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Journal Publications and Book Chapters

  1. E. Vahdani and Y. Tian, POTLoc: Pseudo-Label Oriented Transformer for Point-Supervised Temporal Action Localization, Accepted, Computer Vision and Image Understanding, 2024, 104044, DOI: 10.1016/j.cviu.2024.1040.
  2. H. Wang and Y. Tian, Sequential Point Clouds: A Survey, IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, 2024. DOI: 10.1109/TPAMI.2024.3365970. Supplementary file.
  3. E. Vahdani*, L. Jing*, M. Heunerfauth, and Y. Tian (*indicates equal contributions), Multi-Modal Multi-Channel American Sign Language Recognition, International Journal of Artificial Intelligence and Robotics Research, Vol. 01, Issue No. 01, Article No. 2450001, 2024. DOI: 10.1142/S2972335324500017.
  4. Z. Liu, X. Mu, Y. Lu, T. Zhang, and Y. Tian, Learning Transformer-based Attention Region with Multiple Scales for Occluded Person Re-identification, Computer Vision and Image Understanding, Volume 229, March 2023. DOI: 10.1016/j.cviu.2023.103652.
  5. J. Liu, O. Yildirim, O. Akin, and Y. Tian, AI-driven Robust Kidney and Renal Mass Segmentation and Classification on 3D CT Images, Special Issue of Artificial Intelligence in Advanced Medical Imaging, Bioengineering 2023, 10(1), 116. DOI: 10.3390/bioengineering10010116
  6. J. Liu, L. Cao, O. Akin, and Y. Tian, Robust and Accurate Pulmonary Nodule Detection with Self-supervised Feature Learning on Domain Adaptation, Frontiers in Radiology-Artificial Intelligence in Radiology, 2:1041518, Dec. 2022. DOI: 10.3389/fradi.2022.1041518.
  7. E. Vahdani and Y. Tian, Deep Learning-based Action Detection in Untrimmed Videos: A Survey, IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, Volume: 45, Issue: 4, Pages: 4302 - 4320, April 2023. DOI: 10.1109/TPAMI.2022.3193611.
  8. J. Liu, Y. Tian, C. Duzgol, O. Akin, A. M. Agildere, K. M. Haberal, and M. Coskun, Virtual Contrast Enhancement for CT Scans of Abdomen and Pelvis, Accepted, Computerized Medical Imaging and Graphics, 2022. PMID: 35914340 DOI: 10.1016/j.compmedimag.2022.102094.
  9. X. Rong, C. Yi, and Y. Tian, Unambiguous Text Localization, Retrieval, and Recognition for Cluttered Scenes, IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, Vol. 44, Issue: 3, Pages: 1638-1652, March 2022. DOI: 10.1109/TPAMI.2020.3018491.
  10. L. Jing and Y. Tian, Self-supervised Visual Feature Learning with Deep Neural Networks: A Survey, IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, Vol. 43, Issue: 11, Pages: 4037-4058, Nov. 2021. DOI:10.1109/TPAMI.2020.2992393.
  11. J. Tan*, L. Jing*, Y. Huo, L. Li, O. Akin, and Y. Tian (*indicates equal contributions), LGAN: Lung Segmentation in CT scans using Generative Adversarial Network, Computerized Medical Imaging and Graphics, Vol. 87, January 2021. 10.1016/j.compmedimag.2020.101817.
  12. C. Kang, X. Yu, S. Wang, D. S. Guttery, H. M. Pandey, Y. Tian, and Y. Zhang, A Heuristic Neural Network Structure Relying on Fuzzy Logic for Images Scoring, IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems, Vol. 29, Issue: 1, Pages: 34-45, Jan. 2021. DOI: 10.1109/TFUZZ.2020.2966163
  13. X. Rong, C. Yi, and Y. Tian, Unambiguous Scene Text Segmentation with Referring Expression Comprehension, IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, Vol. 29, Issue: 1, Page(s): 591-601, Dec. 2020. DOI: 10.1109/TIP.2019.2930176.
  14. L. Jing*, Y. Chen*, and Y. Tian (* indicates equal contributions), Coarse-to-fine Semantic Segmentation from Image-level Labels, IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, Vol. 29, Issue: 1, Page(s): 225-236, Dec. 2020. DOI:10.1109/TIP.2019.2926748
  15. Y. Chen, Y. Tian, and M. He, Monocular Human Pose Estimation: A Survey of Deep Learning-based Methods, Computer Vision and Image Understanding, Volume 192, March 2020. DOI: 10.1016/j.cviu.2019.102897
  16. J. Liu and Y. Tian, Recognizing Elevator Buttons and Labels for Blind Navigation, International Journal of Computer Applications, February 2020.
  17. S. Yu, T. Huang, D. Wang, B. P. Lynn, D. Sayd, V. Silivanov, Y. S. Park, Y. Tian, and H. Su, Design and Control of a High-Torque and Highly-Backdrivable Hybrid Soft Exoskeleton for Knee Injury Prevention during Squatting, IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, Vol. 4, Issue: 4, Page(s): 4578-4586, Oct. 2019. DOI: 10.1109/LRA.2019.2931427
  18. Y. Xian and Y. Tian, Self-Guiding Multimodal LSTM - When We Do Not Have a Perfect Training Dataset for Image Captioning, IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, Volume: 28, Issue: 11, Page(s): 5241-5252, Nov. 2019. DOI: 10.1109/TIP.2019.2917229
  19. Z. Petrou and Y. Tian, Prediction of Sea Ice Motion with Convolutional Long Short-Term Memory Networks, IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, Vol. 57, Issue: 9, Pages: 6865-6876, September 2019. DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2019.2909057
  20. B. Li, J. P. Munoz, X. Rong, Q. Chen, J. Xiao, Y. Tian, A. Arditi, and M. Yousuf, Vision-based Mobile Indoor Assistive Navigation with Obstacle Avoidance for Blind People, IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, Vol. 18, No. 3, Pages 702-714, March, 2019. https://doi.org/10.1109/TMC.2018.2842751
  21. Y. Ye, X. Yang, and Y. Tian, Discovering Spatio-Temporal Action Tubes, Journal of Visual Communication and Image Representation, Volume 58, January 2019, Pages 515-524. DOI:10.1016/j.jvcir.2018.12.019
  22. M. A. Halstead, S. Denman, S. Sridharan, Y. Tian, and C. Fookes, Multimodal Clothing Recognition for Semantic Search in Unconstrained Surveillance Imagery, Journal of Visual Communication and Image Representation, Volume 58, January 2019, Pages 439-452. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jvcir.2018.12.001
  23. Z. Petrou, Y. Xian, and Y. Tian, Towards Breaking the Spatial Resolution Barriers: An Optical Flow and Super-Resolution Approach for Sea Ice Motion Estimation, ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, Volume 138, Pages 164-175, April 2018.
  24. L. Jing, X. Yang, and Y. Tian, Video You Only Look Once: Overall Temporal Convolutions for Action Recognition, Journal of Visual Communication and Image Representation, Volume 52, Pages 58-65, April 2018. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jvcir.2018.01.016
  25. C. Zhang, Y. Tian, X. Guo, and J. Liu, DAAL: Deep Activation-based Attribute Learning for Action Recognition in Depth Videos, Computer Vision and Image Understanding, Volume 167, February 2018, Pages 37-49, DOI: 10.1016/j.cviu.2017.11.008.
  26. Y. Xian, Z. Petrou, Y. Tian, and W. Meier, Super-Resolved Fine Scale Sea Ice Motion Tracking, IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, Vol. 55 , Issue 10, 2017.
  27. X. Yang and Y. Tian, Super Normal Vector for Human Activity Recognition with Depth Cameras, IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, Vol. 39, No. 5, pp. 1028-1039, May 2017.
