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Research Assistant, Ph.D. Candidate
Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
xunxu at uiuc.edu
xunxu at ifp.uiuc.edu
http://www.ifp.uiuc.edu/~xunxu/
2323 Beckman Institute
405 N. Mathews Ave.
Urbana, IL 61801
Phone: (217) 244-2960
Fax: (217) 244-8371
Computer Vision
Machine Learning and Pattern Recognition
Image and Video Processing
Computer Graphics
Human-Computer Interaction
Artificial Intelligence
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Candidate
Computer Engineering
Advisor: Prof. Thomas S. Huang
GPA: 3.96 / 4.0
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Urbana, IL, USA
Master of Science (M.Sc.)
Pattern Recognition and Intelligent Systems
National Laboratory of Intelligent Technology and Systems
Tsinghua University
Beijing, China
Bachelor of Engineering (B.Eng.)
Automatic Control
Department of Automation
School of Information Science and Technology
Tsinghua University
Beijing, China
Research Assistant
Image Formation and Processing Group
Beckman Institute
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Urbana, IL, USA
Major Projects: Face recognition, soft-biometrics, 3D face analysis and synthesis
Advisor: Prof. Thomas S. Huang
Software Engineering Intern
Video Content Analysis Group
Google Inc.
Mountain View, CA, USA
Project: Fast content-based image retrieval
Mentors: Ruei-Sung Lin, Jay Yagnik
Research Intern
Communication and Collaboration Systems Group
Microsoft Research
Redmond, WA, USA
Project: Multiparty voice conferencing over Internet
Mentors: Li-wei He, Dinei Florêncio, Yong Rui
Research Assistant
National Laboratory of Intelligent Technology and Systems
Tsinghua University
Beijing, China
Major Projects: Face analysis and synthesis with morphable model, 3D face reconstruction
Advisor: Prof. Changshui Zhang
Visiting Student (Research Intern)
Multimodal User Interface Group
Microsoft Research Asia
Beijing, China
Projects: On-line understanding of hand-drawn objects, esp. flowchart recognition
Supervisor: Jian Wang
Undergraduate Research Assistant
National Laboratory of Intelligent Technology and Systems
Tsinghua University
Beijing, China
Supervisor: Prof. Changshui Zhang
Guest Lecturer
Multimedia Signal Processing, by Prof. Thomas S. Huang
UIUC
Urbana, IL, USA
Guest Lecturer
Machine Learning Methods in Computer Vision, Lecture series in Tsinghua Univ., by Prof. Thomas S. Huang
Tsinghua University
Beijing, China
Teaching Assistant
Pattern Recognition, by Prof. Changshui Zhang
Tsinghua University
Beijing, China
Aug. 2003 - present (UIUC)
Static and Dynamic Game Theory, A
Optimization by Vector Space Methods (w/ Functional Analysis), A+
Advanced Digital Signal Processing, A+
Computer Vision, A+
Control System Theory and Design, A+
Advanced Topics in Image Processing, A+
Random Processes, A-
Fundamentals of Engineering Acoustics, A
Before 2003 (Tsinghua University, graduate level)
Computational Science and Engineering Fellowship,
UIUC, 2006-2007
Excellent Graduate of Tsinghua University, 2000
Successful Participant, International Mathematical Contest in Modeling (sponsored by COMAP), 2000
Winner (1st Prize), The 6th Mathematical Contest in Modeling of Tsinghua University, 1999
Guanghua Scholarship, Tsinghua University, 1999
Excellent Student Scholarship, Tsinghua University, 1997 and 1998
Tsinghua-Holison Scholarship, Tsinghua University, 1996
“System and Method for Shape Recognition of Hand-drawn Objects”, coinvented with Yantao Li, Zhouchen Lin and Jian Wang. (US Patent 7,324,691; European Patent Appl. No. 04019840.0; Microsoft Ref. No. 306517.05)
“Peer-Aware Ranking of Voice Streams”, coinvented with Li-wei He and Dinei A. Florêncio. Filed in Mar. 2006.
Student Member (since 2000), IEEE Computer Society
Reviewer: IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR 2007), International Conference on Image and Video Retrieval (CIVR 2006), International Conference on Multimodal Interfaces (ICMI 2004)
Reviewer: Computer Vision and Image Understanding, Pattern Recognition, Acta Automatica Sinica, National Natural Science Foundation of China (NNSFC)
X. Xu and T. S. Huang, "A Loopy Belief Propagation Approach for Robust Background Estimation," in Proc. 2008 IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR 2008), Anchorage, Alaska, 2008, (acceptance rate 31.9%)
Y. Hu, Z. Zhang, X. Xu, Y. Fu, and T. S. Huang, "Building Large Scale 3D Face Database for Face Analysis," in Proc. MCAM 2007: International Workshop on Multimedia Content Analysis and Mining, Weihai, China, 2007, pp. 343–350.
M. Liu, X. Xu, and T. S. Huang, "Audio-Visual Gender Recognition," in Proc. MIPPR'07: The Fourth International Symposium on Multispectral Image Processing and Pattern Recognition, Wuhan, China, 2007, (invited paper)
X. Xu and T. S. Huang, "SODA-Boosting and Its Application to Gender Recognition," in Proc. LNCS 4778: 2007 IEEE International Workshop on Analysis and Modeling of Faces and Gestures (AMFG), in conjunction with ICCV, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 2007, pp. 193–204. (oral presentation, acceptance rate 15%)
X. Xu, L. He, D. Florêncio, and Y. Rui, "PASS: Peer-Aware Silence Suppression for Internet Voice Conferences," in Proc. 2006 IEEE International Conference on Multimedia & Expo (ICME 2006), 2006, (oral presentation, acceptance rate 22%)
J. Tu, A. Ivanovic, X. Xu, F. Li, and T. S. Huang, "Variational Shift Invariant Probabilistic PCA for Face Recognition," in Proc. 18th International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR 2006), 2006,
X. Xu, Y. Rui, and T. S. Huang, "Recognizing Faces in Recorded Meetings via MRC-Boosting," in Proc. 2006 IEEE International Conference on Multimedia & Expo (ICME 2006), 2006, (oral presentation, acceptance rate 22%)
Z. Zhang, X. Xu, and T. S. Huang, "Indecisive Classifier," in Proc. 2005 IEEE International Conference on Multimedia & Expo (ICME 2005), 2005,
X. Xu and T. S. Huang, "Face Recognition with MRC-Boosting," in Proc. 10th IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV 2005), 2005, pp. 1770–1777. (acceptance rate 20.4%)
X. Xu, C. Zhang, and T. S. Huang, "Active Morphable Model: An Efficient Method for Face Analysis," in Proc. Sixth IEEE International Conference on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition (FGR 2004), 2004, pp. 837–842. (oral presentation, acceptance rate 15.6%)
X. Xu, Z. Lin, Y. Li, and C. Zhang, "Robust Flowchart Understanding for Pen-based User Interface," in preparation, 2003.
X. Xu, "Active Morphable Model for the Analysis and Synthesis of Human Faces (In Chinese)," Master's thesis, 2003.
X. Xu and C. Zhang, "Multi-agent Developmental Model of Plants," in Proc. 7th Conference on Artificial Life and Robotics (AROB'02), 2002,
X. Xu, "A Computer Login System Based on Face and Fingerprint Recognition (In Chinese)," Bachelor's thesis, 2000.