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PhD Student, Dept. of Electronics and Information Engineering, Huazhong University of Science & Technology (HUST), Wuhan, China

Joint PhD Student, Lab of Neuro Imaging (LONI), Dept. of Neurology, UCLA

Research Interest:

Shape Analysis, Object Detection and Recognition.

Research Experience:

Oct. 2007 - Oct. 2008, I was working in University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), supervised by Dr. Zhuowen Tu.
Jan. 2006 - May 2007, visiting student, Dept. of CIS, Temple University, Philadelphia, supervised by Dr. Longin Jan Latecki.

Selected Publications:

Object Detection and Recognition

Zhuowen Tu and Xiang Bai: "Auto-context and Its Application to High-level Vision Tasks and 3D Brain Image Segmentation", IEEE Trans. on PAMI, to appear.
Xiang Bai, Xinggang Wang, Longin Jan Latecki, Wenyu Liu, Zhuowen Tu: "Active Skeleton for Non-rigid Object Detection", ICCV, Kyoto, Japan, 2009. New
Xiang Bai, Quannan Li, Login Jan Latecki, Wenyu Liu, Zhuowen Tu: "Shape Band: A Deformable Object Detection Approach", CVPR, Miami, 2009.

Shape Classification

Xiang Bai, Wenyu Liu, Zhuowen Tu: "Integrating Contour and Skeleton for Shape Classification," Workshop on NORDIA (in conjunction with ICCV09), Kyoto, Japan, 2009. New [dataset]

Shape Matching/Retrieval

Xiang Bai, Xingwei Yang, Longin Jan Latecki, Wenyu Liu, Zhuowen Tu: "Learning Context Sensitive Sharpe Similarity by Graph Transduction", IEEE Trans. PAMI, to appear. (Retrieval Rate of 91.61% on MPEG-7 dataset!) [code]
Xingwei Yang, Xiang Bai, Longin Jan Latecki, and Zhuowen Tu: “Improving Shape Retrieval by Learning Graph Transduction,” ECCV, Marseille, France, 2008. (Retrieval Rate of 91% on MPEG-7 dataset! )
Yao Xu, Bo Wang, Wenyu Liu, Xiang Bai: "Skeleton Graph Matching Based on Critical Points Using Path Similarity," ACCV, Xi'an, China, 2009. (An extention of ''Path Similarity'' in PAMI08) New
Xiang Bai and Longin Jan Latecki: “Path Similarity Skeleton Graph Matching,” IEEE Trans. PAMI, 30(7): 1282-1292, 2008. [send email for OSB function]

Skeletonization & Skeleton Pruning

Hongbo Jiang, Wenping Liu, Dan Wang, Chen Tian, Xiang Bai, Xue Liu, Ying Wu, Wenyu Liu: "CASE: Connectivity-based Skeleton Extraction in Wireless Sensor Network," INFOCOM, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 2009. Journal version, IEEE Trans. Parallel and Distributed Systems, 2010. (Skeletonization of sensor network with PAMI07's method)
Xiang Bai and Longin Jan Latecki, "Discrete Skeleton Evolution", EMMCVPR, Ezhou, China, 2007. [code] (Applications: visual skeletons, corner detection, shape decompostion)
Xiang Bai, Longin Jan Latecki, and Wen-Yu Liu: “Skeleton Pruning by Contour Partitioning with Discrete Curve Evolution,” IEEE Trans. PAMI, 29(3): 449-462, 2007. [appendix] [code]

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Selected Awards:

Microsoft Fellowship 2007
Pacemaker to Outstanding Graduate Students of Huazhong Univ. of Sci. & Tech. (HUST) 2007
Grant for Excellent PhD Thesis of Huazhong Univ. of Sci. & Tech. (HUST) 2006

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