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D-Index
77
Citations
23962
World Ranking
1270
National Ranking
672

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2012 - Fellow of the International Association for Pattern Recognition (IAPR) For contributions to face image analysis and applications
  • 2012 - IAPR P. Zamperoni Award Incorporating Contextual Knowledge to Dynamic Bayesian Networks for Event Recognition

Overview

Qiang Ji is affiliated with Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in the United States, specializing in the field of Computer Science with a significant focus on subfields such as Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, Artificial Intelligence, and Signal Processing. Their research also spans Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging, along with Experimental and Cognitive Psychology.

The researcher has contributed notably to topics including Face recognition and analysis, Human Pose and Action Recognition, Speech Recognition and Synthesis, Multimodal Machine Learning Applications, Bayesian Modeling and Causal Inference, Emotion and Mood Recognition, and Face and Expression Recognition.

Key recent papers authored or co-authored by Qiang Ji include:

  • "Uncertain Graph Neural Networks for Facial Action Unit Detection" (2021, Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence)
  • "Automatic Gaze Analysis: A Survey of Deep Learning Based Approaches" (2023, IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence)
  • "Deep Reinforcement Polishing Network for Video Captioning" (2020, IEEE Transactions on Multimedia)
  • "Type-augmented Relation Prediction in Knowledge Graphs" (2021, Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence)
  • "Crossing Domains for AU Coding: Perspectives, Approaches, and Measures" (2020, IEEE Transactions on Biometrics Behavior and Identity Science)

Their notable frequent co-authors include Zijun Cui, Naiyu Yin, Yue Zhao, Wanru Xu, and Zhenjiang Miao, suggesting collaborative research efforts across different projects and topics.

Publication venues where Qiang Ji's work has frequently appeared include:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence
  • ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing Communications and Applications
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Mining Metallurgy & Exploration

Awards earned by Qiang Ji include the IAPR P. Zamperoni Award in 2012 for work on incorporating contextual knowledge into dynamic Bayesian networks for event recognition. The same year, they were named a Fellow of the International Association for Pattern Recognition (IAPR) in recognition of contributions to face image analysis and applications.

Best Publications

  • In the Eye of the Beholder: A Survey of Models for Eyes and Gaze

    D.W. Hansen;Qiang Ji

  • Real-time nonintrusive monitoring and prediction of driver fatigue

    Qiang Ji;Zhiwei Zhu;P. Lan

  • A large-scale benchmark dataset for event recognition in surveillance video

    Sangmin Oh;Anthony Hoogs;Amitha Perera;Naresh Cuntoor

  • Real-time eye, gaze, and face pose tracking for monitoring driver vigilance

    Qiang Ji;Xiaojie Yang

  • Active and dynamic information fusion for facial expression understanding from image sequences

    Yongmian Zhang;Qiang Ji

  • Facial Action Unit Recognition by Exploiting Their Dynamic and Semantic Relationships

    Yan Tong;Wenhui Liao;Qiang Ji

  • Multimodal Spontaneous Emotion Corpus for Human Behavior Analysis

    Zheng Zhang;Jeffrey M. Girard;Yue Wu;Xing Zhang

  • Novel Eye Gaze Tracking Techniques Under Natural Head Movement

    Zhiwei Zhu;Qiang Ji

  • A Comparative Study of Local Matching Approach for Face Recognition

    Jie Zou;Qiang Ji;G. Nagy

  • Eye and gaze tracking for interactive graphic display

    Zhiwei Zhu;Qiang Ji

  • A new efficient ellipse detection method

    Yonghong Xie;Qiang Ji

  • Robust real-time eye detection and tracking under variable lighting conditions and various face orientations

    Zhiwei Zhu;Qiang Ji

  • A probabilistic framework for modeling and real-time monitoring human fatigue

    Qiang Ji;P. Lan;C. Looney

  • Automatic Eye Detection and Its Validation

    Peng Wang;M.B. Green;Qiang Ji;J. Wayman

  • Efficient Structure Learning of Bayesian Networks using Constraints

    Cassio P. de Campos;Qiang Ji

  • Real-time eye detection and tracking under various light conditions

    Zhiwei Zhu;Kikuo Fujimura;Qiang Ji

  • Combining Kalman filtering and mean shift for real time eye tracking under active IR illumination

    Zhiwei Zhu;Qiang Ji;K. Fujimura;Kuangchih Lee

  • Simultaneous Facial Feature Tracking and Facial Expression Recognition

    Yongqiang Li;Shangfei Wang;Yongping Zhao;Qiang Ji

  • Facial Landmark Detection: a Literature Survey

    Yue Wu;Qiang Ji

  • A Real-Time Human Stress Monitoring System Using Dynamic Bayesian Network

    Wenhui Liao;Weihong Zhang;Zhiwei Zhu;Qiang Ji

  • Capturing Complex Spatio-temporal Relations among Facial Muscles for Facial Expression Recognition

    Ziheng Wang;Shangfei Wang;Qiang Ji

  • AVSS 2011 demo session: A large-scale benchmark dataset for event recognition in surveillance video

    Sangmin Oh;Anthony Hoogs;Amitha Perera;Naresh Cuntoor

Frequent Co-Authors

Zhiwei Zhu
Zhiwei Zhu SRI International
Bao-Gang Hu
Bao-Gang Hu Chinese Academy of Sciences
Robert M. Haralick
Robert M. Haralick City University of New York
Baoyuan Wu
Baoyuan Wu Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen
Gerwin Schalk
Gerwin Schalk Sichuan University
Lijun Yin
Lijun Yin Binghamton University
Fei-Yue Wang
Fei-Yue Wang Chinese Academy of Sciences
Jian Yu
Jian Yu Beijing Jiaotong University
Siwei Lyu
Siwei Lyu University at Buffalo, State University of New York
Jeffrey F. Cohn
Jeffrey F. Cohn University of Pittsburgh

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