Hao Jiang Assistant Professor office: Room 554, Campanella Way 21 phone: +1-617-552-8983 email: hjiang cs.bc.edu Computer Science Department Boston College 140 Commonwealth Avenue Chestnut Hill, MA 02467 Fax: +1-617-552-6790

Research Interests

News

• I am organizing a special track "Computer Vision for Human Sensing" in BodyNets 2013 at Boston this Summer. We are soliciting papers for the special track. See more details at the conference web site.

Teaching

• CS383 Algorithms, Spring 2013

Research Projects

• Object Matching
  • Scale Resilient, Rotation Invariant Articulated Object Matching (CVPR'12)
  • Robust matching using linearly augmented tree (CVPR'11).
  • Linear scale and rotation invariant object matching (CVPR'09, TPAMI 2011).
  • Fast matching with successive convexification (TPAMI 2007, CVPR'06, ICPR'06).
• Object Segmentation
  • Topology Constrained Scale Invariant Global Figure Ground Separation (CVPR'12).
• Motion Estimation and Object Tracking
  • Long range motion estimation using convex programming and detail preserving PDE (CVPR'04).
  • Appearance adaptive object tracking (EMMCVPR'05).
  • Optimizing multiple object tracking (CVPR'07, TMM 2007).
  • Shadow resistant object tracking (ICME'03, Pattern Recognition 2007).
• Human Pose Estimation
  • Finding People Using Scale, Rotation and Articulation Invariant Matching (ECCV'12).
  • Consistent max-covering for human pose estimation (ICCV'09, TPAMI 2011).
  • Concurrently finding human poses and foreground segmentation in videos (ACCV'10).
  • 3D human pose estimation using millions of exemplars (ICPR'10).
  • Pose estimation using non-tree structures (CVPR'08).
• Action Detection
  • Finding actions using shape flows (ECCV'08).
  • Clustering actions in images (CVPR'06).
  • Action detection using convex shape matching (CVPR'06, AMFG'05, ICME'05, ICME'06, IEEE Multimedia 2007, TCSVT 2010).
• Image and Video Processing
  • Videorama (ICPR'10).
  • PCA based camera color auto-adjustment (ICIP'03, CIC'03).
  • Detail preserving image interpolation (ICIP'02).
  • Edge adaptive error concealment (ICIP'02).
• Multimedia
  • TV program classification and segmentation based on audio and video ( Patent, ICME'00, ACM-MM'01, TSAP 2002).

Award and Funding

• NSF Award "RI: Small: Convex Architecture for Human Movement Understanding", 2010-2014.
• Governor General's Gold Medal, 2007.

Code

• Convex Matching: a fast global matching method
• Scale and Rotation Invariant Linear Matching (Updated on Dec 11, 2012. Now runs on Fedora 17 64bit)
• 3D Pose Estimation Using Millions of Exemplars (Updated on Dec 11, 2012. Now runs on Fedora 17 64bit)
• Pose Estimation with Maxcovering
• Linear Multiple Object Tracker
• Scale and Rotation Invariant Matching Using Linearly Augmented Trees

Journal Publications

	Human Pose Estimation Using Consistent Max-Covering Hao Jiang IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, vol. 33, no. 9, 2011. [PDF] [Videos & Dataset].
	Linear Scale and Rotation Invariant Matching Hao Jiang, Stella X. Yu and David R. Martin IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, vol. 33, no.7, 2011 [PDF] [Demo Code, Videos and Data].
	Action Detection in Cluttered Video with Successive Convex Matching Hao Jiang, Mark S. Drew and Ze-Nian Li IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology. 2010. [PDF]
	Optimizing Multiple Object Tracking and Best View Video Synthesis Hao Jiang, Sidney Fels and James J. Little IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, vol.10, no.6, October 2008. [PDF] [Videos]
	Matching by Linear Programming and Successive Convexification Hao Jiang, Mark S. Drew and Ze-Nian Li IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, June, 2007. [PDF] [Demo Code]
	Shadow Resistant Object Tracking using Inertia Constraints Hao Jiang and Mark S. Drew Pattern Recognition, July, 2007. [PDF]
	Content Analysis for Audio Classification and Segmentation Lie Lu, Hong-Jiang Zhang, and Hao Jiang IEEE Transactions on Speech and Audio Processing, volume: 10 Issue: 7 , Oct 2002, Page(s): 504 -516. [PDF]

Patent

	Audio Segmentation and Classification Hao Jiang and Hong-Jiang Zhang US Patent 7328149 [PDF]

