Curriculum Vitae

Carnegie Mellon

WU Xiao

Visiting Student

 

 

Affiliation

 

 

Ph. D Student

School of Computer Science

 

Department of Computer Science

Carnegie Mellon University

 

City University of Hong Kong

5000 Forbes Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA

Address

83 Tat Chee Avenue, Kowloon, Hong Kong

wuxiao@cs.cmu.edu

Email

wuxiao@cs.cityu.edu.hk

Office: (1) 412-268-7003

Phone

Office: (852) 2194 2894

 www.cs.cmu.edu/~wuxiao

Homepage

www.cs.cityu.edu.hk/~wuxiao/

 

Research Interest

 l    Information Retrieval, Video Computing, Topic Detection and Tracking, Video Content Analysis

   l    Data Mining, Clustering

   l    Mobile Computing, Wireless Network, Embedded System, Linux

 

Education

Oct. 2004 – Present             Ph. D                   City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong

                                                                          Advisors: Dr. Chong-Wah, Ngo and Prof. Qing Li

Mar. 2006 – Present            Visiting Student     Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, USA

                                                                          Advisor: Prof. Alexander G. Hauptmann

Sep. 1999 – Jul. 2002           M.S.                    Yunnan University, Kunming, China

Jan. 2001 – Jul. 2002           (Joint)                   Institute of Software, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

Sep. 1995 – Jul. 1999           B.Eng                  Yunnan University, Kunming, China

 

Publications

Journal Paper

l         Xiao Wu, Chong-Wah Ngo, and Qing Li

Threading and Autdocumenting News Videos

IEEE Signal Processing Magazine, volume 23, issue 2, pp. 59-68, March 2006.

 

l         Xiao Wu and Victor C. S. Lee

Wireless Real-Time On-Demand Data Broadcast Scheduling with Dual Deadlines

Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing, volume 65, issue 6, pp. 714-728, June 2005.

 

l         Victor C. S. Lee, Xiao Wu and Joseph Kee-Yin Ng

Scheduling Real-Time Requests in On-Demand Data Broadcast Environments

Real-Time Systems Journal, volume 34, issue 2, pp. 83-99, May 2006.

 

l         Xiao Wu and Victor C. S. Lee

PRS-α: A Fair Preemptive Scheduling Algorithm for Wireless On-Demand Data Broadcast

International Journal of Wireless and Mobile Computing, volume 2, issue 1, Jan 2006.

 

l         Xiao Wu, Chong-Wah Ngo and Alexander G. Hauptmann

Multi-Modal News Story Clustering with Pairwise Visual Near-Duplicate Constraint

Submitted to IEEE Transaction on Multimedia

 

l         Xiao Wu, Alexander G. Hauptmann and Chong-Wah Ngo

Novelty and Redundancy Detection with Multimodalities in Cross-Lingual Broadcast Domain

Submitted to Computer Vision and Image Understanding

 

l         Wanlei Zhao, Chong-Wah Ngo, Hung-Khoon Tan and Xiao Wu

Near-Duplicate Keyframe Retrieval and Detection: Matching, Filtering and Learning

IEEE Transaction on Multimedia, 2007, accepted.

 

l         Xiao Wu and Chong-Wah Ngo

Constraint-Driven Outlier Detection under Density Notion for High Dimensional Data

Finished and ready to submit to Pattern Recognition

 

l         Xiao Wu, Yi-bo Zhang, Yu-fang Sun, and Tong Li

Research on the Architecture and Application of the Bonobo Component System under Linux

Journal of Computer Engineering and Design, vol. 24, no. 2, 2003. (in Chinese)

 

l         Xiao Wu, Jun-yue Liu, Yu-fang Sun, and Tong Li

Optimization and Refinement of the Algorithm of an Offline Browser Download Engine

Journal of Computer Science, vol. 29, no. 12, 2002. (in Chinese)

 

Conference Paper

l         Xiao Wu, Chong-Wah Ngo, and Qing Li

Co-Clustering of Time-Evolving News Story with Transcript and Keyframe

Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Multimedia & Expo (ICME'05), Netherlands, Jul. 2005.

 

l         Xiao Wu, Alexander G. Hauptmann and Chong-Wah Ngo

 

Submit to ACM SIGIR’2007

 

l         Xiao Wu, Wan-Lei Zhao and Chong-Wah Ngo

Near-Duplicate Keyframe Retrieval with Visual Keywords and Semantic Contexts

Submit to ACM CIVR’2007

 

l         Xiao Wu, Wan-Lei Zhao and Chong-Wah Ngo

Efficient Near-Duplicate Keyframe Retrieval with Visual Language Models

Submitted to ICME'07

 

l         Xiao Wu

Threading Stories and Generating Topic Structures in News Videos across Different Sources

Proceedings of 13th Annual ACM International Conference of Multimedia (ACM MM'05), Doctoral Symposium, Singapore, Nov. 2005.

 

l         Xiao Wu, Victor C. S. Lee and Joseph Kee-Yin Ng

A Preemptive Scheduling Algorithm for Wireless Real-Time On-Demand Data Broadcast

Proceedings of the 11th IEEE International Conference on Embedded and Real-Time Computing Systems and Applications (RTCSA'05), Hong Kong, Aug. 2005.