  28. Z. Petrou and Y. Tian, High Resolution Sea Ice Motion Estimation With Optical Flow Using Satellite Spectroradiometer Data, IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, Vol. 55, No. 3, March 2017.
  29. Y. Xian, X. Rong, X. Yang, and Y. Tian, Evaluation of Low-Level Features for Real-World Surveillance Event Detection, IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, pp. 624-634, Vol. 27, No. 3, March 2017.
  30. Z. Liu, C. Zhang and Y. Tian, 3D-based Deep Convolutional Neural Network for Action Recognition with Depth Sequences, Image and Vision Computing, Vol. 55, Part 2, pp. 93-100, November 2016. doi:10.1016/j.imavis.2016.04.004
  31. Y. Xian and Y. Tian, Single Image Super-Resolution via Internal Gradient Similarity, Journal of Visual Communication and Image Representation, pp. 91-102, Vol. 35, Feb. 2016. DOI information: 10.1016/j.jvcir.2015.11.015
  32. C. Zhang and Y. Tian, Histogram of 3D Facets: A Depth Descriptor for Human Action and Hand Gesture Recognition, Computer Vision and Image Understanding, Volume 139, Pages 29-39, October 2015.
  33. L. Tian, C. Yi, and Y. Tian, Detecting Good Quality Frames in Videos from Mobile Camera for Blind Navigation, Journal of Computer Vision and Image Processing, Vol. 5, No. 10, October 2015.
  34. C. Yi and Y. Tian, Assistive Text Reading from Natural Scene for Blind Persons, Chapter in book Mobile Cloud Visual Media Computing: From Interaction to Service, by Springer, G. Hua and X. Hua (Eds), 2015.
  35. S. Chen, X. Yang, and Y. Tian, Discriminative Hierarchical K-Means Tree for Large-Scale Image Classification, IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems, Vol. 26, No. 9, 2015.
  36. S. Chen and Y. Tian, Pyramid of Spatial Relatons for Remotely Sensed Land Use Classification, IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, Vol. 53, No. 4, pp1947-1957, April 2015.
  37. Y. Tian, RGB-D Sensor-Based Computer Vision Assistive Technology for Visually Impaired Persons, Chapter in book Computer Vision and Machine Learning with RGB-D Sensors, by Springer, L. Shao, J. Han, P. Kohli, Z. Zhang (Eds), 2014. ISSN 2191-6586, ISBN 978-3-319-08650-7
  38. C. Yi and Y. Tian, "Scene Text Recognition in Mobile Applications by Character Descriptor and Structure Configuration," IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, Vol. 23, No. 7, pp2972-2982, July 2014.
  39. X. Yang, S. Yuan, and Y. Tian, "Assistive Clothing Pattern Recognition for Visually Impaired People," IEEE Transactions on Human-Machine Systems, Vol. 44, No. 2, pp234-243, April, 2014.
  40. C. Yi, Y. Tian, and A. Arditi, Portable Camera-based Assistive Text and Product Label Reading from Hand-held Objects for Blind Persons,IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics, Vol. 19, No. 3, pp808-817, June 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/TMECH.2013.2261083
  41. S. Wang, H. Pan, C. Zhang, and Y. Tian, RGB-D Image-Based Detection of Stairs, Pedestrian Crosswalks and Traffic Signs, Journal of Visual Communication and Image Representation (JVCIR), Vol. 25, pp263-272, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jvcir.2013.11.005
  42. X. Yang and Y. Tian, Effective 3D Action Recognition Using Eigenjoints, Journal of Visual Communication and Image Representation (JVCIR), Special Issue on Visual Understanding and Applications with RGBD Cameras, Volume 25, Issue 1, January 2014. JVCI 2015 Best Paper Award Runner Up.
  43. X. Yang and Y. Tian. Texture Representations Using Subspace Embeddings. Pattern Recognition Letters (PRL), 34(10):1130-1137, 2013.
  44. F. Hasanuzzaman, X. Yang, and Y. Tian, Monitoring Activity of Taking Medicine by Incorporating RFID and Video Analysis, Network Modeling Analysis in Health Informatics and Bioinformatics, Volume 2, Issue 2, pp 61-70. July 2013. DOI: 10.1007/s13721-013-0025-y.
  45. S. Wang, X. Yang, and Y. Tian, Detecting Signage and Doors for Blind Navigation and Wayfinding, Network Modeling Analysis in Health Informatics and Bioinformatics, July 2013, Volume 2, Issue 2, pp 81-93.
  46. C. Yi, R. Flores, R. Chincha, and Y. Tian, Finding Objects for Assisting Blind People, Network Modeling Analysis in Health Informatics and Bioinformatics, July 2013, Volume 2, Issue 2, pp 71-79. DOI: 10.1007/s13721-013-0026-x
  47. A. Arditi and Y. Tian, User Interface Preferences in the Design of a Camera-Based Navigation and Wayfinding Aid, Journal of Visual Impairment & Blindness, Vol. 107, Number 2, pp118-129, March-April, 2013.
  48. S. Chen, Y. Tian, Q. Liu, and D. Metaxas, Recognizing Expressions from Face and Body Gesture by Temporal Normalized Motion and Appearance Features, Image and Vision Computing, Volume 31, Issue 2, February, Pages 175-185, 2013, DOI: 10.1016/j.imavis.2012.06.014
  49. Y. Tian, L. Cao, Z. Liu, and Z. Zhang, Action Detection by Fusing Hierarchically Filtered Motion With Spatiotemporal Interest Point Features, In book Human Behavior Recognition Technologies: Intelligent Applications for Monitoring and Security, by IGI Global, Hans Guesgen and Stephen Marsland (Eds.), ISBN 978-1-4666-3682-8 (hardcover) -- ISBN 978-1-4666-3683-5 (ebook), 2013.
  50. Y. Tian, X. Yang, C. Yi, and A. Arditi, Toward a Computer Vision-based Wayfinding Aid for Blind Persons to Access Unfamiliar Indoor Environments, Machine Vision and Applications, Issue 24, No. 3, April 2013, pp. 521-535. DOI: 10.1007/s00138-012-0431-7. NIHMSID # 371367
  51. C. Yi and Y. Tian, Text Extraction from Scene Images by Character Appearance and Structure Modeling, Computer Vision and Image Understanding, Vol. 117, No. 2, pp. 182-194, 2013. DOI: 10.1016/j.cviu.2012.11.002, NIHMS #424449
  52. C. Zhang and Y. Tian, RGB-D Camera-based Daily Living Activity Recognition, Journal of Computer Vision and Image Processing, Vol. 2, No. 4, December 2012.
  53. C. Yi and Y. Tian, Localizing Text in Scene Images by Boundary Clustering, Stroke Segmentation, and String Fragment Classification, IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, Vol. 21, No. 9, pp4256-4268, 2012. PMID:22614647
  54. S. Wang, C. Yi, and Y. Tian, Signage Detection and Recognition for Blind Persons to Access Unfamiliar Environments, Journal of Computer Vision and Image Processing, Vol. 2, No. 2, 2012.
  55. Y. Tian and S. Chen, Understanding Effects of Image Resolution for Facial Expression Analysis, Journal of Computer Vision and Image Processing, Vol. 2, No. 1, 2012.
  56. S. Chen and Y. Tian, Describing Visual Scene through EigenMaps, Journal of Computer Vision and Image Processing, Vol. 2, No. 1, 2012.
  57. C. Yi and Y. Tian, Assistive Text Reading from Complex Background for Blind Persons, In book Camera-Based Document Analysis and Recognition, the 4th International Workshop on (CBDAR11), Revised Selected Papers, Masakazu Iwamura and Faisal Shafait (Eds), Lecture Notes in Computer Science series, Vol. 7139, pp15-28, Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg, ISSN 0302-9743, 2012.
