Publications

Journal Articles:

1. Safaa Alwajidi and Li Yang. Multiresolution hierarchical support vector machine for classification of large datasets. Knowledge and Information Systems. 2022. DOI: 10.1007/s10115-022-01755-9

2. Safaa Alwajidi and Li Yang. Bayes classification and entropy discretization of large datasets using multi-resolution data aggregation. Advances in Science, Technology and Engineering Systems Journal. 5(5): 460-468, 2020. DOI: 10.25046/aj050557

3. Shuai Huang, Chun Luo, Shiwei Ye, Fei Liu, Bin Xie, Caifeng Wang, Li Yang, Zhen Huang, Jiankang Wu. Motor impairment evaluation for upper limb in stroke patients on the basis of a microsensor. International Journal of Rehabilitation Research. 35(2):161-169, June 2012. DOI: 10.1097/MRR.0b013e328353053a

4. Dongfang Zhao and Li Yang. Incremental isometric embedding of high dimensional data using connected neighborhood graphs. IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence. 31(1):86-98, January 2009 DOI: 10.1109/TPAMI.2008.34

5. Li Yang. Alignment of overlapping locally scaled patches for multidimensional scaling and dimensionality reduction. IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence. 30(3):438-450, March 2008 DOI: 10.1109/TPAMI.2007.70706

6. Li Yang. Building k-connected neighborhood graphs for isometric data embedding. IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence. 28(5):827-831, May 2006 DOI: 10.1109/TPAMI.2006.89

7. Li Yang. Building k edge-disjoint spanning trees of minimum total length for isometric data embedding. IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence. 27(10):1680-1683, October 2005 DOI: 10.1109/TPAMI.2005.192

8. Li Yang. Building k-edge connected neighborhood graph for distance-based data projection. Pattern Recognition Letters. 26(13):2015-2021, October 2005 DOI: 10.1016/j.patrec.2005.03.021

9. Li Yang. Pruning and visualizing generalized association rules in parallel coordinates. IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, 17(1):60–70. January 2005 DOI: 10.1109/TKDE.2005.14

10. Li Yang. Distance-preserving projection of high dimensional data for nonlinear dimensionality reduction. IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, 26(9):1243–1246. September 2004 DOI: 10.1109/TPAMI.2004.66

11. Li Yang. Distance-preserving projection of high dimensional data. Pattern Recognition Letters, 25(2):259–266. January 2004 DOI: 10.1016/j.patrec.2003.10.010

12. Li Yang. Distance-preserving mapping of patterns to 3-space. Pattern Recognition Letters, 25(1):119–128. January 2004 DOI: 10.1016/j.patrec.2003.09.009

13. Li Yang. Visual exploration of large relational datasets through 3D projections and footprint splatting. IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, 15(6):1460–1471, November/December 2003 DOI: 10.1109/TKDE.2003.1245285

14. Li Yang and Mustafa Sanver. Web-based interactive 3D visualization for computer graphics education. International Journal of Distance Education Technologies, 1(3):69–77, July/September 2003. DOI: 10.4018/jdet.2003070106

15. Li Yang and Jian-Kang Wu. Towards a semantic image database system. Data & Knowledge Engineering, 22(2): 207–227, April 1997 DOI: 10.1016/S0169-023X(96)00053-5

16. Li Yang and Ru-Wei Dai. The semantic description and recognition of patterns. Science in China (Series E), 39(2): 217–224, April 1996 DOI: 10.1360/ye1996-39-2-217 (The Chinese version was published on the Chinese edition of Science in China (Series E), 26(2): 179–184, April 1996. DOI: 10.1360/ze1996-26-2-179)

17. Li Yang. Towards restructuring and normalization of types in databases. Journal of Computer Science and Technology, 10(1):65–73, January 1995. DOI: 10.1007/BF02939523

18. Li Yang. A hypertext query language for images. ACM SIGMOD Record, 23(1):16–20, March 1994 DOI: 10.1145/181550.181554

