Ming (Daniel) Shao       邵   明

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About Me

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What's new

• Our ICME 2014 paper "Learning Relative Features Through Adaptive Pooling For Image Classification" has been selected as Best Paper Award Candidates (4 out of 98 = 4.08%).
• I have been invited as a PC member of ECCV workshop (VECTaR2014)
• Our paper "Latent Low-Rank Transfer Subspace Learning for Missing Modality Recognition" is accepted by Twenty-Eighth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), 2014. Congratulations to Allen Ding!
• We have been invited for a book chapter in "Low-Rank and Sparse Modeling for Visual Analysis", Springer, 2014

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Research Interests

• Large-scale graph construction and approximation
• Social media analytics: kinship verification, occupation recognition
• Feature learning through autoencoders and deep networks
• Sparse representation and low-rank matrix analysis
• Transfer learning, multi-view/task learning

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Selected Publications [Full List][Google Scholar][CV]

Book Chapter:

• Ming Shao, Dmitry Kit, and Yun Fu, Low-Rank Transfer Learning, Low-Rank and Sparse Modeling for Visual Analysis, Springer, 2014

• Ming Shao, Mingbo Ma, and Yun Fu, Sparse Manifold Subspace Learning, Low-Rank and Sparse Modeling for Visual Analysis, Springer, 2014

• Ming Shao, Siyu Xia, and Yun Fu, Identity and Kinship Relations in Group Pictures, Human-Centered Social Media Analytics, Springer, 2013

• Ming Shao, Yun Fu, Recognizing Occupations through Probabilistic Models: A Social View, Human-Centered Social Media Analytics, Springer, 2013

Journal Paper:

• Ming Shao, Dmitry Kit, and Yun Fu, Generalized Transfer Subspace Learning through Low-Rank Constraint, International Journal on Computer Vision (IJCV), 2014. [pdf] [bib]

• Ming Shao^*, Siyu Xia^*, Jiebo Luo, and Yun Fu , "Understanding Kin Relationships in a Photo", IEEE Transactions on Multimedia (TMM), pages 1046-1056, 2012. (^* indicates equal contribution) [pdf] [bib]

Conference Papers:

• Ming Shao, Zhengming Ding, and Yun Fu, Sparse Low-Rank Fusion based Deep Features for Missing Modality Face Recognition, International Conference on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition (FG), 2015. [pdf] [bib]

• Sheng Li, Ming Shao, and Yun Fu, Multi-view Low-Rank Analysis for Outlier Detection, SIAM International Conference on Data Mining (SDM), 2014. [pdf] [bib]

• Zhengming Ding, Ming Shao, and Yun Fu, Latent Low-Rank Transfer Subspace Learning for Missing Modality Recognition, Twenty-Eighth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), 2014. [pdf] [bib]

• Ming Shao, Sheng Li, Tongliang Liu, Dacheng Tao, Thomas Huang, and Yun Fu, Learning Relative Features Through Adaptive Pooling For Image Classification, 
  IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME), 2014, Best Paper Award Candidates. (4 out of 98 = 4.08%) [pdf] [bib]

• Ming Shao, Liangyue Li, and Yun Fu, What Do You Do? Recognize Occupations in a Photo via Social Context, International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), 2013. [pdf] [bib]

• Ming Shao^*, Yizhe Zhang^*, Edward Wong, and Yun Fu, Random Faces Guided Sparse Many-to-One Encoder for Pose-Invariant Face Recognition, International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), 2013. (^* indicates equal contribution) [pdf] [bib]

• Ming Shao, Carlos Castillo, Zhenghong Gu, and Yun Fu, Low-Rank Transfer Subspace Learning, International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM), 2012. [pdf] [bib]

• Wei Chen, Ming Shao, and Yun Fu, Clustering Based Fast Low-Rank Approximation for Large-Scale Graph, IEEE ICDM 2011 Workshop on Large Scale Visual Analytics (ICDM-LSVA), 2011, Best Paper Award. [pdf]  [bib]

• Ming Shao^*, Siyu Xia^*, and Yun Fu, Kinship Verification through Transfer Learning, International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI), 2011. (^* indicates equal contribution) [pdf] [bib]

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Selected Awards:

• Best paper award candidate of IEEE ICME ( 4 out of 98 = 4.08%) , 2014
• LSVA Best Paper Award for the IEEE ICDM 2011 Workshop on Large Scale Visual Analytics, 2011
• AI Area Scholarship, Computer Science and Engineering Department, SUNY at Buffalo (Top 1), 2011
• Presidential Fellowship, SUNY at Buffalo, 2010-2012
• Beihang Excellent Graduate, (20 in School of Computer Science and Engineering, Beihang University), 2010
• University Excellent Graduate Thesis (50 in Beihang University), 2010
• Exploration Prize (2 in School of Computer Science and Engineering, Beihang University), 2009

Teaching Assistant for

• SUNY at Buffalo, CSE115 Introduction to Computer Science, 2010 Fall, 2011 Spring
• SUNY at Buffalo, CSE 678 Face and Gesture Recognition, 2011 Spring
• SUNY at Buffalo, CSE 456/556 Introduction to Visualization, 2010 Fall
• Northeastern University, EECE 5698 Introduction to Visualization, 2013 Fall, 2014 Fall

Professional Service

PC Member

• The 6th International Workshop on Video Event Categorization, Tagging and Retrieval towards Big Data, in conjunction with ECCV2014
• IEEE Workshop on Analysis and Modeling of Faces and Gestures in Conjunction with CVPR2015 (AMFG2015)

Reviewer/External Reviewer

• International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM), 2014
• Asian Conference on Computer Vision (ACCV), 2014
• International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), 2013
• IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2013,2014
• European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), 2014
• ACM Multimedia (ACM-MM), 2012, 2013, 2014
• SIAM International Conference on Data Mining (SDM), 2013
• International Conference on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition (FGR), 2013
• British Machine Vision Conference (BMVC), 2012, 2013
• Workshop on the Applications of Computer Vision (WACV), 2012
• IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), 2011, 2012, 2013
• IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME), 2011
• International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR), 2010
• IEEE International Conference on Advanced Video and Signal-Based Surveillance (AVSS), 2012, 2013
• IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (TPAMI)
• IEEE Transactions on Neural Network and Learning Systems (TNNLS)
• IEEE Transactions on Image Processing (TIP)
• IEEE Transactions on Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology (TCSVT)
• IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing (TAFFC)
• ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology (ACM-TIST)
• International Journal of Multimedia Information Retrieval
• Patten Recognition Letter (PRL)
• Neurocomputing 
• International Journal of Pattern Recognition and Artificial Intelligence (IJPRAI)
• Journal of Multimedia (JMM)