  58. F. Hasanuzzaman*, X. Yang*, and Y. Tian (* indicates equal contributions), Robust and Effective Component-based Banknote Recognition for the Blind, IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics--Part C: Applications and Reviews, Jan. 2012. PMCID: PMC3363999.
  59. Y. Tian, A. Senior, and M. Lu, Robust and Efficient Foreground Analysis in Complex Surveillance Videos, Machine Vision and Applications, Volume 23, Issue 5, Page 967-983, 2012.
  60. H. Gunes, C. Shan, S. Chen, and Y. Tian, Bodily Expression for Automatic Affect Recognition, In Advances in Emotion Recognition, A. Konar, A. Chakraborty (Eds.), Wiley-Blackwell, 2012.
  61. Y. Tian, L. Cao, Z. Liu, and Z. Zhang, Hierarchical Filtered Motion for Action Recognition in Crowded Videos, IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics--Part C: Applications and Reviews, Vol. 42, No. 3, pp313-323, 2012.
  62. S. Yuan, Y. Tian, and A. Arditi, Clothing Matching for Visually Impaired Persons, Technology and Disability, Vol. 23, 2011. PMCID: PMC3328861
  63. C. Yi and Y. Tian, Text String Detection from Natural Scenes by Structure-based Partition and Grouping, IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, Vol. 20, Issue 9, 2011, PMID: 21411405, PMCID: PMC3337634. OSTD Dataset
  64. Y. Tian, R. Feris, H. Liu, A. Hampapur, and M. Sun, Robust Detection of Abandoned and Removed Objects in Complex Surveillance Videos, IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics--Part C: Applications and Reviews, Vol. 41, Issue 5, 2011.
  65. R. Feris, A. Hampapur, Y. Zhai, R. Bobbitt, L. Brown, D. Vaquero, Y. Tian. H. Liu and M-T. Sun, Case Study: IBM Smart Surveillance System, in book of Intelligent Video Surveillance: Systems and Technology, by Taylor & Francis Group, LLC. 2009.
  66. Y. Tian, R. Feris, L. Brown, D. Vaquero, Y. Zhai and A. Hampapur, Multi-Scale Person Detection and Motion Analysis for Video Surveillance, in book of Machine Learning for Human Motion Analysis: Theory and Practice, by Idea Group Inc. 2009.
  67. Y. Zhai, Y. Tian, R. Feris, L. Brown, R. Bobbitt, A. Hampapur, and S. Velipasalar, Composite Event Detection in Multi-Camera and Multi-Sensor Surveillance Networks, in book of Multi-Camera Networks: Concepts and Applications, by Elsevier. 2009.
  68. Y. Tian, A.W. Senior, A. Hampapur, L. Brown, C. Shu, and M. Lu, IBM Smart Surveillance System (S3): Event Based Video Surveillance System with an Open and Extensible Framework, Machine Vision and Applications, 19:315-327, 2008.
  69. Y. Tian, A. Hampapur, L. Brown, R. Feris, M. Lu, A. Senior, C. Shu, and Y. Zhai, Event detection, query, and retrieval for video surveillance, In book Artificial Intelligence for Miximizing Content Based Image Retrieval, Edited by Zongmin Ma, Published by Idea Group Inc., 2008.
  70. G. Pingali, Y. Tian, S. Ebadollahi, J. Pelecanos, M. Podlaseck, and H. Stavropoulos, An End-to-end eChronicling System for Mobile Human Surveillance, In book Multimodal Surveillance: Sensors, Algorithms and Systems, Edited by Z. Zhu and T. Huang, Artech House Publishers, 2007.
  71. A. Senior, A. Hampapur, Y. Tian, L. Brown, S. Pankanti, and R. Bolle, Appearance Models for Occlusion Handling, Journal of Image and Vision Computing Volume 24 Issue 11, pp 1233-1243, November 2006.
  72. A. Senior, S. Pankanti, A. Hampapur, L. Brown, Y. Tian, A. Ekin, J. Connell, C. Shu, and M. Lu, Enabling Video Privacy through Computer Vision, IEEE Security & Privacy - Infrastructure Security, vol. 3, No. 3, May/June 2005.
  73. A. Hampapur, L. Brown, J. Connell, M. Lu, H. Merkl, S. Pankanti, A. Senior, C. Shu, and Y. Tian, Multi-scale Tracking for Smart Video Surveillance, IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, vol. 22, No. 2, March 2005.
  74. K. Schmidt, J. F. Cohn and Y. Tian, Signal characteristics of spontaneous facial expressions: Automatic movement in solitary and social smiles, In book What the Face Reveals: Basic and Applied Studies of Spontaneous Expression Using The Facial Action Coding Systems (FACS), Second Edition, Edited by Paul Ekman and Erika L. Rosenberg, Elsevier Science Publishers, Oxford University Press,  2005.
  75. A. Senior, A. Hampapur, L. Brown, Y. Tian, C. Shu and S. Pankanti, Distributed Active Multi-camera Networks, Ambient Intelligence ed. P.Remagnino. G.L. Foresti and T.Ellis. Kluwer Publishing 2004.
  76. Y. Tian, T. Kanade and J. F. Cohn, Facial Expression Analysis, In book Handbook of Face Recognition, Edited by Stan Li and A.K. Jain, Springer-Verlag January, 2004.
  77. Y. Tian, Automatic Facial Expression Analysis, Robotics and Machine Perception, SPIE International Technical Group Newsletter, 2004.
  78. K. Schmidt, J. F. Cohn and Y. Tian, Signal characteristics of spontaneous facial expressions: Automatic movement in solitary and social smiles, Biological Psychology, 65, 49-66, 2003.
  79. S. Pankanti, A. Senior, L. Brown, A. Hampapur, Y. Tian, and R. Bolle, Security, Privacy, and Health, IEEE Pervasive Computing Work in Progress, Volume 2 No. 1, January-March 2003. p. 96
  80. Y. Tian, T. Kanade and J. F. Cohn, Recognizing Action Units for Facial Expression Analysis, In book Multi-modal interface for human machine communication, Machine perception and artificial intelligence series. 2002
  81. Y. Tian, T. Kanade and J. F. Cohn, Recognizing Action Units for Facial Expression Analysis, IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, Vol. 23, No. 2, February, 2001
  82. K. Schmidt, V. Monaco, B. Peters, J. VanSwearingen, Y. Tian, and J. F. Cohn, Relation between automatic tracking of lip-corner motion and facial surface EMG of the zygomaticus major muscle during spontaneous smiles, Society for Psychophysiological Research, San Diego, October, 2000.
  83. Y. Tian, H. Tsui, S. Yeung and S. Ma, Shape from Shading for Multiple Light Sources, Journal of Optical Society of America A, pp36-52, Vol. 16, No. 1, Jan. 1999. https://doi.org/10.1364/JOSAA.16.000036
  84. Y. Tian and S. Ma, Shape Recovery by Neural Network in Unknown Light Environment, ACTA Optical Sinica, Vol. 25, No. 2, March, 1999.
  85. Y. Tian and S. Ma, 3D Shape Recovery by Genetic Algorithm, Journal of Image and Graphics (in Chinese), Vol. 4(A), 1999.
  86. Y. Tian and S. Ma, Extended Spherical light based Shape from Shading, ACTA Optical Sinica, Vol. 18, No. 10, Oct., 1998.
  87. Y. Xu, C. Xu, Y. Tian and S. Ma, 3D Face Image Acquisition and Reconstruction System, Journal of Image and Graphics (in Chinese), Vol.3, No.2, 1998.
  88. Y. Tian and H. Tsui, Shape Recovery from a Color Image for Non-Lambertian Surface, Journal of Optical Society of America A, Vol. 14, No. 2, pp397--404, Feb. 1997. https://doi.org/10.1364/JOSAA.14.000397

