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China
2023

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Computer Science

D-Index
73
Citations
23179
World Ranking
1578
National Ranking
823

Electronics and Electrical Engineering

D-Index
74
Citations
22086
World Ranking
712
National Ranking
314

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2023 - Research.com Computer Science in China Leader Award
  • 2020 - Fellow of the International Association for Pattern Recognition (IAPR) For contributions to visual motion and pattern analysis in computer vision

Overview

Ying Wu is affiliated with Northwestern University in the United States and has contributed extensively to the field of Computer Science, publishing 224 works. Their research primarily focuses on Artificial Intelligence, Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, Atomic and Molecular Physics and Optics, Oceanography, and Electrical and Electronic Engineering.

The scientist's main subfields of study include:

  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
  • Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics
  • Oceanography
  • Electrical and Electronic Engineering

The topics covered in Ying Wu's research encompass:

  • Domain Adaptation and Few-Shot Learning
  • Generative Adversarial Networks and Image Synthesis
  • Topic Modeling
  • Advanced Image and Video Retrieval Techniques
  • Natural Language Processing Techniques
  • Multimodal Machine Learning Applications
  • Anomaly Detection Techniques and Applications

Ying Wu has published in numerous venues, with the most frequent including:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence
  • Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence
  • Physical Review Letters
  • Frontiers in Marine Science

Recent notable publications by Ying Wu feature a range of topics and venues:

  • "Dark, Beyond Deep: A Paradigm Shift to Cognitive AI with Humanlike Common Sense" (2020, Engineering)
  • "Chameleon: Plug-and-Play Compositional Reasoning with Large Language Models" (2023, arXiv (Cornell University))
  • "Transform-Retrieve-Generate: Natural Language-Centric Outside-Knowledge Visual Question Answering" (2022, 2022 IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR))
  • "Interpretable CNNs for Object Classification" (2020, IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence)
  • "Collective radiance of giant atoms in non-Markovian regime" (2023, Science China Physics Mechanics and Astronomy)

Their frequent co-authors include Song-Chun Zhu, Jianwen Xie, Ruiqi Gao, Bo Pang, and Erik Nijkamp.

In recognition of contributions to visual motion and pattern analysis in computer vision, Ying Wu was awarded the title of Fellow of the International Association for Pattern Recognition (IAPR) in 2020.

Best Publications

  • Mining actionlet ensemble for action recognition with depth cameras

    Jiang Wang;Zicheng Liu;Ying Wu;Junsong Yuan

  • Learning Fine-Grained Image Similarity with Deep Ranking

    Jiang Wang;Yang Song;Thomas Leung;Chuck Rosenberg

  • A unified approach to salient object detection via low rank matrix recovery

    Xiaohui Shen;Ying Wu

  • Hand modeling, analysis and recognition

    Ying Wu;T.S. Huang

  • Vision-Based Gesture Recognition: A Review

    Ying Wu;Thomas S. Huang

  • Cross-View Action Modeling, Learning, and Recognition

    Jiang Wang;Xiaohan Nie;Yin Xia;Ying Wu

  • Learning Actionlet Ensemble for 3D Human Action Recognition

    Jiang Wang;Zicheng Liu;Ying Wu;Junsong Yuan

  • Robust 3D Action Recognition with Random Occupancy Patterns

    Jiang Wang;Zicheng Liu;Jan Chorowski;Zhuoyuan Chen

  • Semi-Supervised Transfer Learning for Image Rain Removal

    Wei Wei;Deyu Meng;Qian Zhao;Zongben Xu

  • Human Tracking Using Convolutional Neural Networks

    Jialue Fan;Wei Xu;Ying Wu;Yihong Gong

  • Analyzing and capturing articulated hand motion in image sequences

    Ying Wu;J. Lin;T.S. Huang

  • Modeling the constraints of human hand motion

    John Lin;Ying Wu;T.S. Huang

  • SoftCuts: A Soft Edge Smoothness Prior for Color Image Super-Resolution

    Shengyang Dai;Mei Han;Wei Xu;Ying Wu

  • Discriminative subvolume search for efficient action detection

    Junsong Yuan;Zicheng Liu;Ying Wu

  • The metabolic ER stress sensor IRE1α suppresses alternative activation of macrophages and impairs energy expenditure in obesity

    Bo Shan;Xiaoxia Wang;Ying Wu;Chi Xu

  • Capturing natural hand articulation

    Ying Wu;J.Y. Lin;T.S. Huang

  • Soft Edge Smoothness Prior for Alpha Channel Super Resolution

    Shengyang Dai;Mei Han;Wei Xu;Ying Wu

  • Discovery of Collocation Patterns: from Visual Words to Visual Phrases

    Junsong Yuan;Ying Wu;Ming Yang

  • Context-Aware Visual Tracking

    Ming Yang;Ying Wu;Gang Hua

  • Discriminant-EM algorithm with application to image retrieval

    Y. Wu;Q. Tian;T.S. Huang

Frequent Co-Authors

Thomas S. Huang
Thomas S. Huang University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Junsong Yuan
Junsong Yuan University at Buffalo, State University of New York
Gang Hua
Gang Hua Dolby (United States)
Xiaohui Shen
Xiaohui Shen ByteDance
Zicheng Liu
Zicheng Liu Microsoft (United States)
Aggelos K. Katsaggelos
Aggelos K. Katsaggelos Northwestern University
Zhengyou Zhang
Zhengyou Zhang Tencent (China)
Qi Tian
Qi Tian Huawei Technologies (China)
Yun Fu
Yun Fu Northeastern University
Jie Zhou
Jie Zhou Tsinghua University

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