About the Group: Research interests of this group include automatic image tagging / learning-based linguistic indexing of images, semantics-sensitive image retrieval, image security, biomedical informatics, computational aesthetics, story picturing, art image analysis and retrieval, and computer vision. The group has published two monographs and more than 20 journal articles (g-scholar) in the last ten years. Members of the group have served as referee for 60+ scientific journals in various related fields. The SIMPLIcity system Wang co-developed with Jia Li in 1999 has been sought after and obtained by researchers from over 100 institutions. Their recent work on real-time automatic linguistic indexing of pictures can be tested at alipr.com. The Acquine Aesthetic Quality Inference Engine developed by the group is available at acquine.alipr.com. Past Ph.D. students of the group have taken tenure-track faculty and research scientist positions, right after graduation from us.
Biography of the PI: James Z. Wang is a tenured faculty member of Penn State, with appointments in the College of Information Sciences and Technology, the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, and the Integrative Biosciences (IBIOS) Program (Option on Bioinformatics and Genomics, the Huck Institutes of the Life Sciences). He is also the Vice Director of the Intelligent Information Systems Laboratory and a member of the I3C infrastructure. He has been a recipient of an NSF Career award and the endowed PNC Technologies Career Development Professorship provided by the PNC Foundation. He has served as the lead guest editor of IEEE Trans. on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence Special Section on Real-world Image Annotation and Retrieval, the chair of ACM Multimedia Information Retrieval MIR 2006, MIR 2007, and MIR 2010, an Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, and an invited speaker at more than 70 institutions. In the year 2007 to 2008, he was a Visiting Professor of Robotics at Carnegie Mellon University. He has held visiting positions at IBM Almaden Research Center, SRI International, NEC Research, and Academia Sinica. Wang holds a summa cum laude Bachelor's degree in Mathematics and Computer Science from University of Minnesota, and an M.S. in Mathematics, an M.S. in Computer Science, and a Ph.D. in Medical Information Sciences, all from Stanford University. He is a senior member of the IEEE and ACM. His Erdős number is 3.
Conferences: ACM Multimedia Information Retrieval (MIR) 2010;
World-Wide Web 2010;
ACM Multimedia 2010;
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James Z. WangAssociate Professor, 313C IST Building, Penn State, University Park, PA 16802, jwang at ist dot psu dot edu, +1 (814) 865-7889, personal site |
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