Conference Publications

  1. Z. Shafique, H. Wang, and Y. Tian, Nonverbal Communication Cue Recognition: A Pathway to More Accessible Communication, In proceedings of Women in Computer Vision Workshop in conjunction with IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2023.
  2. Z. Feng, L. Yang, L. Jing, H. Wang, Y. Tian, and B. Li, Disentangling Object Motion and Occlusion for Unsupervised Multi-frame Monocular Depth, 18th European Conference on Computer Vision, (ECCV), 2022.
  3. Haiyan Wang, Will Hutchcroft, Yuguang Li, Zhiqiang Wan, Ivaylo  Boyadzhiev, YingLi Tian and Sing Bing Kang, PSMNet: Position-aware Stereo Merging Network for Room Layout Estimation, IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2022.
  4. Saad Hassan, Matthew Seita, Larwan Berke, Yingli Tian, Elaine Gale, Sooyeon Lee, and Matt Huenerfauth, ASL-Homework-RGBD Dataset: An Annotated Dataset of 45 fluent and non-fluent Signers Performing American Sign Language Homeworks, In proceedings of the 10th Workshop on the Representation and Processing of Sign Languages: Multilingual Sign Language Resources, June 2022.
  5. J. Liu, B. Lou, M. Diallo, T. Meng, H. von Busch, R. Grimm, Y. Tian, D. Comaniciu, A. Kamen, D. Winkel, H. huisman, A. Tong, T. Penzkofer, I. Shabunin, M. H. Choi, P. Xing, D. Szolar, S. Shea, F. Coakley, M. Harisinghani, Detecting Out-of-Distribution via an Unsupervised Uncertainty Estimation for Prostate Cancer Diagnosis, Medical Imaging with Deep Learning (MIDL), Zürich, Switzerland 2022.
  6. Z. Feng, L. Jing, P. Yin, Y. Tian, and B. Li, Advancing Self-Supervised Monocular Depth Learning with Sparse LiDAR, Conference on Robot Learning (CoRL), 2021.
  7. Z. Chen, L. Jing, Y. Liang, Y. Tian, and B. Li, Multimodal Semi-Supervised Learning for 3D Objects, The British Machine Vision Conference (BMVC), 2021.
  8. J. Liu, O. Akin, and Y. Tian, Rethinking Pulmonary Nodule Detection in Multi-view 3D CT Point Cloud Representation, The Machine Learning in Medical Imaging (MLMI) Workshop in conjunction with MICCAI, 2021.
  9. L. Jing, L. Zhang and Y. Tian, Self-supervised Feature Learning by Cross-modality and Cross-view Correspondences, The 4th Multimodal Learning and Applications (MULA) Workshop in conjunction with CVPR 2021.
  10. L. Jing, E. Vahdani, J. Tan, and Y. Tian, Cross-modal Center Loss, IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2021.
  11. H. Wang, J. Pang, M. A. Lodhi, Y. Tian, and D. Tian, FESTA: Flow Estimation via Spatial-Temporal Attention for Scene Point Cloud, IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2021.
  12. H. Wang, L. Yang, X. Rong, J. Feng, and Y. Tian, Self-supervised 4D Spatio-temporal Feature Learning via Order Prediction of Sequential Point Cloud Clips, Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV), 2021.
  13. J. Feng, L. Yang, H. Wang, Y. Tian, J. Xiao, Subsurface Pipes Detection Using DNN-based Back Projection on GPR Data, Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV), 2021.
  14. L. Jing, T. Parag, Z. Wu, Y. Tian, and H. Wang, VideoSSL : Semi-supervised Learning for Video Classification, Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV), 2021.
  15. H. Wang, L. Yang, X. Rong, and Y. Tian, Towards Efficient 3D Point Cloud Scene Completion via Novel Depth View Synthesis, International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR), 2021.
  16. B. Reichman, L. Jing, O. Akin, and Y. Tian, Medical Image Tampering Detection: a New Dataset and Baseline, International Workshop on Artificial Intelligence for Healthcare Applications (AIHA), 2020.
  17. Y. Tian, B. Reichman, L. Jing, and O. Akin, TamperedCT and ConnectionNet: A Dataset and Baseline for Medical Image Tampering, Radiological Society of North America (RSNA), 2020.
  18. J. Liu, Y. Tian, A. M. Ağıldere, K. M. Haberal, M. Coşkun, C. Duzgol, and O. Akin, DyeFreeNet: Deep Virtual Contrast CT Synthesis, Workshop on Simulation and Synthesis in Medical Imaging (SASHIMI) in conjunction with MICCAI, 2020.
  19. X. Rong, D. Demandolx, K.J. Matzen, P. Chatterjee, and Y. Tian, Burst Denoising via Temporally Shifted Wavelet Transforms, 16th European Conference on Computer Vision, (ECCV), 2020.
  20. J. Liu, L. Cao, and Y. Tian, Deep Active Learning for Effective Pulmonary Nodule Detection, International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention (MICCAI), 2020.
  21. E. Vahdani, L. Jing, M. Huenerfauth, and Y. Tian, Recognizing American Sign Language Nonmanual Signal Grammar Errors in Continuous Videos, International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR), 2020.
  22. S. Hassan, L. Berke, E. Vahdani, L. Jing, Y. Tian, and M. Huenerfauth, An Isolated-Signing RGBD Dataset of 100 American Sign Language Signs Produced by Fluent ASL Signers, In proceedings of the 9th Workshop on the Representation and Processing of Sign Languages: Sign Language Resources in the Service of the Language Community, Technological Challenges and Application Perspectives, May 2020.
  23. B. Planche, X. Rong, Z. Wu, S. Karanam, H. Kosch, Y. Tian, and J. Ernst, Incremental Scene Synthesis, Thirty-third Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPs), 2019.
  24. O. Akin, Y. Tian, L. Jing, B. Reichman, F. Nurili, C. Duzgol, T. Ilica, and O. Aras, A Real-time Gaze Tracking System to Analyze Spatial and Temporal Attention Characteristics of Radiologists in Routine Clinical Practice, Radiological Society of North America (RSNA), 2019.
  25. H. Wang, X. Rong, L. Yang, S. Wang, and Y. Tian, Towards Weakly Supervised Semantic Segmentation in 3D Graph-Structured Point Clouds of Wild Scenes, The British Machine Vision Conference (BMVC), 2019.
  26. S. Yu, T. Huang, D. Wang, B. P. Lynn, D. Sayd, V. Silivanov, Y. S. Park, Y. Tian, and H. Su, Design and Control of a High-Torque and Highly-Backdrivable Hybrid Soft Exoskeleton for Knee Injury Prevention during Squatting, IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2019.
  27. J. Liu, L. Cao, O. Akin, and Y. Tian, 3DFPN-HS2: 3D Feature Pyramid Network Based High Sensitivity and Specificity Pulmonary Nodule Detection, International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention (MICCAI), 2019.
  28. J. Tan*, L. Jing*, Y. Huo, O. Akin, and Y. Tian (* indicates equal contributions), LGAN: Lung Segmentation in CT Scans Using Generative Adversarial Network, Special Session on Deep Learning Methods for Medical Image Analysis, IEEE International Conference on Industrial Informatics (INDIN): Industrial Applications of Artificial Intelligence, 2019.
  29. Y. Chen, L. Jing, E. Vahdani, L. Zhang, M. He, and Y. Tian, Multi-camera Vehicle Tracking and Re-identification on AI City Challenge 2019, The Workshop AI City Challenge in conjunction with CVPR 2019.
  30. H. Wang, X. Rong, and Y. Tian, Towards Accurate Instance-Level Text Spotting With Guided Attention, IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME), 2019.
  31. M. Halstead, S. Denman, C. Fookes, Y. Tian and M. Nixon, Semantic Person Retrieval in Surveillance Using Soft Biometrics: AVSS 2018 Challenge II, 15th IEEE International Conference on Advanced Video and Signal Based Surveillance (AVSS), 2018.
  32. J. Liu and Y. Tian, Recognizing Elevator Buttons and Labels for Blind Navigation, The Workshop Women in Computer Vision in conjunction with CVPR 2018.
  33. Y. Ye, Y. Tian, M. Huenerfauth, and J. Liu, Recognizing American Sign Language Gestures from within Continuous Videos, The 8th IEEE Workshop on Analysis and Modeling of Faces and Gestures (AMFG) in conjunction with CVPR 2018.
  34. R. Duan, S. Yu, G. Yue, R. Foulds, C. Feng, Y. Tian, H. Su, Real-Time Robust 3D Plane Extraction for Wearable Robot Perception and Control, Design of Medical Devices Conferences (DMD), Minneapolis, 2018.
  35. S. Yu, R. Duan, H. Cui, T. Huang, C. Feng, Y. Tian, Z. Zhu, H. Su, Interaction-Safe Humanoid Robot for Augmented Reality-Assisted Telemanipulation, Waste Management Symposia on Nuclear and Industrial Robotics, Remote Systems and Other Emerging Technologies, March, 2018.
  36. Y. Xian, Y. Wang, Y. Tian, Y. Xu, and J. Bankoski, Multi-Level Machine Learning-based Early Termination in VP9 Partition Search, Visual Information Processing and Communication Conference, IS&T International Symposium on Electronic Imaging (EI), 2018.
  37. L. Jing, Y. Ye, X. Yang, and Y. Tian, 3D Convolutional Neural Network with Multi-Model Framework for Action Recognition, IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP), 2017.
  38. J. Liu and Y. Tian, Recognizing Elevator Buttons and Labels for Blind Navigation, IEEE Int. Conf. on CYBER Technology in Automation, Control, and Intelligent Systems (IEEE-CYBER), 2017.