19. Li Yang. The equivalence-preserving transformation of object types. Chinese Journal of Computers, 17(10):721–728, October 1994

20. Li Yang and Jian-Kang Wu. The design of an object-oriented image database system. Journal of China University of Science and Technology, 24(1):94–100, March 1994

21. Li Yang. On the algebraic model of object-oriented database systems. Computer Research and Development, 31(1):9–11, January 1994

22. Li Yang. On the algebraic model of inheritance in object-oriented databases. Computer Research and Development, 30(11):8–14, 1993

23. Li Yang. An object-oriented image data model. Chinese Journal of Computers. 16(6):437–441, June 1993

24. Li Yang and Jian-Kang Wu. Coding methods of graphic data in graphic database systems. Telecommunication Science, 4(10):43–47, 1988

25. Li Yang. Digital signal processing technique and its applications. Publications of Yunnan Observatory, 4:64–70, 1988

26. Jian-Kang. Wu, Tao Chen, and Li Yang. A knowledge-based image database system (ISDBS). Science in China (Series A), 34(1):87–93, January 1991. DOI: 10.1360/ya1991-34-1-87

27. Jian-Kang Wu, Tao Chen, and Li Yang. QPF — a versatile query language for a knowledge-based geographical information system. International Journal of Geographical Information Systems, 3(1):51–57, 1989. DOI: 10.1080/02693798908941495

Conference Proceedings:

1. Safaa Alwajidi and Li Yang. Multi-Resolution Hierarchical Structure for Efficient Data Aggregation and Mining of Big Data. 2019 International Conference on Automation, Computational and Technology Management (ICACTM). London, UK, April 24-26, 2019, pages: 153-159. DOI: 10.1109/ICACTM.2019.8776717

2. Safaa Alwajidi and Li Yang. 3D Parallel Coordinates for Multidimensional Data Cube Exploration. Proceedings of the 2018 International Conference on Computing and Big Data (ICCBD'18), Charleston, SC, September 08-10, 2018, pages: 23-27. DOI: 10.1145/3277104.3277106

3. Xiaokun Wang, Li Yang. Visual Data Mining in Transportation Using Multiresolution Data Aggregation. Proceedings of the 2015 International Conference on Fuzzy Systems and Data Mining (FSDM 2015). Shanghai, China, December 12-15, 2015. In: Fuzzy System and Data Mining. Volume 281, Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications. IOS Press. 2016, pages: 195 - 199. DOI: 10.3233/978-1-61499-619-4-195

4. Xiaokun Wang, Li Yang. Visualizing High Dimensional Feature Space for Feature-Based Information Classification. Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Computational Science and Its Applications (ICCSA 2016). Beijing, China, July 4-7, 2016. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Volume 9787. Springer, 2016, pages: 540--550. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-42108-7_42

5. Li Yang, Xiaokun Wang. Online Appearance Manifold Learning for Video Classification and Clustering. Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Computational Science and Its Applications (ICCSA 2016). Beijing, China, July 4-7, 2016. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Volume 9787. Springer, 2016, pages: 551--561. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-42108-7_43

6. Shuai Huang, Shuyan Sun, Zhipei Huang, Jiankang Wu, Xiaoli Meng, Guanhong Tao, Nan Zhang, Li Yang. Ambulatory real-time micro-sensor motion capture. Proceedings of the 11th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks (IPSN'12), Beijing, China, April 2012, pages107-108. DOI:10.1145/2185677.2185700

7. Mustafa Sanver and Li Yang. A linking mechanism to integrate components of a visualization framework. In 13th International Conference on Information Visualisation (IV’09), Barcelona, Spain, July 2009, pages 92–97. DOI: 10.1109/IV.2009.39

8. Mustafa Sanver and Li Yang. Footprint splatting for interactive visualization of large data sets. In 2009 International Conference on Computer Graphics and Virtual Reality (CGVR'09), Las Vegas, NV, July 2009. Pages 17-22

9. Mustafa Sanver and Li Yang. Footprint splatting and density-based parallel coordinates for interactive visualization of large data sets. In 9th IASTED International Conference on Visualization, Imaging and Image Processing (VIIP), number 652-014. ACTA Press, July 2009.

