My E-mail Address:  Hanzi.Wang@ieee.org

About Me:

Hanzi Wang is currently a "MinJiang" Distinguished Professor at Xiamen University, China and an Adjunct Professor at the University of Adelaide, Australia. He was a Senior Research Fellow (2008-2010) working with Prof. David Suter, at the University of Adelaide, Australia; an Assistant Research Scientist (2007-2008) and a Postdoctoral Fellow (2006-2007) working with Prof. Gregory D. Hager, at the Johns Hopkins University; and a Research Fellow working with Prof. David Suter, at Monash University, Australia (2004-2006). He received the Ph.D degree in Computer Vision from Monash University. He was awarded the Douglas Lampard Electrical Engineering Research Prize and Medal for the best PhD thesis in the Department. His research interests are concentrated on computer vision and pattern recognition including visual tracking, robust statistics, object detection, video segmentation, model fitting, optical flow calculation, 3D structure from motion, image segmentation and related fields.

He is a Senior Member of the IEEE. He is an Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology (T-CSVT) and he was a Guest Editor of Pattern Recognition Letters (September 2009).

Video Demos:

• We propose a SMOG-based similarity measure. It captures both the color and the spatial layout information, and thus is more discriminative than the general color histogram based similarity measure. (See our ECCV'06 paper)

Research Projects:

• Probabilistic Multiple Cue Fusion
• Effective Appearance Model and Similarity Measure for Tracking
• Tracking and Segmenting Objects with Occlusions
• Object Detection and Recognition
  
• Background Initialization and Modeling
• Robust Parametric Model Estimation and Its Application to Computer Vision
• Robust Optical Flow Calculation and Motion Estimation
• Image Segmentation (Range Image Segmentation and Color Image Segmentation)
• Robust Fundamental Matrix Estimation
• Feature Detection, Matching, and Tracking
• Motion Estimation
• Structure from Motion

Academic Journals:

• H. Wang, T.-J. Chin,and D. Suter,

Simultaneously Fitting and Segmenting Multiple-Structure Data with Outliers
IEEE Trans. Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (PAMI), to appear, 2012.
(pdf) (Partial data and ground truth are available: here)

•  C. Shen, P. Wang, F. Shen, H. Wang*,

UBoost: Boosting with the Universum
IEEE Trans. Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (PAMI), to appear, 2012.
(pdf)

• D.J.Mirota, H. Wang*, R.H. Taylor, M. Ishii, G.L. Gallia, and G.D. Hager, 

A System for Video-based Navigation for Endoscopic Endonasal Skull Base Surgery
IEEE Trans. on Medical Imaging (TMI), accepted in Nov., 2011.
(pdf)

• T.-J. Chin, D. Suter and H. Wang

Boosting Histograms of Descriptor Distances for Scalable Multiclass Specific Scene Recognition.
Image and Vision Computing (IVC), Vol 29, No. 4, pages 241-250, 2011

• H. Wang, D. Mirota and G. Hager

A Generalized Kernel Consensus Based Robust Estimator.
IEEE Trans. Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (PAMI), Vol 32, No. 1, pages 178-184, 2010.
(pdf)

• X. Li, W. Hu,  H. Wang, and Z. Zhang

Linear Discriminant Analysis Using Rotational Invariant L1 Norm.
Neurocomputing  (Elsevier), Vol.73, No.13-15, pages 2571-2579, 2010.
(pdf)
 
• X. Li, W. Hu,  H. Wang, and Z. Zhang

Robust Object Tracking Using A Spatial Pyramid Heat Kernel Structural Information Representation.
Neurocomputing  (Elsevier), Vol. 73, No. 16-18, pages 3179-3190, 2010.
(pdf)
 
• C. Shen, J. Kim and H. Wang

Generalized Kernel-based Visual Tracking.
IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology (TCSVT), Vol 20, No. 1, pages 119-130, 2010.
(pdf) (Code is available: here)
 
• X. Li, W. Hu, Z. Zhang and H. Wang

Heat Kernel Based Local Binary Pattern for Face Representation and Classification.
IEEE Signal Processing Letters (SPL), Vol 17, No. 3, pages 308-311, 2010.
(pdf)
 
• K. Schindler, D. Suter, and H. Wang

A Model-selection Framework for Multibody Structure-and-Motion of Image Sequences.
International Journal of Computer Vision (IJCV), Vol 79, No. 2, pages 159-177, 2008.
(pdf)
 
• H. Wang, D. Mirota, M. Ishii and G. Hager

Anatomical Reconstruction from Endoscopic Images: Progress and Prognosis of Quantitative Endoscopy.
American Journal of Rhinology (AJR),  Vol 22, No. 1, pages 47-51, January-February 2008.
 