  39. J. P. Mũnoz, B. Li, X. Rong, J. Xiao, Y. Tian, and A. Arditi, An Assistive Indoor Navigation System for the Visually Impaired in Multi-Floor Environments, IEEE Int. Conf. on CYBER Technology in Automation, Control, and Intelligent Systems (IEEE-CYBER), 2017 (Best Paper Award.)
  40. R. Acharya, C. Zhang, and Y. Tian, Learning Alphabets and Numbers from Hand Motion Trajectories for Visually Impaired Children, IEEE Int. Conf. on CYBER Technology in Automation, Control, and Intelligent Systems (IEEE-CYBER), 2017.
  41. W. Fernandez*, Y. Xian*, and Y. Tian (* indicates equal contribution), Image-Based Barcode Detection and Recognition to Assist Visually Impaired Persons, IEEE Int. Conf. on CYBER Technology in Automation, Control, and Intelligent Systems (IEEE-CYBER), 2017.
  42. Z. Petrou and Y. Tian, Prediction of Sea Ice Motion with Recurrent Neural Networks, IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS), 2017.
  43. Z. Petrou, Y. Xian, and Y. Tian, Increasing Spatial Resolution of Sea Ice Motion Estimation, IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS), 2017.
  44. X. Rong, C. Yi and Y. Tian, Unambiguous Text Localization and Retrieval for Cluttered Scenes, IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2017.
  45. X. Rong, B. Li, J. P. Mũnoz, J. Xiao, A. Arditi and Y. Tian, Guided Text Spotting for Assistive Blind Navigation in Unfamiliar Indoor Environments, 12th International Symposium on Visual Computing (ISVC), 2016.
  46. C. Zhang and Y. Tian, Automatic Video Description Generation via LSTM with Joint Two-stream Encoding, the 23rd International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR), 2016.
  47. C. Zhang and Y. Tian, Automatic Video Captioning via Multi-channel Sequential Encoding, Fourth International Workshop on Assistive Computer Vision and Robotics (ACVR) in conjunction with ECCV 2016. [Dataset]
  48. B. Li, J. P. Mũnoz, X. Rong, J. Xiao, Y. Tian, and A. Arditi, ISANA: Wearable Context-Aware Indoor Assistive Navigation with Obstacle Avoidance for the Blind, Fourth International Workshop on Assistive Computer Vision and Robotics (ACVR) in conjunction with ECCV 2016.
  49. X. Rong, C. Yi, and Y. Tian, Recognizing Text-based Traffic Guide Panels with Cascaded Localization Network, ECCV2016 workshop on Computer Vision for Road Scene Understanding and Autonomous Driving (CVRSUAD) in conjunction with ECCV 2016. [Dataset]
  50. X. Rong and Y. Tian, Adaptive Shrinkage Cascades for Blind Image Deconvolution, IEEE International Conference on Digital Signal Processing (DSP), 2016.
  51. C. Zhang, Y. Tian, and M. Huenerfauth, Multi-Modality American Sign Language Recognition, IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP), 2016.
  52. J. P. Munoz, B. Li, X. Rong, J. Xiao, Y. Tian, and A. Arditi, Demo: Assisting Visually Impaired People Navigate Indoors, the 25th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI), 2016.
  53. L. Du, H. Lang, Y. Tian, C. Tan, J. Wu, and H Ling, Covert Video Classification by Codebook Growing Pattern, IEEE International Workshop on Moving Cameras Meet Video Surveillance: from Body Cameras to Drones (MCMVS) in conjunction with CVPR 2016.
  54. R. Munoz, X. Rong, and Y. Tian, Depth-aware Indoor Staircase Detection and Recognition for the Visually Impaired, The 3rd IEEE International Workshop on Mobile Multimedia Computing (MMC 2016) in conjunction with ICME 2016.
  55. Y. Ye and Y. Tian, Embedding Sequential Information into Spatiotemporal Features for Action Recognition, IEEE CVPR2016 workshop RoF: Robust Features for Computer Vision 2016.
  56. C. Zhang and Y. Tian, BCA: Bi-symmetric Component Analysis for Temporal Symmetry in Human Actions, IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME), 2016.
  57. Y. Ye, X. Rong, X. Yang, and Y. Tian, Region Trajectories for Video Semantic Concept Detection, ACM International Conference on Multimedia Retrieval (ICMR), 2016.
  58. Y. Xian and Y. Tian. Resolution Enhancement in Single Depth Map and Aligned Image. IEEE Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV), 2016.
  59. Z. Zhu, W. L. Khoo, C. Santistevan, Y. Gosser, E. Molina, H. Tang, T. Ro and Y. Tian. EFRI-REM at CCNY: Research Experience and Mentoring in Multimodal and Alternative Perception for Visually Impaired People. In IEEE 6th Integrated STEM Education Conference (ISEC '16), 2016.
  60. Y. Ye, X. Rong, X. Yang, and Y. Tian. CCNY at TRECVID 2015: Video Semantic Concept Localization. NIST TRECVID Workshop, 2015.
  61. B. Li, X. Zhang, J. P. Munoz, J. Xiao, X. Rong, and Y. Tian, Assisting Blind People to Avoid Obstacles: An Wearable Obstacle Stereo Feedback System based on 3D Detection, IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Biomimetics, 2015.
  62. Y. Xian, X. Yang, and Y. Tian, Hybrid Example-based Single Image Super-Resolution, 11th International Symposium on Visual Computing (ISVC), 2015.
  63. Z. Liu, X. Feng and Y. Tian, An Effective View and Time-invariant Action Recognition Method based on Depth Video, International Conference on Visual Communications and Image Processing (VCIP), 2015.
  64. X. Zhang, B. Li, S.L. Joseph, J. Xiao, Y. Sun, Y. Tian, and C. Yi, A SLAM Based Semantic Indoor Navigation System for Visually Impaired Users. IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics (SMC), Hong Kong, 2015.
  65. Y. Xian and Y. Tian, Robust Internal Exemplar-based Image Enhancement, IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP), 2015.
  66. Y. Ye, X. Yang, and Y. Tian, Exploring Pooling Strategies based on Idiosyncrasies of Spatio-Temporal Interest Points, ACM International Conference on Multimedia Retrieval (ICMR), 2015.
  67. Y. Xian, X. Rong, X. Yang, and Y. Tian, CCNY at TRECVID 2014: Surveillance Event Detection, NIST TRECVID Workshop, 2014.
  68. X. Yang and Y. Tian, Polynormal Fisher Vector for Activity Recognition from Depth Sequences, SIGGRAPH ASIA 2014 workshop on Autonomous Virtual Humans and Social Robots (SG_AVH 2014), 2014.
  69. X. Yang and Y. Tian, Action Recognition Using Super Sparse Coding Vector with Spatio-Temporal Awareness, European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV'14), Part II, LNCS 8690, pp. 727--741. Springer International Publishing Switzerland, 2014.
  70. C. Zhang and Yingli Tian, Subject Adaptive Affection Recognition via Sparse Reconstruction, IEEE Workshop on Vision Meets Cognition, in conjunction with CVPR, 2014.
  71. X. Rong, C. Yi, X. Yang, and Y. Tian, Scene Text Recognition in Multiple Frames based on Text Tracking, IEEE International Conference on Multimedia & Expo (ICME), 2014.
  72. X. Yang and Y. Tian, Super Normal Vector for Activity Recognition Using Depth Sequences, The IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR'14), 2014.
  73. C. Mazuera, X. Yang, and Y. Tian, Visual Speech Learning From an E-Tutor: via Dynamic Lip Movement-based Video Segmentation and Comparison, The IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine (BIBM'13), 2013.
  74. L. Tian, C. Yi, and Y. Tian, Detecting Good Quality Frames in Videos Captured by a Wearable Camera for Blind Navigation, The IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine (BIBM'13), 2013.
  75. C. Zhang, X. Yang, C. Yi, Y. Tian, Q. Yu, A. Tamrakar, A. Divakaran, CCNY-SRI@ TRECVid 2013 SED: a Human Interactive Event Detection System, TRECVID, 2013.
  76. X. Yang, Z. Liu, E. Zavesky, D. Gibbon, B. Shahraray, Y. Tian, AT&T Research at TRECVID 2013: Surveillance Event Detection, TRECVID, 2013.
  77. C. Zhang, and Y. Tian. Edge Enhanced Depth Motion Map for Dynamic Hand Gesture Recognition, CVPR 2013 International Workshop on Human Activity Understanding from 3D Data (HAU3D13)
  78. S. Joseph, X. Zhang, I. Dryanovski, J. Xiao, C. Yi, and Y. Tian, "Semantic Indoor Navigation with a Blind-user Oriented Augmented Reality," IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, 2013.
  79. C. Yi, X. Yang and Y. Tian, Feature Representations for Scene Text Character Recognition: A Comparative Study, 12th International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition (ICDAR), 2013.
  80. H. Pan, C. Yi and Y. Tian, A Primary Travelling Assistant System of Bus Detection and Recognition for Visually Impaired People, IEEE Workshop on Multimodal and Alternative Perception for Visually Impaired People (MAP4VIP), in conjunction with ICME 2013.
  81. S. Joseph, C. Yi, J. Xiao and Y. Tian, Visual Semantic Parameterization: to Enhance Blind User Perception for Indoor Navigation, IEEE Workshop on Multimodal and Alternative Perception for Visually Impaired People (MAP4VIP), in conjunction with ICME 2013.
  82. Z. Ye, C. Yi and Y. Tian, Reading Labels of Cylinder Objects for Blind Persons, IEEE International Conference on Multimedia & Expo (ICME), 2013.