10. Mustafa Sanver and Li Yang. Multiresolution data aggregation for analytical exploration of large relational data. In Proceedings of SPIE International Symposium on Electronic Imaging, volume 7243. IS&T/SPIE, Jan. 2009.

11. Li Yang. Multiresolution data aggregation and analytical exploration of large data sets. NSF Symposium on Next Generation of Data Mining and Cyber-Enabled Discovery for Innovation, Baltimore, MD, October 2007

12. Li Yang. Locally multidimensional scaling for nonlinear dimensionality reduction. Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR'06), volume 4, pages 202-205, Hong Kong, China, August 2006 DOI: 10.1109/ICPR.2006.774

13. Li Yang. Building connected neighborhood graphs for locally linear embedding. Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR'06), volume 4, pages 194-197, Hong Kong, China, August 2006 DOI: 10.1109/ICPR.2006.345

14. Dongfang Zhao and Li Yang. Incremental construction of neighborhood graphs for nonlinear dimensionality reduction. Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR'06), volume 3, pages 177-180, Hong Kong, China, August 2006 DOI: 10.1109/ICPR.2006.707

15. Li Yang. Building Connected Neighborhood Graphs for Isometric Data Embedding. Proceedings of the 11th ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD'2005), pages 722-728, Chicago, IL, August 2005 DOI: 10.1145/1081870.1081963

16. Li Yang. Data Embedding Techniques and Applications. Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on Computer Vision meets Databases (CVDB 2005), Baltimore, MD, June 2005 DOI: 10.1145/1160939.1160948

17. Li Yang. Sammon's nonlinear mapping using geodesic distances. Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR'04), volume 3, pages 303–306, Cambridge, UK, August 2004 DOI: 10.1109/ICPR.2004.1334180

18. Li Yang. k-edge connected neighborhood graph for geodesic distance estimation and nonlinear data projection. Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR'04), volume 1, pages 196–199, Cambridge, UK, August 2004 DOI: 10.1109/ICPR.2004.1334057

19. Li Yang and Mustafa Sanver. Mining short association rules with one database scan. Proceedings of the 2004 International Conference on Information and Knowledge Engineering (IKE'04), pages 392–395, Las Vegas, NV, June 2004

20. Li Yang. Evaluation of distance-based techniques for data projection and dimensionality reduction. Proceedings of the 2004 International Conference on Information and Knowledge Engineering (IKE'04), pages 228–231, Las Vegas, NV, June 2004

21. Li Yang and Mustafa Sanver. Teaching database in two courses: reconciling theoretical framework with practical considerations. Proceedings of the ASEE Conference. Salt Lake City, UT, June 2004

22. Li Yang. Interactive visualization of frequent itemsets and association rules. Proceedings of the 3rd International Workshop on Visual Data Mining, pages 85–95, Melbourne, FL, November 2003 

23. Li Yang. Visual exploration of association rules (poster). Poster Compendium of the IEEE Conference on Visualization (Vis’2003), pages 24-25, Seattle, WA, October 2003 DOI: 10.1109/VIS.2003.10017

24. Li Yang. Use of web-based live demos in computer science courses. Advances in Web-Based Learning, Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Web-Based Learning, Melbourne, Australia, August 2003. Lecture Notes in Computer Science 2783, pages 264–270, Springer DOI:10.1007/978-3-540-45200-3_25 

25. Mustafa Sanver, Erik Gillespie, and Li Yang. A webware for computer graphics education. Proceedings of the ASEE Conference, Nashville, TN, June 2003. DOI: 10.18260/1-2--11407