• H. Wang, David Suter, Konrad Schindler and Chunhua Shen

Adaptive Object Tracking Based on an Effective Appearance Filter.
IEEE Trans. Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (PAMI), Vol 29, No. 9, pages 1661-1667, 2007.
[Featured article from the September issue 2007]
(Early version appeared in ECCV'06)
(pdf)
 
• H. Wang and D. Suter

A Consensus-Based Method for Tracking: Modelling Background Scenario and Foreground Appearance.
Pattern Recognition (PR), Vol. 40, No.3, pages 1091-1105, 2007.
(pdf), (abstract)
 
• H. Wang and D. Suter

Robust Adaptive-Scale Parametric Model Estimation for Computer Vision.
IEEE Trans. Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (PAMI), Vol. 26, No.11, pages 1459-1474, 2004.
(pdf), (abstract)
 
• H. Wang and D. Suter

MDPE: A Very Robust Estimator for Model Fitting and Range Image Segmentation.
International Journal of Computer Vision (IJCV), Vol. 59, No.2, pages 139-166, 2004.
(pdf), (abstract)
 
• H. Wang and D. Suter

Using Symmetry in Robust Model Fitting.
Pattern Recognition Letters (PRL), Vol. 24, No.16, pages 2953-2966, 2003.
(pdf), (abstract), (URL)
 
• B. Chen, H. Wang, H. Wei, Y. Guo , L. Guo

Design of fully continuous phase plates for beam smoothing.
ACTA OPTICA SINICA, Vol. 21, No.4, pages 480-484, 2001.
 
• B. Chen, H. Xiao, X. Wu, H. Wang, L. Guo

Projection Stereo-display by Using Retroreflector.
Guangdianzi Jiguang/Journal of Optoelectronics Laser, Vol. 9, pages 96-98, 1998.

• D. Suter and H. Wang

Robust Fitting Using Mean Shift: Applications in Computer Vision.
In M. Hubert, G. Pison, A. Struyf, and S. Van Aelst, editors, Theory and Applications of Recent Robust Methods, Statistics for Industry and Technology. Birkhauser, Basel, pages 307-318, 2004.

• X. Li, A. Dick, H. Wang, C. Shen and A. Hengel

Graph Mode-based Contextual Kernels for Robust SVM Tracking
IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), Barcelona, Spain, pages: to appear, 2011. 

• T.-J. Chin, D. Suter, and H. Wang

Multi-Structure Model Selection via Kernel Optimisation.
IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), San Francisco, CA, USA, June 13-18, 2010. (Acceptance rate: 26.8%)
(pdf)

• H. Wang, T.-J. Chin and D. Suter

Visual Localization and Segmentation Based on Foreground/Background Modeling.
IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), Dallas, Texas, USA, March 14-19, 2010.
(pdf)


• W. Li, B. Li, X. Zhang, W. Hu, H. Wang and G. Luo,

Occlusion Handling with ℓ1-Regularized Sparse Reconstruction.
LECTURE NOTES IN COMPUTER SCIENCE, Asian Conference on Computer Vision (ACCV), 2010.
(pdf)

• T.-J. Chin, H. Wang and D. Suter

The Ordered Residual Kernel for Robust Motion Subspace Clustering.
Advances of Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS), Vancouver, B.C., Canada, pages 333-341, 2009. (Acceptance rate: 23.8%)
(pdf)
 
• T.-J. Chin, H. Wang and D. Suter

Robust Fitting of Multiple Structures: The Statistical Learning Approach.
IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV),  Kyoto, Japan, pages 413-420, 2009. (Acceptance rate: 23.2%)
(pdf)(Code is available: here)
 
• D. Mirota, H. Wang, R. Taylor, M. Ishii and G. Hager

Towards Video-based Navigation for Endoscopic Endonasal Skull Base Surgery.
LECTURE NOTES IN COMPUTER SCIENCE, International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention (MICCAI), London, UK, Sept. 20-24, Volume 5761, pages 91-99, 2009.
(pdf) (Oral presentation, acceptance rate: 5%)
 
• K. Yu, W. Hu, X. Zhang, H. Wang and Y. Jia

Learning Group Activity in Soccer Videos from Local Motion.
LECTURE NOTES IN COMPUTER SCIENCE, Asian Conference on Computer Vision (ACCV), Xi'An, China, 2009.  (Oral - 36 out of 670).
(pdf)
 
• C. Yuan, X. Li, W. Hu and H. Wang

Human Action Recognition Using Pyramid Vocabulary Tree.
LECTURE NOTES IN COMPUTER SCIENCE, Asian Conference on Computer Vision (ACCV), Xi'An, China, 2009.
(pdf)
 
• O. Wu, H. Zuo, M. Zhu, W. Hu, J. Gao and H. Wang

Rank Aggregation Based Text Feature Selection.
IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence (WI), Milan, Italy, pages 165-172, 2009.  (Acceptance rate: 16%)
 
• H. Wang, D. Mirota, M. Ishii and G. Hager

Robust Motion Estimation and Structure Recovery from Endoscopic Image Sequences With an Adaptive Scale Kernel Consensus Estimator.
IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), Alaska, U.S.A., June 24-26, 2008.
(pdf)
 