  83. C. Zhang, X. Yang, and Y. Tian, Histogram of 3D Facet: A Characteristic Descriptor for Hand Gesture Recognition, IEEE Conference on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition, 2013.
  84. S. Chen and Y. Tian, Margin-Constrained Multiple Kernel Learning Based Multi-Modal Fusion for Affect Recognition, The 2nd Int'l Workshop on Emotion Representation, Analysis and Synthesis in Continuous Time and Space (EmoSPACE) 2013.
  85. X. Yang, C. Yi, L. Cao, and Y. Tian, MediaCCNY at TRECVID 2012: Surveillance Event Detection, NIST TRECVID Workshop, 2012.
  86. S. Wang and Y. Tian, Detecting Stairs and Pedestrian Crosswalks for the Blind by RGBD Camera, International Workshop on Biomedical and Health Informatics (BHI), 2012.
  87. C. Zhang, M. Shabbir, D. Stylianou, and Y. Tian, Computer Vision-based Mathematics Learning Enhancement for Children with Visual Impairments, International Workshop on Biomedical and Health Informatics (BHI), 2012.
  88. C. Yi, Y. Tian, and S. Yi, CinC Challenge: Predicting In hospital Mortality of Intensive Care Unit by Analyzing Histogram of Medical Variables under Cascaded Adaboost Model. The 39th annual meeting of computing in cardiology, 2012.
  89. C. Zhang and Y. Tian, RGBD Camera-based Activity Analysis Special Session: Vision Based Human Centric Computing: Technology and Applications , Asia-Pacific Signal and Information Processing Association (APSIPA) Annual Summit and Conference, 2012.
  90. X. Yang, C. Zhang, and Y. Tian, Recognizing Actions Using Depth Motion Maps-based Histograms of Oriented Gradients, International Conference on ACM Multimedia, 2012.
  91. X. Yang and Y. Tian. EigenJoints-based Action Recognition Using Naive-Bayes-Nearest-Neighbor, Second International Workshop on Human Activity Understanding from 3D Data in conjunction with CVPR, 2012.
  92. S. Wang and Y. Tian. Camera-based Signage Detection and Recognition for Blind Persons. International Conference on Computers Helping People with Special Needs (ICCHP), 2012.
  93. E. Molina, Z. Zhu, and Y. Tian. Visual Nouns for Indoor/Outdoor Navigation. International Conference on Computers Helping People with Special Needs (ICCHP), 2012.
  94. S. Chen, D. M. Quintian and Y. Tian, Towards a Visual Speech Learning System for the Deaf by Matching Dynamic Lip Shapes , International Conference on Computers Helping People with Special Needs (ICCHP), 2012.
  95. C. Zhang, Y. Tian, and E. Capezuti, Privacy preserving automatic fall detection for elderly using RGBD Cameras, International Conference on Computers Helping People with Special Needs (ICCHP), 2012.
  96. S. Chen, Y. Tian, and W. S. Weiss, Detecting Human Activities in the Arctic Ocean by Constructing and Analyzing Super-Resolution Images from MODIS Data, Imaging and Geospatial Technologies - Into the Future, ASPRS 2012 Annual Conference, Sacramento, California USA, March 19-23, 2012.
  97. S. Wang and Y. Tian, Indoor Signage Detection Based on Saliency Map and Bipartite Graph Matching, International Workshop on Biomedical and Health Informatics (BHI), 2011.
  98. F. Hasanuzzaman, Y. Tian, and Q. Liu, Identifying Medicine Bottles by Incorporating RFID and Video Analysis, International Workshop on Biomedical and Health Informatics (BHI), 2011.
  99. R. Chincha and Y. Tian, Finding Objects for Blind People Based on SURF Features, International Workshop on Biomedical and Health Informatics (BHI), 2011.
  100. X. Yang, S. Yuan, and Y. Tian, Recognizing Clothes Patterns for Blind People by Confidence Margin based Feature Combination, International Conference on ACM Multimedia, 2011.
  101. C. Yi and Y. Tian. Assistive Text Reading from Complex Background for Blind Persons, The 4th International Workshop on Camera-Based Document Analysis and Recognition (CBDAR), 2011.
  102. C. Yi and Y. Tian. Text Detection in Natural Scene Images by Stroke Gabor Words, The 11th International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition (ICDAR), 2011.
  103. S. Chen, Y. Tian, Q. Liu, and D. Metaxas, Recognizing Expressions from Face and Body Gesture by Temporal Normalized Motion and Appearance Features, Fourth IEEE Workshop on Human Communicative Behaviour Analysis, held in conjunction with CVPR, 2011.
  104. F. Hasanuzzaman, X. Yang, and Y. Tian, Robust and Effective Component-based Banknote Recognition by SURF Features, Wireless and Optical Communications Conference (WOCC), 2011.
  105. S. Chen and Y. Tian, Evaluating Effectiveness of Latent Dirichlet Allocation Model for Scene Classification, Wireless and Optical Communications Conference (WOCC), 2011.
  106. S. Chen, Y. Tian, Q. Liu, and D. Metaxas, Segment and Recognize Expression Phase by Fusion of Motion Area and Neutral Divergence Features, IEEE Conference on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition, 2011.
  107. A. Senior, Y. Tian, and M. Lu, Interactive Motion Analysis for Video Surveillance and Long Term Scene Monitoring, the Tenth International Workshop on Visual Surveillance (VS), 2010.
  108. X. Yang, Y. Tian, C. Yi, and A. Arditi, Context-based Indoor Object Detection as an Aid to Blind Persons Accessing Unfamiliar Environments, International Conference on ACM Multimedia, 2010.
  109. S. Yuan and Y. Tian, Rotation and Illumination Invariant Texture Analysis: Matching Clothes with Complex Patterns for Blind People, The 3rd International Congress on Image and Signal Processing (CISP), 2010.
  110. Y. Tian, C. Yi, and A. Arditi, Improving Computer Vision-Based Indoor Wayfinding for Blind Persons with Context Information, 12th International Conference on Computers Helping People with Special Needs (ICCHP), 2010.
  111. Y. Tian, X. Yang, and A. Arditi, Computer Vision-Based Door Detection for Accessibility of Unfamiliar Environments to Blind Persons, 12th International Conference on Computers Helping People with Special Needs (ICCHP), 2010.
  112. Y. Tian, and S. Yuan, Clothes Matching for Blind and Color Blind People, 12th International Conference on Computers Helping People with Special Needs (ICCHP), 2010.
  113. L. Cao, Y. Tian, Z. Liu, B. Yao, Z. Zhang, and T. Huang, Action Detection using Multiple Spatial-Temporal Interest Point Features, IEEE International Conference on Multimedia & Expo (ICME), 2010.
  114. C. Chen and Y. Tian, Door Detection via Signage Context-based Hierarchical Compositional Model, 2nd Workshop on Use of Context in Video Processing (UCVP), 2010.
  115. X. Yang and Y. Tian, Robust Door Detection in Unfamiliar Environments by Combining Edge and Corner Features, 3rd Workshop on Computer Vision Applications for the Visually Impaired (CVAVI), 2010.
  116. R. Feris, Y. Tian, Y. Zhai, and A. Hampapur, Facial Image Analysis Using Local Feature Adaptation Prior to Learning, IEEE Int'l Conf. on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition, Amsterdam, 2008.
  117. Y. Tian, R. Feris, and A. Hampapur, Real-time Detection of Abandoned and Removed Objects in Complex Environments, The 8th Int'l Workshop on Visual Surveillance (VS), 2008.
  118. Y. Zhai, Y. Tian, and A. Hampapur, Composite Spatio-Temporal Event Detection in Multi-Camera Surveillance Networks, Workshop on Multi-camera and Multi-modal Sensor Fusion Algorithms and Applications (M2SFA2), 2008.
  119. A. Hampapur, L. Brown, R. Feris, A. Senior, C. Shu, Y. Tian, Y. Zhai, and M. Lu, Searching Surveillance Video, IEEE International Conference on Advanced Video and Signal based Surveillance, Sept. 2007
  120. A. Hampapur, S. Borger, L. Brown, C. Carlson, J. Connell, M. Lu, A. Senior, V. Reddy, C. Shu, and Y. Tian, S3: The IBM Smart Surveillance System: from Transactional Systems to Observational Systems, ICASSP 2007
  121. R. Feris, Y. Tian and A. Hampapur. Capturing People in Surveillance Video, IEEE International Workshop on Visual Surveillance, 2007.
  122. A. Senior, L. Brown, A. Hampapur, C. Shu, Y. Zhai, R. S. Feris, Y. Tian, S. Borger and C. Carlson, Video Analytics for Retail: the IBM Smart Surveillance Retail Solution, IEEE International Conference on Advanced Video and Signal-Based Surveillance, London , UK , September 2007
  123. A. Senior, L. Brown, C. Shu, Y. Tian, M. Lu, Y. Zhai, and A. Hampapur, Visual Person Searches for Retail Loss Detection: Application and Evaluation, In International Conference on Vision Systems, 2007
  124. G. Pingali, Y. Tian, S. Ebadollahi, J. Pelecanos, M. Podlaseck, and H. Stavropoulos, An End-to-end eChronicling System for Mobile Human Surveillance (Best System Paper), IEEE Workshop on Multimodal Sentient Computing: Sensors, Algorithms and Systems, June 2007
  125. G. Luo, C. Tang and Y. Tian, Answering Relationship Queries on the Web, In Proceedings of 2007 Int. World Wide Web Conf. (WWW'07), Banff, Canada, May 2007.
