Changbo Hu

EDUCATION

• Ph.D. in Pattern Recognition and Artificial Intelligence,
  Institute of Automation,  Chinese Academy of Sciences, 2001.

• M.S.  in Image and Video Processing,  Anhui Univeristy of China, 1995.

• B.E.  in Electrical Engineering, Zhejiang University of China, 1992.

RESEARCH  INTERESTS

• Computer vision, computer graphics, machine learning, pattern recognition, biometrics,  image/video processing and analysis, human computer interaction

SKILLS  SUMMARY

• Expert in head/face tracking, human body and gesture tracking, facial action units analysis, expression recognition, image based modeling and rendering, image/video mosaicking, feature tracking, image/video processing and analysis.
• Expert in architecting, designing, implementing, testing, and deploying computer vision systems to handle large amount of video data.
• Strong background in computer vision, machine learning, pattern recognition, computer graphics, numerical optimization, probabilistic inference and statistical analysis.
• Proficient in numerical algorithm programming and in C, C++, and Matlab.
• Strong system builder, experienced presenter, and team player.
• Independent and creative thinker.

PROFESSIONAL  EXPERIENCE

• 2003/10–current    Project scientist,   Robotics institute, Carnegie Mellon University

  Work on HSARPA project "deception detection" and NIH project " facial expression analysis"

  § AAM tracking and Multiview AAM tracking

  §  Feature representation and facial expression analysis

• 2001/11–2003/10   Postdoctoral researcher,   Department of computer science, University of California, Santa Barbara

  Major projects include:

  §  Face detection , tracking and recognition system,

  §  Hand gesture application on carrier plane landing direction

  §  Manifold expression representation

  §  Active wavelet network algorithm

• 2000/10-2001/3    Research intern,    Microsoft Research, Beijing China
  Internship (worked with Dr. Baining Guo and Dr. Harry Shum ):

  §  E-Partner ( talking face applied to virtual tourist and receptionist)

  §  Robust Face Tracking and Lip tracking

• 1996/11–2001/7    Research assistant,    Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
  Research assistant and graduate student research assistant at National Laboratory of Pattern Recognition.
  Major projects include: 

  §  Human posture tracking and hand gesture tracking

  §  Image mosaicking and panorama scene representation;

  §  Content-based image retrieval.

  §  Face laser scanner system  for assisting orthopedic operation

• 1992/9–1995/7    Research assistant,    Anhui University,  China
  Master graduate research assistant at image and video processing Lab.  

  §  Wavelet-based  image compression

• 1991/9–1992/7    Research assistant,    Zhejiang University,  China
  Undergraduate research assistant at Texture CAD Lab.  

  §  Study on ray tracing algorithm 

TEACHING  EXPERIENCE

• 1992,   Teaching assistant of course "Principles of Digital Television", Anhui University,  EE

• 1991,   Teaching assistant of course "Image Processing", Anhui University, EE 

• 1991,   Instructor of course " Digital Signal Processing", Hefei College of Technology, China

PUBLICATIONS (Referred Papers)

1. C. Hu, J. Cohn, Z. Ambadar, T. Kanade,  "Canonical face representation for facial expression analysis",  Technique Report, 2006

2.  Y. Chang, C. Hu, R. Feris, and M. Turk, "Manifold based analysis of facial expression,"  to appear, Image and Vision Computing, 2006 

3. S. Lucey, I. Matthews, C. Hu, Z. Ambadar,  F. De la Torre Frade, and J. Cohn, "AAM derived face representations for robust facial action recognition", Proceedings of the Seventh IEEE International Conference on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition (FG'06), 2006.

4.  S. Koterba, S. Baker, I. Matthews, C. Hu, J. Xiao, J. Cohn, and T. Kanade, "Multi-view AAM fitting and camera calibration", Tenth IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV 2005), Beijing, China, October 2005

5.  Y. Wang, Y. Jia, C. Hu, and M. Turk, "Non-Negative Matrix factorization framework for face recognition,",International Journal of Pattern Recognition and Artificial Intelligence, Vol. 19, No. 4, pp. 1-17, 2005

6.  C. Hu, J. Xiao, I. Matthews, S. Baker, J. Cohn, and T. Kanade, "Fitting a single active appearance model simultaneously to multiple images", Proceedings of the British Machine Vision Conference(BMVC2004), September, 2004.

7. Y. Chang, C. Hu, M. Turk, "Probabilistic expression analysis on manifolds",IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR 2004), Washington DC, June 2004.

8. C. Hu, R. Feris and M. Turk, "Active wavelet networks for face alignment", Proceedings of the British Machine Vision Conference(BMVC2003), September, 2003.

9. C. Hu, R. Feris and M. Turk,"Real-time View-based face alignment using active wavelet networks",Proceedings of ICCV 2003 WS. on Analysis and Modeling of Faces and Gestures, 2003

10. Y. Chang, C. Hu, M. Turk, "Manifold of facial expression",Proc. IEEE International Workshopon Analysis and Modeling of Faces and Gestures, Nice, France, Oct 2003

11.  M. Turk, C. Hu, R. Feris,"TLA based face tracking",Proceedings of  Visual Interface(VI2002), 2002.

12. B. Zhang, C. Hu, Q. Cai, B. Guo, H. Shum,"E-Partner: a photo-realistic conversation agent", Proceedings of  The Second IEEE Pacific-Rim Conference on Multimedia, 2001,pp.261-268

13. C Hu, L Liang, S Ma and H Lu, "Virtual mouse--inputting device by hand gesture tracking and recognition", Proceedings of  Int’l Conf. Multimodal Interfaces, 2000, Beijing, pp.88-95

14. C. Hu, Y. Li, S. Ma and H. Lu,"Extraction of parametric human model for posture recognition using genetic algorithm," Proceedings of IEEE Int’l Conf. Face and gesture (FG2000), Greboble, France,  2000

15. T. Feng, C. Hu, S. Ma, "Genetic-based image mosaicing",  Proceedings of  Int’l Conf. Image and Graphics, 2000, Tianjin, China

16. C. Hu, Y. Li, S. Ma and H. Lu, "Human posture recognition using genetic algorithms and Kalman motion estimation",  The Chinese Journal of Electronic, No.4, 2000

17. C. Hu, T. Feng, S. Ma and H. Lu "Activity recognition based on primary component analysis",  The Chinese journal of image and graphics vol.5, No.10, pp. 818-824, 2000

18. X. Ding, W. Kong, C. Hu, S. Ma  "Image retrieval using Schwarz representation of one-dimensional feature",  Proceedings of Third International Conference, VISUAL '99, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, June 2-4, 1999, pp.443-450

SERVICES  AND  OTHER  ACTIVITIES

• Conference reviewer:
  
  IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR 2001,CVPR 2003, CVPR2004,CVPR 2005)
  IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV2003, ICCV 2005)

  IEEE International Conference Face and gesture (FG2002, FG2004, FG2006)

  IEEE International Conference Pattern Recognition (ICPR2006)

• Journal reviewer
  
  IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (PAMI), IEEE Transactions on Image Processing (TIP), International Journal of Computer Vision (IJCV), Computer Vision and Image Understanding (CVIU), Pattern Recognition(PR), Image and Visio Computing (IVC).

REFERENCES

Available upon request