Matt Bang Zhang

Matt Bang Zhang 张邦, senior researcher @ Data61 | CSIRO (Commonwealth Science and Industry Research Organisation)

• Enthusiastic on designing and implementing novel machine learning and data mining methods for business innovation and success.

• Experienced in machine learning, data mining and computer vision research.

• Experienced in engineering from a research idea to a final product. Experienced in Python, Java, C/C++, Spark (PySpark), TensorFlow, SQL and Matlab.

• Always looking for passionate PhD candidates.

Selected Publications

Book Chapter

[1] Bang Zhang, Ting Guo, Lelin Zhang, Peng Lin, Yang Wang, Jianlong Zhou, Fang Chen: Water Pipe Failure Prediction: A Machine Learning Approach Enhanced By Domain Knowledge. Human and Machine Learning 2018: 363-383

Journal

[2] Bang Zhang, Y. Wang, F. Chen, “Multi-label Image Classification via High-Order Label Correlation Driven Active Learning”, IEEE Trans. Image Processing (TIP), vol. 23, issue 3, pp. 1430-1441, 2014. ERA Ranking: A*

[3] N.L.D. Khoa, Bang Zhang, Y. Wang, F. Chen and S. Mustapha, “Robust Dimensionality Reduction and Damage Detection Approaches in Structural Health Monitoring”, Int’l Journal of Structural Health Monitoring (SHMIJ), SAGE Publications, vol. 13, issue 4, pp. 406-417, 2014. ERA rank A

[4] Z. Li, Bang Zhang, Y. Wang, F. Chen, R. Taib, V. Whiffin, Y. Wang, “Water Pipe Condition Assessment: A Hierarchical Beta Process Approach for Sparse Incident Data”, Machine Learning Journal (ML), vol. 95, issue 1, pp. 11-26, 2014. ERA Ranking: A*

[5] G. Herman, Bang Zhang, Y. Wang, F. Chen, “Mutual Information-Based Method for Selecting Informative Feature Sets”, Pattern Recognition Journal (PR), vol. 46, issue 12, pp. 3315-3327 2013. ERA Ranking: A*

[6] Y. Wang, B. Li, Y. Wang, F. Chen, Bang Zhang, Z. Li, “Robust Bayesian non-parametric dictionary learning with heterogeneous Gaussian noise”, Computer Vision and Image Understanding (CVIU) 150: 31-43 (2016) ERA Ranking: A

Conference

[35] Daiheng Gao, Bang Zhang, Qi Wang, Xindi Zhang, Pan Pan, Yinghui Xu, SCAT: Stride Consistency with Auto-regressive regressor and Transformer for hand pose estimation, ICCV'21 workshop

[36] Li Hu, Bang Zhang, Peng Zhang, Jinwei Qi, Jian Cao, Daiheng Gao, Hauming Zhao, Xiaoduan Feng, Qi Wang, LiAn Zhuo, Pan Pan, Yinghui Xu, A Virtual Character Generation and Animation System for E-Commerce Live Streaming, ACM Multimedia 2021

[37] Li Hu, Jinwei Qi, Bang Zhang, Pan Pan, Yinghui Xu, Text-driven 3D Avatar Animation with Emotional and Expressive Behaviors, ACM Multimedia 2021

[7] Li Hu, Peng Zhang, Bang Zhang, Pan Pan, Yinghui Xu, Rong Jin: Learning Position and Target Consistency for Memory-based Video Object Segmentation, CVPR'21 A*

[8] Shixun Huang, Zhifeng Bao, J. Shane Culpepper, Bang Zhang: Finding Temporal Influential Users Over Evolving Social Networks. ICDE 2019: 398-409 ERA Ranking: A*

[9] Yongzhe Chang, Zhidong Li, Bang Zhang, Ling Luo, Arcot Sowmya, Yang Wang, Fang Chen: Recovering DTW Distance Between Noise Superposed NHPP. PAKDD (2) 2019: 229-241 ERA Ranking: A

[10] B. Zhang, L. Zhang, T. Guo, Y. Wang, F. Chen, "Simultaneous Urban Region Function Discovery and Popularity Estimation via an Infinite Urbanization Process Model" ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD) 2018. ERA Ranking A*

[11] H. Luo, F. Choudhury, Z. Bao, S. Culpepper and Matt B. Zhang, "MaxBRkNN Queries for Streaming Geo-Data", 23rd International Conference on Database Systems for Advanced Applications(DASFAA) 2018. ERA Ranking B

[12] M. Yadamjav, S. Wang, Z. Bao, B. Zhang, “Boosting Point-Based Trajectory Search with Quad-Tree”, Australian Database Conference (ADC) 2017: 29-41 (Best paper award)

[13] P. Lin, B. Zhang, T. Guo, Y. Wang, F. Chen, “Infinite Hidden Semi-Markov Modulated Interaction Point Process”, Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS) 2016: 3900-3908. ERA Ranking: A*

[14] P. Lin, B. Zhang, T. Guo, Y. Wang, F. Chen, “Interaction Point Processes via Infinite Branching Model”, Proceedings of the Thirtieth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) 2016: 1853-1859. ERA Ranking: A*