26. Li Yang. Exploring feature space for image retrieval. Proceedings of the 2003 International Conference on Imaging Science, Systems, and Technology (CISST'03), pages 159–162, Las Vegas, NV, June 2003

27. Li Yang. Visualizing many-to-many association rules. Proceedings of the 2003 International Conference on Information and Knowledge Engineering (IKE'03), pages 92–95, Las Vegas, NV, June 2003

28. Li Yang. Visualizing large relational datasets by combining grand tour with footprint splatting of high dimensional data cubes. Proceedings of the 2003 International Conference on Computational Science and Its Applications (ICCSA 2003), Montreal, Canada, May 2003. Lecture Notes in Computer Science 2667, pages 11–20, Springer DOI: 10.1007/3-540-44839-X_2

29. Li Yang. Visualizing frequent itemsets, association rules and sequential patterns in parallel coordinates. Proceedings of the 2003 International Conference on Computational Science and Its Applications (ICCSA 2003), Montreal, Canada, May 2003. Lecture Notes in Computer Science 2667, pages 21–30, Springer DOI: 10.1007/3-540-44839-X_3

30. Li Yang and Adnan Rahi. Dynamic clustering of web search results. Proceedings of the 2003 International Conference on Computational Science and Its Applications (ICCSA 2003), Montreal, Canada, May 2003. Lecture Notes in Computer Science 2667, pages 153–159, Springer¬ DOI: 10.1007/3-540-44839-X_17

31. Li Yang and Mustafa Sanver. Web-based interactive 3D visualization for computer graphics education. Advances in Web-Based Learning, Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Web-Based Learning, Hong Kong, China, August 17–19, 2002. Lecture Notes in Computer Science 2436, pages 423–-431, Springer DOI: 10.1007/3-540-45689-9_35

32. Li Yang. Tetrahedron mapping of points from n-space to three-space. Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR 2002), volume 4, pages 343–346, Quebec City, Canada, August 2002 DOI: 10.1109/ICPR.2002.1047466

33. Mustafa Sanver and Li Yang. Web-based demos of OpenGL functions. Proceedings of the ASEE NCS Conference, Rochester, MI, April 2002

34. Li Yang and Adran Rahi. IntelliGrouper: An interface for dynamic clustering of web search results. Proceedings of the 1st SIAM Workshop on Text Mining, pages 63–68, Chicago, IL, April 2001

35. Li Yang. n23Tool: A tool for exploring large relational data sets through 3D dynamic projections. Proceedings of the 9th ACM International Conference in Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM 2000), pages 322–327, Washington, DC, November 6–11, 2000 DOI: 10.1145/354756.354835

36. Li Yang. Interactive exploration of very large relational datasets through 3D dynamic projections. Proceedings of the 6th ACM Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD 2000), pages 236–243, Boston, MA, August 20–23, 2000 DOI: 10.1145/347090.347134

37. Li Yang. 3D Grand Tour for Multidimensional Data and Clusters. Proceedings of the 3rd Symposium on Intelligent Data Analysis (IDA’99), Amsterdam, Netherlands, August 9–11, 1999. Lecture Notes in Computer Science 1642, pages 173–184, Springer, 1999 DOI: 10.1007/3-540-48412-4_15

38. Li Yang and Morten H. Westvik. High performance data mining activities in IHPC. Proceedings of High Performance Computing Asia’98, pages 1025–1030, Singapore, September 23–25, 1998

39. Li Yang. Specifying object behaviors by actions and attributes. Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on CSCW in Design (CSCWD’97), pages 135–144, Bangkok, Thailand, Nov. 26–28, 1997, International Academic Publishers

40. Li Yang and Ren-Ben Shu. TCP/IP performance analysis of local ATM networks for HPC. Proceedings of High Performance Computing Asia’97, pages 230–235, Seoul, Korea, April 28 – May 2, 1997 DOI: 10.1109/HPC.1997.592152

