling, Xingwei Yang, and Longin Jan Latecki The 11th European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), 2010.

8. Boosting Chamfer Matching with Normalized Chamfer Distance  Tianyang Ma, Xingwei Yang, and Longin Jan Latecki The 11th European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), 2010.

9. Learning Context Sensitive Shape Similarity by Graph Transduction. [Demo Code] Xiang Bai, Xingwei Yang, Longin Jan Latecki, Wenyu Liu and Zhuowen Tu.  IEEE Trans. PAMI, vol. 32, no. 5, pp. 861-874, May, 2010.

10. Shape Guided Contour Grouping with Particle Filters ChengEn Lu, Longin Jan Latecki, Nagesh Adluru, Xingwei Yang, and Haibin Ling.  The 12th IEEE Int. Conf. on Computer Vision (ICCV) 2009

11. Locally Constrained Diffusion Process on Locally Densified Distance Spaces with Applications to Shape Retrieval [Send me email for code of LCDP] Xingwei Yang,Suzan Koknar-Tezel, and Longin Jan Latecki IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2009.

12. Outlier Detection with Globally Optimal Exemplar-Based GMM (Oral) Xingwei Yang, Longin Jan Latecki, and Dragoljub Pokrajac.  SIAM International Conference on Data Mining (SDM) 2009

13. Improving Shape Retrieval by Learning Graph Transduction Xingwei Yang, Xiang Bai, Longin Jan Latecki, and Zhuowen Tu The 10th European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), 2008.

14. Shape Classification Based on Skeleton Path Similarity.(Oral) [Send me email for the code] Xingwei Yang, Xiang Bai, Deguang Yu, and Longin Jan Latecki The 6th International Conference on Energy Minimization Methods in Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (EMMCVPR) 2007