[15] P. Lin, B. Zhang, Y. Wang, Z. Li, B. Li, Y. Wang, F. Chen, Data Driven Water Pipe Failure Prediction: A Bayesian Nonparametric Approach, The 24th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM) 2015. ERA Ranking: A

[16] N.L.D. Khoa, B. Zhang, Y. Wang, W. Liu, F. Chen, S. Mustapha and P. Runcie, “On Damage Identification in Civil Structures Using Tensor Analysis”, in the 19th Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (PAKDD), 2015. ERA ranking: A

[17] B. Zhang, Y. Wang, Y. Wang, F. Chen, Stable Learning in Coding Space for Multi-Class Decoding, IEEE Conf. Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) 2014. ERA Ranking: A*

[18] S. Tamura, Bang. Zhang, Y. Wang, F. Chen, N.L.D. Khoa, “Supervised and unsupervised machine learning approaches for bridge damage prediction,” in Int’l Workshop in Structural Health Monitoring (IWSHM), pp. 182-189, 2013.

[19] B. Zhang, Y. Wang, W. Wang, Batch Mode Active Learning for Multi-Label Image Classification With Informative Label Correlation Mining (oral presentation), IEEE Workshop on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV), 2012. ERA Ranking: A

[20] B. Zhang, Y. Wang, W. Wang, Multiple-Instance Learning from Multiple Perspectives: Combining Models for Multiple-Instance Learning (short oral presentation), IEEE Workshop on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV), 2012. ERA Ranking: A

[21] J. Yang, Y. Wang, A. Sowmya, Z. Li, B. Zhang, J. Xu, Feature Fusion for Vehicle Detection and Tracking with Low-angle Cameras, IEEE Workshop on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV), 2011. ERA Ranking: A

[22] B. Zhang, G. Ye, Y. Wang, W. Wang, J. Xu, G. Herman, J. Yang, Multi-class Graph Boosting with Subgraph Sharing for Object Recognition (oral presentation), Int’l Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR), 2010. ERA Ranking: B

[23] J. Yang, Y. Wang, A. Sowmya, J. Xu, Z. Li, B. Zhang, Spatial-temporal affinity propagation for feature clustering with application to traffic video analysis, The Tenth Asian Conference on Computer Vision (ACCV), 2010. ERA Ranking: B

[24] J. Yang, Y. Wang, A. Sowmya, B. Zhang, J. Xu and Z. Li, Affinity Propagation Feature Clustering with Application to Vehicle Detection and Tracking in Road Traffic Surveillance, Int’l Conference on Advanced Video and Signal-Based Surveillance (AVSS), 2010. ERA Ranking: B

[25] B. Zhang, G. Ye, Y. Wang, J. Xu, G. Herman, Finding Shareable Informative Patterns and Optimal Coding Matrix for Multiclass Boosting (oral presentation), IEEE Int’l Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), 2009. ERA Ranking: A*

[26] B. Zhang, G. Ye, Y. Wang, W. Wang, J. Xu, G. Herman, J. Yang, Informative Frequent Assembled Feature for Face Detection, IEEE Int’l Conference on Image Processing (ICIP), 2009. ERA Ranking: B

[27] J. Yang, Y. Wang, G. Ye, A. Sowmya, B. Zhang, J. Xu, Feature Clustering for Vehicle Detection and Tracking in Road Traffic Surveillance, IEEE Int’l Conference on Image Processing (ICIP), 2009. ERA Ranking: B

[28] J. Xu, G. Ye, Y. Wang, G. Herman, B. Zhang, Incremental EM for Probabilistic Latent Semantic Analysis on Human Action Recognition, Sixth IEEE Int’l Conference on Advanced Video and Signal Based Surveillance (AVSS), 2009. ERA Ranking: B

[29] G. Herman, G. Ye, Y. Wang, J. Xu, B. Zhang, Multi-Instance Learning with Relational Information of Instances, IEEE Workshop on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV), 2009. ERA Ranking: A

[30] J. Xu, G. Ye, G. Herman, B. Zhang, An Efficient Approach to Detecting Pedestrians in Video, ACM Int’l Conference on Multimedia (MM), 2008. ERA Ranking: A*

[31] G. Herman, G. Ye, J. Xu, B. Zhang, Improving Object Detection by Removing Noisy Samples from Training Sets, ACM Int’l Conference on Multimedia Information Retrieval (MIR), 2008. ERA Ranking: B

[32] G. Ye, Y. Wang, J. Xu, G. Herman, B. Zhang, A Practical Approach to Multiple Super-resolution Sprite Generation, IEEE Int’l Workshop on Multimedia Signal Processing (MMSP), 2008. ERA Ranking: B

[33] G. Herman, G. Ye, J. Xu, B. Zhang, Region-based Image Categorization with Reduced Feature Set, IEEE Int’l Workshop on Multimedia Signal Processing (MMSP), 2008. ERA Ranking: B

[34] J. Xu, G. Ye, G. Herman, B. Zhang, Detecting and Recognizing Moving Pedestrians in Video, IEEE Int’l Workshop on Multimedia Signal Processing (MMSP), 2008. ERA Ranking: B