• H. Wang

Maximum Kernel Density Estimator for Robust Fitting
IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), Las Vegas, U.S.A., pages 3385-3388, March 30-April 4, 2008 (Oral - 400 out of 2800).
(pdf)
 
• H. Wang, D. Suter and Konrad Schindler

Effective Appearance Model and Similarity Measure for Particle Filtering and Visual Tracking
LECTURE NOTES IN COMPUTER SCIENCE, European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), Graz, Austria, Volume 3953, pages 606-618, May 7-13, 2006.
(pdf), (abstract) (Oral - 40 out of 900)
 
• Konrad Schindler, James U, and H. Wang

Perspective n-view Multibody Structure-and-Motion through Model Selection.
LECTURE NOTES IN COMPUTER SCIENCE, European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), Graz, Austria, Volume 3951, pages 606-619,  May 7-13, 2006.
(pdf) (Oral - 40 out of 900)
 
• H. Wang and D. Suter

Efficient Visual Tracking by Probabilistic Fusion of Multiple Cues.
International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR), Hong Kong, China, Volume 4, pages 892-895, August 20-24, 2006.
(pdf)
 
• H. Wang and D. Suter

Background Subtraction Based on a Robust Consensus Method.
International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR), Hong Kong, China, Volume 1, pages 223-226, August 20-24, 2006.
(pdf)
 
• H. Wang and D. Suter

A Novel Robust Statistical Method for Background Initialization and Visual Surveillance.
LECTURE NOTES IN COMPUTER SCIENCE, Asian Conference on Computer Vision (ACCV), Hyderabad, India, Volume 3851, pages 328-337, January 13-16, 2006.
(pdf)
 
• K. Schindler and H. Wang

Smooth Foreground-Background Segmentation for Video Processing.
LECTURE NOTES IN COMPUTER SCIENCE, Asian Conference on Computer Vision (ACCV), Hyderabad, India, Volume 3852, pages 581-590, January 13-16, 2006.
(pdf)
 
• H. Wang and D. Suter

Background Initialization with A New Robust Statistical Approach.
IEEE International Workshop on Visual Surveillance and Performance Evaluation of Tracking and Surveillance (VS-PETS'05) in conjunction with ICCV,  Beijing, China, pages 153-159, Oct. 15-21, 2005.
 
• H. Wang and D. Suter

Tracking and Segmenting People with Occlusions by a Sample Consensus Based Method.
IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP),  Genova, Italy, pages 410-413, Sept. 11-14, 2005.
(pdf)
 
• H. Wang and D. Suter

A Re-Evaluation of Mixture-of-Gaussian Background Modeling.
IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), Pennsylvania, USA, pages 1017-1020, March 19-23, 2005.
(pdf)
 
• H. Wang and D. Suter

Robust Fitting by Adaptive-Scale Residual Consensus.
LECTURE NOTES IN COMPUTER SCIENCE, European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), Prague, Czech Republic, Volume 3023, pages 107-118, May 11-14, 2004.
(pdf), (abstract)

• H. Wang and D. Suter.

False-Peaks-Avoiding Mean Shift Method for Unsupervised Peak-Valley Sliding Image Segmentation.
7th International Conference on Digital Image Computing: Techniques and Applications (DICTA'03), Sydney, pages 581-590, December 10-12, 2003.
(pdf)(Oral)
• H. Wang and D. Suter

Color Image Segmentation Using Global Information and Local Homogeneity.
7th International Conference on Digital Image Computing: Techniques and Applications (DICTA'03), Sydney, pages 89-98, December 10-12, 2003.
(pdf)(Oral)
 
• H. Wang and D. Suter

Variable Bandwidth QMDPE and Its Application in Robust Optic Flow Estimation.
9th IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), Nice, France, pages 178-183, October 2003.
(pdf), (abstract)
 
• H. Wang and D. Suter

A Model-Based Range Image Segmentation Algorithm Using a Novel Robust Estimator.
3rd Int'l Workshop on Statistical and Computational Theories of Vision (in conjunction with ICCV'03), Nice, France, October 2003.
(pdf)
 
• D. Suter, P. Chen, and H. Wang

Extracting Motion from Images: Robust Optic Flow and Structure from Motion.
In Proceedings Australia-Japan Advanced Workshop on Compter Vision, Sept. 9-11, 2003, Adelaide, Australia, pages 64-69, 2003.
 
• H. Wang and D. Suter

A Novel Robust Method for Large Numbers of Gross Errors.
7th Int. Conf. on Automation, Robotics and Computer Vision (ICARCV02), Singapore, pages 326-331, December 3-6, 2002.
(pdf)(Oral)
 
• H. Wang and D. Suter

LTSD: A Highly Efficient Symmetry-based Robust Estimator.
7th Int. Conf. on Automation, Robotics and Computer Vision (ICARCV02), Singapore, pages 332-337, December 3-6, 2002.
(pdf)(Oral)

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