 

l         Xiao Wu and Victor C. S. Lee

Preemptive Maximum Stretch Optimization Scheduling for Wireless On-Demand Data Broadcast

Proceedings of the Eighth International Database Engineering and Applications Symposium (IDEAS'04), Portugal, Jul. 2004.

 

l         Yu-gang Jiang, Xiaoyong Wei, Chong-Wah Ngo, Hung-Khoon Tan, Wanlei Zhao and Xiao Wu

Modeling Local Interest Points for Semantic Detection and Video Search at TRECVID 2006.

Proceedings of TRECVID 2006, Gaithersburg, MD, USA, Nov. 2006.

 

l         Chong-Wah Ngo, Zailiang Pan, Xiaoyong Wei, Xiao Wu, Hung-Khoon Tan

Motion Driven Approaches to Shot Boundary Detection, Low-Level Feature Extraction and BBC Rush Characterization at TRECVID 2005

Proceedings of TRECVID 2005, Gaithersburg, MD, USA, Nov. 2005.  

 

l         Kwok-wa Lam, Victor C. S. Lee and Xiao Wu

On-Demand Broadcast for Mobile Real-Time Multi-Item Requests

Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Computing & Informatics (ICOCI'06), Malaysia, June. 2006.

 

l         Ying-jie Fu, Xiao Wu, and Hao-huan Fu

A Statistics-based Web Cache Prediction Model

6th ACM Postgraduate Research Day, Hong Kong, Mar. 2005.

 

l         Xiao Wu, and Chong-Wah Ngo

On Eliminating Redundancy and Optimizing Coherency of News Topics across Sources for Auto-Documentary

Finished

 

Work / Intern Experience

Aug. 2003 – Aug. 2004         City University of Hong Kong, Research Assistant

                                          Supervisor: Dr. Victor C. S. Lee

Feb. 2001 – Jul. 2002           Redflag Software Co., Ltd, Beijing, Internship

                                          Supervisor: Prof. Yu-fang Sun

Jul. 1999 – May. 2001          Dolphin Studio, which is our own mini company. We owned $10,000.

                                          Partner: Mr. Heng Tang

 

Project Experiences

       Apr. 2004 – Present             CMU Informedia Project

       Oct. 2004 – Present             Threading and Auto-Documentary in News Videos

Aug. 2003 – Aug. 2004         Data Management and Transaction Processing in Broadcast Environments

       Feb. 2001 – Aug. 2001         Redflag Linux and Embedded Redflag Linux

       May. 2001 – Dec. 2001        Inner & Outer Network Security System

       Jan. 2002 – Jul. 2002           Bonobo Component System under Linux

       Sep. 2000 – Jan. 2001          Power Station Cruise System on PDA

       Jul. 1999 – May. 2001          E-Commerce and E-Governance Websites

       Jun. 1998 – Jul. 1999           General Computer Aided Test Paper Generation System of Yunnan University

 

Honors and Awards

 

Oct. 2006

The Outstanding Academic Performance Awards for Research Degree Students

 

 

2006 – 2007

Research Tuition Scholarship of City University of Hong Kong

 

 

2005 – 2006

Research Tuition Scholarship of City University of Hong Kong

 

 

2004 - 2007

Postgraduate Studentship of City University of Hong Kong

 

 

Oct. 2000

An Award for Doing Excellent Work as Student Cadre

 

 

Dec. 1999

Science & Technology Creativity Award of Yunnan University

First Grade

 

Dec. 1998

Science & Technology Creativity Award of Yunnan University

First Grade

 

May. 1999

‘Nantian Award’ of Yunnan University

Second Prize

 

May. 1998

‘Nantian Award’ of Yunnan University

First Prize

 

Jan. 1998

Scholarship for outstanding student of Yunnan University

First Prize

 

Jan. 1997

Scholarship for outstanding student of Yunnan University

Second Prize

 

Dec. 1996

English Vocabulary Competition for Undergraduate Students

Third Prize

 

Certifications

 

Oct. 1999

National Rank of Certificate of Computer Software --- Software Engineer

Oct. 1997

National Rank of Certificate of Computer Software --- Certified Programmer

 

English Proficiency

 

Dec. 2003

TOEFL (Computer Based Test) : 260    TWE: 5.5

Jun. 1997

College English Test Band 6 (CET - 6)

 

Proficiency

       Proficiency in C/C++/C#, Pascal, Delphi, ASP/PHP, SQL Server, Linux

 

Professional Service

       Reviewer: IEEE Trans. on Multimedia, Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing, Computer Communication, Pacific-Rim Conference on Multimedia (PCM’06)

 

Extracurricular Activity

 

Jun. 2004 – Present

Faculty board of Faculty of Science & Engineering, City Univ. of Hong Kong

 

Sep. 1999 – Feb. 2001

Monitor of the Graduate Class, Yunnan U.

 

Nov. 1999 – Feb. 2001

Deputy Chairman of Science Association of Information College, Yunnan U.

 

Jan. 1997 – Jul. 1999

President of Board of Publicity of Dept. of Computer Science, Yunnan U.

 

Hobby

Badminton, Volleyball, Tennis, Travel, Photography