41. Li Yang and Ren-Ben Shu. Performance tests of local ATM networks. Proceedings of the IEEE Singapore International Conference on Networks (SICON97), pages 155–168, Singapore, April 14–17, 1997

42. Li Yang. Trace calculus and the specification of object behaviors. Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Multi-Media Modeling, pages 83–96, Singapore, November 14–17 1995

43. Li Yang and Ru-Wei Dai. An algebraic semantic approach for pattern recognition. Proceedings of the 3rd  Pacific Rim International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, pages 773–777, Beijing, China, August 15–18, 1994

44. Ru-Wei Dai and Li Yang. The structural approach of pattern recognition and its applications. Proceedings of the 1st China-Korea Joint Symposium on Machine Translation, Yanbian, China, August 7–11, 1994

45. Li Yang. On visual languages of object-oriented database systems. Proceedings of the 1st China Postdoctoral Academic Congress, pages 400–403, China Defense Industrial Press, 1993

46. Li Yang and Jian-Kang Wu. Visualization - The tendency of man-machine interface. Proceedings of the 7th National Conference on Pattern Recognition and Machine Intelligence, Wuhan, China, May 1989

47. Li Yang and Feng Gao. Binary tree representation of graphic data. Proceedings of the 6th National Conference on Pattern Recognition and Machine Intelligence, Beijing, China, October 1987

48. Li Yang. Spatial data management. National Conference on Image Science, Hefei, China, July 1987

Book Chapters:

1. Li Yang. Visual association rules. Encyclopedia of Database Systems, 2nd Edition. M. Tamer Ozsu and Ling Liu (Eds.), pages 4469–4475, Springer, 20018. DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4614-8265-9_1125

2. Li Yang. Distance preserving dimensionality reduction. Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery. Witold Pedrycz (Ed.), volume 1, issue 5, pages 369-380, Wiley, 2011. DOI: 10.1002/widm.39

3. Li Yang. Visual association rules. Encyclopedia of Database Systems. M. Tamer Ozsu and Ling Liu (Eds.), pages 3346-3352, Springer, 2009. DOI: 10.1007/978-0-387-39940-9_1125

4. Li Yang. Visual exploration of frequent itemsets and association rules. Visual Data Mining: Theory, Techniques and Tools for Visual Analytics, Simeon Simoff, Michael Böhlen, Arturas Mazeika (Eds.), pages 60-75, Lecture Notes in Computer Science 4404, Springer, 2008. DOI:10.1007/978-3-540-71080-6_5

5. Li Yang and Tosiyasu L. Kunii. Visual database. Wiley Encyclopedia of Computer Science and Engineering, Benjamin W. Wah (Ed.), volume 5, pages 3005-3015, John Wiley, Hoboken, NJ, January 2009. DOI: 10.1002/9780470050118.ecse509

6. Li Yang.  Data projection techniques and their application in sensor array data processing. New Generations of Data Mining Applications, Mehmed Kantardzic, Jozef Zurada (Eds.). pages 57-77, IEEE Press/Wiley, 2005

7. Li Yang and Jian-Kang Wu. Object-oriented run-length coding and its use in a knowledge-based geographical information system. Research of Information Systems on Loess Plateau, J. -B. He et al. (Eds.), pages 58–69. Surveying Press, 1988 

8. Xue-Qian Chen and Li Yang. Visual query in knowledge-based geographical information systems. Research of Information Systems on Loess Plateau, J. -B. He et al. (Eds.), pages 51–57. Surveying Press, 1988

Tutorials:

1. Li Yang. Distance-preserving dimensionality reduction. Invited Talk. Graduate University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China. July 15, 2011

2. Alfred Inselberg, Helwig Hauser, Matthew Ward, Li Yang. Modern parallel coordinates: Relational information to clear patterns. Tutorial. IEEE Visualization 2006. Baltimore, MD, October 29-Nov 3, 2006