  126. G. Pingali, H. Stavropoulos, D. Minnen, S. Ebadollahi, Y. Tian, J. Pelecanos, T. Bridgman, M. Podlaseck, A System for Pervasive Multi-sensory Information Capture, Assimilation, and Retrieval, IEEE Workshop on Electronic Chronicles (ECHRONICLE), 2006
  127. S. Velipasalar, Y. Tian, and A. Hampapur, Automatic Counting of Interacting People by Using a Single Uncalibrated Camera, IEEE ICME'06.
  128. L. Brown, S. Velipasalar, A. Senior, S. Pankanti, A. Hampapur, C. Shu, and Y. Tian, Video Privacy in the Age of Automated Surveillance, In Proceedings of IEEE Workshop on Privacy Research in Vision 2006.
  129. L. Brown, M. Lu, C. Shu, Y. Tian, A. Hampapur, Improving Performance via Post Track Analysis, Workshop of VS-PETS, 2005
  130. Y. Tian, M. Lu, and A. Hampapur, Robust and Efficient Foreground Analysis for Real-time Video Surveillance, IEEE CVPR, San Diego. June, 2005.
  131. L. Brown, A. Senior, Y. Tian, J. Connell, A. Hampapur, C. Shu, H. Merkl, and M. Lu, Performance Evaluation of Surveillance Systems Under Varying Conditions, IEEE Int'l Workshop on Performance Evaluation of Tracking and Surveillance, Colorado, Jan., 2005
  132. Y. Tian and A. Hampapur, Robust Salient Motion Detection with Complex Background for Real-time Video Surveillance, IEEE Workshop on Motion and Video Computing, Jan, 2005.
  133. A. Hampapur, L. Brown, J. Connell, M. Lu, Hans Merkl, S. Pankanti, A.W. Senior, C. Shu, and Y.-L. Tian, The IBM Smart Surveillance System, IEEE CVPR, Washington D.C. June, 2004.
  134. Y. Tian, Evaluation of Face Resolution for Expression Analysis, IEEE FPIV'04, Washington D.C. June, 2004.
  135. J. Connell, A.W. Senior, A. Hampapur, Y.-L. Tian, L. Brown, S. Pankanti, Detection and Tracking in the IBM PeopleVision System, IEEE ICME Taiwan June, 2004
  136. A. Senior, S. Pankanti, A. Hampapur, L. Brown, Y. Tian, and A. Ekin, Blinkering Surveillance: Enabling Video Privacy through Computer Vision, IBM Technical Report RC22886, 2003
  137. A. Hampapur, L. Brown, J. Connell, S. Pankanti, A.W. Senior, and Y.-L. Tian, Smart Surveillance: Applications, Technologies and Implications, IEEE Pacific-Rim Conference on Multimedia, Singapore, Dec. 2003.
  138. Y. Tian and L. Brown, Absolute Head Pose Estimation from Overhead Wide-Angle Cameras, In Proceedings of IEEE international workshop on Analysis and Modeling of Face and Gestures, Nice, France, Oct 17, 2003.
  139. Y. Tian, L. Brown, A. Hampapur, S. Pankanti, A. Senior, and R. Bolle, Real World Real-time Automatic Recognition of Facial Expressions, In Proceedings of IEEE workshop on performance evaluation of tracking and surveillance, Graz, Austria, March 31, 2003.
  140. A. Hampapur, S. Pankanti, A. Senior, Y. Tian, L. Brown, and R. Bolle, Face Cataloger: Multi-Scale Imaging for Relating Identity to Location, In Proceedings of IEEE conference on Advanced Video and Signal Based Surveillance, Miami, FL, July 21-22, 2003.
  141. Y. Tian and R. Bolle, Automatic Detecting Neutral Face for face Authentication, In Proceedings of AAAI-03 Spring Symposium on Intelligent Multimedia Knowledge Management, California, March 24-26, 2003
  142. L. Brown and Y. Tian, Comparative Study of Coarse Head Pose Estimation, In Proceedings of IEEE Workshop on Motion and Video Computing, Orlando FL, Dec. 5-6, 2002.
  143. Y. Tian, T. Kanade and J. F. Cohn, Evaluation of Gabor-Wavelet-Based Facial Action Unit Recognition in Image Sequences of Increasing Complexity, In Proceedings of the 5th IEEE International Conference on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition (FG'02), DC, May 20-21, 2002.
  144. A. Hampapur, A. Senior, S. Pankanti, Y. Tian, G. Pingali, and R. Bolle, Autonomic User Interfaces, IBM Technical Report RC22542, August, 2002.
  145. Y. Tian and R. Bolle, Automatic Neutral Face Detection Using Location and Shape Features, IBM Technical Report RC22259, Nov. 2001.
  146. A. Senior, A.Hampapur, Y. Tian, L. Brown, S. Pankanti, and R. Bolle, Appearance Models for Occlusion Handing, In Proceedings of Second International workshop on Performance Evaluation of Tracking and Surveillance systems in conjunction with CVPR'01 December 2001.
  147. Y. Tian, T. Kanade, and J. Cohn, (January, 2001) Recognizing Facial Actions by Combining Geometric Features and Regional Appearance Patterns, Technical Report CMU-RI-TR-01-01, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University.
  148. Y. Tian, T. Kanade, and J. Cohn, Eye-State Action Unit Detection by Gabor Wavelets, In Proceedings of the third International Conference on Multimodal Interfaces, p143-150, Beijing, October, 2000.
  149. J. Cohn, Y. Tian, and E. Forbes, Detection, tracking, and classification of facial action units in infant and caregiver facial expression, International Conference on Infant Studies, Brighton, England, July, 2000.
  150. Y. Tian, T. Kanade and J. Cohn, Recognizing Upper Face Action Units for Facial Expression Analysis, In Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR'00), Hilton Head Island, pI294-301, June, 2000.
  151. Y. Tian, T. Kanade and J. Cohn, Dual-state Parametric Eye Tracking, In Proceedings of the 4th IEEE International Conference on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition (FG'00), France, March 2000.
  152. Y. Tian, T. Kanade and J. Cohn, Recognizing Lower Face Action Units for Facial Expression Analysis, In Proceedings of the 4th IEEE International Conference on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition (FG'00), France, March 2000.
  153. T. Kanade, J. Cohn, and Y. Tian, Comprehensive Database for Facial Expression Analysis, In Proceedings of the 4th IEEE International Conference on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition (FG'00), France, March 2000. Test of Time Award FG2019.
  154. Y. Tian, T. Kanade and J. Cohn, Robust Lip Tracking by Combining Shape, Color and Motion, In Proceedings of the 4th Asian Conference on Computer Vision (ACCV'00), pp1040-1045, Taiwan, Jan. 2000.
  155. Y. Tian, T. Kanade and J. Cohn, Recognizing Action Units for Facial Expression Analysis, Technical report CMU-RI-TR-99-40, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, December, 1999.
  156. Y. Tian, T. Kanade and J. Cohn, Multi-State Based Facial Feature Tracking and Detection, Technical report CMU-RI-TR-99-18, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, August, 1999.
  157. J. Cohn, Y. Tian, and T. Kanade, Computer perception of expressive changes in the face, 8th European Conference on Facial Expression, Measurement, and Meaning, Saarbruecken, Germany, September 1999.
  158. Y. Tian, H. Tsui and S. Yeung, Spherical and Cylindrical Light Source Models for Shape Recovery, Lecture Notes in Computer Science 1351, Computer Vision (ACCV'98), pp216-223, Jan. 1998.
  159. Y. Tian, H. Tsui and S. Yeung, Shape Recovery from One Image Under Multiple Light Sources, Lecture Notes in Computer Science 1351, Computer Vision(ACCV'98), pp224-231, Jan. 1998.
  160. Y. Tian, Bao-fu Duan, Songde Ma, and Man-li Luo, 3D Hand Features Identity Verification System, Workshop on 3D Computer Vision'97, Hong Kong, May 1997.
  161. Y. Tian and H. Tsui, Shape from Shading for Non-Lambertian Surfaces from One Color Image, Proceedings of the International Conference on Pattern Recognition(ICPR), pp258--262, 1996.
  162. Y. Tian and H. Tsui, 3D Shape Recovery from Two Color Image Sequences Using a Genetic Algorithm, Proceedings of the International Conference on Pattern Recognition(ICPR), pp 674--678, 1996.
  163. Y. Tian and H. Tsui, Shape from Shading using Neural Networks (invited paper), International Symposium on Multi-Technology Information Processing, Taiwan, Dec. 1996.
  164. Y. Tian and H. Tsui, A Method of Shape and Reflectance Recovery from Color Image Sequence, Proceedings of the Second Asian Conference on Computer Vision(ACCV'95), pp.II638--642, 1995.
  165. Y. Tian and H. Tsui, Estimating Shape and Reflectance of Surfaces by Color Image analysis, Lecture Notes in Computer Science 1024, Image Analysis Applications and Computer graphics, pp266-273, 1995.
  166. Y. Tian and H. Tsui, Recovering Depth and shape of Surface Under Specular Reflection from Image Sequence, Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Automation, Robotics and Computer Vision (ICARCV'94), pp.1995-1999, 1994.
  167. Y. Tian and H. Tsui, Shape from Specular Reflection Using Image Sequence, Proceedings of the first Asian Conference on Computer Vision (ACCV'93), pp.97-100, 1993.
  168. Y. Tian and S. Ma, The Laser Active Triangular Range Finding System Based on the Object Rotation, Proceedings of the Second Conference on Artificial Intelligence, China, 1992.

