Wei Zhang Research Assistant and Ph.D. Candidate School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science 1148 Kelley Engineering Center Oregon State University Corvallis, Oregon 97331-5501 Phone: (541) 737-4145; Cell: (541) 740-2600 Office: KEC 2048 Email: zhangwe AT eecs DOT oregonstate DOT edu

Update on April, 2009: Joined Hewlett Packard Labs in Palo Alto, CA from April 2009.

Phone: (650) 857-3275;
Email: wei.zhang22 AT hp DOT com

About

I am a Ph.D. student in the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Oregon State University. My major advisor is Prof. Thomas G. Dietterich. Before coming to OSU, I got my Bachelor's and Master's degree in Information Engineering from Xi'an Jiaotong University, China (XJTU) on 2001 and 2004.

Research

Computer Vision; Machine learning; Pattern Recognition; Image Processing; Intelligent User Interface Design; Data Mining, and others.

Publications

• Wei Zhang. Image features and learning algorithms for biological, generic and social object recognition.
  Ph.D. Dissertation, Oregon State University, 2009.
• Wei Zhang, Akshat Surve, Xiaoli Fern, Thomas G. Dietterich.
  Learning non-redundant codebooks for classifying complex objects.
  26th International Conference on Machine Learning 2009 (ICML 2009).(ICML-2009)
• Gonzalo Martinez-Munoz, Wei Zhang, Nadia Payet, Sinisa Todorovic, Thomas G. Dietterich.
  Dictionary-free categorization of very similar objects via stacked evidence trees.
  IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, 2009 (CVPR 2009).(CVPR-2009)
• Wei Zhang, Takashi Matsumoto, Juan Liu, Maurice Chu, Bo Begole.
  An Intelligent Fitting Room Using Multi-Camera Perception.
  2008 International Conference on Intelligent User Interface (IUI 2008).(IUI-2008)
• Wei Zhang, Bo Begole, Maurice Chu, Juan Liu, Nick Yee.
  Real-Time Clothes Comparison Based on Multi-View Vision.
  2nd ACM/IEEE International Conference on Distributed Smart Cameras (ICDSC-08).(ICDSC-2008)
• Wei Zhang, Nick Yee, Juan Liu, Maurice Chu, Bo Begole.
  Augmented Fashion Exploration Based on Clothes Recognition.
  Accepted to Advanced Concepts for Intelligent Vision Systems (ACIVS-08).(ACIVS-2008)
• Wei Zhang, Thomas G. Dietterich.
  Learning Visual Dictionaries and Decision Lists for Object Recognition.
  19th International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR-08).(ICPR-2008)
• Wei Zhang, Hongli Deng.
  Understanding Visual Dictionaries via Maximum Mutual Information Curves.
  19th International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR-08).(ICPR-2008)
• Bo Begole, Takashi Matsumoto, Wei Zhang, Juan Liu.
  Responsive Mirror: Fitting Information for Fitting Rooms.
  Workshop on Ambient Persuasion at CHI 2008.
• Hongli Deng, Wei Zhang, Thomas G. Dietterich, Eric N. Mortensen and Linda Shapiro.
  Principal Curvature-based Region Detector for Object Recognition.
  IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, 2007 (CVPR 2007), accepted as an oral paper.(CVPR-2007)
• Wei Zhang, supervised by Prof. Thomas G. Dietterich.
  Constellation Models for Recognition of Generic Objects.
  Qualifer Exam Proposal, 2007.
• Enrique Larios, Hongli Deng, Wei Zhang, Matt Sarpola, Jenny Yuen, Robert Paasch, Andrew Moldenke, David Lytle, Salvador Ruiz Correa, Eric Mortensen, Linda Shapiro, Tom Dietterich.
  Automated Insect Identification through Concatenated Histograms of Local Appearance Features.
  Machine Vision and Application (MVA), 2006.
• Eric N. Mortensen, Enrique L. Delgado, Hongli Deng, David Lytle, Andrew Moldenke, Robert K. Paasch, Linda Shapiro, Pengcheng Wu, Wei Zhang, Thomas G. Dietterich.
  Pattern Recognition for Ecological Science and Environmental Monitoring: An Initial Report.
  In N. MacLeod and M. O'Neill (Eds.) Algorithmic Approaches to the Identification Problem in Systematics.
• Wei Zhang, Hongli Deng, Thomas G. Dietterich, Eric N. Mortensen.
  A Hierarchical Object Recognition System Based on Multi-scale Principal Curvature Regions.
  Presentation poster.
  Proceedings of the International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR 2006), Vol. I. 778-782, 2006. (ICPR-2006),
• Congde Lu, Taiyi Zhang, Wei Zhang and Guang Yang.
  An Experimental Assessment of the Performance of Linear and Kernel-based Methods for Face Recognition.
  Lecture Notes in Computer Science, ISNN (2) 2005: 124-130.
• Congde Lu, Taiyi Zhang, Wei Zhang.
  Support Vector Domain Classifier Based on Multiplicative Updates.
  IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Fundamentals of Electronics, Communications and Computer Sciences. 2004, Vol.E87-A No.8 pp.2051-2053.
• Congde Lu, Chunmei Zhang, Taiyi Zhang, Wei Zhang.
  Kernel Based Symmetrical Principal Component Analysis for Face Classification.
  Neurocomputing. 2004.
• Wei Zhang, Taiyi Zhang, Zhigang Chen and Na Lv.
  The Erasing and Writing of Off-chip FLASH Memories using Memory Imaging.
  Semiconductor Technology, Vol 28 No 07, 2003.
• Wei Luo, Zhigang Chen, Cong Xi and Wei Zhang.
  A 2M Transmission Quality Measurement Equipment Based on DSP Technology.
  The TRANSACTION of the 4th Motorola Embedded Processor (MCU/DSP) Design Contest, Shanghai, 2002 (Won 1st place in the contest).

Courses

• Artificial Intelligence:
  CS531: Artificial Intelligence; CS533: Intelligent Agents and Decision Making; CS534: Machine Learning;
• Statistics:
  ST581: Linear Programming;
• Theory:
  CS515: Algorithms and Data Structures; CS516: Theory of Computation and Formal Languages;
• Computer Graphics:
  CS551: Computer Graphics; CS556: Computer Vision; CS559: Pattern Recognition;
• Electrical and Computer Engineering:
  ECE550: Linear Systems; ECE580: Network Theory; ECE570: High Performance Computer Architecture;

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