Conference Publications

	A Linear Approach to Matching Cuboids in RGBD Images Hao Jiang and Jianxiong Xiao IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition 2013 (CVPR'13). [PDF]
	Human Movement Summarization and Depiction from Videos Lucy Lu and Hao Jiang IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo 2013 (ICME'13). [PDF]
	A Scale and Rotation Invariant Approach to Tracking Human Body Part Regions in Videos Yihang Bo and Hao Jiang CVPR 2013 Workshop: Computer Vision in Sports (CVSports'13). [PDF]
	Finding People Using Scale, Rotation and Articulation Invariant Matching Hao Jiang European Conference on Computer Vision 2012 (ECCV'12). [PDF]
	Linear Solution to Scale Invariant Global Figure Ground Separation Hao Jiang IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition 2012 (CVPR'12). [PDF][Videos]
	Scale Resilient, Rotation Invariant Articulated Object Matching Hao Jiang, Tai-Peng Tian, Kun He and Stan Sclaroff IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition 2012 (CVPR'12). [PDF][Videos]
	Scale and Rotation Invariant Matching Using Linearly Augmented Trees Hao Jiang, Tai-Peng Tian and Stan Sclaroff IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition 2011 (CVPR'11). (Oral) . [PDF][Videos, Code and Slides]
	Finding Human Poses in Videos Using Concurrent Matching and Segmentation Hao Jiang ACCV 2010 (oral). [PDF]. [Videos].
	Building a Videorama with Shallow Depth of Field Soonmin Bae and Hao Jiang IEEE International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR 2010). [PDF]
	3D Human Pose Reconstruction Using Millions of Exemplars Hao Jiang IEEE International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR 2010). [PDF] [Code]
	Human Pose Estimation Using Consistent Max-Covering Hao Jiang IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision 2009 (ICCV'09). [PDF]
	Linear Solution to Scale and Rotation Invariant Object Matching Hao Jiang and Stella X. Yu IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition 2009 (CVPR'09). (Oral) [PDF][Slides][CODE] [Data]. and videos (bear book magazine butterfly bee fish)
	Learning from Disagreements: Discriminative Performance Evaluation Christina Pavlopoulou, David Martin, Stella X. Yu and Hao Jiang The 11th IEEE International Workshop on Performance Evaluation of Tracking and Surveillance (PETS'09), 2009. [PDF]
	Finding Actions Using Shape Flows Hao Jiang and David R. Martin European Conference on Computer Vision 2008 (ECCV'08). [PDF]
	Global Pose Estimation Using Non-Tree Models Hao Jiang and David R. Martin IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition 2008 (CVPR'08). [PDF]
	A Linear Programming Approach for Multiple Object Tracking Hao Jiang, Sidney Fels and James J. Little IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition 2007 (CVPR'07) . [PDF]
	Successive Convex Matching for Action Detection Hao Jiang, Mark S. Drew and Ze-Nian Li IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition 2006 (CVPR'06). [PDF]
	Unsupervised Discovery of Action Classes Yang Wang, Hao Jiang, Mark S. Drew, Ze-Nian Li, Greg Mori IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition 2006 (CVPR'06) [PDF]
	Convex Quadratic Programming for Object Localization Hao Jiang, Mark S. Drew, Ze-Nian Li International Conference on Pattern Recognition 2006 (ICPR'06). [PDF]
	Detecting Human Action in Active Video Hao Jiang, Ze-Nian Li and Mark S. Drew International Conference on Multimedia and Expo 2006 (ICME'06). [PDF]
	Linear Programming Matching and Appearance-adaptive Object Tracking Hao Jiang, Mark S. Drew and Ze-Nian Li Energy Minimization Methods in Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition 2005 (EMMCVPR'05). [PDF]
	Linear Programming for Matching in Human Body Gesture Recognition Hao Jiang, Ze-Nian Li and Mark S. Drew Analysis and Modeling of Faces and Gestures 2005 (AMFG'05). [PDF]
	Human Posture Recognition with Convex Programming Hao Jiang, Ze-Nian Li and Mark S. Drew International Conference on Multimedia and Expo 2005 (ICME'05) [PDF]
	Optimizing Motion Estimation with Linear Programming and Detail-Preserving Variational Method Hao Jiang, Ze-Nian Li and Mark S. Drew IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition 2004 (CVPR'04). [PDF]
	Shadow-Resistant Tracking in Video Hao Jiang and Mark S. Drew IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo 2003 (ICME'03). [PDF]
	Non-Diagonal Color Correction Brian Funt and Hao Jiang IEEE International Conference on Image Processing 2003 (ICIP'03). [PDF]
	Predicting Cone Quantum Catches Under Illumination Change Graham Finlayson, Brian Funt and Hao Jiang Color Imaging Conference 2003. [PDF]
	A New Direction Adaptive Scheme for Image Interpolation Hao Jiang and Cecilia Moloney International Conference on Image Processing 2002 (ICIP'02), Volume: 3, Page(s): 369 -372. [PDF]
	Error Concealment Using a Diffusion Based Method Hao Jiang and Cecilia Moloney International Conference on Image Processing 2002 (ICIP'02), Volume: 1 , Page(s): 832 -835. [PDF]
	A Predictive Contour Inertia Snake Model for General Video Tracking Hao Jiang and Mark S. Drew International Conference on Image Processing 2002 (ICIP'02), Volume: 3 , Page(s): 413 -416. [PDF]
	A Robust Audio Classification and Segmentation Method Lie Lu, Hao Jiang and Hong-Jiang Zhang ACM Multimedia 2001 (ACM-MM'01):203-211. [PDF]
	Video Segmentation with the Assistance of Audio Content Analysis Hao Jiang, Tong Lin and Hong-Jiang Zhang IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo 2000 (ICME'00). [PDF]

PhD Thesis

Invited Talks

• Harvard University, GVI group, 2013.
• MIT, AI Lab, 2013.
• Intel Labs, 2013.
• MERL, 2012.
• SRI Sarnoff, 2012.
• ObjectVideo, 2012.
• MIT, AI Lab, 2011.
• IBM Research, 2011.
• Boston University, 2011.
• CVPR 2011.
• CVPR 2009.
• University of Texas in Austin, 2009
• Texas State University, 2009.
• Microsoft Live Labs, 2007.
• Boston University, 2007.
• University of British Columbia, 2006.

Reviewer and Program Committee

• IEEE Computer vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2011, 2012, 2013.
• International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), 2009, 2011.
• European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), 2012.
• British Machine Vision Conference (BMVC), 2011, 2012, 2013.
• Canadian Conference on Computer and Robot Vision (CRV), 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013.
• NSF panel, 2011.