Wang Group: Modeling Objects, Concepts, and Aesthetics in Images

Major Events of J. Wang's Research Group

10/16 The Tagging over Time work is in the news. (URL1)
10/1 The second Ph.D. student from the group, Dr. Dhiraj Joshi starts his career as a Scientist of Kodak Research, Rochester, NY.
9/15 James Wang serves as a guest editor of IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence special issue on Real-world Image Annotation and Retrieval.
9/1 James Wang serves as a Visiting Professor of the Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University.
6/1 The paintings work is in the news.

11/2 The ALIPR work is in the news.(URL1, URL2).
6/5 The computational aesthetics work is in the news.(URL).
4/20 Group member, Ph.D. student, Brian Canada is awarded the prestigious Academic Computing Fellowship, which covers tuition, fees, stipend, and travel support.

5/20 A photo taken by J. Wang has been selected as the official photo for the 2005 July 4th Fireworks and Festival. It is printed on posters and other publications.
5/4 Our research is mentioned on slashdot.org, searchenginewatch, outer-court.
5/3 PSU news on the fotofrog project. (IST news)
4/19 According to scholar.google.com, the SIMPLIcity paper [IEEE Trans. on PAMI, 2001(9)] of our group is one of the 10 most cited non-survey articles published in all IEEE or ACM Transactions since 2001.
4/19, 3/16 Group member and undergraduate honors scholar Aaron Coble wins the Gates Cambridge Scholarship to study for Ph.D. in England (Penn State News 1, News 2). Another undergraduate honors scholar Allison Deal will go to University of North Carolina for graduate school in biostatistics. Her studies will be funded by a research assistantship.
4/8, 3/24 Group member and undergraduate honors scholar Robert Shedd will work this summer with the team of the CIO of Vanguard Group, a company managing almost a trillion dollar assets. Another undergraduate group member Catriona Cornett will work this summer for AccuWeather in the New Media Group on image-related work.
4/5 Our group is collaborating with Airliners.net, the largest aviation site in the world, to bring our SIMPLIcity search engine to millions of global users. Visit the site to test out SIMPLIcity on almost one million images.

5/28 James Wang's group is awarded an NSF IDLP (Intn'l Digital Lib. Program) grant, together with Simmons College and University of Pennsylvania.
5/14 James Wang is selected as a recipient of an NSF Career Award.

4/28 A photo taken by J. Wang has been selected as the official photo for the 2004 July 4th Fireworks and Festival. It is printed on posters and other publications.
1/27 A monograph book is scheduled to be published:
Y. Chen, J. Li and J. Z. Wang, Machine Learning and Statistical Modeling Approaches to Image Retrieval (monograph), Kluwer Academic Publishers, ~200 pages, Dordrecht, 2004.
1/5 James Wang is an invited participant and speaker at the highly-regarded Computer Science seminar series located at the Dagstuhl Institute of Germany, a manor house built in 1760 by a prince.

8/1 James Wang's group started to participate in a project of SRI/ROSETTEX.
7/1 James Wang's group received an NSF REU supplement grant to support undergraduate research in the group.
7/1 The first Ph.D. graduate of the group, Dr. Yixin Chen, took a tenure-track faculty position at the Computer Science Department of University of New Orleans.

12/1 James Wang is invited to serve as a Vice Chair of the Technical Program Committee for the 12th International World Wide Web Conference, the most competitive scientific conference related to the Web.
11/1 James Wang participated in the drafting of a report to NSF and EU on Digital Imagery research directions. The meeting was held in the MIT Endicott House, built in 1800's.
10/1 James Wang is an invited member of the joint US-NSF/EU-DELOS Working Group on Digital Imagery for Significant Cultural and Historical Materials. The Working Group is made up of fellow researchers deeply involved in digital imaging/video work in both US and EU.
7/10 James Wang's group is awarded an NSF ITR (Info. Tech. Research) grant.
4/22 James Wang's group is a participating research group of a major NSF Research Infrastructure grant to CSE and IST.

11/1 James Wang is an invited participant of the NSF-Mellon Foundation-Harvard Panel on Digital Imagery for Works of Art. The meeting was held in the Harvard Art Museum.
8/1 James Wang is awarded a SUN equipment grant to support his research.
7/1 James Wang's group is awarded an NSF grant to support his international travel.
3/1 James Wang is invited to provide a testimony to The National Academies Committee on Tools and Strategies for Protecting Kids from Pornography and Their Applicability to Other Inappropriate Internet Content. The committee reports back to the US Congress on this subject.

9/8 A new monograph book is scheduled to be published early next year: J. Z. Wang, Integrated Region-Based Image Retrieval (monograph), Kluwer Academic Publishers, 190 pages, Dordrecht, 2001.