Ming (Daniel) Shao       邵   明

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About Me

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Research Interests

• Face recognition and synthesis; large-scale social media analytics; kinship verification
• Low-rank matrix recovery and approximation; large-scale data analysis; graph embedding
• Multi-label learning; transfer learning; domain adaptation

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Selected Publications [Full List][Google Scholar]

Book Chapter:

• Ming Shao, Dmitry Kit, and Yun Fu, Low-Rank Constraint for Transfer Learning, Low-Rank and Sparse Modeling for Visual Analysis, Springer, 2014 (in press)
• Ming Shao, Siyu Xia, and Yun Fu, Identity and Kinship Relations in Group Pictures, Human-Centered Social Media Analytics, Springer, 2013 (in press)
• Ming Shao, Yun Fu, Recognizing Occupations through Probabilistic Models: A Social View, Human-Centered Social Media Analytics, Springer, 2013 (in press)

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

Conference Papers:

• 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]
• 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]
• Ming Shao and Yun Fu, Hierarchical Hyperlingual-Words for Multi-Modality Face Classification, International Conference on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition (FG), 2013. [pdf]
• Ming Shao, Carlos Castillo, Zhenghong Gu, and Yun Fu, Low-Rank Transfer Subspace Learning, International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM), 2012. [pdf] [bib]
  
• Siyu Xia, Ming Shao, and Yun Fu, Toward Kinship Verication Using Visual Attributes, International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR), 2012 (Oral Presentation). [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. (Oral Presentation, Best Paper Award). [pdf]
• Ming Shao^*, Siyu Xia^*, and Yun Fu, Kinship Verification through Transfer Learning, International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI), 2011. (^* indicates equal contribution) [pdf]
• Ming Shao, Siyu Xia, and Yun Fu, Genealogical Face Recognition based on UB KinFace Database, IEEE CVPR Workshop on Biometrics(CVPR BIOM),  2011. (Database is available now) [pdf]
• Ming Shao, Yunhong Wang, and Peijiang, Liu, Face Relighting Based on Multi-Spectral Quotient Image and Illumination Tensorfaces, Asian Conference on Computer Vision (ACCV), 2009. [pdf]

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Selected Awards:

• 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

• CSE115 Introduction to Computer Science, 2010 Fall, 2011 Spring
• CSE 678 Face and Gesture Recognition, 2011 Spring
• CSE 456/556 Introduction to Visualization, 2010 Fall

Professional Service

Reviewer

• International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), 2013
• IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2013,2014
• ACM Multimedia (ACM-MM), 2012, 2013
• 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 (T-PAMI)
• IEEE Transactions on Neural Network and Learning Systems (T-NNLS)
• IEEE Transactions on Image Processing (T-IP)
• IEEE Transactions on Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology (T-CSVT)
• IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing (T-AFFC)
• Patten Recognition Letter (PRL)
• Neurocomputing 
• International Journal of Pattern Recognition and Artificial Intelligence (IJPRAI)
• Journal of Multimedia (JMM)