 

 

Patents

  1. SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MANAGING MOVING SURVEILLANCE CAMERAS, Patent US9183716 B2 Issued on Nov 10, 2015
  2. REAL TIME PROCESSING OF VIDEO FRAMES, Patent US9129402 B2 Issued on Sept. 8, 2015
  3. REAL TIME PROCESSING OF VIDEO FRAMES FOR TRIGGERING AN ALERT, Patent US8934670 B2 Issued on January 13, 2015.
  4. RULE-BASED COMBINATION OF A HIERARCHY OF CLASSIFIERS FOR OCCLUSION DETECTION, Patent US8337776 B2, Issued on September 16, 2014.
  5. APPLICATION INDEPENDENT SYSTEM, METHOD, AND ARCHITECTURE FOR PRIVACY PROTECTION, ENHANCEMENT, CONTROL, AND ACCOUNTABILITY IN IMAGING SERVICE SYSTEMS, Patent US8752197 B2, Issued on June 10, 2014.
  6. ABANDONED OBJECT RECOGNITION USING PEDESTRIAN DETECTION, Patent US 8675917 B2, Issued on March 13, 2014.

7.     OBJECT DETECTION SYSTEM BASED ON A POOL OF ADAPTIVE FEATURES, Patent US 8655018 B2, Issued on February 18, 2014.

8.     HIERARCHICAL FILTERED MOTION FIELD FOR ACTION RECOGNITION, Patent US 8639042 B2, Issued on Jan. 28, 2014.

9.     AUTOMATIC ADJUSTMENT OF AREA MONITORING BASED ON CAMERA MOTION, Patent US 8619140 B2, Issued on Dec 31, 2013.

10.  AREA MONITORING USING PROTOTYPICAL TRACKS, Patent US 8614744 B2, Issued on Dec 24, 2013.

11.  SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MANAGING THE INTERACTION OF OBJECT DETECTION AND TRACKING SYSTEMS IN VIDEO SURVEILLANCE, Patent US8456528 B2 Issued on June 4, 2013.

  1. RULE-BASED COMBINATION OF A HIERARCHY OF CLASSIFIERS FOR OCCLUSION DETECTION, Patent US8331674 Issued on December 11, 2012.
  2. SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MODEL BASED PEOPLE COUNTING, Patent US8295545 Issued on October 23, 2012.
  3. AUTOMATIC MULTISCALE IMAGE ACQUISITION FROM A STEERABLE CAMERA, Patent US8289392 Issued on October 16, 2012.
  4. REAL TIME PROCESSING OF VIDEO FRAMES FOR TRIGGERING AN ALERT, Patent US8284249 Issued on October 9, 2012.
  5. OBJECT TRACKING USING COLOR HISTOGRAM AND OBJECT SIZE, Patent US8243987 Issued on August 14, 2012.
  6. OBJECT DETECTION SYSTEM BASED ON A POOL OF ADAPTIVE FEATURES, Patent US8170276 Issued on May 1, 2012.
  7. DETECTION OF ABANDONED AND REMOVED OBJECTS IN A VIDEO STREAM, Patent US8107678 Issued on April 24, 2012.
  8. DETECTING OBJECTS CROSSING A VIRTUAL BOUNDARY LINE, Patent US8165348 Issued on Jan. 31, 2012.
  9. AUTOMATED LEARNING FOR PEOPLE COUNTING SYSTEMS, Patent US7991193 Issued on August 2, 2011.
  10. AUTOMATIC MULTISCALE IMAGE ACQUISITION FROM A STEERABLE CAMERA, Patent US7796154 Issued on Sept. 14, 2010.
  11. SALIENT MOTION DETECTION SYSTEM, METHOD AND PROGRAM PRODUCT THEREFOR, Patent US7747075 Issued on June 29, 2010.
  12. ROBUST AND EFFICIENT FOREGROUND ANALYSIS FOR REAL-TIME VIDEO SURVEILLANCE, Patent US7620266 Issued on Nov. 17, 2009.
  13. METHODS FOR AUTOMATICALLY TRACKING MOVING ENTITIES ENTERING AND EXITING A SPECIFIED REGION, Patent US7529388 Issued on May 5, 2009.
  14. METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR OBJECT NORMALIZATION USING OBJECT CLASSIFICATION, Patent US7480414 Issued on Jan. 20, 2009.
  15. SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR GENERATING A VIEWABLE VIDEO INDEX FOR LOW BANDWIDTH APPLICATIONS, Patent US7447331 Issued on Nov. 4, 2008.
  16. METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR AUTOMATICALLY TRACKING MOVING ENTITIES ENTERING AND EXITING A SPECIFIED REGION, Patent US7409076 Issued on Aug. 5, 2008.
  17. SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING POSITION-INDEPENDENT POSE ESTIMATION, Patent US7336296 Issued on Feb. 26, 2008.
  18. SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR AUTOMATICALLY DETECTING NEUTRAL EXPRESSIONLESS FACES IN DIGITAL IMAGES, Patent US6879709 Issued on April 12, 2005.

Ph.D Student Dissertations

 

1.     Elahe Vahdani, Deep Learning-based Human Action Understanding in Videos, The Graduate Center, The City University of New York, Dec. 2023.

2.     Haiyan Wang, Perceiving and Understanding Scenes with Deep Learning, Department of Electrical Engineering, The City College of New York, Dec. 2022.

3.     Jingya Liu, AI-driven Automated Medical Imaging Analysis, Department of Electrical Engineering, The City College of New York, July 2022.

4.     Longlong Jing, Learning Deep Visual Features from Limited Labeled Data, Department of Computer Science, The Graduate Center, The City University of New York, April 2021.

5.     Xuejian Rong, Learning to Enhance and Interpret Scene Text Images, Department of Electrical Engineering, The City College of New York, Nov. 2019.

6.     Yang Xian, Exploring the Internal Statistics: Single Image Super-Resolution, Completion and Captioning, Department of Computer Science, The Graduate Center, The City University of New York, August 2017.

7.     Chenyang Zhang, Human Activity Analysis using Multi-modalities and Deep Learning, Department of Electrical Engineering, The City College of New York, May 2016.

8.     Xiaodong Yang, Feature Representations for Human Activity Recognition in Color and Depth Sequences, Department of Electrical Engineering, The City College of New York, February 2015.

9.     Chucai Yi, Text Extraction from Natural Scene: Methodology and Application, Department of Computer Science, The Graduate Center, The City University of New York, May 2014.

10.  Shizhi Chen, Visual Classification by Multiple Feature Fusion and Large-Scale Learning, Department of Electrical Engineering, The City College of New York, May 2013.

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